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The Untitled is Titled via a celphone captured YouTube Trailer of... ...CLOVERFIELD!!!
Hey folks, Harry here... Ya know... This particular non-title has been the most successfully playful film title to be a high profile geek intrigue... to get this far... without a title and with very little known.. is a bit remarkable. Heck, we don't even have a complete cast list yet. Crazy. However, in typical Untitled JJ Abrams Produced Project intrigue - the next trailer - that reveals the title... isn't in Glorious HD QUICKTIME... not yet. First - it is on prints of BEOWULF this weekend, and captured on a crappy camera phone and on YouTube... Here:
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fuck this movie- hard
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Must...resist...
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That was anti-climactic.
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...they better do more to sell this movie to me. Like actually give me some info about what it's about. This BS marketing campaign is just annoying the crap out of me.
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Crap title.
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Cue the "Cthulhu dance," lyrics
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Nov 15, 2007 5:09:22 PM CST
How....lame. Might as well call the next batman flick "Rorys fir
by mike_d
haha
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Was the new Indy 4 teaser included??????
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Cloverfield. Hmmm. What can I compare this to? "Imagine being able to be magically whisked away to . . . Delaware! I mean...Delaware."
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Nov 15, 2007 5:12:48 PM CST
Don't give it a title, barely leak any info, make it mysterious.
by heckles
...and they will come.
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I thought it said Clusterfuck. Would have made for a better title.
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The non-title...viral hide-n-seekishness of the martketing for this film is two-fold. 1. Fan boy, geeky internet guessing game word of mouth ploy...combined with...2. JJ knows this movie would be absolutely wasted with the traditional trailer approach. This movie only has ONE GIMMICK....and if you let the cat out of the bag in a cohesive trailer...you will kill your opening box office. Suffice it to say, this film will ONLY be thouroughly enjoyed IN THE THEATER....with a packed house...ala Blair Witch. If you know "too much" going in...it will ruin the movie for you. It's basically Godzilla told from the point of view of a camcorder...That's it. That's the gimmick...It's The Blair Witch meets Godzilla. It's that simple, people. That said...I think it will totally kick ass.
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I'll see it, I won't lie. But my excitement is waining. I know what it is. A monster movie told with handicams.
That's all.
Nothing groundbreaking.
So much guessing has generated so many cooler possibilities, there is no way to be satisfied with the final film.
I was hoping, at first, that it would be Cthulhu.
Ah well.
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I hope that's not representative of what we can expect from the movie. A lot of build up and no payoff. I'm still looking forward to this, don't get me wrong, but I'm just saying... to hype up the mystery of what the movie is going to be called, and then just name it Cloverfield after all... that's a pretty lame move. What was the point?
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....NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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If you are going to play up the fact that you dont have a title for your film, and let people guess, the title BETTER BE REVEALING AND SHOCKING...harkening to something that will cause the people who have been guessing to say "oh Shit!." Instead, the title of your film leaks and you pretend thats not the REAL title, promising something cool, and it turns out to be the title everyone thought from the beginning.
Lame.
Cloverfield is Cloverfield. All the energy people put into this was absolutely pointless. Way to generate buzz and kill it in one fell swoop. -
What could Cloverfield possibly mean, in relation to the movie? Some guy's last name or something?
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"Cloverfield is called Cloverfield? That sucks. And now I don't want to see it." Fan boy hissy fits. "There's a repeat of Lost this week. The show has lost all momentum. I refuse to watch it anymore." Grow the fuck up!
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but if it is...... braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaavo, didn't see that coming.... ahem.... when is this being released? It's annoyingly smug the way the film is being marketed. HOWEVER it would be nice to see a movie where you know almost nothing, as long as it ends up being the awesome film, that a campaign of this sort would warrant.
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Started right after The Mist?!?!?!
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Nov 15, 2007 5:47:42 PM CST
Cloverfield is the name of the street in Santa Monica where Bad
by jacked_up
What the hell does that have to do with this movie!!!
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I keep hearing people saying that the Cloverfield title stuck because they wanted to make sure regular people who saw the trailer in front of tformers would remember it. Except, Cloverfield was never attached to that, only 1-18-08. So, why the gay ass title? I still prefer Monstrous, it's different and gives you an idea of what this is about. Cloverfield sounds like something with an Irish guy trying to screw Meg Ryan. I'm on the fence with the movie as a whole. Godzilla with handhelds sounds interesting, but if we don't get a few good shots of the monster, then it will suck. It could be good, but studios never release good movies in January, it's where shitty movies go to die. Here's hoping this is the exeption.
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Whatever. Seriously.
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It is the name of the street where the production company is. It's also an exit off the 405 Fwy. It's still just a ruse to throw people off. It'd be like, if in the 70s, if Coppola was calling this "mobster movie" of his, "Melrose."
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I think Cloverfield is the real title and not a bad title for a monster movie. Still don't know if this will be any good. Isn't January the month where studios send bad movies to die?
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In conclusion, meh. Hahaha! Just kidding!
In conclusion, meh. Hahaha! Just kidding! -
I think its funny this turned out to be the title all along, its cool because it means we still know fuck all about the film!
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cloverfields
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Then Rambo tears its fucking throat out the next week.
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I can only assume it's a code name for a military operation of some sort. Or it's the new intel chip becoming self aware and taking over the world. It really does sound like a code name for a military operation/invention/weapon gone crazy. Something like that. BJN74
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JJ pwns us all and we know it.
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Not only that, but *handheld* shakecam? Wonderful. (By the way, for those who so quickly forget, here's that old reminder of the creativity of J. J. Abrams: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=13350)
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I AM SO PSYCHED TO SEE THIS SHIT YOU GUYS!!!
Me and my lil bro are grabbin BeoWulf tickets tomorrow and we're gonna see this in its full beauty. Besides we really wanna see BeoWulf anyway. -
"when did we start calling it cloverfield"? back when the first reports (here on aicn even!) of a new J.J. Abrams movie was being put together, and it was called cloverfield. then the trailer came out and since it didnt say cloverfield, people started assuming cloverfield was just a shooting title. now we know it wasnt.
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i sure did type cloverfield a bunch in my last post. cloverfield, cloverfield, cloverfield.
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Does that mean that, a la its crappy title, this movie won't be any different from what everybody already knows it will be? The Blair Godzilla Project?
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of this trailer? I think it would be clearer than this crap.
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Apparently, Cloverfield is the codename for the 'ground zero' of Godzilla's... I mean, the mysterious JJ Abrams' gargantuous monster's first attack. That if the spoilers from eight months ago are right. Which they apparently are.
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It looks like something you'd film with a camcorder! This is for GAY people! What kind of crappy special effects are these! I hate New Yorkers! Fuck this awful fucking crap!*
*Please refer to the Persepolis thread if you're having problem recognizing this intended parody. The writer of this parody under no circumstances guarantees it to be any more amusing than the fucking mind-blowing crap over there. -
Nov 15, 2007 7:03:32 PM CST
...and the viral campaign has moved into self-parody territory.
by thenorthlander
The trailer for the movie shot entirely handheld to look amateur and real have itself been shot by a cell phone and sent in, as if to say this movie happening is as cool as the monster attack happening in the actual movie.
This is worse than snakes on plane. At least that had a cool title. -
appreciation for Tony Scott and Paul Greengrass, whose camera work will seem pretty static in comparison.
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"Monstrous" or "Gigantic".... simple but cool.
One bit of info i do happen to know is that Double Negative (the guys behind the effects for Batman Begins and Children of men) are doing at least some of the effects for this. -
That's exactly what they've been doing for months. People stopped caring and the movie doesn't even come out for another three months.
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say a few months ago around the time of Comicon that he knew the title and that is was something mind-blowingly cool? Is he a fucking liar or just full or shit?
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Godzilla In Name Only
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Er...actually NY is full of overweight, bald, goateed Italian men with retarded accents and Jewish women so bitchy they should be dropping off the Cloverfield monster.
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Outside of geekdom, there were only 2 possible titles this could have been that would satisfy the masses: Godzilla or Cloverfield. Cthulu? Great idea, but if it was Cthulu, or Voltron, or even Frankenstein Conquers the World Part 2, this big of a build-up would be looked upon as a whole lotta nothing to the average film-goer. Give them something they'll recognize to be worth the wait (Godzilla) or give them nothing at all (Cloverfield). In the end, all things considered since Paramount doesn't have any rights to Godzilla, was there ever any doubt? Point being, if they wanted to generate interest in a Cthulu movie, it would've been called as such from the very beginning.
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I'm suddenly concerned that, after all the build up, this is really gonna suck.
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Maybe Cthulhu will eat some of the Writers Guild picketers on his way through town.
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What happend to the Colossus title Harry??? Also I don't think this is the real title name here this is a temp placement card, but someone seeing beowulf tonight will hav to confirm this.
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Lemme know! the reason? Easy: the whole "its a lion, it's huge" versus "its alive, it's huge" debate...I'm so glad you guys heard what I heard. I got trashed months ago when news of this movie started to break and I was 100% certain the guy said something about a lion and then a massive fight broke out about how dumb I had to be to think lion was what the guy said and how dumb a lion monster would be.Well guess what?If you think a lion monster is a dumb idea then the joke's on the rest of this site as the monster is giant W-H-A-L-E!!! OHFUCKINGWOW that's the DUMBEST monster idea EVER...even dumber than a lion.and thus, vindication is at hand. now if only the wife would let me buy assassin's creed prior to christmas all would be right with the world...
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I don't have time to watch the video of a celphone...and I'm with shuttlepod...what's a celphone anyway? must be some exclusive kind of phone they only sell in austin.
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Not the Blair Witch shit all over again please God no.
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It's about that time Harry took a walk down to the Sev for a slushie.
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ASSUMING that what leaked is true (and it appears they got the title right) then *POSSIBLE SPOILERS* This monster comes out of the ocean and when they try to kill it, scales fall off and form little monsters, people run away and try to survive and, in the end, it goes back into the fucking ocean *END POSSIBLE SPOILERS* That sounds kinda....redundant...and dumb. And like...Cloverfield.
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le sigh. Disapointment abounds.
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i think the handheld style looks really cool and it add a certain urgency to the mood of the trailer. i know most of you are here to post negative comments about how lame you think this film will be, but i am a fan of j.j. abrams and i think cloverfield will be great.
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Make your vote count.
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Nov 15, 2007 9:46:58 PM CST
No-bullshit high-quality version of this trailer...get it fast!!
by zillabeast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qLjW1vQBLo
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that video sucks so bad I can't read the print and the actual footage looks just like...something caught witha cellphone. Now, here's the deal on that um...cellphone video sucks. yea, and see I thought it was just one element in the movie I didn't know that's how the whole fucking movie is gonna look. My enthusiasm wains.
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Awww yeah, Pound Sand! Shake your ass, show me what you're working with!C, c, c, cT, t, t, tH, h, h, hU, u, u, uL, l, l, lH, h, h, hU, u, u, uCTHULHU!!!We can dance like CthulhuWe can answer to his callWatch him kick Lady Liberty's headdown the road like a soccer ballSay, we can dance like CthulhuLive it up while the livin's goodCause once he awakens, the world starts shakin'and there goes the neighborhoodSay, we can dance, we can danceGreat Old Ones are in controlWe can dance, we can danceHear them callin' the callWe can dance, we can danceTerror makes you go in a tranceWe can dance, we can danceEverybody's shitting their p-a-a-ntsThe Cthulhu DanceThe Cthulhu DanceThe Cthulhu DanceYEAH!It's the CTHULHU DANCE!!!
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Man, that took a long time, but it was worth it. Thanks, MNG.
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The movie comes out in January. That's about 60 days. I highly doubt they are still fucking around with the title so close to the release date. Last time that happened "Fast Track" became "The Ex" and it bomberooed.
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I noticed three things that really caught my interest. First off I swear I saw a guy wearing some sort of biochemical suit about 1/3 the way through. Second, The portion showing shadows of the monsters proves that they are not gigantic, possibly human size? Third, tanks and guns were shooting up and the statue head was thrown way too far for a creature the size of what was mentioned in the second observation. Does this mean we will get more than just one type of monster? If thats the case, I am totally sold. The handheld camera meets first encounter with new species could be some fun blair witch stuff.
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Fanboys comes out on the same date as Cloverfield. Maybe they can delay the movie again like they've done the past 13058135183651238 times.
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MNG: Thank you for the Cthulhu Dance, as always. And zillabeast thanks a shit load bro for the higher quality video. Now I can sort of make stuff out a little better. I saw the shadow of one of the whale lice!!! And it looks like a baleen whale at like 1:49 like crashing on down through a skyscraper and then spinning the helicopter around. I don't know. I can't wait to see the trailer in the theatre tomorrow night! I'm so excited!!!
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If everyone will please watch zillabeast's video that he gave us the youtube link for... you will notice how this is probably a whale. And the shadow of one of the baby creatures attacking the soldier looks like a giant whale lice, reminiscent of Godzilla's lice sort of. IT'S A WHALE IT'S HUGE!!! THANK GOD THIS SHIT ISN'T VOLTRON.
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... I don't mean a regular whale. I mean a fucked up scary ass mutant whale that will probably give us all nightmares until Dark Knight comes out so then we can all have new nightmares about Ledgoker instead.
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Gimme 'glorious cellphone' from now on.
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Is this a movie or a pitch? Gimme Hellboy II.
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f-cking kidding me? Of all the messed-up, cool-looking deep sea creatures you could mutate...a whale? GREAAAATTTTT. SHAMOOZILLA AND HIS LICE. THERE'S YOUR TITLE.
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Dude didn't u ever see that one concept art drawing that that one doughboy guy made of the mutated whale creature. granted it wasn't official but that's sort of what I imagine this will look like.
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He was looking at constellations on a beautiful night in the city. How romantic. . .
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That drunken Irish bastard, he owes me money too. . .let's beat his ass!!
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or maybe not.
but here's why it might be:
Back when all of those posters came out with "monstrous" and "gigantic" came out, Harry intimated that the title was "Colossus" (thanks for the reminder, DarthRazor).
In the trailer, someone says "I saw IT. IT's ALIVE. IT's huge."
This leads me to believe that this is, indeed a movie about IT, The Living Colossus, an old Marvel monster.
If you recall, he was this huge stone dude who once faught the silver age X-men. I'm betting we see Havok and Lorna Dane in this film.
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...Let me get this straight in my head. The very first announcement we got of this film was that it was titled Cloverfield and that it would be essentially Godzilla meets Cloverfield. Now all you fanboys are dissapointed because the trailer is for a movie called Cloverfield that looks to be essentially Godzilla meets Blair Witch, and not a completely differently titled film dealing with completely different subject matter that you made up yourself? Can I please curse Spielberg when Indy 4 comes out because its not titled "That Transformers Chick Sucks My Dick" and its about Harrison Ford looking for treasure and shit, and not a home video of that transformers chick sucking my dick?
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One of those cloverfields should have read "Blair Witch"
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gimmicky cash grab
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But guys in large biohazard suits. You HAVEN'T seen anything yet. ;)
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I've seen in ages... i mean the cell phone footage. I guess we take what we can get though. The movie looks pretty darn cool.
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that it's a monster. Some sot of lion-chtulu-voltron hybrid. Yeah.
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IS THE MONSTER!!
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with a chainsaw, THIS close to the TV.
Sigh. Fuck. SHIT. MAaaaan. DAMMIT. I cared about this shit for a little while. I hope that pic that was online of that freaky-deeky whale and his little flicka-flicka-fleas was what it will look like.FUCK. Slusho Zoom right up my fucking fudge tunnel. I hope Star Trek is good. This does look badass though, the fucking end of the trailer, with the chopper going down. HAHAHA Brilliant! -
You should know what i´m talking about
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...this is basically Godzilla-finally-done-the-right-way? I'm so There! Fuck you Emmerich and Broderick!
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and the trailer leaves much to be desired, just like beowolf. Perhaps I was just too tired to enjoy anything, but I was not very impressed by either.
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Nov 16, 2007 2:48:33 AM CST
Cloverfield!? more like BORE'aField!! right? .. no i will not
by sleeptones
hahahsl;dkfj
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aintitcool news is the fox news of movie sites
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Sorry, but I just don't get what all this is about. I have no desire to see a Blair With/ Godzilla clone and all this talk about mutant whales is freaking me out. I will porbably check it out...but my expectations are low. The trailer is kinda cool though.
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But it looks like these trailers are compete so why are'nt they out there??
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Bored, bored, bored. If it ain't CTHULHU (which has been crying out for this kind of big-screen treatment for decades now) or VOLTRON (which out of sheer morbid curiousity I would actually watch) then basically it looks like a big-ass rework of the Emmerich GODZILLA. you won't hear me slagging off GODZILLA, because I thought it was an entertaining movie and I have no idea what the naysayers expected from a movie based on a shit movie with a guy in a rubber suit smashing up balsa wood skyscrapers. I mean, shit, I enjoyed GOJIRA as a 10-year old as much as the next geek, but it ain't fuckin' STAR WARS, that's for sure. Why exactly was the remake GODZILLA shit??
But this - this looks like the same movie shot through shakycam camera video / HD camcorders. Cool concept, meh on the monsters. I don't care what they look like - this just looks like an interesting take on the Emmerich GODZILLA. I'll watch it, but I'm not excited about it. -
"Oh God, oh God... I'm scared to close my eyes, scared to open them..."
"Whatever it is, it's winning!" -
This looks kinda cool...but will the pay-off justify the set-up?
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I have never quite been able to regain my respect for JJ Abrams since I read some interview in which he basically admitted he was making up Lost as he went along, ie. pandering to the masses. This looks promising...but 3 to 1 says JJ will cop out of a decent ending in the hope of creating a Lost-style franchise.
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gets no respect
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Holy Shit. I know what the movie is now: The on screen adaptation of Godzilla vs Charles Barkley
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They are just guys, theres one giant godzilla size monster.
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I just hope the whole movie isn't like the trailers. Who could sit through 2 hours of that?
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for some of the movie, but I'm not sure I could watch the whole movie like that. Granted, the trailer isn't in the best viewing mode, but....
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seeing as everyone was calling it that for months...it would be a pain the ass to start calling it, like,CTHULHU'S BIG DAY OUT or CTHULHU DOES MANHATTAN instead. Im still majorly intrigued, and if you say this marketing campaign is a pain in the ass you just have no patience or sense of mystery or your just saying that to be different. Im happy I havent a clue what the fuck is going on in it-takes me back to the pre-internet days. Hell Im happy not knowing whats happening in the Dark Knight and I would cut my balls off just to make that movie come out today. It might turn out shite....but that roar still gives me chills....and not just in my kidney.
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Crapfield!!
I plead with anybody that goes to see this -- please take your motion sickness pills beforehand.
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N'est-ce pas? LOST its way? Anyone? 'Cos, you know, LOST and stuff...
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Heard that. I already feel sick and I only watched the YouTube version.
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This is a great fucking idea and I can't wait to see it.
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zomgwtfbbq
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... this whole metanarrative, "it's not about the monster attacking New York, it's about the reactions of everyday people to the monster attacking New York" shit. The "everyday people reacting to the crisis" are always boring, braindead monster-food... the audience just wants to see more monster! Only the good ol' Japanese understand this conundrum. Love me some Toho Studios!
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If I want a bunch of poorly shot people out of focus and off screen because of the goddamned handheld camera that gives me motion sickness, I'll watch fucking YouTube.
And YouTube's free.
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us to know about. Or not.
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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=39383
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No small monsters "attacking" the girl only men in these suits
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I'm still sea-sick from the vibra-cam in transformers. I think a lot of people will stay away from this.
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really needs more ninjas.... yea.... ninjas....
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I agree with Varakor. Why didn't JJ just do a movie about a clan of ninjas attacking New York? I mean... come on... how many ninja movies do we get? And that doesn't include ninja turtles. Or maybe the Japanese government will send a squad of super elite ninjas to kill the Cloverfield monster... that would be sweet.
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that line makes me want to hurl
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isnt cloverfeild a street name, though?
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only Warwick Davis could save humankind from the deadly samurai monkeys....
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you could get Warwick Davis AS a samurai ninja attacking the Cloverfield monster-only the monster is an evil leprecauhn played by....WARWICK!! Its a twist they'll never see coming....In all fairness to this flick, with minimal information we have it does seem like there is more in the marketing than in the movie. I mean if its just a shakey cam monster movie then it could be cool if it were an under ground film, like a sleeper...but this thing looks BIIIIG....which means theres no excuse for shakey cam (Transformers put me off that idea entirely-as soon as anything happened it goes all over the place so you cant make anything out...whats the point when its essentially candyfloss on celluoid?). So while I maintain that they way they teased us into it was great, it seems that maybe JJ signed on cos someone went "hey, we've got a great marketing idea" rather than "hey, check out my amazingl;y original script"
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This just goes to show that arahams had no idea what to do with the project and picked the name most used on the internet to identify the movie - this is a hack job of naming a movie and the stupid "cloverfeld camera" B.S. explaination int the begining isn't helping things - LAME! JJ needs to pull a Stallone and rename this
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'Cause all that unsteadycam is making me sick.
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I saw Beowulf last night, so I've seen the trailer. The first 8 seconds or so of the trailer show white text on a black background as follows:MULTIPLE SIGHTING OF CASE DESIGNATE "CLOVERFIELD"CAMERA RETRIEVED AT INCIDENT SITE U.S. 447AREA FORMERLY KNOWN AS "CENTRAL PARK" So Cloverfield is the government's codename for whatever it is that's rearranging the NY skyline. Mystery solved.
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I clicked the YouTube link and saw the same text -- what's your point?
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According to TheRaider.net: Christmas 2007:
Indy 4 teaser trailer expected just before Christmas.
Damn, thought it was s'posed to be now. One day til Dark Knight?!?!?
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Can we have little Warwicks break off and attack too?Reynard Muldrake - I too was hoping for a teaser much sooner.
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really sinks ones enthusiasm for movies. I want to see this movie. talkbackers are such killjoys. No one has seen this movie and yet youre all saying its terrible. on the back of trailers. Failure to lauch was a terrible movie. the trailer said it. I have no idea what this film is like. I cant wait to see what JJ does with star trek. That winona ryder casting news jolted me. Interesting.
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The teaser provided us with a feeling of what to expect from the movie. I stated earlier that shaky cam would be okay, as long as it's not used for the whole movie. I think it works as an introduction to the mayhem/destruction from the group of kids partying. But not for the whole movie. Do I know that it's for the whole movie? No, but I don't have the best feeling about it. And I have very mixed feelings about the upcoming Trek movie. I still feel like they should have just taken a whole new crew/time period, and gone from there. It may still turn out okay, but I'll wait to see some footage.
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I don't know why they didn't call it 'Monstrous' as per that teaser poster. I thought it was a much better, more fitting, less obtuse title.
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this shit isn't fucking voltron, but since some of you are fucking dick-less retards that kept insisting, you can now go eat a dick...then eat shit and die. fucking worthless hypers!
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Plus they never go on strike.
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Cause that's what I saw? right? I don't did you? yes, I did? ok.
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get some skills JJ..you pretentious, nutless hack.
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it's Cuthulu.
And yes.. there really needs to be a good Cuthulu film made, but this shouldn't be it.
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If you want a real trailer that gives you some meat and taters instead of parsley, then check out Vantage Point.
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but why is everyone seem to be so mystified by this movie or better yet that Cthulhu stuff????
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Missed it before the pull. So...is it a lion? It's a lion, isn't it?
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I think you'll find that the confusion lies with the fact that the monster is called "Brian". Although he could be a lion.Thats where all that came from.
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fanboy hate this film is generating merely from a creative marketing ploy is reaching all new levels of hilarity. and it's quite surprising how many of you "film makers" feel the need to slam a film based off of 45 seconds of intentionally confusing footage. that speaks volumes about your comprehension and wit. see you in the next Southland Tales talkback, douchebags.
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It was clearly stated in the trailer that "It's a-liiiaaghhh(n), it's huge!".
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this is gonna be as lame as blair witch
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For all of you who still don't really know what was said in the first trailer here it is "You're a Moron. Dude!" A lion?! WTF!! As for Voltron?! Who the fuck cares about Voltron? (Now Starblazers would kick ass! That's some great old school anime! But this obviously isn't that either)
And as for the '98 Fraudzilla flick... The reason it SUCKED was 1)A mutated Iguana?? Again, WTF!
2)The monster didn't do any damage. All it did was make a few friggin' potholes. Godzilla is supposed to leave cities totally destroyed like... I dunno, a walking Nuclear Bomb!!
3)Killed by a couple of Sidewinder Missles?! Gahh!
The two douches that made the film, Roland & Elffuck or Hindlick or whatever his stupid name is, should be slapped and sterilized for their sin!
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...are strange. On what planet did you have to be living to think that J.J Abrahams or any mainstream, cookie cutter hollywood outfit would want to produce a giant budget blair witch style event film centering on a character from the catalouge of a niche horror writer whose never had a good film adapted from his work. It's just strange. Which is alot better than the flat out mongo stupidity of anyone who suggested Voltron or "Its a lion!".
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I do kind of hope that it is cthulhu.
A giant walking whale would be alright if done well. Some of the brief glimpses of skyscrapers leaning against each other were above expectations. The final helicopter bit lends to a downer ending, which is cool with me. I feel the Statue of Liberty head part is a little silly. I will be disappointed with non-stop shaky-cam. The parasites idea is tight. Hope my first post is ok.
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The lion thing has given this ol' talkbacker good cheer and chuckles for ages now.
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"It's a lion."
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no "replacement card" involved. its called cloverfield. also, that poster wasn't the teaser poster. I have the new poster and it is totally the same aside from the logo (but, looks a hell of a lot better than any of the old ones). and monstrous? really? at least cloverfield actually has meaning to the film instead of some "monstrous" garbage. gah when i saw that first poster i yarked.
anywho for those who are interested, the "new" poster.
http://tinyurl.com/yvlb7u
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Nov 18, 2007 1:59:53 AM CST
Dammit! Where's that blurry cell phone pic of the USS Enterpris
by mrmysteryguest
...heroically flying out of nowhere and firing photon torpedoes at that big-ass monster? Come on, JJ Abrahms, that starship's gotta be in this movie somewhere! Right? Right? RIGHT?!? :P ;P
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1) Yes, it's called 'Cloverfield' (I guess) because the monster is "case designate Cloverfield," but that's not the actual reason why. The only time that name will probably ever come up is in a title card. Cloverfield was a codename, like "Blue Harvest," and because the advertising of this film lives and dies by the potency of its viral marketing campaign, I guess all of the busy bees at Bad Robot and Paramount figured the most prudent thing to do would be to leave the title unchanged, since everybody's been referring to it as 'Cloverfield' since March. Any connection the name has to the story is just a flimsy pretext. I mean, "case designate Cloverfield"? Really? Not that I'm complaining about the title exactly; they could have called it '1-18-08' or 'Untitled J.J. Abrams Project' or '.' for all it matters to me. 2) I'm confused and frightened by how many people have managed to spell the name "Abrams" wrong in this TalkBack. 3) To anyone who hopes that it's not handheld shakycam for the whole movie... isn't there a shot in the trailer of a helicopter flying past the Statue of Liberty from outside of the helicopter? So, there may be hope for you yet...
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...I have to agree with the handful of people who said that line "Whatever it is, it's winning!" is pretty crap-tacular.
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