Cloverfield Movie Thread - DVD Out on April 22nd

Review at AIC


I got to see Cloverfield Monster Goes Apeshit two weeks ago. We’ve been on double shifts at Wetzel’s Pretzels because we’re selling these goddamn frosting and cinnamon pretzels that are supposed to look like a snowman waving at you and guess what all our retarded customers like biting the heads off of?

Also, the “snowmen” don’t look like snowmen – they look like fat babies that can stand up and wave, and that someone has spooged on (the frosting).

But Cloverfield Monster Goes Apeshit was the perfect movie for me to get to see, because now every time one of our swamp-ass customers comes in and wants a Sal-Tee the Snowman I can imagine the Cloverfield monster biting their goddamn heads off.

And yes, in the movie, the Cloverfield monster bites off some fucking heads. Only you get to see it from a way you don’t normally get to see heads getting bitten off, so basically the movie – which I’m just going to call Cloverfield for the rest of this review because typing out that long-ass title is pee-hole – basically makes other head-biting-off-movies look like Georgia Rule with a peppermint cock in its ass.

The movie starts off really shitty though, with all this stuff about a young couple that’s in love, and she’s hot and he’s hot and I’m all like, “Who’s filming the Ambercrombie and Fitch catalogue?”

But then it’s like the movie heard you calling it a pussy so it puts on its dick-stomping boots and then surprises your dick with a punch from a fist wearing a cock-punch glove.

Things just don’t get scary – they get fuckED UP. And I mean fucked up like the whole movie’s shot through a hand-held video camera, so you feel like this is happening to you (apparently, the video camera was recovered by the government, so at the beginning of the movie, when you’re told this, you think, “Man, something bad must’ve happened to whoever filmed this”, and you imagine a lot of shit, but then when you get to what ACTUALLY HAPPENS you’re like, “fuck you, imagination, this was ten times worse than I thought” and then to get back at you your imagination makes you think about 2 Girls 1 Cup if Rhea Perlman and Edith Bunker were the girls)

So here’s the story: a monster attacks News York City.

But that’s not the fucked-up part.

The monster RIPS THE LIVING SHIT out of the city, and everyone in its path. It’s like the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina and Kathy Griffin’s vagina combined and turned into a giant murder-beast and it’s hungry for every hip person in Manhattan.

Which is another cool thing about the movie – everyone that’s getting eaten are like characters you see in those annoying movies that are always on IFC and Fagdance. Movies with titles like Thinkin’ ‘Bout Being Sad and Zoe Gets a Latte and 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath and a Whole Bunch of Cock-fucks Running Their Mouths.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, the giant monster starts rubbing itself on buildings, and then stuff falls off it’s gross body and crawls the fuck away – only the crawling-away stuff doesn’t stay away for long, if you know what I mean.

And then – and THEN – and I mean, at this point, the movie’s like a speed freak yelling at you, as if the giant monster and the things crawling away weren’t bad enough, there’s a third, even more messed-up thing the monster can do to a person, which I won’t spoil ‘cuz it made me kind of sick and the people on this website are the kind of assholes who’d come in to the W.P. at two minutes before I have to clean the cinnamon nets and order ten Sal-Tees so fuck everyone, so maybe you’ll see it and get sick and not want a Sal-Tee and I can go the fuck home.

Also, I don’t know if the movie-makers are looking for poster quotes, but this movie is like a pussy that eats YOU out.

So, here’s my final thoughts:

The good: Monster fucking everything sideways, creepy-crawly things fucking everything that’s still not fucked, indie movie characters getting eaten and mutilated before they can talk about coffee or e-mails or their feelings.

The bad: Smarty-pants story-telling shit where the video you’re watching has un-recorded bits where you see the hero’s relationship a few weeks back, before the monster shows up. Except then there’s this final shot (from the flashback section) that’s actually kind of awesome ‘cuz it’s this very sweet, sunshine-y shot of something, except at that point you’re thinking some really bad thoughts about what the shot represents.

The shitty: I had a long dream about the male star of the movie two nights after I saw this, where we both had shirts off and he was helping me do sit-ups. So fuck this movie for that part.


 
[quote name='TimPV3']Oh wow, we get a vague description of what he thinks it is. Thanks.[/quote]

Thats vague to you? That guy wrote a damn novel. But it was meant to be sarcastic.

There needs to be a sarcastic button.....
 
[quote name='Soodmeg']Thats vague to you? That guy wrote a damn novel. But it was meant to be sarcastic.

There needs to be a sarcastic button.....[/QUOTE]He wrote a novel about a mutated whale with legs, something that's been pretty much suspected for awhile. No pictures either, meaning for all I know it could look like this (but a whale and not a shark):

jabberjaw.jpg


But anyway, I see your sarcasm and I didn't mean to offend.
 
[quote name='darthbudge']I can't wait for this come out, I want to go see at midnight with friends, but I will probably end up seeing it the next day.[/QUOTE]


If this movie is a let down, That JJ guy will have a hard time trying to get people to go see his new star trek movie.
 
[quote name='tehweezner']i saw the trailer and it looked like this movie will give you a headache from the camera. very cool looking though[/QUOTE]


Honestly I hope not...but you could be right about this. I would hate to be the effects crew trying to match move all the effects into unstable camera shots. I did that once for a silly little fan film a few years back.. 1 scene drove me nuts as it took me days to match move a 6 second scene. 180 frames of pain :(
 
guys, its ORIGINAL...which means its not Sin or The Flood.
its going to be something we've never seen before. J.J. Abrams already said this during Comic-Con
 
you're all wrong, they're saying "It's a line!" as people que up to see if an incredible 3 minute trailer can be a decent 2hr film...
 
Without a doubt a lot of people are going for the Midnight showing of this movie. I really wonder how this movie is going to end and if we are going to see the entire monster at all. Are they going to pull of a "Signs" type of movie where you see, hear but barely see it til the end.

Seriously hopefully this won't turn into a BWP.
 
it might be a whale monster, since the monster might be the product of toxic waste thrown in to the ocean.

i just hope it becomes a franchise and cloverfield becomes "America's Godzilla"
 
[quote name='becuzimbrown']it might be a whale monster, since the monster might be the product of toxic waste thrown in to the ocean.

i just hope it becomes a franchise and cloverfield becomes "America's Godzilla"[/QUOTE]


We haven't seen the movie yet, and you already want it to be a franchise?
 
[quote name='anomynous']We haven't seen the movie yet, and you already want it to be a franchise?[/quote]

if its good, yes
and JJ abrams said it probably will be if its successful
 
The following cities are having a screening on the 15th:

Austin
Atlanta
Baltimore
Boston
Calgary
Charlotte
Cincinnati
Dallas
Denver
Edmonton
Ft. Lauderdale
Houston
Jacksonville
Las Vegas
Miami
Montreal
Orlando
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Raleigh
San Antonio
San Francisco
Tampa
Toronto
Vancouver
Virginia Beach
Washington, DC
West Palm Beach
Winnipeg

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/06/cloverfield-nationwide-screenings-next-tuesday/

Unfortunately, you need a pass to see it so good luck getting one. The link has links to 38 contests in 27 cities. Good luck everyone!

EDIT: Apparently some of the links are NSFW so click with caution!!
 
[quote name='deadite76']The following cities are having a screening on the 15th:

Austin
Atlanta
Baltimore
Boston
Calgary
Charlotte
Cincinnati
Dallas
Denver
Edmonton
Ft. Lauderdale
Houston
Jacksonville
Las Vegas
Miami
Montreal
Orlando
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Raleigh
San Antonio
San Francisco
Tampa
Toronto
Vancouver
Virginia Beach
Washington, DC
West Palm Beach
Winnipeg

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/06/cloverfield-nationwide-screenings-next-tuesday/

Unfortunately, you need a pass to see it so good luck getting one. The link has links to 38 contests in 27 cities. Good luck everyone!

EDIT: Apparently some of the links are NSFW so click with caution!![/quote]

No New York?
Is that some gimmick because it's been 'destroyed'?
 
[quote name='Pancake Rabbit']:rofl:

a mutated whale?

:rofl:

If it is a mutated whale I'll walk out of the theater.[/QUOTE]


Well if the film makers get away with it, you probably won't find out til the last 5 minutes of it. Who's going to stay in the theater if everyone finds out in the first 20 minutes it's a giant mutant whale? I too am going to walk out if we learn it's a giant mutant whale early on in the movie or at the end of the movie.
 
I don't see why so many people are upset about the potential of a giant mutated whale. If you look back on the Godzilla series you will see MANY of the monsters are a mutated whatever that turned out ok. Biollante was a rose bush for gods sake and it turned out ok. Gamera is a Sea Turtle and the Gamera movies from the 90's were fantastic. Wait and see, at least its a gaint monster and not a haunted cell phone or email or tv or whatever stupid ass idea is being made into a movie.
 
[quote name='deadite76']The following cities are having a screening on the 15th:
[/quote]

In that case, I think I'm going to avoid the internet between the 15th and the 18th. People love spoiling things.
 
[quote name='VanillaGorilla']So, I guess people are willing to see ANY generic monster movie these days, huh?[/QUOTE]
This. Seriously, seems like a lot of you are buying into the hype machine when we have no proof or reason to believe this movie will be any good at all.
 
[quote name='Dead of Knight']This. Seriously, seems like a lot of you are buying into the hype machine when we have no proof or reason to believe this movie will be any good at all.[/QUOTE]

There are very few reasons why I am going to see this film. Those are to see the new Star Trek movie teaser (I really hope we get new footage instead of a bunch of stars moving and some cg of the enterprise with classic star trek music and a voice narrator saying coming Christmas 2008), I believe this will be the first time I see JJ Abrams work on film so it will give me an indication of what the new star trek movie will be like after watching this movie, the special effects (I am curious how they are match moving a lot of the stuff) and the story (if any). Finding out what the creature is a low priority.

If the filmmakers don't show us the creature at all, I am betting their excuse will be "Because people are generally afraid of what they don't know or don't understand. Our goal was to create a creature so scary that we wanted the audience's mind to make up what the creature looks like rather than to show them what we expect the most scariest creature ever seen on film looks like. So it's a win, win situation for everyone." Bullshit. That will really make me so angry I will say out loud "fuck THIS MOVIE!" and walk out.







[quote name='billyrox']I'm willing to buy a giant mutated whale if it shoots fireballs from its eyes and bolts of lightning from its ass.[/QUOTE]

:rofl:
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']There are very few reasons why I am going to see this film. Those are to see the new Star Trek movie teaser (I really hope we get new footage instead of a bunch of stars moving and some cg of the enterprise with classic star trek music and a voice narrator saying coming Christmas 2008), I believe this will be the first time I see JJ Abrams work on film so it will give me an indication of what the new star trek movie will be like after watching this movie, the special effects (I am curious how they are match moving a lot of the stuff) and the story (if any). Finding out what the creature is a low priority.

If the filmmakers don't show us the creature at all, I am betting their excuse will be "Because people are generally afraid of what they don't know or don't understand. Our goal was to create a creature so scary that we wanted the audience's mind to make up what the creature looks like rather than to show them what we expect the most scariest creature ever seen on film looks like. So it's a win, win situation for everyone." Bullshit. That will really make me so angry I will say out loud "fuck THIS MOVIE!" and walk out.

[/quote]

You seriously list seeing a trailer as a priority?
 
[quote name='billyrox']I'm willing to buy a giant mutated whale if it shoots fireballs from its eyes and bolts of lightning from its ass.[/quote]

It would be great it killed the english by the hundreds. And if it wore a kilt, it'd be my movie of the year!:applause:
 
[quote name='smalien1']You seriously list seeing a trailer as a priority?[/QUOTE]


People do this all the time. I know I can always wait a few days for the internet version.
 
[quote name='Zen Davis']The problem with JJ Abrams is that everything he does is extremely TV showy.[/QUOTE]


He wrote Armageddon ? Hmm... oh boy.
 
Guys, I know the monster, it's:

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU[/MEDIA]

Seriously. Every time they're about to show the monster, it will cut to that.
 
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