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Posted: Tue 22 Jan , 2008 3:55 am
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I thought there would be a thread on this already.

This was one of those movies that was heavily promoted on the internet. No one really knew anything about it other than it was to be a monster movie. If you were persistent you could find the monster's head in the clouds on the movie poster. There were a lot of clues like that.

I went to see it on sunday night and I have to say it is one of the best movies I have ever experienced in a theater! Like Transformers this movie must be seen on the big screen or it will loose its effect.

I highly reccomend it. I can see how it wouldn't be for everyone though. But I guarantee you will never ever have seen a movie that you feel so much a part of, like you're really there. Some of it feels like a nightmare.

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I've wanted to see this movie ever since I first saw it promoted.

Unfortunately, it just had to be released when I didn't have money for movies. :neutral:

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Sneak in... ;)

Honestly though, there are a lot of great movie, most of them can be rented/downloaded though. Make sure you see this one before it leaves theaters.

I haven't been so impressed by a cinema on-screen production since LOTR.


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You bed influence you! :P

There's a theater about 4 miles from my house that plays movies after they've gone out of regular theaters. If I don't get a chance to see Cloverfield soon, I'll wait for it to show up there. :Wooper:

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I saw Cloverfield last week with a group of friends and it was everything and more than I could have wanted! J.J. Abrams is a God I LOVE him.

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I was told before seeing the film to watch out for a couple tid bits and I failed miserably on the first one because I thought it was after the credits but it wasn't it was the last scene of the movie. Having said that the last scene of the movie is of Beth and Rob on the ferris wheel and she says it was a "good" day but over in the right had corner you can see a satellite falling from the sky into the water. This is further explained on the Cloverfield website where there is an entire back story about Rob's new job working for a Japanese company that is marketing an edible product made from mystery goo. Now after the credits you hear Rob say something and if you're like me you didn't hear it but what he said was Help Us and if you play it backwards it says It's still alive!!! WOOOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! Neato!!!!!!! So bad ass I loved Cloverfield. Michael Bay could only wish to make a blow 'em up action movie half as good as Abrams because Abrams is a master story teller and Bay is a pyromaniac :D.

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So... Is it like a horror movie? Or "just another monster", or..?

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It's a monster movie filmed on a hand held camera by the characters. It's scary, funny, and tons of fun. It makes you think and wonder and want more!!!!

It's not horror by any means and it certainly isn't "just" another monster movie it really is way better than that. Do you watch Lost Sharky?

At first I was skeptical that it was gonna be kind of lame but I sat there enthralled waiting to see what was attacking the city. My jaw dropped a few times from surprise.

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Never watched Lost, no. But Cloverfield sounds very interesting, I must say! :)

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Well I highly recommend Cloverfield! It's just an all around good time :)

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I watched this yesterday (while Lidless and Estel watched over baby Alex at home, isn't that the coolest celebrity babysitting or what :D) and found it great fun, credible, engaging and full of enjoyable shocks.

I found the War of the Worlds-style involvement very effective, it does manage to make you feel as part of the action better than other monster movies. I missed part of the dialogue at times, though - which I suppose helps with the sensation that you're as lost (pun intended - tee hee) as the characters themselves, you haven't a clue what has hit them and neither do they.

But I also found it a metaphor of 9/11; the attack scenes could have been pulled from videos of the actual terrorist strike on the WTC (except that it was day then and this happens at night). That was probably a device to make it more chillingly real and I must say it works. It's a clever reversal of the feeling so many people had on 9/11, that what they were watching on TV couldn't be real, that it was a publicity stunt or a catastrophe movie or something similarly hyperbolic.

Definitely recommended, if you like LOST, because it shares some of its core values: the ensemble cast who do stupidly dangerous things rather than hiding away somewhere safe; the enigmatic threat striking out of nowhere, and above all, the lack of clear, definite answers. In short, a very postmodern reworking of Godzilla.

And stay until the end of the credits!


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OMG the ending! I missed it but Mr Ber saw the splash in the water. It's all over the internet now (Youtube is full of spoilers :roll: ), but in brief, it isn't the monster itself falling in the water, a la War of the Worlds, but a falling satellite that awakens it (JJ himself dixit).

And the way the Malena character dies... brr! Very cool how sudden and violent (albeit off-camera). :Q

I found WotW bleak and scary as hell; for some reason, although Cloverfield is more efficient at making you part of the action, it didn't scare me as deeply (although it made me jump at several points - notably at the end when the monster lunges at the helicopter). But I thought it was tremendously cool and I want to see it again; I'm torn between cinema (because it's spectacular and deserves to be seen on a big screen - just don't sit near the screen or you'll get motion sickness) or DVD because it annoys me to miss crucial bits of dialogue (subtitles are a godsend :D).

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Posted: Tue 05 Feb , 2008 4:42 am
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What I liked is that the monster wasn't the central theme of the movie like other "monster movies", rather it was the characters and their bid to survive and save those who they love. It was a story about people who you've hopefully come to like who happen to be in a scary monster situation.

Overall really great.

And I loved all the hidden things. Abrams said it had something to do with Slusho.com a Japanese drink. Some guy ordered some merc from their website and it came wrapped in newspaper which contained clues about the Japanese marine corporation.


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Finally saw it last night (what kind of lame-ass theatre takes two weeks to start playing a record-setting Hollywood film but keeps the bloody chipmunks around for a month? Ours, that's what), though I can't see it again because prices just increased from $8.75 to $9.99. D:

Anyway, these are the kind of movies I live for, even if they're flawed. You got a kick-ass monster, likeable characters, heart-pounding action sequences, and mayhem. I think the next time I see it, the non-monster stuff will seem kind of boring, even though it really isn't. I just loved seeing it so much. It's like the tripods in War of the Worlds: more plz. They were so fucking fantastic to look at and it's the same with duders from Cloverfield. Plus with the hand-held camera, you really really don't get a good look at him too often so it's even more of a damned tease. :P Of course, the settings would not give anyone but helicopters that great a view, New York City being a jungle of skyscrapers and narrow streets. I dunno how the bastard didn't just cannonball right back into the harbour, really didn't seem worth trying to find his way around a place like that. I mean, I know when my fat ass has been bested. Retreat, man, retreat! Amazing falafels are not worth getting shot at by the stealth bomber!

I was really surprised how early we lost certain characters, especially on the Brooklyn Bridge because that entire scene was very disorienting and hard to tell what was going on. I didn't know what I was seeing most of the time, so I guess props for not being all, "omg whatshisface is dead!" *pregnant pause* It was like, "oh shit, this bridge is coming down faster than *rude joke removed* Gotta go!" then later on, the bad news is given to a parent via cell phone. Probably more realistic that way.

Speaking of which, while I'd have loved more monster, I felt the shots we did get were extremely well done. A problem I had with WOTW was how the main characters were always right in the thick of things with everyone else dying around them. Not a new phenomenon in Hollywood movies, but still. It's the having your cake and eating it too thing. Do you want to focus on your leads or the action? Mixing the two can fudge with the suspension of disbelief your audience has offered with buying their ticket in the first place. Just my opinion. I always thought Titanic did a good job of showing you the action and focusing on main characters: we could see things happening on the ship that they didn't know about, and when they were caught up in the middle it didn't seem too unrealistic. Same with Children of Men, everything's from Clive Owen's point of view and sometimes he only escapes with his life out of dumb luck but we still get to see what's going on in the world around him without sacrificing realism. So in Cloverfield, I loved that they didn't step into Blair Witch "just turn the camera off already, there is no point!" territory. Sure it seemed like a stretch at times to believe that he'd still be shooting anything, but hey, it's New York and everyone has a camera. It wasn't a big problem for me. How many thousands of angles did we get for 9/11, yeah? Granted that was more of a stationary event than this one, but the point is that when something happens, people need to cover it in any way they can, for any number of reasons that go through their mind as they're doing it. Besides, I'm glad Hud's face was behind the camera for most of the film. :LMAO: Sorry lol.

If anyone's interested, Cloverfield reminded me of a cross between WOTW and this Korean movie called The Host (aka Gwoemul), about an amphibious mutant who wreaks havoc on the shorelines and sewers of Seoul, leading to evacuations and quarantines. I've never seen a foreign film with action and special effects to rival a Hollywood blockbuster, so this one's really special to me, but I do recommend it for more than that. It was funny, exciting, at times heart-breaking, and an all-around good show. I'm going to get very fidgety if I don't get to see it or Cloverfield again soon, they were both awesome. :D

Oh, and I was giggling to myself when Of Montreal's "Wraith Pinned To the Mist and Other Games" came on at Rob's party. That's my song, boo. :blackeye:

Last thing I can think to comment on are the monster's parasitic spider buddies. Oh gawd, they were vicious. The sounds they make had me just cringing and sinking in my seat. Great reveal, though. Night-vision: friend or foe? lol Between Cloverfield and The Mist, spiders can just gtfo okay. Now I'm all itchy, ugh.




Oh, who am I kidding? I'll be at the theatre again tonight. w00!11




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Excellent. Absolutely excellent.

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Stunning review!

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Only one glaring continuity error on the kitchen clock, but overwise perfect.

Well, apart from the dreadful, dreadful music during the credits. We endured this to hear what turned to only be the sound of "It's still alive" whispered backwards at the end of the credits. Typical Lost geek moment. I had been led to believe it was a visual clip. Damn.


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Loved it - absolutely.

Though the music during the credits was just about the worst I've ever heard. Not just worst credit music, worst ever music. I ended up with a pounding headache when we left the theatre, and I didn't even hear the geek moment cause some theatre worker guy was talking on his radio at that very moment :roll:

The movie itself though, was one of the best action/horror movies I've seen in years.


*E* - I've heard about "The Host". Is it really as good as all the reviews say it is? Cause I've seriously been considering ordering it on Amazon, but didn't know if I should based on a bunch of strangers reviews. I trust your opinion though, so if you say it's worth it, I'm gonna get it.


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Girl, if you don't like it mail it to me and I'll reimburse ya.

I don't know what the reviews were like, I was just going through a list of available titles from my online rental service and I think I'd been getting lots of octopus movies at the time and misinterpreted the film's poster lmao. But it all worked out cuz apparently it was like a year away from coming out in North America so by adding it to my account I was put at the front of the line for a copy when it was finally released. :P

Even watching the dubbed version couldn't ruin it for me (and actually kind of added to the insanity of the main character/family). I only didn't buy it right away because I remembered everything so vividly and it's such a massive production you get tired just thinking about it. I'm really glad to have watched it.

Fun note: the first scene is based on an actual case where chemicals were dumped into the river. The filmmakers just took that idea and went with it in creating their monster. Take that, Slusho, or whateverthehell.


EDIT: made mom watch it with me tonight. I was going to get refills on my popcorn during the non-monster scenes but I was still so into it I never moved from my seat. That's good! I really anticipated not liking that stuff as much on repeat but it's held up. I really, really loved all the characters and their performances, specifically Rob's. Very normal, likeable guy, who's thrown into a godawful situation and just wants to get his girl back, as it's maybe the only thing he can fix.

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Oh and p.s. Estel the music was not that bad. ;) Well the girl singing made me laugh in the way the original Star Trek theme song made me laugh because it's so high-pitched, but the rest was fine. lol @ the theme's title, though: "Roar! (Cloverfield Overture)" by Michael Giacchino. The music he wrote for Lost had ridiculous titles as well.




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Interesting, I absolutely loved the music. It was so potent and sounded like music that belonged to a monster movie. The people who I went with thought the same thing. Second time around I stayed for the music again.


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You two are weird.


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Canadian blood perhaps?


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