Untitled J.J. Abrams Production (1-18-08) (aka Cloverfield)

Seriously... What are you people expecting from this thing?!? It's a giant monster movie and you seem to expect Oscar gold... It is whatever it is...

D_M_S_L

 

I just don't want it to be teenie bopperish like Melrose Place, etc with these single quasi-adults who are so self-absorbed that they come across as having the mentality of a 16 year old.

 

Another Review.

 

So, has anyone seen it yet?

 

I thought it was great. Very intense, but funny and enjoyable as well.

 

I just saw it, and I thought it was decent, but I have mixed feelings about it. I thought that the method they filmed it in was very unique, but what really threw me was the lack of music. It made the movie much more eerie and strange.

When the monsters appeared in the tunnel I was very freaked, and the big monster was so strange. The little oones I found almost scarier than the giant one, and those looked like giant fanged octopusses. The large one kinda like a combination between a crab and a lizard, very different. I did like the humorous lines in the movie, but all together I found Cloverfield very different. And it was the first monster movie I've seen where the monster killed everyone and still survived at the end.

 

I'm seeing this on Sunday. Has there been any pictures released of the monster? And if not, what does it look like?

 

Here is some fan art pictures of the Cloverfield monster that is fairly accurate to the real thing.

 

Good film. The little ones are scarier than the big one; except for what happens to the cameraman at the end.

My only grip was this...

This was a Paramount Picture and...






NO INDY 4 TRAILER!!!!!

 

Yeah but we got the Star Trek teaser, so **** yeah!

 

I saw the midnight showing of this the other night. It was pretty dope, not super scary, but definitely had me on the edge of my seat all night. A lot of emotions coming out of this one, my hat goes off for JJ and crew.

 

I went into it thinking it would be decent, but wouldn't live up to the hype. But now that I've seen it... wow! It goes above and beyond the hype. My mouth was hanging open for like the last 20 minutes of the movie...

 

Explanations about the creature, where it came from, why it exist, etc, are what sequels are for.

Other people have cameras too. We could get another POV from someone else's camera; maybe even the military's or just another civilian. This movie was only 74 minutes long because that is all that was on that camera that the government found.

Next time, they can make the movie any length they want.

They could even make a government collection next time where the goverment has spliced some shorter films together.

For example, the first 25 minutes is one person's footage, the next 40 minutes is another person's footage, the next 30 minutes is yet another person's footage, and the last 15 minutes is yet ANOTHER person's footage.

Perhaps in a scenario like that, they could answer, at least, some of our questions. In all honesty, they could make as many POV / real-time films about this subject as there are Godzilla movies.

 

I actually would rather they not have a sequel. I really like the openness and abruptness of the ending. I like that we don't know anything, I like that hud gives us a large range of possibilities for the creature's origin, any of which could work, most of which have been implied in various other ways. Some things are best left to the imagination. Also, I've seen NYC destroyed probably dozens of times in movies, but never before have I had such a sense that Manhattan is simply lost. That is is gone. To have a sequel would have to show some kind of followup, which I think would probably dull that feeling.


I think a parallel movie is possible, but it would be extremely difficult to pull off. First of all, they would want to have a similar dynamic to this movie, but it could very easily become very repetitive and dull. This movie was very fresh, and there is no reason to turn it into an over used formula before we have to.


If they end up making sequels, methinks that Cloverfield will be comparable to the first Matrix film in the sense that it is a wonderful and complete story on its own, that really wouldn't benefit from farther exploration.

 

I just got back from seeing it, and it was a damn good film. I also think the lean, fast-paced style after the attack starts works to the film's benefit. I've heard that movies released in January & February are mostly the studios' drivel flicks that wouldn't survive in the peak seasons, so I didn't think this movie could be any good if it was released in the middle of January. But given the cast of unknowns, I can see that this was probably a wise move, since there's no star power to market it, thus relying on buzz.This was the film that Blair Witch should have been.

I've read some of the complaints about its style over in the Amp forum, and all I can say to that is that it would have been dishonest to "explain" everything within the film's limits, or to soften it with a "Hollywood ending". This is a monster film from the eyewitness perspective on the ground. In fact, I found it clever that the first real glimpse we get of the monster wasn't through the naked eye, it was through a TV monitor that was caught on Hud's camera. This reinforces the hard fact that an eyewitness to an event doesn't always get all the information explaining the situation at the same moment the event happens. They see what they see, act on their instincts, then try to process it all later. Even Blair Witch didn't do that, but I don't remember hearing many people clamor for Blair Witch to have "explained" more within the film footage.

Does anybody know why the woman who played Marlena was the top-billed name in the credits? She's clearly supposed to be a supporting player, so I found it curious that she's named first in the credits.

 

She is probably the most well-known of these, basically, unknowns.

She's Lindsey Lohan's anti-plastics friend in MEAN GIRLS.

 

I saw is today and I thought it was terrific. The characters were great and felt really....real. Hud was the best character imo. The monster was relentless and at times terrifying. His little minions were just as frightening but their venom is even worse. All in all, an excellent well made movie. I give it **** out of ****.

 

She's the only one I recognised.

 

I thought it was awful. I guess the characters felt real. Unfortunately, they were real vapid yuppies who didn't say or do anything interesting or intelligent. The movie certainly had good disaster effects, yes, but I didn't care enough about our characters to want anything more than for it to end.

 

She was also the hottest. Lizzy Caplan very much reminded me of a girl I go to college with and who I also like (as Hud does Marlena) so I was deeply disturbed when she died.

 

Actually it's more like the length of a MiniDV tape, which go up to 80 minutes. The running time of the movie was 84 minutes = full tape plus credits. Rob said at the end that they were at the end of the tape. As such, I find it funny that the movie opened stating the footage was recovered from an SD card, whereas it's mentioned several times during as well as the whole concept of recording over footage from a month ago that it was indeed shot on tape.

 

I agree. Marlena was the hottest. She's a girl I would have a crush on and want to date.