Cloverfield

Anybody heard of the mysterious movie?
It has been featured on the news because it is causing an uproar.

Trailer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=IvNkGm8mxiM

And Adren still owes me that High Def trailer

 

wow! looks awesome!

great producer too

 

Great movie was worth going that early

 

Pay careful attention to the clip at the end...recorded by the camera and set one month before the events. Keep your eyes trained on the sky.

 

im thinking that there might be a second one since the monster only came out towards the end of the movie and they didnt kill it

 

There will be. It will provide some answers, too.

 

yea the way i thought the movie was going to go is.. you wont see the .thing. the hole movie .. then at the end youll see a glimps of it and then BOOM end....

 

It was a good movie that needed more details. I'm interested on how the monster creates new offspring. I have the idea that new offspring is created in a similar way as seen in the movie Alien VS. Predator. I also wonder about other things that perhaps will be revealed in a future sequel.

 

i have been reading about this movie and heard it was like stupid, but here is a review,Finally, the hype machine that is the Cloverfield marketing campaign can finally end its reign of terror. After this next weekend, hopefully the trailers will die and the ARGers (Alternate Reality Gamers) will figure out what’s behind the mystery they’ve been spending months of their lives trying to figure out. So what exactly is Cloverfield about? Think Blair Witch meets Godzilla (1954), and since that isn’t the first or last time you’ll see or read that comparison, think of a movie that results in something less profound than either.

What is Cloverfield? I have no idea, as this movie never stresses the word outside of the title screen but if you’re one of those trying to figure out what the advertising was hiding, it’s simple. It’s a giant monster. Think of the Lochness monster if it could walk on land and shed face-huggers from the Alien franchise.

“Wait dude, why did you ruin that for me?”

Trust me, I didn’t ruin a thing. The film does that for you with its annoying characters. And you find out what it looks like about 15 minutes into the movie, so calm down.

Rob (Michael Stahl-David) just got an important job in Japan, so his friends decide to throw a going away party for him. At this party, he has a bit of a tiff with his ex-girlfriend, Beth, who was rude enough to bring her new boyfriend to this shindig. Meanwhile, under the direction of Rob’s brother Jason (Mike Vogel), his best friend Hud (TJ Miller) captures the event with a camcorder.

What happens next is when the movie finally gets going. Something big shakes the ground and the party heads downstairs to investigate. As they stand there, out on the street, the head of the Statue of Liberty comes flying towards them. No one has any idea what is going on - it feels like another terrorist attack. But the cameraman captures something that isn’t normal.

The next half-hour of the film, as the group runs frantically throughout the city, is wonderfully intense. No matter where they go, where they turn, something is falling from the sky or blowing up. Why couldn’t this film be more about survival and less of what was going on with these characters? Rob gets a phone call from Beth, pleading for help, so he decides he can’t leave the city until he finds her. How heroically familiar and annoying.

All we know of them is what the camcorder tells us. The development of these characters is non-existent because it seems that this movie isn’t about them. This tape is played in the exact condition the government found it in. It’s an interesting gimmick that has worked well in other films, but doesn’t really solidify a purpose here. Were the filmmakers ashamed of their creature? They couldn’t actually think that we’d give a shit about these kids, could they?

It’s a tiresome day in the world of film criticism. How many films can we see where we have to complain about how ineffectually caustic the characters are?

It’s hard not to compare this movie to the recent I Am Legend. In that film, Robert Neville (Will Smith) was a scientist living in Manhattan all by himself after a man-made virus killed most of mankind or turned them into vampire-like creatures. They only came out at night but we saw only what Neville saw. They didn’t need the camcorder technique to show us only what a character sees. Cloverfield used that to try to break from the mundane. Too bad it didn’t succeed, regardless of those few breathtaking moments here and there.