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"Cloverfield".....WTF?

You know, this is the first film in a while that I really really want to see. Might take a little while before it gets to my corner of Scotland though.
 
CheekyMonkey said:
i cannot WAIT to see this film. the super-secret-ninja-stealth ad campaign and blair-witch-style cinematography, combined with the promise of a giant scary monster that completely fucks UP new york is just too tempting.

i'm such a sucker for marketing. it's almost embarrassing.
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Your enthusiasum for this movie alone is embarrassing. The director is taking the concept of "Godzilla being the giant monster for Japan" and trying to make his own giant monster for America.

The concept of THAT plus the "blair witch project camera view", is going to turn the whole production into a failure.
 
I don't care for movies where New York gets totalled these days. Since, you know, that time when it actually was. Still hits a little close to home.
 
Cloverfield is the latest combined effort of jews and Godzilla to mindfuck all of mankind. J. J. Abrams, the director and lover of Star Wars, Drew Goddard, former writer for Buffy, and Matt Reeves, whoever the fuck that is. The plot of the movie has been kept completely secret, which is the only reason anybody cares to go see it! However, it definitely has something to do with some drunk college kids and the giant Jewfin called Moshe Kleefeld (Aryan for Cloverfield) who's pwning New York. This ofcouse has the internet community's collective panties in fishermen's knot.
 
Cloverfield made me physically sick. I missed half of the movie because I couldn't watch the shaky camera without wanting to vomit.

I never used to get motion sick before, let alone motion sick while watching a movie. This is the second film that's done it, the first was the Bourne Ultimatum.

I'm going to have to wait until it comes out on DVD so I can watch it on a smaller screen, and hopefully it won't have that effect on me.
 
I'm going to cut this flick slack and give it a bullshit **1/2

...and now, a few spoilers along with points I'd like to make:

1. Everybody dies.

2. The cellphone/handheld worked for "about" 20 mins.

3. If you don't decide to walk out on the film before Manhattan gets nuked to kingdom come have a listen to the "Destroy All Monsters" Godzilla music as the end credits roll.
 
Yeah, I enjoyed it, but the first 20 minutes is almost unbearable, with some twentysomething NYC yuppie romantic exposition that goes on and on and on.....when thank god the Big Fucker shows up.

Cacophony is absolutely right about the shaky-cam being a real problem. One of the guys I went with left about a third of the way through and didn't come back. We met him in the lobby where he had immediately puked upon exiting the cinema. I've been hearing this story all over. Strangely, it didn't affect me at all. Maybe I've long since gotten used to that sort of thing, or the fact that it was only a visual effect lessened my susceptibility. I get violently seasick, for instance.

You don't really care about anyone in it, there's no 'message' and almost nothing in the way of answers, but occasionally a film comes along that eschews these qualities for a purely visceral experience and that's what this is. A few scenes had me digging my fingers into the armrest and one or two shots really made me jump. I also had no difficulty ignoring a couple minor hiccups of logic, something I'm normally much too sensitive about. It aint perfect, but I'll probably see it again, and be all over the DVD.

And no, it's not Godzilla or Cthulhu -although it may as well be their secret love child.

Finally: If you see it, remember to pay very close attention to the last shot. You'll know it when it arrives.
 
The best way to create an 'American original' is to rip off Japanese kaiju movies like Godzilla.

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Oecodus said:
Finally: If you see it, remember to pay very close attention to the last shot. You'll know it when it arrives.
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I'm not sure I get what you mean.

I heard that there's something at the end of the credits (that I missed because I left), but I don't think that that's what you mean.
 
Cacophony said:
I heard that there's something at the end of the credits (that I missed because I left), but I don't think that that's what you mean.
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No, there's some audio stuff at the end of the credits that for all I know might be some weird "Lost" reference. (I know that there's already rampant speculation on that alone.). I'm talking about the last shot before the credits, and what I'm talking about isn't easy to see. Most of the other people I went with didn't catch it, but checking later online assured me that I wasn't hallucinating. I won't give it away or exaggerate its significance, but will say that it's an important clue to the origin of the creature.
 
Oecodus said:
No, there's some audio stuff at the end of the credits that for all I know might be some weird "Lost" reference. (I know that there's already rampant speculation on that alone.). I'm talking about the last shot before the credits, and what I'm talking about isn't easy to see. Most of the other people I went with didn't catch it, but checking later online assured me that I wasn't hallucinating. I won't give it away or exaggerate its significance, but will say that it's an important clue to the origin of the creature.
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I also missed it in the theater, but found out online. And apparantly the static at the end of the credits is "It's still alive" backwards. My buddy called the backwards part, but didn't get the message. I couldn't hear anything b/c of the bitch ass teenagers behind me talking. :mad:

Overall, underwhelmed by the whole thing. Interesting concept, but I like plot. I want to leave knowing what caused this and what happened b/c of it. Not just an hour and a half of running around like idiots (never picking up a weapon).
 
Oecodus said:
No, there's some audio stuff at the end of the credits that for all I know might be some weird "Lost" reference. (I know that there's already rampant speculation on that alone.). I'm talking about the last shot before the credits, and what I'm talking about isn't easy to see. Most of the other people I went with didn't catch it, but checking later online assured me that I wasn't hallucinating. I won't give it away or exaggerate its significance, but will say that it's an important clue to the origin of the creature.
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Could you link me to where you saw it online, please? If you don't want to leave spoiler links lying around (although if people click on them, it's their own fault), could you PM it to me?

:)
 
Mentalist said:
So is it worth the bandwidth to download?
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I'd say so, if you don't let your expectations get too high about the film itself, and you don't get a really shitty shot-with-a-hidden-camcorder-in-the-theatre bootleg. I don't think anybody's brain is designed to process a handheld-camera version of a whole film originally shot with a handheld camera.
 
Cacophony said:
Could you link me to where you saw it online, please? If you don't want to leave spoiler links lying around (although if people click on them, it's their own fault), could you PM it to me?
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Wiki's comprehensive on the film as well as the overall marketing phenomenon. and they've got quite a lot of links. I've looked for a good screenshot of it and found nothing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverfield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverfield#_note-5
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/10946
 
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