Cloverfield? Anyone?

[sspadowsky]

I hope this lives up to the hype. The trailer makes it look really fucking good. I have never seen Lost, so I know nothing of JJ Abrams. But I love destruction, especially on a large scale.

Make with the speculation.

[Fathom Zero]

J.J. Abrams produced Mission Impossible III, yes?

[Zomboid]

Yaaaaay. I've been looking forward to this since the first teaser. I'm really pumped for it. It LOOKS like it will be really good but ya never know. I have a gif somewhere that has a close up view of when the monster is walking between buildings and you can kinda make out the legs and part of the body.

[Darktrooper11]

Its been built up so much anything short of the best movie ever made will be probably a disappointment to most, though I do have high expectations and will probably see it.

[comhcinc]

J.J. Abrams isn't my favorite guy but this movie looks like it will be a good one, if they drop the whole "blair witch unsteady cam" gimmick. i don't mind a couple of scenes but if it is the whole movie.....urk!

[doopa]

lost movie, godzilla, jesus returns, live action simpsons movie, the 4th installment of the matrix, mars attacks 2, predator 3, aliens 20, star trek the borg movie, waterworld from outspace, something I can't guess

[doopa]

Cloverfield. According to IMDB it "Revolves around a monster attack in New York as told from the point of view of a small group of people."

And the almighty wikipedia says "J. J. Abrams conceived of a new monster after he and his son visited a toy store in Japan. He explained, "We saw all these Godzilla toys, and I thought, we need our own monster, and not King Kong, King Kong's adorable."

Ok
1. A giant silverfish. My god those things terrify me.
2. A giant angry self-flinging piece of poo.
3. A giant Crispin Glover off his meds.
4. My boss (as a giant) bringing an army of creatures from the evil planet she came from.
5. A giant wet hairball created from the foulness trapped in all the shower drains of the world.
6. A giant spaghetti. I hate spaghetti :(

[Zbu Manowar]

I think it should be the ex-StayPuft Marshmellow Man, bitter over his makeover into the KeepRegular Tofu Man. His power? Gross commercialism.

[Fathom Zero]

I still think it should be Satan.

By the way, in the trailer in the theaters, like the one in AvP:R, in the part where the chopper is spinning and the girls are screaming, you can see a GIGANTIC ship in the back-ground, through the chopper doors. It looks like one of the things out of Independence Day. It's a pretty steady shot, too. The ship-thing is long.

Anyway, that's just what I recall.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ufYF0f-zMgY

In this trailer, at about a minute and 52 seconds, the chopper spins around and it's hard to make out, but you'll see what looks like a lumpy skyline behind the buildings. I called foul immediately, because there aren't mountains in Manhattan. It's floating, too.

[executioneer]

3. A giant Crispin Glover off his meds.

oh man and then they make a giant dave letterman to fight him and the giant crispin glover ALMOST kicks him in the face :eek

[HickMan]

I think it's based off the Rampage games

[executioneer]

oh fuck that would be awesome

[Fatacula]

If at the end of the movie the monster turns into a scrawny guy in his boxers and embarrassedly shuffles his way off screen, we'll know it was a Rampage rip-off!

[comhcinc]

cloverfield.....clover........! a giant lepuchaun!

[Madman914]

i think i will be a leprechaun and at the end a giant jennifer anniston chases him off with a stick.

[Zomboid]

Apparently they had a special screening of cloverfield at michigan state university. It is supposed to be awesome and we DO see the monster really well.

[Moobs]

I've seen a model of what apparently is the monster. Fits the poster (claw marks) and was apparently created by the art director of the film Peter Konig

It looks lame :( But by the looks of the trailer we probably wont even get to see it

for those who want to see what is apparently the monster:
http://64.111.216.18/ul/5641-clover.jpg

[Zomboid]

That's not it. Several people who have seen it have stated that you clearly see the monster a few times and it doesn't look at all like that. This is supposedly what it looks like:

SPOILERS!!!: http://i8.tinypic.com/6tunds9.png
and http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/ignatz/album%2034/cloverfield3flat.jpg

[HickMan]

Looks mean

[Moobs]

thank god, it actually looks cool. Thanks for saving the movie! :0

[Nick]

I believe that like all things J.J. Abrams does, it will start out fantastic then halfway through it will crap out.

[TheBigMan045]

Also what im afraid of but lets hope it doesnt

[Cedar]

it was good but it didn't deserve all the hype

[Jeff The Ninja]

Saw it today


Fucking Awesome.

The only thing that irked me about the movie is that they never explain what the monster is. You know of what it is capable of, and a good idea of what it can do. But the problem with it is that it feels unfinished in the end. We need a sequel or some other kind of expansion to try to figure this one out.

I do have a good idea of what it is. Its a fucking alien. At the end of the movie, during the last scene, one of the things you see is something landing in the water outside Coney Island (its kind of hard to notice, i barely caught it). It also can spawn smaller versions of itself, so it can reproduce, and it has a lot of teeth. Also, if you are bitten by the spawn, you are pretty much fucked since they infect you with something that kills you within a couple of hours (the movie takes place in the span of 7-8 hours) in a horrific splatter of blood.

[sspadowsky]

I liked it a lot. It was fun, fast, entertaining, had really good special effects..... the actors are secondary. It was what Roland Emmerich would aspire to do if he wasn't satisfied making pieces of shit like Independence Day.

Go see it. Big movies like this don't have the same impact on DVD.

[Hangie]

Saw it today


Fucking Awesome.

The only thing that irked me about the movie is that they never explain what the monster is. You know of what it is capable of, and a good idea of what it can do. But the problem with it is that it feels unfinished in the end. We need a sequel or some other kind of expansion to try to figure this one out.

I do have a good idea of what it is. Its a fucking alien. At the end of the movie, during the last scene, one of the things you see is something landing in the water outside Coney Island (its kind of hard to notice, i barely caught it). It also can spawn smaller versions of itself, so it can reproduce, and it has a lot of teeth. Also, if you are bitten by the spawn, you are pretty much fucked since they infect you with something that kills you within a couple of hours (the movie takes place in the span of 7-8 hours) in a horrific splatter of blood.




This was the best (modern) movie ive seen in the past 5 years

Let me explain what it is in my theory.


Some kind of giant creature mutated by the "Deep sea nectar" used in slusho and that it was awoken by whatever meteorite/ship crashed in the ocean or by tagruoto drilling. It has parasite spider things on it that are carnivourus and I think their saliva reacts with the slusho to make people explode ( holy shit, I jumped during that scene) or implants some sort of venom.


Also after the credits you can here someone say "help us" but when its played backwards its "its still alive" I dont have a link to the clip so google it.

The thing I'm confused about is when it eat/bite/kills Hud WTF is his body still intact? I mean I get that its like trying to bite an ant, but you heard chewing.


These things im saying are in complete random order


Also anyone see the Iron man or hellboy 2 trailers? The Iron man trailer kicked SO MUCH ASS especially when they start playing black sabbath.


Edit: Completely forgot to mention that the monster looks like an anorexic Orga ( the godzilla monster)








Realllllly Realllllly good movie, go see it.

[Jeff The Ninja]

This was the best (modern) movie ive seen in the past 5 years

Let me explain what it is in my theory.


Some kind of giant creature mutated by the "Deep sea nectar" used in slusho and that it was awoken by whatever meteorite/ship crashed in the ocean or by tagruoto drilling. It has parasite spider things on it that are carnivourus and I think their saliva reacts with the slusho to make people explode ( holy shit, I jumped during that scene) or implants some sort of venom.


Also after the credits you can here someone say "help us" but when its played backwards its "its still alive" I dont have a link to the clip so google it.

The thing I'm confused about is when it eat/bite/kills Hud WTF is his body still intact? I mean I get that its like trying to bite an ant, but you heard chewing.


These things im saying are in complete random order


Also anyone see the Iron man or hellboy 2 trailers? The Iron man trailer kicked SO MUCH ASS especially when they start playing black sabbath.


Edit: Completely forgot to mention that the monster looks like an anorexic Orga ( the godzilla monster)








Realllllly Realllllly good movie, go see it.

Intresting, i forgot the slusho thing. So the cloverfield monster (or as my friends and i call it "The terrible thing") is a giant mutant slusho monster. I also remember seeing on one of those viral sites that there was some kind of greenpeace movement to stop taguroto drilling from harming some humpback whales. So the monster may be some kind of Muatated, slusho, humpback whale monster.

[Hangie]

Yea if you check http://www.tagruato.jp/ its down for maintenance and
http://www.tidowave.com/ is "locked" and people have reported that code is the code for out of country terrorism.



Maybe gonna add new clues?

[BurntToShreds]

It was awesome. The shaky-cam didn't bother me that much, and the romance aspect of it was nice. Yes, there is a relationship between two characters, but that's as far as I'm letting on. The monster looks like something you would see in Gears of War or Resistance:Fall of Man.

[ScruU2wice]

I thought it was ok I thought the premonster part was way too drawn out, but I guess necessary?

spoilers

ok I'm no doctor but I don't think you last long when you have a piece of rebar stuck through your chest, nor do you last long when it's pulled out. I'll buy everything else with monsters and other crap but seriously if you're trying to do this blair witch realism I think you should try to work your way around crap like that.

[Misdemonar]

She wouldget gang-green, plus the rebar would block the bleeding, when they pulled her out she would've started bleeding out

[Hangie]

She wouldget gang-green, plus the rebar would block the bleeding, when they pulled her out she would've started bleeding out


But wut if shes magic!?

[kahljorn]

o shiz

[Slobulus]

I absolutely loved the movie. I wish there wasnt as much camera jolts :hypno
But aside from that, it freaked me out. Definitely gonna buy the dvd when it shows up. :rock

[Hangie]

I absolutely loved the movie. I wish there wasnt as much camera jolts :hypno
But aside from that, it freaked me out. Definitely gonna buy the dvd when it shows up. :rock


same, I realised after I saw it the second time that at the begining where its the tape showing "found in time square blah blah blah" the dharma symbol was in a corner. This better not be just a big tie in for lost...

[Zomboid]

Just saw it and fucking loved it.

[Angryhydralisk]

"the monster looks like an anorexic Orga ( the godzilla monster)"

I thought the same thing when I finally saw it. The little monsters looked like something out of Starship Troopers.

Still, this was a good film, nice and messed up. Plus I had a good laugh about the camera. It survives explosions, being in a monsters mouth, AND goes 90 minutes without a re-charge!?

Get me one of those.

EDIT: Hellboy 2 looks awesome. Hellboy gets to kick gay albino vampire/elf/whatever ass.

[Vanhelm13]

Holy damn. I saw it yesterday.
Easily one of the best movies of the past few years.

I read in some interview that the Cloverfield monster-thing is immature. So maybe there's other, larger ones?
I don't have any good theories about it's creation or whatever, I just know that it was fucking adorable, and it's little zergling-things were too.

I'd probably get the figure if it wasn't 100 fucking dollars.

[Zomboid]

I'm gonna get it anyway.

[bigtimecow]

are there any images of said figure?

[Vanhelm13]

Not yet =(

[Hangie]

Isnt it going to be like 2 feet and have parasites with it though? I only have a few godzilla bandai figures though so im no expert on value.

[Moobs]

best film ever guys :(

[J. Tithonus Pednaud]

Just saw it tonight.

I hated it. One of the worst movies I've ever had the misfortune of watching. I understand I am in the minority here, but I honestly have no idea what anyone sees in this movie.

[darkvare]

pretty cool iloved the things behind the monsters head i'm glad they made it like that other wise would have been like a godzilla movie

[Dr. Octogonopus]

I keep meaning to see this, but every time we're about to go see it, crap comes up and we can't. :<

[Zomboid]

:<

[Sam]

:<

[Emu]

>:<

[BurntToShreds]

<:<

[executioneer]

>:

[Zomboid]

THE TOY IS OUT NOW. It looks pretty cool.

[Hangie]

Spoilers for those who havent seen it yet http://images.wikia.com/cloverfield/images//7/7d/Cloverfield.jpg
The actual monster design
http://www.hasbrotoyshop.com/ProductsByBrand.htm?ID=21030&BR=863
The toy

[DeadKennedys]

Just saw it tonight.

I hated it. One of the worst movies I've ever had the misfortune of watching. I understand I am in the minority here, but I honestly have no idea what anyone sees in this movie.

Hype is a powerful tool.

It was pretty mediocre. The camera jiggles were kind of a gimmick to draw you into a movie with an otherwise non-existent story and two-dimensional cast.

It was the film equivalent of cheetos: tasty, but utterly devoid of any value. And after I finish the bag I don't want any cheetos for another goddamn year.

I've never been a fan of big monster movies. I hated Godzilla. When the monster's that huge, there's no chance for suspense, and it's not scary in a "I'm gonna stalk my prey and eat them with my little mouth too" kind of way. I mean, I guess you could get stomped or chewed up by it, but it doesn't play on the human psyche the way other monsters do. You're just collateral damage of a flopping big fish in a small pond. Its predatory instincts, mental or physical, aren't dead set on you and your death. It's not going to wrap you up in a slimy cocoon or slowly digest you or eat your wife's brains. It has no reason to kill you. It's just... big. Imagine a movie about John Wayne Gacey, but instead of hunting you and slitting your throat, he grows 20 stories tall and steps on people. Sounds kinda stupid, huh? The characters are just monster food, and the plot is such: Make big monster. Big monster kills people and hits buildings. Try to kill monster. Can't. Damn! Loud noises.

[J. Tithonus Pednaud]

It was OC meets Godzilla - the US version. It was just plain bad. Horrible plot, pathetic pacing. Just bad, bad, bad...

[DeadKennedys]

It was OC meets Godzilla - the US version. It was just plain bad. Horrible plot, pathetic pacing. Just bad, bad, bad...

Now if only that Imogen Heap song would play every time someone got munched up, it might be worth another watch

[darkvare]

the crappy part were the humans but i don't see any OC maybe cause i had never seen the OC

[Madface]

The OC is in the fact that all the human characters that the movie follows are total spoiled brat douchebags (except for Hud...I kinda liked Hud). I didn't give a damn when any of them died...including Hud unfortunately. You get to see the monster a considerable amount but sometimes the shots seemed rediculously fake. There were times when it felt mildly real but than a random shot would come along and I'd be say to myself "did Abrams just give up or did they run out of money?" My friend said it was pretty mind blowing after she saw it...but I just didn't fall in the way she did...there was some pricelessly funny shit but other than that little else.

[executioneer]

omg spoilers

[J. Tithonus Pednaud]

MMMM...whatcha say.....
Mmmm...that you only meant well?

[liquidstatik]

i don't understand how that monster moves :x