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1-18-08/Cloverfield/ The New JJ Abrams Movie

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I thought it was above average...worth the $10 but nothing I would go see again.

For those interested in what happens after the credits I found this:

Quick note #2:
If you stay for the end of the credits you hear static and "Help Us" inside the static.

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if you replay it backwards you hear something like "its still alive"
and thats right here: Cloverfield whisper reverse: listen online
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The little creatures really did look like something out of Starship Troopers...
 
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Interesting to hear.

Wife read that at the end when they go back to the shots from Coney Island if you look carefully you see something fall out of the sky into the Atlantic.

Also read that if Cloverfield does well, ($$$ and critically) they are considering a second movie that covers the same event from a differnet POV.
 
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from Rotten Tomatoes...........
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0/10 Movie:Cloverfield (2008)
Worst movie of all time. I couldn't believe how stupid this movie was and how they even put this on screen. Waste of valuable time and money. It's a rip off of Godzilla and no one should even support this movie and just let it bankrupt whoever made it. It's a waste of anyone's time and who ever made it should never make a movie again, this movie is a disgrace to the film industry.
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I thought this movie was very good........the CGI in the movie was great and if you do go see the movie ensure you are paying attention when they get to the last few seconds of film showing coney island (right hand side). I was in the theater with about 20 other people including my brother and a friend and I just said out loud if anyone saw that and no one did......great ending.
 
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I have to say that I liked it alot. And it was nothing like Godzilla or Star Ship Troopers :)

Very well done as far as making it feel very realistic. And I like that they didnt just have some douche explain the plot in the first 10 minutes, then figure it all out and have a happy ending. They basically explained nothing during the movie, and that is fantastic. Gets people talking. Gives reason to do another one, etc.
 
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Also I heard that Abrams does plan on doing a sequel (no link just read it somewhere) and that the sequel would be "traditionally shot" and from a different POV on the incident. I was thinking the military's perspective to get a background idea on the monster or what the government knew or was trying to do to stop it.
 
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For all those curious, the piece that falls into the water at Coney Island is part of a satellite from a company who drills into the Earth. A lot of it had to do with some of JJ Abrams previous work including Alias and Lost.
Producer Bryan Burk explained the viral tie-in, "[It] was all done in conjunction with the studio… The whole experience in making this movie is very reminiscent [of] how we did Lost."[5] Director Matt Reeves described Slusho! as "part of the involved connectivity" with Abrams' Alias and that the drink represented a "****-story" for Cloverfield. The director explained, "It's almost like tentacles that grow out of the film and lead, also, to the ideas in the film. And there's this weird way where you can go see the movie and it's one experience… But there's also this other place where you can get engaged where there's this other sort of aspect for all those people who are into that. […] All the stories kind of bounce off one another and inform each other. But, at the end of the day, this movie stands on its own to be a movie. […] The Internet sort of stories and connections and clues are, in a way, a prism and they're another way of looking at the same thing. To us, it's just another exciting aspect of the storytelling
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OSUBasketballJunkie;1070444; said:
I thought this movie was very good........the CGI in the movie was great and if you do go see the movie ensure you are paying attention when they get to the last few seconds of film showing coney island (right hand side). I was in the theater with about 20 other people including my brother and a friend and I just said out loud if anyone saw that and no one did......great ending.
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Anyone have a video link of this? I didn't notice it and I was scanning the water looking for anything..it seemed almost too obvious.

bigballin2987;1071394; said:
For all those curious, the piece that falls into the water at Coney Island is part of a satellite from a company who drills into the Earth. A lot of it had to do with some of JJ Abrams previous work including Alias and Lost.
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Huh? I have no idea what this just said
 
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Hubbard;1071813; said:
Huh? I have no idea what this just said
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During the viral marketing, a company was created for the film. Tagruato is the name. A few weeks before the movie was released, they had an article on their site about a satellite falling into the Atlantic. He was just linking the satellite with the object that falls into the ocean.

Tagruato is a deep-sea drilling company. And Rob and Beth were at Coney Island. The only comparison to Lost and Alias is that JJ Abrams did similar viral marketing with each of those.
 
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majorpayne27;1069699; said:
Couldn't agree more, I thought it was amazing. This is one of a few movies that I would see again in theaters, since I imagine much of the luster will be lost in a home theater.
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Don't bother seeing it on the big screen -- it adds nothing.

Not knowing anything about it, I went to see it at the DLP theatre. It was my first time seeing a 3-chip DLP projection, and I was favorably impressed by the DLP-is-great, looky-what-we-can-do snippet before the previews.

Then the movie started and they showed the whole thing from a frickin' handcam POV. They do slide in a few scenes at higher-than-handcam res, but for the most part it is a complete waste of 3-chip DLP in terms of resolution, contrast, color and dynamic range.

The "coney-island" vignettes actually advance the story (at least thematically) if you're paying attention; but that bit of it just came across like the writers (or whoever) were trying way too hard to make the movie something that it most decidedly was not.

Overall it was ok.
 
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