Cloverfield, Don't waste your money!!! Options

[massbrandon]

Honestly, this was the worst movie I have ever seen. Just my two cents. The best part was when the Army started blowing stuff up. That was it.

[Havok1997GT]

Honestly, this was the worst movie I have ever seen. Just my two cents. The best part was when the Army started blowing stuff up. That was it.

Friend said it was like watching Godzilla, Blair Which style.

I think it was funny that when they first started showing the trailer for it they didnt have the name of the move up yet, everyone wanted to know what it was, now we know and no one wants to see it. so much for marketing

[BlackCelicaGT94]

id like to know more info about the movie. can someone PM me or tell it in here but adjust the subject to say SPOILER

[j0e_p3t]

Friend said it was like watching Godzilla, Blair Which style.

exactly that. the entire thing is through one camcorder. it was alright, cuz i wasn't expecting much. it had some good moments. i kinda wish it all wasn't first person though.

[daazndood]

best movie i have watched in a while. its just VERY different. something everyone (who isnt a fragile sissy) should watch.

[massbrandon]

^^ WOW. I just could not stand the movie. The acting was horrible, I couldn't stand the constantly moving camera (blair witch wasn't this bad), and then I still don't know what it was. Looked like a giant cock roach to me.

[Rayme]

I watched it and loved it.

Its definitly NOT blair witch, the first person camera is good (in other word the movie would have worked with normal camera shooting style).

People are going to hate movies when they are used to ..spider man and all that homogenous holywood stuff that always ends up like the viewers want.

*two thumbs up

This post has been edited by Rayme: Jan 19, 2008 - 9:30 AM

[Toyoca]

got dizzy/naceous. i think it woulda been a fine movie if it was shot normally.

[forkee]

This post has been edited by forkee: Jul 13, 2008 - 3:13 AM

[bccentaur3]

Although the movie was very eye straining, I LOVED IT. I read some stuff on Yahoo and the movies based off of Godzilla in Japan. I honestly thought before I swa the creature that it was another Godzilla movie, but infact some thing else. The acting did not suck and I liked the first person camcording. Besides HUD was F'in Hilarious in the movie. Just listen to the guy, he made everything 10 times better. I agree with Rayme 2 thumbs way up.

[xs94st]

hmm..they have a spoiler / entire plotline on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverfield

i have yet to watch it and have only read the plot from the beginning to the head of statue of liberty gettin cut off.

i duno how i will like this. for some reason godzilla scared the sh!t outta me when i was younger but i couldnt stop watching it. i have never seen wair blitch but i know i dont get sick from watchin these kindsa movies..

i might have to watch it by myself.

[Supersprynt]

I really didn't find it eye straining. If you go in expecting a hand held camera movie, which you should, you can't get upset about them running around and sometimes dropping the camera etc.

It was entertaining enough, wasn't spectacular but I don't think it was bad and it was suspensful to keep me attentive.

[RisingSun1]

I puked when I was watching it- I just couldn't resist, But it was a good movie.

[Toyoca]

i wouldnt call it suspenseful. everything seemed pretty predictable....

[dagreat1]

it had its predictible parts but i t was still pretty good and for awhile i too was like... "is this godzilla?"

wow. my friend on myspace said it sucked too. i was gonna watch it cuz it looked interesting but i trust my compadres so i think ill pass on this one.......

here was her review

so i went to the midnight show of cloverfield and wasnt that impressed.
To be honest i didnt make it through much of the movie beacuse i thought i was going to puke. i dont do too well with the whole hand held camera effect.. but apparently i wasn't the only one. while i was in the bathroom trying to talk myself out of puking three girls ran in and instantly started throwing up... i went back into the theater and stood by the exit and attempted to watch the rest of the movie with some girl named maggie who was suffering from the same motion sickness problem that i was.... well needless to say i saw ( and i am in no way exaggerating) atleast seven people running by with hands held over their mouths and vomit spewing out as they tried to make it to the bathroom in time.

this made me think a lil.... wouldnt the movie production people think about this before they release a movie like this... i mean where were the warning signs reading.... warning this movie is going to suck oh and by the way there is a good chance you will vomit during this film... hell if i would have seen an ad like that i probably chosen not to attend...

oh well heres to another hyped up movie that isnt worth the money

hmm maybe you need real friends... starting a sentence off with "my myspace friend said" is rarely ever good

This post has been edited by dagreat1: Jan 19, 2008 - 6:57 PM

[j0e_p3t]

its not as dizzying if you sit a lil further back.

btw.... SPOILER WARNING...
what happened to that one girl that got bit? marlena or something. like she started bleeding from the eyes and people started freakin out cuz she had a bite. and then they took her behind a tent and then blood splattered. what happened?

[massbrandon]

^^ I thought she exploded lol.

[bccentaur3]

I thought she exploded too, lol...

[daazndood]

guys, you cant really complain about getting sick from the camera. you all knew what you were getting yourself into. im not gonna go watch rambo and complain that there was too much blood...

have any of you guys tried running with a hand held camera? this movie did a wonderful representation of mimicking it.

[forkee]

wow. my friend on myspace said it sucked too. i was gonna watch it cuz it looked interesting but i trust my compadres so i think ill pass on this one.......

hmm maybe you need real friends... starting a sentence off with "my myspace friend said" is rarely ever good

listen jack ass maybe you need to read your sentences right

i said my friend on myspace. not my myspace friend. i have real friends, most of my friends on my myspace list i know personally. i dont see what myspace has to do with anything anyways, i was just making reference to it. my friend on myspace which i quoted is my real friend which ive known for 10 years, not just some random person i added. i also made reference to all of you as my friend and good source of movie reviews as i have made some reviews on here myself.

why do you have to go around bashing people anyways? whenever i make reference to what someone said on here, i always start with, "someone from 6gc said". does that make anyone more or less credible? maybe, maybe not. does that mean i need to get read friends that know cars? no. it has nothing to do with it. i was just citing my sources. jeeze next time ill just say, "my friend" and ill leave it up to you to question whether or not they are imaginary...

[Toyoca]

geeze, all you had to said was "no, not my 'myspace friend', my friend" or something....

anywho yea i was confused about what happened to her. i probably was averting my eyes from dizziness at the time

[joehernandez]

wow i think its hard to decide whether it is cool or not,
I havent seen it
but of what i have heard is a love it or hate it style movie

[dagreat1]

wow. my friend on myspace said it sucked too. i was gonna watch it cuz it looked interesting but i trust my compadres so i think ill pass on this one.......

hmm maybe you need real friends... starting a sentence off with "my myspace friend said" is rarely ever good

listen jack ass maybe you need to read your sentences right

i said my friend on myspace. not my myspace friend. i have real friends, most of my friends on my myspace list i know personally. i dont see what myspace has to do with anything anyways, i was just making reference to it. my friend on myspace which i quoted is my real friend which ive known for 10 years, not just some random person i added. i also made reference to all of you as my friend and good source of movie reviews as i have made some reviews on here myself.

why do you have to go around bashing people anyways? whenever i make reference to what someone said on here, i always start with, "someone from 6gc said". does that make anyone more or less credible? maybe, maybe not. does that mean i need to get read friends that know cars? no. it has nothing to do with it. i was just citing my sources. jeeze next time ill just say, "my friend" and ill leave it up to you to question whether or not they are imaginary...

ooo so defensive, hmm for it to hurt so much it probably has a bit of truth to it

[dagreat1]

oh yea and that girl exploded i was like wtf and then the movie just kept on going. but if you think about it and that situation really did happen in real life, while i'm sure most people would have made some different choices, it would still be a lot like that... random **** is happening all around you and you don't have time nor the ability to get any answers, you are just trying to stay alive

[Hanyo]

guys, you cant really complain about getting sick from the camera. you all knew what you were getting yourself into. im not gonna go watch rambo and complain that there was too much blood...

have any of you guys tried running with a hand held camera? this movie did a wonderful representation of mimicking it.

I understand what you mean about how they "mimicking" because I've made video before and trying to hold the darn thing stable with your hands is near impossible.


But I was hoping the entire time they say " hey turn on the stabilizer control" or something along those lines to make the movie into a regular movie. Or they could have moved into a first person view of the guy holding the camera. If they wanted the viewers to get a first person view; let us be the first person not rewatching the film!

my review: I hated it!

[lagos]

I havent seen it, but at least its not another Adam Sandler movie or some sh1t like that. Good or bad, they get my respect for trying something different.

[lx130]

agreed...was not such a great movie... liked it better if there was more info on everything...but anyway...was wondering if anyone noticed the part at teh end..which kinda leaves a cliffhanger on how everything may have started....dunno if i might ruin the ending... but w/e

when ithe video goes back to beth and rob going to coney island, if u lookin the distance.. something falls from teh sky and lands in teh water....DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN!!!!! could it be? hahah

[WannabeGT4]

what happened to that one girl that got bit? marlena or something. like she started bleeding from the eyes and people started freakin out cuz she had a bite. and then they took her behind a tent and then blood splattered. what happened?

^^ I thought she exploded lol.

Remember just before she exploded when they rolled the soldier right beside them and his chest was hollowed out. I assume the same thing happened to her.

I absolutely loved Cloverfield! Having things spelled out for you through the whole movie is pretty boring. The way it was presented was very unique and worked very well in my opinion.

At the very end of the credits, what was the short message that was full of static. Some douche bags were being to loud and I missed it.

[Akimbo]

The message at the end was "it's still alive." It is VERY easy to hear...

I loved the movie. I hate the people that were whining about there not being much information. What can you expect? It's a documentary, we know as much as these people do. All the information you could want is in the viral marketing sites, but that's too much work for a lot of average joe movie sheep out there. The monster is a deep sea creature, from the coldest, deepest part of the ocean with the most pressure. Slusho (the company Rob is going to be the VP of Marketing for) harvests Seabed's Nectar, which nobody really knows much about. Some people speculate it might be eggs. There's weird stories about Seabed's Nectar. Slusho is wholly owned by Tagruato, a Japanese drilling company. They lose a satellite in the water (Splash at the end of the Coney Island clip) and have to go to retreive it, and that wakes the monster up.

If you didn't like Cloverfield, you went in expecting an action flick/monster sci-fi-o-rama movie. If you did like it, you accepted the fact that at heart, Cloverfield isn't a monster movie at all. It's a love story, and the monster is only a catalyst between Rob and Beth's relationship.

Here's my big post from another forum I visit:
SPOILERS BE YONDER









They didn't nuke, or tactical nuke NYC. If they did, the SD Card in the camera would be destroyed from the EMP. The United States would never do that. Had to be a JDAM or two in there, or some really heavy kilo's dropped on the monster. Do I think it's dead? Yes. The pictures on http://www.1-18-08.com/ have led me to believe it is. I think it lives past the end for a while before getting owned by the Navy. If you look, theres a LOT of blood in the water, some mangled parts (which seem to be a whale though), and if you sort the photos around, theres our Navy and some A-10's attacking the water. Also, there's speculation that in the end in the credits Rob whispers something like "It's still alive..." Typical JJ Abrams mystery. People said they listened to it forward and backward, and that both ways it sounds like "It's still alive." I listened to it backward, and it sounded exactly, in ENGLISH like "It's still alive." Do I want a sequel? No. Sequels are rubbish. Also on http://www.1-18-08.com/ if you stay there long enough you hear the roar a few minutes into just chilling on the site.
Here's the sound clip from the very end of the credits. It has to be played in Reverse to sound like anything. This is typical of JJ Abrams.

backwards
http://boomp3.com/m/bd034dfca370

By the way. The movie is not a "monster" movie like everyone seems to believe. That's just a backdrop. I also don't think that it has any parallels to Iraq, or the wars in the middle east. Yes, I see similarities, but I don't think that's what Abrams was going for. Cloverfiedl is essentially one man's quest to save the woman he loves, and it just so happens that there's a giant monster attacking the city behind him.

By the way, Slusho, and Tagruato, are two names often tossed around. Slusho is a popular Japanese drink in the Cloverfield world, and Tagruato is a drilling company from what I've heard. Apparently Slusho's main ingredient is called Seabed's Nectar, and they had to partner with Tagruato to drill for it in the deepest parts of the ocean...but Tagruato was searching for a peice of their satellite (Hence the splash you saw when Rob and Beth were at Coney Island). So the creature came from the sea, just like Abrams said.

Do I want a sequel? No, but I would like to see them release videos from other perspectives VIA INTERNET that maybe give some more information. I think that would be cool.

This post has been edited by Akimbo: Jan 20, 2008 - 8:46 PM

[lx130]

At the very end of the credits, what was the short message that was full of static. Some douche bags were being to loud and I missed it.

ohhhh it said.... i think help us, its still alive something like that... i googled cloverfield and a link to wikipedia on it, and they give a spoiler pretty much about the movie

[Akimbo]

That's the best pic of the monster.

[dagreat1]

so you are telling me that this soda needs an ingredient off the ocean floor? wouldn't that make it incredibly expensive?

This post has been edited by dagreat1: Jan 21, 2008 - 5:05 AM

[Akimbo]

so you are telling me that this soda needs an ingredient off the ocen floor? wouldn't that make it incredibly expensive?

That's what they're telling us. I don't know how much it is.

[FreddyTheOthaMea...]

I liked the movie, Hud was pretty funny "Did you know that Rob slept with Beth??" the monster was pretty wild and the filming wasnt too bad but yes did make me wanna puke at times. All in all i'd give it two thumbs up.

But yea, i think its an alien and not a sea creature. How could a wild animal have the intelligence to cut off a bridge that could be used for escaping a city, rip off JUST the head of the statue of liberty and pitch it and cause a power outage/knock over a oil tanker?

[GriffGirl]

looks like a good rental to me....

[Supersprynt]

By the way, Slusho, and Tagruato, are two names often tossed around. Slusho is a popular Japanese drink in the Cloverfield world, and Tagruato is a drilling company from what I've heard. Apparently Slusho's main ingredient is called Seabed's Nectar, and they had to partner with Tagruato to drill for it in the deepest parts of the ocean...but Tagruato was searching for a peice of their satellite (Hence the splash you saw when Rob and Beth were at Coney Island). So the creature came from the sea, just like Abrams said.

I saw some viral websites (slusho.com) but there was no obvious connection. Seems pointless viral marketing to me?

I missed the splash at Coney Island too...

[x_itchy_b_x]

Saw it last night. I liked it. Sat in the last row so I was fine with all the shaking. The monster was cool, those smaller ones reminded me of those brain bugs critters from half life. Id like to see squeal.

[Supersprynt]

Starship Troopers' bugs.

[x_itchy_b_x]

Starship Troopers' bugs.

Oh yeah, definitely!

[fastgt]

I thought this movie was great.


i can see why people wouldnt like it though...

1. they get sick easy (babies)
2. you dont get spoon fed the story, just like everything else in hollywood. dont get me wrong i enjoy a good movie, but its nice to have something different every once in a while

[Celiracer18]

2. you dont get spoon fed the story, just like everything else in hollywood. dont get me wrong i enjoy a good movie, but its nice to have something different every once in a while

All of J.J. Abrams stuff is like this. I know of quite a few people that dont watch LOST just because they cant follow along with it. I like his stuff simply cause i like to think about whats going on and try to piece it all together.

[parriehunter]

I really enjoyed it, my girlfriend gets real bad motion sickness like driving for more than an hour and she feels like throwing up, but she was fine through out the movie. Maybe for those out there that werent...take some sea legs before hand and watch it again.

Yea those little f**kers where definitly some starship troopers ****.

I thought that girls head blew up looking at how high the splatter was.

Damn I cannot believe how intently some of you were watching the movie like seeing all the little hidden parts. Well done.

Has he done any other movies?

TWO THUMBS UP

[dagreat1]

i think those little bugs were ment to be like whale mice but instead for the monster

[cHinaman727]

holy shiat i just watched this movie last night. My Gf hated it cause its it didnt just come out and explain everything, which I LOVED! That was an amazingly well made movie. I think it was perfect. How brilliant? how cool?

Seriously? Wouldn't it be cool if a flaming homeless guy came running at us right now?

I lolled

[95celgt]

I saw it last night and I am still amazed! But sad that HUD died so randomly ......Anyway I love how the movie was made as a story of the people and not specifically the monster itself