J.J. Abrams directing untitled Godzilla meets The Blair Witch Project in NYC movie?

there was a fair bit of it, considering. like when hud mispronounces 'crevice'.

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i was a little over-defensive there, blame the staropramen and my slight shame at joining the party abt a year and however-many-thousand posts too late.

I liked this film a lot.

I liked the hint that the monster was basically a take on Cthulhu. There were some bits early on where peopel went catatonic purely as a result of seeing him... kind of a shame they did not play that further.

yeah i got the cthulhu thing too. s'why i thought it said "hell monster" at the end there.

everyone at the party seemed really california, or at least not new yorkers. not sure how to explain what i mean by that

brooklyn bridge collapse was my favorite part

this movie is pretty awesome seen late at night on your own television

is it rly cause i was thinking it was gonna suck on a tiny tv at home

nope! i can't imagine it on any other format actually, especially the way it opens with color bars, test tone, etc - also it makes it harder to make out details of the beast (good thing!)

the more i think about this the more the cast seems flown in from the set of "i still know what you did last summer" - dumb, incredibly "good-looking", etc - exactly what you want from horror protagonists - but this was more than a horror movie (wasn't it?) so yeah, some interesting people wouldn't have been out of place

have you noticed what actual 22 year olds are like?

come on man i don't want to believe that

22 years from now you'll know all too well.

have you noticed what actual 22 year olds are like?

― and what, Sunday, June 15, 2008 2:28 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark

lol

Pretty good. Works really well on a small screen.

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/tagruato1.jpg

that's a still from the super bowl trailer for abram's star trek reboot

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2748/4436438914_2d57d53dc2.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znQs3SWSs-E

they should do an inverted version of the movie where the monster is having a going-away party with his monster friends, and everything's cool until he gets lost on a beer run and winds up in Manhattan.

-- Jordan, Friday, February 8, 2008 5:38 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

classic post

FEAR RUN

ha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPYpJA1NnL8&feature=youtu.be

I wish every movie got announced only two months ahead of time tbh

Here is a non-bootleg version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQy-ANhnUpE

Budget - $5M

Forgot about Cloverfield being a quintessential post-9/11 movie, headless Statue of Liberty and all, maybe because it ended up overshadowed in 2008 by The Dark Knight.

why is this thread so long

Hated Cloverfield but this looks like it could be great, John Goodman is the best.

looks good

sounds like it was a preexisting script that they just stuck the Cloverfield name on

This was so disappointing! The first Cloverfield was brilliant - this was just awful, predictable & nothing left to the imagination...

i was with you right up until 'the first cloverfield was brilliant'

This was way better than OG Cloverfield

It couldn't be worse.

No seasickness in this one

Utterly baffled why anyone thought putting Cloverfield in the title of this movie was a good idea. Unless I'm missing some tiny Easter egg or something the story has nothing to do with that movie whatsoever.

But other than that I liked it!

the ending was v much in line with Cloverfield universe, just had no direct connection to that story. spiritual sequel, essentially

I suppose so but by that logic any sci-fi apocalypse story could be a "spiritual sequel". Reminded me more of Spielberg's War of the Worlds than anything else.

Maybe the rationale is to position this as an a potential ongoing anthology series where each movie is a different take on the end of the world? Idk

yeah, Abrams said it was supposed to be a Twilight Zone sort of anthology thing. Still sucked. Apparently it was a super low-budget spec script, none of the cast or crew knew it would be a Cloverfield film until two months ago, and Abrams came up with the idea to connect them when he was making Star Wars...boo

sounds like it was a preexisting script that they just stuck the Cloverfield name on

― Number None, Saturday, January 16, 2016 6:02 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

oh sorry, you already said that. Yeah, pretty cheap move tbh

tbh my enjoyment of the new movie had very little to do w/ the name attached to it being that I barely paid attention to the original

the first hour+ of this was great. really enjoyed the first type of movie it set out to be, i don't know if the other two types of movies were necessary, but props for avoiding most of the predictable moves i guess.

i absolutely loved this film and especially the ending, every tense, subtle psychological thriller should tilt without warning into a ridiculous b-movie finale

like having spent the entire running length of the film in a state of some tension, the ending made me BELLOW with laughter

I still can't over that One Perfect Shot of the two smooching before they get on the helicopter.

o i meant 10 cloverfield lane not cloverfield (which i enjoyed on a basic level despite the annoying characters) (well it was satisfying seeing them get ate, at least)

yeah this turned out to be a fun twilight zone episode and loved the ending

Yaas