J.J. Abrams' Cloverfield Questions

[Lqv2015]

Man, that review from AICN got me really hyped up for this flick. One more week!

[Rappy Veteran]

Confirmed Monster!!?!?

[sharpy2k4]

i cant really see where the parasites are on that one :s

[Rappy Veteran]

i cant really see where the parasites are on that one :s

Could be crustaceans on his back or something like barnacles.

[sharpy2k4]

i suppose, it is fan art afterall i think, so wouldn't be in complete detail, nonetheless, i prefer the other monster (whalelike one) that was posted

[Razorwing]

shouldn't it be more.. green? yellowish green?

[carmatic]

hmm... blair witch project meets godzilla?

[Rappy Veteran]

shouldn't it be more.. green? yellowish green?

Maybe but you have take into factor the lights around NYC shining on it, it may just be the way the footage is filmed don't forget it is a handycam.

[Joseph B]

Found a new picture of what the Cloverfield monster may look like, it actually looks a lot more scary then I thought.

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/6726/werrrgh2008gg2.png

[Razorwing]

Maybe but you have take into factor the lights around NYC shining on it, it may just be the way the footage is filmed don't forget it is a handycam.

hmmm I don't know.. remember the little part of the leg we saw in the trailer? it doesn't really match the monster.

[Rappy Veteran]

hmmm I don't know.. remember the little part of the leg we saw in the trailer? it doesn't really match the monster.

Don't know we only seen a leg but it might of been one of the front legs.

[Hurmoth]

Anyone read this yet?

First Reviews of Cloverfield!

There are lucky bastards, and then there are Harry Knowles and Jeff Wells, Both are movie bloggers with devoted readerships (Knowles for the fans, Wells for the industry know-it-alls), and both are influential enough to get a sneak peek at Cloverfield and become the first guys anywhere to write about it. If you thought the excitement for this movie was already at a frenzy, just wait: both these guys went nuts for it.

"Cloverfield is worth the obsession," writes the always-hyperbolic Knowles. "This is a towering movie. A complete reinvention of the disaster movie, the giant monster movie and even the love story."

Wells, known to hate anything and everything, is more reserved but heavy on the metaphors. "Cloverfield is a monster film unlike any other -- a complete original, but no less of a rock' em-sock 'em for that. It's amazing in that it's so short (by my watch about 74 minutes without credits), and yet so fierce. [...] This movie is REM madness. It is Guillermo del Toro on a tab of brown acid with a little crack thrown in."

I know what you're thinking-- what about the monster?? Weirdly, neither guy is willing to take the bait. The best Knowles gives us is a description of what it is not: "It?s not a ****ing upright walking whale. It doesn?t look like any iteration of Godzilla that we?ve ever seen. It is enormous. And even though I?ve seen it? I am hard-pressed to come up with a comparative creation."" Wells, again, leans back on questionable metaphors for his des"He's a nightmare that "means" nothing but says everything. He's a vision out of a Grimm Brothers fable, but one written by a deranged Matt Damon or Heath Ledger while locked in a 19th Century mental ward. He's a fiend that a heroin addict might see in his sleep during his first night in rehab."" I have no idea what that means, but it sure sounds terrifying.

Check out each of their reviews for yourself, and feel the anticipation within you grow. Is someone inevitably going to come along and burst our bubble and say Cloverfield is like The Blair Witch Project but less scary? Probably. But right now we're in that great phase where the excitement seems unstoppable, and even the first professional guys to see it can't get enough. Now we know this whole thing wasn't a colossal tease, that we haven't been unwrapping box after box to reveal something utterly disappointing. Cloverfield is going to be the real deal, whatever that turns out to mean.

[Rappy Veteran]

I had posted the AICN review but it seems so many are coming now wouldn't be surprised if theres a cell phone shot of the monster soon, tho I was told by someone who has seen it the phones and cameras were taken away at screenings and you were frisked.

[Hurmoth]

I had posted the AICN review but it seems so many are coming now wouldn't be surprised if theres a cell phone shot of the monster soon, tho I was told by someone who has seen it the phones and cameras were taken away at screenings and you were frisked.

I've heard of them doing this before for such hyped films. I think I read they did this for 300 last year.

Only 4 more days.

[QuantumTrickery]

I'll be seeing it tomorrow afternoon. Going in hopeful, but not expecting much out of Abrams.

[Sam Symons Veteran]

This is gunna be a shibby movie :) I can't wait to see it.

[Rappy Veteran]

I'll be seeing it tomorrow afternoon. Going in hopeful, but not expecting much out of Abrams.

Cool report back with thoughts (Y)

[perochan]

better be good with all this hype. i would be huge disappointed if the movie is crap.

[Lqv2015]

I'm staying away from this thread til I see the movie. I don't want to be spoiled by seeing the monster before.

[Rappy Veteran]

Well don't go to this link then lqv2015, remember that post a few days back about the monster and people said nah that can't be it. Well it is people who have seen the film have sketched it and 100% confirmed that its the final monster.

Spoilertastic info right here

Any comments about it please put in spoilertags so others don't get annoyed :)

[Deathray]

I hope they don't kill it in the end... for me, that would make it a good movie already

and no... no cheap trapping, or any other method to "contain" the monster... i want to see some humans get owned and not have a fairytale ending

[episode]

Only 3 days.

[Hurmoth]

Just found out there's a midnight showing here Thursday night :woot: !!!

[episode]

Just found out there's a midnight showing here Thursday night :woot: !!!

Lucky. National Amusements STILL hasn't listed the Friday showtimes around here so I can't even buy tickets.

[Rappy Veteran]

Just found out there's a midnight showing here Thursday night :woot: !!!

W00t!

We have to wait till Feb, crock of...