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The2ndQuest
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8/1/07 7:27pm
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RE: Untitled J.J. Abrams Production Codenamed "Cloverfield"
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Zaz posted:
Rule of thumb: These things happen. You can't create them.
Well, I think that's the case here- I don't think anyone expected people to get so interested in the mystery of what this movie is.
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LordSilvertouch
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Date Posted:
8/2/07 2:35am
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RE: Untitled J.J. Abrams Production Codenamed "Cloverfield"
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JJ is a great director, but he's much better at creating mysteries than answering them (who isn't?), so his work, though good, never lives up to the enigma that surrounds it.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
8/18/07 10:53am
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RE: Untitled J.J. Abrams Production Codenamed "Cloverfield"
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They are really trying to create buzz, I think. They'd be better to *let* it happen, if it does.
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Sith_Lord_Linkoping
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11/1/07 8:55am
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CHUD posted:
CHUD - Exclusive! The Cloverfield Trailer - Seen!
10.31.07
I have seen the trailer for the monster movie coming from producer JJ Abrams on January 18, 2008. The trailer, which was dated last week and lasts 2 minutes and 16 seconds, will debut in front of Beowulf on November 16th, and it's supposed to be when the title is announced. The version of the trailer I saw had the title attached at the end, so unless this title card was a temporary placeholder for the real title, this movie is called... wait for it...
Cloverfield.
Yep, the name we heard from the start. This does make me think that maybe this trailer, marked as Trailer #1, V.17, with "Newest FX Shots", could change between now and the 16th, especially in regards to the name. We'll see. In the meantime, here's a rundown of what I saw in the trailer (based on the notes I took when I was shown a poor quality copy of the trailer. I was only allowed to watch it twice):
It opens with text:
Multiple sightings of case designate 'Cloverfield'
Camera retrieved at incident site 'U.S. 447'
(Area formerly known as Central Park)
Then we see the footage from the teaser trailer, mostly fast forwarded up to the end, with the explosion and the Statue of Liberty's head landing in the middle of the street. Then there's a guy speaking into the camera.
Guy: My name is Robert Hawkins. Approximately seven hours ago, someTHING attacked the city.
There are flashes of chaos. Much of the trailer is made up of split second moments, and when combined with the fact that it's extreme shaky cam style and that I was watching a terrible copy, it can be hard to make things out. There's a helicopter shot of the headless Statue of Liberty.
Guy again: I have no idea what it is. If you found this,if you're watching this thing, you know more about it than i do.
Then there's a shot of jets flying overhead, in daylight.
A title card reads 'From producer JJ Abrams'
There's more flashes of chaos, there's a guy on a cellphone trying to find out where 'Beth' is, and then there's a girl yelling, 'We cannot go in the middle of the city! we've got to get out of here!'
More chaos. More quick shots. I imagine this stuff will be picked apart when the trailer debuts online.
Over this is what seems to be a conversation between an Army guy and a girl.
Army dude: There's nothing we can do right now
Girl: do you know what that thing is?
Army dude: Whatever it is, it's winning.
More flashes. An argument:
Guy 1: We have no idea what's out there!
Guy 2: I don't care what's out there. Listen to me - she's dying!
Then there's footage of army guys running and shadows on a wall. Shadows of a screaming woman being attacked by a small monster (possibly two - either she's being pulled away from the monster by someone behind her or there's another monster behind her). It's confirmed: the movie has a big beast and small ones. Like the American Godzilla.
People are hiding in a store, and there are huge thumps making everything shake. The windows of the store explode in.
The big sequence is next: Army guys running up a street, firing into the air. Tanks come up behind them, firing. Rockets launch up.
We see the big monster briefly passing between two buildings. I couldn't make it out at all, but it appeared to be HUGE.
Characters race down subway steps, there's a giant explosion, the cameraman is down, there's a figure in a tunnel, people are yelling 'Run!' and running through the tunnel.
Outside of Central Park, a horse drawn carriage goes by.
Guy: Are you still filming?
Cameraman: Yeah. People are going to want to know... how it all went down.
Shot of the Brooklyn Bridge. A helicopter taking off. Some chaos. Then inside the copter girls screaming as the copter spins out of control.
Cut to black, then the title comes up: Cloverfield.
Then the text: End of tape
Then the release date: 1-18-08
So the info I gleaned from this:
The title is Cloverfield.
There are smaller monsters.
This movie will quite probably make a lot of people motion sick.
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Master_SweetPea
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Date Posted:
11/13/07 9:27pm
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I'm getting sick of all the go-no-where updates, and the pointless videos on the girls website.
The characters have their own myspace pages...
I was totally into this at first, but dragging it out for this long is too much.
There is no way that this movie can live up to this much hype.
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LordSilvertouch
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Date Posted:
11/15/07 10:20am
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RE: Untitled J.J. Abrams Production Codenamed "Cloverfield"
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Selling this for it's enigma was a big mistake. If they'd been more open, I think people would be looking forwards to it right about now.
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Date Posted:
11/15/07 7:44pm
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A crappy phone-recorded version of the new trailer is on youtube. I'm not too sure about linking to it, but the've got it on aicn, too.
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JMJacenSolo
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Date Posted:
11/15/07 7:47pm
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New trailer is just more of the same. It's looking like this is shaping up to be the Blair Witch Project in a city instead of a forest. My interest is rapidly fading.
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Master_SweetPea
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11/18/07 7:43pm
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At first this looked like a new twist on movies about giant monsters, now that we know more, it seems to be turning into a zombie horror movie, that just happens to have a giant monster in it.
That's not what got me interested, so I doubt I'll go see it now.
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wild_karrde
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Date Posted:
11/19/07 3:33pm
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New trailer in HD
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Jango10
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11/19/07 6:17pm
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wild_karrde posted:
New trailer in HD
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Date Posted:
11/20/07 12:57am
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If this movie follows the Jaws/Signs formula of not showing the monster until over an hour into the movie, I'll be pleased.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
11/20/07 1:46pm
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The new trailer: Cloverfield
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Date Posted:
11/20/07 2:09pm
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Any theories on what exactly happens between 01:11 and 01:13? I'm guessing mutation.
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Date Posted:
11/20/07 8:36pm
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Yodas-evil-twin posted:
Any theories on what exactly happens between 01:11 and 01:13? I'm guessing mutation.
The current chat room theory seems to bethat the monster is a giant isopod, and that we are hosts for reproduction, google Bathynomus giganteus and think of that as a baby instead of a full grown adult, that's the current rumor being spread around, makes the roar sort of absurd though..., could be related the the whale lice theory, monster has a lice problem and surfaces to try to get rid of them, we happen to be good hosts for the lice.
more splatter bucket horror than monster movie, not my cup of tea
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