Cloverfield

theotherguy said:
On another note, just how the **** did lilly survive?

She had
1. A steel rebar poking directly through her chest very near her heart.
2. A scratch from one of the bugs
3. A helicopter crash
4. The first explosion
5. The second explosion

Typical of Bad Robot. First we have the invincible Russian man from Lost and now this.
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you are seriously naming 3 different chars with those injuries....re-watch the movie mate
 
Adrik_Senturu said:
Russian dude is dead.

Also Your thinking beth. Lilly made it out on that first helicopter.

Another thing, Motion sickness from shaky-cam doesn't have any impact on whether or not the movie was good or not :|

Edit: Beaten D:
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Dead after: 1. Harpoon to chest
2. Brain frying from a fence
3. Grenade directly in face.

And I could have sworn I saw a preview for next season with him still alive in it.
 
Really? Looked more like a car or something to me. Im going to watch it again with other friends, so Ill have to pay attention there.

As to why the monster knocked thier helicopter out of the sky. Well it just had bombs rain upon it from above, so it lashed out at the first thing above it which unfortunately was thier chopper.

Its really the pilots fault for not flying the **** away :|

Edit: for the russian dude I said the same in the lost thread but its apprently confirmed that hes dead D:
 
What Russian dude?

Anyways, at my theater, I watched it downtown where not the brightest of people may be. But at the end of the movie there were some who applauded the movie, and there were a few who shouted at the end "Is that it?!"

Some people just don't appreciate the kind of movie it was, it was a well done movie and I would love to watch it again. As for Lily's helicopter, I don't remember seeing it crashing at all, or seeing the wreckage in the background.

And for those complaining about how the monster took down the helicopter when it was being bombed, I have to agree with Adrik_Senturu. It looks like it was just lashing out in anger about the brutal bombing and just so happened to swing at the copter nearby. That thing had long arms anyways. As for Beth, I don't know how she survived so much, first being punctured in the chest with iron rebar, then how she was just able to run like it was no big deal.

One question I have is
When Hud dies at the end and the camera falls, why does Beth actually pick it up? You would think it was just a pain in the butt to them with Hud holding the camera the entire time. That she actually ran and picked it up when the monster was there right in front of them.

In the end, I believe there will be a sequel. By the way, new mysterious Manga relating to the origin of the monster has appeared.
http://movies.ign.com/articles/845/845968p1.html?RSSwhen2008-01-16_144700&RSSid=845968
 
Acepilotf14 said:
I just saw it today. I thought it was great, it had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. When they were putting on the night vision in the tunnels I was like D:.
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For real. At that point, at my theater, there was a collective 'ah hell'.
 
True, but I thought the creature actually lunged at and bit the chopper.

What I want to know is why the **** didn't the creature turns it's attention to Rob and Beth after wasting Hud?
 
You guys heard about the end-credits sequel hint? There's a bit of static, and if you read it backwards it's one of them saying 'It's still alive.'
Also, it seems that everyone who gave it a bad score got motion sickness. These are the same people who get sick playing video games, my theater even had a warning sign next to the ticket booth warning people of the motion sickness. I didn't get any, must be my thorough training in games. XD
 
As for why the monster didn't destroy the others after getting Hud and why they bothered to get the camera-- I actually thought that was where it was going to end. I thought it was just going to be a ground view of them being eaten and that was game over, except they had to end with the camera in a stable environment to be discovered by the military later. I was much more pleased with the way it ended. I thought it gave as good a sense of completeness as it could and people really have nothing to complain about in that area.

The sequel idea is interesting. I wonder how they could twist it into a sequel. Surely theres enough unknown information to make one but how would they present it? They could go for another armature camera man type movie but that would just take away from the original. But at the same time, not having the shaky cam would remove the majority of reasons I found the movie so interesting. Ill definitely have to go to see what they come up with but Im not so sure Ill be as pleasantly surprised.
 
Maybe a bunch of news reports strung together into a film, or even from the helmet cam of a soldier or something?
 
Just saw it myself and it was a good movie, but it could of been better if they (yes you guessed it)


GOT RID OF THE DAMN SHACKY CAM!!!


I can't stand that. And before anyone bites my head off, yeah I knew beforehand the entire movie was going to be filmed in an amateur cameraman fashion, but I thought I'd give it a chance anyway. If they filmed it in a traditional manner it would of been so much better.


Also

I don't care what that thing is, a mutant, deep sea creature whatever. It's a flesh and blood creature FFS, it took countless ati armor cannon shots, missiles, and a carpet bombing strike straight on it's head and it didn't have a scratch? WTF? :|
 
Remus said:
GOT RID OF THE DAMN SHACKY CAM!!!
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I strongly disagree. I love the way it was filmed. It really made it seem like it was actually happening. It's one of the things that keeps Cloverfield from being just another Hollywood action cash-in.
 
Remus said:
I don't care what that thing is, a mutant, deep sea creature whatever. It's a flesh and blood creature FFS, it took countless ati armor cannon shots, missiles, and a carpet bombing strike straight on it's head and it didn't have a scratch? WTF? :|
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instant regeneration
 
Krynn72 said:
instant regeneration
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Yes well

There is always the napalm option


It sure worked on this guy

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And if all else fails




Nuke2.JPG
 
Sedako said:
You mean Beth? Lilly was the one that left in the first Helicopter.
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Now I realize it...I too was wondering if that rolling explosion at the helipad as they took off was the other chopper...I think its more likely to be a Humvee or something that was thrown by the monster...seemed too small in comparison to the other vehicles around to be a Huey chopper, even just the cabin compartment...
 
I really wanted to see an A-10 cut it in half. It did step on and apparently fully squash a tank so it's hide is presumably made of rather tough stuff. I guess they needed to get the litle guys too, hence the larger bomb(s)?
 
I didn't notice how it showed the monsters egg or whatever drop into the ocean in the very last Coney Island sequence at the very end until like 2 hours after I got home lol. I feel so dumb.
 
Christ I want to see this movie so damned much. I bet I could get some sort of DVD rip within the next few days but I really don't want to. This sounds like a proper cinema film.

Damned UK release date. Seriously, Feb 1st, 2 or so weeks after the US release? Come off it. I already know half the plot and monster thanks to sitting around on the internet since it's been released. Not that I mind too much, but still.
 
The thing that dropped at the end was a satellite. Nothing big.
 
well Abrams said somewhere that it had to do with the monsters origin
 
kai said:
I didn't notice how it showed the monsters egg or whatever drop into the ocean in the very last Coney Island sequence at the very end until like 2 hours after I got home lol. I feel so dumb.
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IT wasn't an egg, its a Tagruato Satelite.


Something I noticed on a second viewing. The monster didn't purposely eject the little crab things off itself. If you watch closely it rubs against the building and then the things fall. So it was essentially delousing itself.

Edit: Where did he say it had to do with its origin? JJ has also said the monster is thousands of years old so how could the satelite besides being tagruato related be related to its origin? >_>
 
The satellite awoke the monster, so by 'origin' I think he means the general area where the satellite landed(deep Atlantic).
 
kai said:
I didn't notice how it showed the monsters egg or whatever drop into the ocean in the very last Coney Island sequence at the very end until like 2 hours after I got home lol. I feel so dumb.
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Wait...What the Hell?!
 
Anybody else think the sound as the pieces of the rig fly out of the water sounds like a gravity gun punt?
 
Remus said:
GOT RID OF THE DAMN SHACKY CAM!!!

I can't stand that. And before anyone bites my head off, yeah I knew beforehand the entire movie was going to be filmed in an amateur cameraman fashion, but I thought I'd give it a chance anyway. If they filmed it in a traditional manner it would of been so much better.
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So you mean make another Godzilla movie then. Is that what you want? I actually liked Godzilla, but this movie should not have been in the same format as that, because it would have ruined it entirely.
 
Baal said:
So you mean make another Godzilla movie then. Is that what you want? I actually liked Godzilla, but this movie should not have been in the same format as that, because it would have ruined it entirely.
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No, what I mean is they could have gone for the same approach that was used in War of the Worlds. Follow along the main characters showing only what they see, but using traditional filming, not a shaky cam.
 
Remus said:
No, what I mean is they could have gone for the same approach that was used in War of the Worlds. Follow along the main characters showing only what they see, but using traditional filming, not a shaky cam.
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The camera work done in War of the Worlds did not have nearly the effect of the shaky cam in Cloverfield. The camera work in Cloverfield sucked me into the movie to the effect that I didn't really feel like I was watching a movie, it felt like an experience. If you're going to film an entire movie in first person, go for the full effect instead of half-assing it.
 
And we already had a War of the Worlds. I find Cloverfield remarkable because it plays out like a huge cinematic experiment.
 
I love J.J. Abrams and can't wait to see Cloverfield.
What do you think about main cast? I never liked them in trailers and promo pictures, they all looked like young "beautiful" models from stupid TV shows...
 
Adrik_Senturu said:
yeah its been known about for a while, think even posted it a few pages back.

Before whatever that warning message says, it linked to thier main site where you learn that Tagruato for the most part is a Deep sea drilling corp. There were videos released a week or two before the movie of thier Chuai Station (The one closest to new york) mysteriously collapsing and what have you.
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my question is, what dose the warning say in english?
 
Cast is actually pretty good. I like that he didn't go for big name actors for the film.


Also, Jessica Lucas is hot cakes.
 
Never seen those pics, cool. Though I'm sure those might be from before the film happens.



Speaking of pics, does anyone have those sonar images of the creature heading toards NYC that were sent out in emails?
 
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