Cloverfield Movie • Page 12

lol I noticed it right as I got the notification that you had quoted it and my stomach sunk for a second.

 

It was shot in 2016 and has been in the can for awhile.

 

Cool, you do you.

 

Despite the reaction, hope this opens up more doors for Julius Onah. A Nigerian-born director directing a big budget movie would be awesome. Also, more roles for Gugu Mbatha-Raw and David Oyleowo.

 

Why does anyone have any expectation for the level of connectivity of any of these films? Abrams has made it very clear that these will all be separate movies, just because the obvious tie to the first one here was pretty minimal doesn’t mean it was an afterthought or that it was done poorly. It’s just a fun plus to have on the side of the main story being told, and not the thing anyone should be putting much stock into at all.

That said — I just don’t think it was that great in general, Cloverfield ties or not. Really started out with a bang, but somewhere between the arm crawling around and the main character demanding a chance to save her children, I started losing interest. Just started feeling really “by the numbers” around there. By the time the girl from the other dimension started betraying everybody I was just wanting it to be over, hah.

 

I will say I’m glad they didn’t go for a “monster on the space vessel” type of story, which is sort of what I was expecting... even though the “pick them off one by one” format of the plot achieved the same result that type of movie would have anyway.

 

I didn’t like this at all, man. The ideas were cool but the writing was really clunky, so besides Daniel Oyelowo, who I thought managed to pull it off, the performances had nothing to work with and all the characters were bland at best and annoying at worst.

Conversely, though, the idea for the final shot is silly, but I’m lying in bed right now and am kind of scared thinking about it what the fuck

 

Fucking awesome movie

 

Wait, y'all didn't like this? Mmmmmk I'll see myself out

 

Yeah that's true. My friends were all praising it for how it tied everything together and I guess I got a little caught up in that before making my comment here haha

 

Between this and Bright, Netflix’s recent run of high-profile feature films has been less than inspiring.

This started out decently enough, but quickly fell apart. Everything about it felt poorly structured and hastily assembled.

 

K actually this is bugging me too much to drop yet because I’m very petty and obsessive and filled with a possibly irrational hatred towards this film and its producer.

You say creative, I say unique in its stead, and you object to my suggestion, which means you think there’s a distinction between creativeness and uniqueness in general, and more specifically that this distinction is at play here.

So what exactly is it? What makes unique an insufficient term? What makes this transcend mere uniqueness and enter the realm of creativity? What warrants that distinction?

 

Now I’m worried about Annihilation since Paramount is trying to dump that on Netflix too

 

I mean, the super bowl commercial kind of implied they were going to be connected, which I think it a bit of a crappy misdirect to do to your fans.

 

Please shut up

 

Why can't they make a dedicated sequel to the original?

 

they could but that's never been the plan

First one: creature awakened from the sea
Second one: alien invasion
Third one: beasts from interdimensional rift

 

Damn the negative reviews have me really worried. Trying to avoid all comments on here until I watch it tonight.

 

Still haven't seen this but I saw the big monster in a screenshot, and y'all don't think it looks exactly like the monster from the first movie, just bigger? Looks very similar to me. It was already widely understood the monster was a baby in the first movie.

 

Oh yeah, I hear ya. That wasn’t specifically directed at you or anything! Just kind of a general statement. I didn’t like the movie itself all that much, but I think Abrams is doing something kinda cool and to judge these installations so sharply on the level of connectivity to the previous ones (whether it’s positive or negative judgement) seems like it undermines the point and inevitably sets a lot of people up for disappointment.

 

Did the hand have eyes? A consciousness? An understanding of what was in some guys stomach?

 

Did it? I didn’t really get that vibe at all. Where do you think that implication was made?

 

the first half of the teaser was footage from the first movie

 

So the connection to the first film seemed to be this for me:

When they are transported to the parallel universe, it opens a tear in the time space continuum making the way for monsters. Silly premise, but eh whatever. So anyway, while they’re in the parallel universe they discover that the Cloverfield ship from this universe was destroyed and a part of it crashed in the Atlantic. So I take it that was this from the first Cloverfield:

That would mean the first Cloverfield potentially takes place in this parallel universe. So at the end when we see Hamilton land on her earth and there’s a giant ass monster wreaking havoc, that’s a warning of things yet to come in the parallel universe which we already know about, again, because of the first movie.

So part of the Cloverfield ship from the parallel universe crashes into the Atlantic (again, in the parallel universe) and, as a result of the device they were testing, brings the monster into their universe as well. So I think that’s what was meant by the teaser stating the first film would be explained. There is also the matter of the captain’s piece of the ship floating out in space. Possible that, when they used the device again to transport themselves back to their dimension, it possibly sent his piece of the ship somewhere else. Maybe his part of the ship crashed into the Atlantic in yet another parallel dimension (multiverse and all) and that’s what we see at the end of the first Cloverfield. It seems more clear to me though that it was the piece of the Cloverfield ship they showed in that news clip.

It also basically explains 10 Cloverfield Lane. This one experiment on the ship opened a tear in the multiverse and, in the earth we saw in that film, they got invaded by aliens rather than a giant sea monster.

....I think.