Going to look what has changed other then the main background.
Arrrrggghhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My office PC cannot display the trailer so I have no clue what has changed. Don't think they updated it.
Humm, background image, statue has damages that were done by claws and onely one forced passage through the buildings so that indicates only one big entity. So that's a clue : one monster with claws (robots usualy don't have claws).
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Coming from anybody else, this could be really cool.. it could be biblical, Lovecraftian, or whatever, it could still be good..
But the simple fact that it's coming from the same producer and studio as Lost just pisses me off.
Look forward to watching the entire movie, not seeing the monster, and being introduced to 20 new questions that will be "answered" in the next 4 movies.
<!--quoteo(post=1642906:date=Aug 8 2007, 08:12 PM:name=Zig)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Zig @ Aug 8 2007, 08:12 PM) [snapback]1642906[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Coming from anybody else, this could be really cool.. it could be biblical, Lovecraftian, or whatever, it could still be good..
But the simple fact that it's coming from the same producer and studio as Lost just pisses me off.
Look forward to watching the entire movie, not seeing the monster, and being introduced to 20 new questions that will be "answered" in the next 4 movies. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It's not like he did that with Alias. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Was this a joke or not a joke?
My first (and possibly last) experience with JJ Abrams and Bad Robot was Lost.. some months ago I got hooked, watched a season and a half, and then discovered via internets what would take place over the rest of the series.. Needless to say, I cut my losses and gtfo.
If the cloverfield movie is ANYTHING like Lost, I'm having no part of it. I just have a personal dislike of that kind of show or film. I have all the time in the world to be enticed, enthralled, to be wound up like a spring.. I do NOT have time to just sit there and get f*ked with.
edit: you know, I forgot, he did Mission Impossible 3 as well, which I actually did like. Yeah, Tom Cruise is a scientologist d*ck, I know, but the movie was still pretty good. I think cloverfield still just reeks of Lost-like hijinks, of which I want no part.
<!--quoteo(post=1643503:date=Aug 13 2007, 04:16 AM:name=bassport)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bassport @ Aug 13 2007, 04:16 AM) [snapback]1643503[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> what iscthulu? and anyway... what the ###### are you talking about? <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--quoteo(post=1643503:date=Aug 13 2007, 06:16 AM:name=bassport)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bassport @ Aug 13 2007, 06:16 AM) [snapback]1643503[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> what iscthulu? and anyway... what the ###### are you talking about? <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> *walks around bassport (counter clockwise) spreading the blood of a black cockerel* Ia Cthulhu! Cthulhu F'htagn! Ia! Ia! Cthulhu F'htagn! Cthulhu!
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<!--quoteo(post=1643565:date=Aug 13 2007, 11:24 AM:name=Testament)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Testament @ Aug 13 2007, 11:24 AM) [snapback]1643565[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Cthulhu sucks and is just a pop star elder god. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> 100% correct.
however if you start invoking Yog Sothoth, most people don't get the joke.
Update: Trailer 2 is out in theaters - you can see a capture here: <a href="http://www.cloverfieldnews.com/" target="_blank">http://www.cloverfieldnews.com/</a>
so, like, whatchoo guise think of the movie? I thought it was neato, but very short. also, I would have liked some sort of closure/explanation of what was going on, or what the thing was, or the aftermath, in the end. Yeah, I appreciate that they were trying to keep it purely from the perspective of one group of people and one video camera, but while that worked for the blair witch project, I think it left this movie a little flat/lacking...
Ain't seen it, not going to if it's gonna cost me money. Considering it's doing the whole "hey let's shake the camera as much as we possibly can so nobody can see anything of what's going on" thing, I'm just not going to bother unless it's a freebie.
<!--quoteo(post=1667987:date=Jan 20 2008, 10:31 PM:name=Testament)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Testament @ Jan 20 2008, 10:31 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1667987"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Not Lovecraftian. ######sux.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Actually, I thought it was very lovecraftian in theme: It has almost no real known origin (possible hint at where it came from near the end), seems impervious to human weaponry, acts in a highly alien way and even has the sort of look Lovecraft would have came up with (though it would be awesome if it was an incomprehensible amorphous blob of things like spheres).
Saw this last night and I'd give it a passing grade - it wasn't great but it certainly wasn't bad by any means. :/ Not enough monster, the cameraman was wholly unlikable (except for a couple of lines), and just.. meh. It just didn't have enough substance to make it satisfying.
<!--quoteo(post=1667997:date=Jan 21 2008, 02:43 AM:name=[WHO]Them)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE([WHO]Them @ Jan 21 2008, 02:43 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1667997"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Saw it, mostly liked it.
Lots and lots of monster shots for the curious.
The only thing that really bugged me was the question "How many times can one group of people run into the goddamned monster in a 7 hour period?"<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> yeah, I liked how it was destroying the Brooklyn Bridge (which is near the southern tip of Manhattan), and then all of a sudden it was in midtown and they were acting like it had been there the whole time.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->So how would you describe it? It's sounding like a cross between King Kong and Blair Witch at the moment...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> that's pretty much right, though maybe more Godzilla than Kong. =p definitely Blair Witch though. the camerawork made my gf quite queasy.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Not enough monster, the cameraman was wholly unlikable (except for a couple of lines), and just.. meh. It just didn't have enough substance to make it satisfying.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> yeah, I agree. it's like, they decided to concentrate on the people rather than the monster - but then they forgot to make the people particularly likable too. It should really have been a longer movie. They needed to either flesh out the characters a little more or give us more exposition about the monster, if not both... but excluding previews, the movie was probably no longer than the season premieres of most tv shows -_-
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Actually, I thought it was very lovecraftian in theme: It has almost no real known origin (possible hint at where it came from near the end)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> what was the hint? I think I missed it...
<!--quoteo(post=1668033:date=Jan 21 2008, 03:19 PM:name=CommunistWithAGun)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CommunistWithAGun @ Jan 21 2008, 03:19 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1668033"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->someone spoil it for me please i refuse to pay for movies<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Lucky for you, there is this thing we call the<i> internet</i>.
<!--quoteo(post=1668036:date=Jan 21 2008, 02:27 PM:name=Xyth)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Xyth @ Jan 21 2008, 02:27 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1668036"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Lucky for you, there is this thing we call the<i> internet</i>.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Going to look what has changed other then the main background.
Arrrrggghhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My office PC cannot display the trailer so I have no clue what has changed. Don't think they updated it.
Humm, background image, statue has damages that were done by claws and onely one forced passage through the buildings so that indicates only one big entity. So that's a clue : one monster with claws (robots usualy don't have claws).
But the simple fact that it's coming from the same producer and studio as Lost just pisses me off.
Look forward to watching the entire movie, not seeing the monster, and being introduced to 20 new questions that will be "answered" in the next 4 movies.
Coming from anybody else, this could be really cool.. it could be biblical, Lovecraftian, or whatever, it could still be good..
But the simple fact that it's coming from the same producer and studio as Lost just pisses me off.
Look forward to watching the entire movie, not seeing the monster, and being introduced to 20 new questions that will be "answered" in the next 4 movies.
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It's not like he did that with Alias.
It's not like he did that with Alias. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Was this a joke or not a joke?
My first (and possibly last) experience with JJ Abrams and Bad Robot was Lost.. some months ago I got hooked, watched a season and a half, and then discovered via internets what would take place over the rest of the series.. Needless to say, I cut my losses and gtfo.
If the cloverfield movie is ANYTHING like Lost, I'm having no part of it. I just have a personal dislike of that kind of show or film. I have all the time in the world to be enticed, enthralled, to be wound up like a spring.. I do NOT have time to just sit there and get f*ked with.
edit: you know, I forgot, he did Mission Impossible 3 as well, which I actually did like. Yeah, Tom Cruise is a scientologist d*ck, I know, but the movie was still pretty good. I think cloverfield still just reeks of Lost-like hijinks, of which I want no part.
Cloverfield: "I Can't Believe It's Not Lovecraft"
(as in it is a deep elder god that is basically ripping of the Lovcraftian mythos)
A fat-free, low-carb, prepackaged Cthulu substitute?
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basically.
what iscthulu? and anyway... what the ###### are you talking about?
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulu" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulu</a>
<a href="http://manybooks.net/titles/lovecrafthother06cthulhu.html" target="_blank">http://manybooks.net/titles/lovecrafthother06cthulhu.html</a>
what iscthulu? and anyway... what the ###### are you talking about?
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*walks around bassport (counter clockwise) spreading the blood of a black cockerel*
Ia Cthulhu!
Cthulhu F'htagn!
Ia! Ia! Cthulhu F'htagn! Cthulhu!
*wanders off*
What?
Cthulhu sucks and is just a pop star elder god.
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100% correct.
however if you start invoking Yog Sothoth, most people don't get the joke.
<a href="http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=21492" target="_blank">http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=21492</a>
Note at 1:05, the woman behind the curtain... her torso just rapidly expands.
Actually, I thought it was very lovecraftian in theme: It has almost no real known origin (possible hint at where it came from near the end), seems impervious to human weaponry, acts in a highly alien way and even has the sort of look Lovecraft would have came up with (though it would be awesome if it was an incomprehensible amorphous blob of things like spheres).
I thought the movie worked very well.
Entertaining for an hour and a half, sure.
Lots and lots of monster shots for the curious.
The only thing that really bugged me was the question "How many times can one group of people run into the goddamned monster in a 7 hour period?"
Saw it, mostly liked it.
Lots and lots of monster shots for the curious.
The only thing that really bugged me was the question "How many times can one group of people run into the goddamned monster in a 7 hour period?"<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
yeah, I liked how it was destroying the Brooklyn Bridge (which is near the southern tip of Manhattan), and then all of a sudden it was in midtown and they were acting like it had been there the whole time.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->So how would you describe it? It's sounding like a cross between King Kong and Blair Witch at the moment...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
that's pretty much right, though maybe more Godzilla than Kong. =p definitely Blair Witch though. the camerawork made my gf quite queasy.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Not enough monster, the cameraman was wholly unlikable (except for a couple of lines), and just.. meh. It just didn't have enough substance to make it satisfying.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
yeah, I agree. it's like, they decided to concentrate on the people rather than the monster - but then they forgot to make the people particularly likable too. It should really have been a longer movie. They needed to either flesh out the characters a little more or give us more exposition about the monster, if not both... but excluding previews, the movie was probably no longer than the season premieres of most tv shows -_-
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Actually, I thought it was very lovecraftian in theme: It has almost no real known origin (possible hint at where it came from near the end)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
what was the hint? I think I missed it...
Lucky for you, there is this thing we call the<i> internet</i>.
wow couldnt find anything but obscure hints
Look <i>more</i> closelier.