Cloverfield Movie Thread - DVD Out on April 22nd

[quote name='LinkinPrime']I went back last night to get an additional ticket and the girl that sold me the ticket said that the movie is pure genious, that I'm going to love it, its one of the best films she's ever seen. I asked her if they show the monster and she said that they do...that's all I wanted to know, she said she won't spoil anything because it will ruin it for me but she said its brilliant.[/QUOTE]


hmmm....

Sounds like she was trying to promote the movie to get you to buy more tickets or tell your friends to buy the expensive midnight showing. Pure Genius? JJ Abrams and those words don't go together.

I am not expecting a mega hit, just something better than AvP:R and RE:E.
 
[quote name='seanr1221']I'll probably get some people together from school to see it opening weekend.[/quote]

That's what I be doin. Mayng, movies are only fun when you can enjoy your friends gettin sum on both sides of you while trying to watch the movie. Shit yeah
 
I may have to go see it. The blair witch actually made me sick during the movie. So hopefully this doesn't do that to me. I wanted to leave BW right near the end to get my nausea to go away. I made it through but didnt feel good for an hour or so.
 
Just got back from seeing it tonight and I didn't think it was disappointing at all. It's actually one of the best January movies I've seen. I know that isn't saying much but it's good. I'd say most of the audience was into the movie from what I gathered afterwards and my buddy who runs the screenings here in Phoenix was saying the critics liked it too.

You do see the monster though more clearly towards the end which is actually better as it builds your desire to see it.

One thing I thought was interesting was
how there is a scene when the rampage starts that made me think on how it would've been during 9/11.

I'll confirm that there are
smaller monsters that run around that are somewhat like facehuggers/crabs. They are faster and were probably the offspring of the main monster.

The military weren't messing around either.

As for the end (major spoiler)
you could guess what happens with the characters from the text at the beginning of the movie.
 
[quote name='JolietJake']First time i saw the preview i thought they were making another godzilla movie.[/QUOTE]
I was hoping for that
 
It's PG-13, aye? I had no idea. This sort of dampers things, considering some elements probably won't be in the movie due to the rating.

I will, as the kids say, "mark", if it is any of his Great Old Ones. Cthulhu, preferably, but Chaugnar Faugn would serve, and probably make me crap my pants (if done right).
 
Gonna try to go on Thursday night for the midnight premiere. I hope I'll be able to go, as it is the soonest I can get a free ticket, but I have school and work the next morning.
 
Hola all. Massawyrm here. The wait is finally over. After 6 solid months of courting us through one of the most wildly unique, well constructed viral campaigns ever executed, Cloverfield is at last being unleashed upon audiences. And sitting there in the theatre is something akin to seeing your girlfriend naked for the very first time. I mean, there's been an awful lot of build up. A lot of teasing, groping and even the hint of a nipple slip with a glimpse of something peeking out from behind a building in the trailer. But can it live up to the hype? Can that ass live up to how it looks in those perfectly crafted jeans? Will it be perky and firm and exceed your every hope? Or sag in all the wrong places? The moments before the bra strap is finally unclasped are unbearable. This could be the greatest night of your life, or another sad, flaccid night of broken promises.

Anyone who has ever dated a girl with inverted nipples knows exactly the type of profound disappointment I'm talking about.

Fortunately, Cloverfield delivers on all counts, proving to be a remarkably original film unlike anything you've ever seen before. Oh, I know you THINK you've seen this all before. You've seen The Blair Witch Project and you've seen Godzilla and you've seen War of the Worlds. So how could something so derivative of these three movies be in anyway new? Because I fucking said so. That, and well, because you've never seen anything like it.

We do a lot of daydreaming here at AICN. I mean A LOT of daydreaming. When we get together and pop open a few beers, conversation often tends to turn towards the weird shit that movies inspire us to think about. Especially after we've just seen a crappy movie. We LOVE to talk about what would have made it better, stronger, faster. This is especially prevalent during the summer when big budget extravaganzas are often handed to studio tools or unimaginative directors who are better at greasing palms than they are making films. And we often wonder aloud what would happen if they gave those movies, those budgets, those marketing campaigns…to someone who actually gives a shit. Someone with the vision to make a movie so smart that it plays to everyone without subscribing to lowest common denominator theory. Something like Cloverfield.

Cloverfield is that movie you just can't fully understand until you've seen it for yourself. It's something akin to an episode of Gossip Girl being interrupted by a James Cameron movie, except rather than following the heroes - the great saviors of New York City - we're watching the side movie about what happens to these kids being directed by Paul Greengrass. It is the film that pisses in the face of Dogme 95 and says very sternly We sure as hell can tell a very human story with science fiction, assholes. It's the story we always wonder about. What's it like not to be in the center of a great story, but just trying to survive on the outskirts of it. This isn't the movie about Ripley - this is the movie between Alien and Aliens about Newt and her family trying to survive the first infestation. That's the kind of cool this is. We've all seen the giant monster movie. We've all seen New York City destroyed at least a dozen times. What we haven't seen is a film about you or me or those half-witted friends of ours at the party and how we react and try to survive when all hell breaks loose. That's Cloverfield.

What you also haven't seen is a found footage film told with this level of sophistication. I'm not talking about the budget, I mean the attention to detail, pacing and cinematography. Every moment in this film is carefully planned, wonderfully crafted and perfectly executed. This isn't a bunch of people talking to the camera filling out time between interesting scenes. There isn't a single moment when you think get on with it already. Yes, it is shot on a handheld camera being carried around by one of the characters – but director Matt Reeves never uses that as an excuse to skimp on the storytelling. Every bit of party footage at the beginning is exposition – and once that gets as far as it can go, there's a terrible explosion. From then on it is a taut, breakneck, breathless race through a city being torn apart by a story much larger than our characters. And yet, you never want to leave them for a minute. fuck the army. fuck longshots of a monster destroying the city and the jets it swats from the sky. You want to know if Rob ever finds his Beth. If he ever gets to say "I love you." And you've got to know if she really loves him back.

Surprisingly, it isn't the effects or the action or the mayhem that dominates Cloverfield. It is the characters and their plight to find their friend. It's personal. It's close to your heart. And god damnit if you can't identify with it. There are also very clear and deliberate parallels to 9/11 that lends the film power and profound imagery. This is the first post-9/11 big budget action film to really draw upon the intense feelings of anxiousness and fear inherent in our society now, the first film to dare stroke the wound without trying to pay tribute or weave propaganda. When the monster knocks down a building, it isn't slow motion concrete tumbling then shattering on the earth below. It is with a powerful cloud of dust and glass sweeping over crowds like a sandstorm, leaving in its wake a throng of victims dazed, choking, and coughing up blood. You aren't watching this from on high, you are down in the shit when the shit is at its worst.

And yet, the bigger than life stuff is REALLY BIGGER THAN LIFE. You have no idea what the monster looks like. No. I know you think you know what the monster looks like. But you don't. The first moment you see it, watch its head come roaring from behind a skyscraper, you don't think oh, that looks cool. You reel back in your chair, your eyes and mouth equally wide, wondering WHAT IN THE HOLY fuck IS THAT???? In fact, I dare you to try to describe it to your friends afterward. Ask a friend to describe it to you. It's almost Lovecraftian in its complete inability to be depicted with words. Madness. Madness collected from the nightmares of children then coalesced and shat out the ass end of hell, that's what the fuck it is. And it's big.

Cloverfield is a survival horror film about normal people trying desperately to survive a crisis over which they have zero control. It is terrifying, thrilling and easily on par with the very best this genre has ever had to offer. It is up there with Godzilla, up there with the first two Alien films, up there with Dawn of the Dead and Jaws, with The Matrix and Blade Runner - it stands toe to fucking toe with everything we hold sacrosanct in this genre. And I dare anyone to tell me different once they've experienced it for themselves.

For months one thought has troubled me about this film. If it's supposed to be so fucking good, why the fuck are they releasing it in January? Now I know. Because this isn't for the summer blockbuster crowd. This film is too heavy for them. It is the summer blockbuster for people who fucking hate summer blockbusters. But it's also smart enough, sweet enough and good enough to play to them. It's a simple story of love and survival in the face of the most dire of circumstances. It plays to pretty much everybody. But it's made for us.

And the best part – while the story is complete, and you don't for a moment feel short changed or cheated by what you don't see, it is left open enough that if this is a success, there is no reason for Paramount to make not a sequel…but a companion film. This film isn't about the monster. It doesn't need to be. But they could make one. And they could do it without doing disservice to the glory that is Cloverfield. If you read AICN with even the loosest of regularity, this film is not simply recommended, it is REQUIRED VIEWING. For years we have pondered, we have ranted and we have screamed. Matt Reeves listened, and he directed the film you guys have been bitching about since the inception of this site.
Now, go see about that naked girlfriend thing. I've seen her, and I'm telling you you're about to have the night of your life.
Until next time friends, smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em.

Massawyrm
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']Is this movie even scary? I had high hopes for a good scary/bloody movie in AvP:R but that was a fail.[/quote]
Man... do you even attempt to understand what to expect out of the films you have an interest in? Like seriously.

Maybe you have a poor sense of picking up where a movie is headed but for you to expect goodness out of RE:Extinction and chills and scares in AvP:R just confuses me. The trailer of AvP:R alone told me that we were going to be getting an action film of some kind, mostly in line with the comics, along with the liberties Anderson took in the first film.

Anyway, I seriously doubt this film has that many scares. I suspect that it's a War of The Worlds story done right, where we care about the characters and we're in the thick of things with them wondering just what the hell is going on when all hell breaks out. Nothing more than that.

I think overall it's going to be a great film but it's not necessarily a horror film.
 
AWWW...your no fun :(

I was looking forward to a good scary movie...but I guess this will not be it :(

I really don't know if this movie can be compared to WotW.


[quote name='Zen Davis']Man... do you even attempt to understand what to expect out of the films you have an interest in? Like seriously.

Maybe you have a poor sense of picking up where a movie is headed but for you to expect goodness out of RE:Extinction and chills and scares in AvP:R just confuses me. The trailer of AvP:R alone told me that we were going to be getting an action film of some kind, mostly in line with the comics, along with the liberties Anderson took in the first film.

Anyway, I seriously doubt this film has that many scares. I suspect that it's a War of The Worlds story done right, where we care about the characters and we're in the thick of things with them wondering just what the hell is going on when all hell breaks out. Nothing more than that.

I think overall it's going to be a great film but it's not necessarily a horror film.[/QUOTE]
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']AWWW...your no fun :(

I was looking forward to a good scary movie...but I guess this will not be it :(

I really don't know if this movie can be compared to WotW.[/quote]
I'm not trying to attack you man. Don't think that. I'm just wondering what kind of mindset you get into to go watch a film? Besides, I have a feeling Cloverfield is going to end up being a good, if not great film. I'll be checking out the midnight showing tomorrow and I'll come back and post what I thought.

I expect very little of the monster by the way and I expect all the characters to die.
 
[quote name='Zen Davis']I'm not trying to attack you man. Don't think that. I'm just wondering what kind of mindset you get into to go watch a film?[/QUOTE]


Something with good special effects.

A story that you care about the characters (or atleast one of them).

A good score.

A story that makes sense and doesn't have too many plot holes (see RE:E, AvP:R).

If the film meets these requirements, then it's a great film.

If Cloverfield is about a bunch of people running around, screaming, trying to leave NYC with a camera guy recording while this is happening and there isn't a steady shot for very long, I think I am going to be sick. I will give this movie a chance. I don't expect a score (if any), I expect a few plot holes, but not many, at least 1 person I know is going to die, but I don't know if we will get a chance to know them to care about them. As for sepcial effects, personally I think it will be good based on a lot of the motion tracking they did for the film, as anyone who has ever done such things will tell you it's a real pain in the ass to create such effects without a steady cam.

Like I mentioned many posts before, I think Paramount should have gave us the teaser and left it at that, no VPR, no more footage, just let us speculate for months and then let us decide when the time comes.
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']Something with good special effects.

A story that you care about the characters (or atleast one of them).

A good score.

A story that makes sense and doesn't have too many plot holes (see RE:E, AvP:R).

If the film meets these requirements, then it's a great film.

If Cloverfield is about a bunch of people running around, screaming, trying to leave NYC with a camera guy recording while this is happening and there isn't a steady shot for very long, I think I am going to be sick. I will give this movie a chance. I don't expect a score (if any), I expect a few plot holes, but not many, at least 1 person I know is going to die, but I don't know if we will get a chance to know them to care about them. As for sepcial effects, personally I think it will be good based on a lot of the motion tracking they did for the film, as anyone who has ever done such things will tell you it's a real pain in the ass to create such effects without a steady cam.

Like I mentioned many posts before, I think Paramount should have gave us the teaser and left it at that, no VPR, no more footage, just let us speculate for months and then let us decide when the time comes.[/quote]
You're right. There is no score. I just checked out the crew page and they don't have anyone doing music. There will be music though.

I personally expect to see very little of the monster except glimpses and such, and then once they get close to getting away, something happens and everyone is killed off.

Then the camera is found by someone else.

However, seeing the craziness of everything as everyone runs away for their life as well as watching the military go to town (which looked like a scene right out of Black Hawk Down) has me itching to see the film. The cinematography is top notch as well.
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']Something with good special effects.

A story that you care about the characters (or atleast one of them).

A good score.

A story that makes sense and doesn't have too many plot holes (see RE:E, AvP:R).

If the film meets these requirements, then it's a great film.

If Cloverfield is about a bunch of people running around, screaming, trying to leave NYC with a camera guy recording while this is happening and there isn't a steady shot for very long, I think I am going to be sick. I will give this movie a chance. I don't expect a score (if any), I expect a few plot holes, but not many, at least 1 person I know is going to die, but I don't know if we will get a chance to know them to care about them. As for sepcial effects, personally I think it will be good based on a lot of the motion tracking they did for the film, as anyone who has ever done such things will tell you it's a real pain in the ass to create such effects without a steady cam.

Like I mentioned many posts before, I think Paramount should have gave us the teaser and left it at that, no VPR, no more footage, just let us speculate for months and then let us decide when the time comes.[/QUOTE]

So basically you are expecting this movie to NOT be the movie that it's being marketed as? The advertising, along with all the pre-release information, indicates that it's not going to be the type of film you seem to want to see. You seem to want a typical big monster movie, which is a perfectly fine thing to want, but I don't think it's the movie Cloverfield aims to be.
 
[quote name='strummerbs']So basically you are expecting this movie to NOT be the movie that it's being marketed as? The advertising, along with all the pre-release information, indicates that it's not going to be the type of film you seem to want to see. You seem to want a typical big monster movie, which is a perfectly fine thing to want, but I don't think it's the movie Cloverfield aims to be.[/quote]

Read that review (which has me sold 1 million percent).

I don't think anyone is going to be disappointed with this movie. It's looking like REAL Survivor Horror (not the OMG Aliens AND Predators and humans in the middle! or boatloads of zombies for a bloodfest), from the common man's perspective. As if you are there experiencing the end of the world, or at least YOUR world, firsthand.

I'm guessing it's going to be an intense 1.5-2 hour thrill ride, which is the type of 'horror' I much prefer...the mood, atmposphere, and uncertainty of fate creating a psychological mind shaq-fu.

The best horror movies are not the slasher flicks with buckets of blood, they are the ones with enormous suspense, genuine concern for the characters and their fate, and that leave you afterward thinking, questioning, and in the best cases profoundly disturbed.

I'm guessing THAT is what they are going for here, which is the Japanese/Asian and certain European style of horror, and of course along the lines of the classic suspense/horror tales of Hitchcock, certain Twilight Zones, and other American classics.
 
[quote name='karkyco']I'm guessing it's going to be an intense 1.5-2 hour thrill ride, which is the type of 'horror' I much prefer...the mood, atmposphere, and uncertainty of fate creating a psychological mind shaq-fu.[/quote]
The movie is 84 minutes.

The comparison to Newt and her family is what makes me think everyone is killed off.
 
[quote name='djkunai']SPOILER IMAGE AT LINK BELOW

http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/6899/cloverfieldsmalleq0.gif

There's a close up video of your monster from a high quality camera phone.[/QUOTE]


what the fuck?!?!?!?!?!?!

Seriously is that real?!?!? The image quality for cell phone in the dark is too good to be true. I see no grain or compression artifacts and the image looks too clean. Plus the protected image is usually higher in contrast or darker in some spots from the stuff I have seen from other movies captured by a cell phone camera.
 
[quote name='bornrunnin31']That image is real, if anyone is doubting it. (I've seen the movie)[/QUOTE]


Hmm... In that case I feel more interested in knowing what type of cell phone camera was that.

The reason why I doubted this is because fog/smoke looked to cgi'ish as well as the movements of the creature.

Also anyone who has seen the dark knight trailer or any other film captured on video will notice the image quality would be degraded by the compression, but the high contrast, darkish areas that would prevent a good to high quality capture of such images would also bring down the quality. Most of the time you would see people's heads in the foreground as well.

But if bornrunnin31 says it's the real thing since he has actually seen it, I will believe it.
 
I don't think the quality is that good. You can't tell the face on the creature and the image jumps too much.

At least I hope it's not my shitty computer.

Either way, too bad the look is posted already. Would've been better to see it on the screen.
 
I'm ignoring the image and asking how is going to a midnight showing? It's snowing outside but I'm going to try and make it.
 
[quote name='Zen Davis']I'm ignoring the image and asking how is going to a midnight showing? It's snowing outside but I'm going to try and make it.[/QUOTE]


No midnight showing in my area what so ever :( Earliest showing is tomorrow around 12:30pm.

Damn I want to see that Star Trek Teaser. :)

We got fairly hit today with snow (about 3 inches). I was shoveling the drive way and watch a bunch of fuck heads climb the hilly road and getting stuck. One assclown in his white van lost control when he got to the top and hit someone's mailbox. fuck tards. Just went back to shoveling. :)
 
[quote name='lilboo']I got tickets for a midnite showing tonight.
It's snowing, ugh. Hopefully it's not really icy or bad out there.[/QUOTE]

I've heard you guys got another round of snow that we got today. I wouldn't risk it if you don't have a good car/truck. I saw a lot of spin outs, stuck cars and near collisions and that's when I was shoveling snow this afternoon.
 
JUST CAME BACK.
GTFO.

It was REALLY GOOD!!....
But what the fuck?! C'mon! NO answers to ANYTHING?!
What was it?
Where did it come from?
How did it eventually (if it did) die?
If so, how long did the rampage last?!
What was in the bites of those crabs that made people explode?

I really enjoyed it!!..but there were TOO many questions unanswered. Very angry :cry::
 
[quote name='lilboo']JUST CAME BACK.
GTFO.

It was REALLY GOOD!!....
But what the fuck?! C'mon! NO answers to ANYTHING?!
What was it?
Where did it come from?
How did it eventually (if it did) die?
If so, how long did the rampage last?!
What was in the bites of those crabs that made people explode?

I really enjoyed it!!..but there were TOO many questions unanswered. Very angry :cry::
[/QUOTE]
So do
All the main characters die? Also what's the text at the beginning that's supposed to hint towards it?
 
I saw it. I liked it a lot. It met my expectations, even though there are loose ends.

[quote name='lilboo']JUST CAME BACK.
GTFO.

It was REALLY GOOD!!....
But what the fuck?! C'mon! NO answers to ANYTHING?!
What was it?
Where did it come from?
How did it eventually (if it did) die?
If so, how long did the rampage last?!
What was in the bites of those crabs that made people explode?

I really enjoyed it!!..but there were TOO many questions unanswered. Very angry :cry::
[/QUOTE]

There are definitely a lot of unanswered questions, but I like to think of it as that's where fans come in to fill in the gaps on their own. Or if the movie does well, we can see one to two more films filling in the beginning and the end of what happened.
 
My theater had 3 shows tonight, all 3 sold out.

It was good, not as good as last years "The Mist", but it was alright.

By the way my theater was, I can see there being sequels, different viewpoints of different characters etc.

But again, I would recommend The Mist way over this one.
 
[quote name='lilboo']
But what the fuck?! C'mon! NO answers to ANYTHING?!
What was it?
Where did it come from?
[/quote]
You can get vague answers to some of these questions by digging through the viral ad network for the movie. The origins of how the creature came to be are pretty clearly spelled out.

How did it eventually (if it did) die?
If so, how long did the rampage last?!
What was in the bites of those crabs that made people explode?
Click to expand...
It doesn't die in the movie. At the end of the credits, there is a backtracked voice that says "It's still alive." Expect a sequel.

Anyways, just got back from the midnight premiere at Tallahassee AMC's lovely Auditorium 19, one of the largest movie screens for several hundred miles around. Followed it up with a stop at Waffle House for some hash browns.

I really don't know what else to say other than that was fucking amazing. It's felt like a lifetime of waiting to see the creature, and the first clear glimpses in the film were seriously some of the most overwhelming moments I've had in a theater. I just had to say "holy shit" out loud when all the months of waiting finally ended.
 
Just came back from watching it, totally went into it without seeing or reading any spoilers...It was damn good....Loved it. Though I already knew that
they were going to die since in the beginning it says that the tape was found
. Very well made film though!

CoffeeEdge, you have any links or answers to any of those viral ads?
 
[quote name='LinkinPrime']Just came back from watching it, totally went into it without seeing or reading any spoilers...It was damn good....Loved it. Though I already knew that
they were going to die since in the beginning it says that the tape was found
. Very well made film though!

CoffeeEdge, you have any links or answers to any of those viral ads?[/QUOTE]
The three main ones are (and read them in this order):
http://www.slusho.jp
http://www.tagruato.jp (this is the most important one. Read EVERYTHING here)
http://www.tidowave.com

There's a bunch of other stuff, like e-mails you could send and get replies to, same for phone calls, etc. Those three will provide a lot of info from which you can draw conjecture to figure out how the creature was created.
 
[quote name='CoffeeEdge']The three main ones are (and read them in this order):
http://www.slusho.jp
http://www.tagruato.jp (this is the most important one. Read EVERYTHING here)
http://www.tidowave.com

There's a bunch of other stuff, like e-mails you could send and get replies to, same for phone calls, etc. Those three will provide a lot of info from which you can draw conjecture to figure out how the creature was created.[/QUOTE]

I'm too lazy to do this work, care to summarize its origins? :lol:
 
[quote name='crazytalkx']I'm too lazy to do this work, care to summarize its origins? :lol:[/QUOTE]

Nevermind, well that was easy.
Deep sea drilling=OH SHI-, MONSTER
 
from the images ive seen of it on the net it kind of reminds me of that big creature from The Gate. of course biblically speaking maybe that thing is the leviathan. or a prequel to something else to come.......
 
I saw it and really enjoyed it. There were a lot of holy shit moments when it showed the monster. Lots of intense scenes
(the subway scene where they turn on the night vision was INSANE)
and moments where I was in awe
when you see monster destroying Manhattan
. However, if you don't like..

- shaky camera
- unanswered questions

You will hate this movie. There are a lot of parts where the camera is shaking and I honestly didn't mind it at all. The whole point is for everything to be shot from the perspective of a guy that's never handled a damn camera. So if you see this movie and bitch about this, you had it coming because it's obvious it was going to happen. I didn't mind it because it made it all the more real.

Like Lost, there were a lot of unanswered questions (unless you following all the viral marketing and what not). Questions like:

Where did it come from?
What happened when people got bit?
What it actually was?

However, again I didn't mind that because the overall experience of the movie was amazing. It felt as if it actually all took place with how it was shown. All the hype and anticipation was well worth it.

Did anyone else ponder the thought how much that tape would go for on ebay if it really happened?

Suggestion: STAY AFTER THE CREDITS.
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']argh a movie that leaves you with more questions than answers...in other words too many plot holes :([/QUOTE]

If I'm understanding this movie correctly, it's from the perspective of the group of friends. Because of this, the viewer is limited to the knowledge that the friends have to offer. I don't see it as plot holes at all.
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']argh a movie that leaves you with more questions than answers...in other words too many plot holes :([/quote]

It's like saying The Thing has plot holes because they didn't show who died at the end or whether one of the two survivors was an alien. Just because something is not purposely revealed doesn't mean it's a plot hole.
 
I was going to go see this until i rented

MONSTER what just came out this week

Same idea (yea it might look cheaper)


but its almost the same movie idea. Creature attacks the city. people with video takes tape it and scream running down the road.


i think i wait for it on DVD. Even though i got 8 mcdonald 1 buck movie codes I just dont think i have time to go see this movie tonight (if i dont see the movie the first week it comes out then its not worth going to see)
 
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