like having spent the entire running length of the film in a state of some tension, the ending made me BELLOW with laughter
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 16 May 2016 13:19 (eight years ago) link
I still can't over that One Perfect Shot of the two smooching before they get on the helicopter.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 May 2016 14:38 (eight years ago) link
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)
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 16 May 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link
yeah this turned out to be a fun twilight zone episode and loved the ending
― balls, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 06:42 (eight years ago) link
Yaas
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:29 (six years ago) link
And now months...weeks...hours, MINUTES of anticipation.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 February 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link
Is this project ever going to get a title?!?!
― Cork Taint (Old Lunch), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:11 (six years ago) link
Oh, I see what the thread revive is about now (non-Super Bowl household here).
― Cork Taint (Old Lunch), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:14 (six years ago) link
So apparently this went live on Netflix right after the game? Earliest responses ... not positive.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link
Having liked Cloverfield and loved 10 Cloverfield Lane, this ruined my night. It's not good, but worse is that it had such a developed mythology to build on and they came out with this. Yuck.
― call me by your name..or Finn (fionnland), Monday, 5 February 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link
I haven't seen it yet, but you can't expect much mythology building when they're retrofitting these things around pre-existing scripts
― Number None, Monday, 5 February 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link
reviews for this are brutal but I like clumsy-but-ambitious genre mashup films so I'm thinking this will be fun
― Evan R, Monday, 5 February 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
so was this event horizon 2 or what?
― the late great, Monday, 5 February 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link
no way it's that good
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 23:11 (six years ago) link
This was fun enough. Not as good as 10CL by a stretch though.
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 5 February 2018 23:23 (six years ago) link
So the series is just going to be bottom of the Black List scripts with some sort of Cloverfield reference spliced in? Like Bela Lugosi in the Ed Wood movies?
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 03:05 (six years ago) link
It'll still be more consistent than whatever Ridley Scott plan for more Alien movies is.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 03:47 (six years ago) link
This is a dud but the last three seconds are fun
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:18 (six years ago) link
whatever Ridley Scott plan for more Alien movies is
1) Spend the budget on design2) Cobble a plot together on the morning you start shooting3) ?????4) Profit
― drugs don't kill people, poppers do (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:21 (six years ago) link
this was really really bad and i don't understand why they did it
i mean, not fun bad, just boring terribly acted embarrassingly written nonsensical bad
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 8 February 2018 05:41 (six years ago) link
OK I read a little bit more about this, sounds like it was a bad movie they knew came out bad and they thought they could resuscitate it commercially by slapping a coat of cloverfield on it?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
It could be, but I doubt it? Like 10CL there's a plot that could be divorced from the original film completely, but there are a lot more references in this one. They could have grafted it in, but they say "Cloverfield" too much for it to be coincidence, unless there was some reshooting/dialogue dubbing
― mh, Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
In a live Facebook Q&A on Wednesday, February 8th, The Cloverfield Paradox producer J.J. Abrams answered some questions about the film, which was abruptly released to Netflix immediately after the 2018 Super Bowl, to near-universal negative critical response. The tone of the live panel was positive and upbeat, but the responses may have inadvertently revealed why Cloverfield Paradox feels so fractured. Among other things, Abrams says the film was already shooting when he and the filmmakers figured out how to make it into a Cloverfield movie.“Originally, it was written by Oren Uziel, who wrote a draft that was its own thing, and was around for a while,” Abrams said. When his production company, Bad Robot, acquired the script, “we started to think, ‘What are ways that this might fit into the world?’ But when we started shooting the movie, it was still something we were thinking about. Because the idea for the Cloverfield series was not so much that it be this narrative throughline, but more that they be these really fun sort of thrill rides. Like, if you imagine an amusement park, that’s a Cloverfield amusement park, and every ride has a different purpose, but they all connect in some way or another.”“While we were shooting, we were making adjustments,” Abrams said. “This was a movie that went through many different iterations as it went along.” He added that the film’s Earth scenes were only built out after test viewers insisted on knowing what was happening on the planet during the story, which otherwise takes place on a space station.
“Originally, it was written by Oren Uziel, who wrote a draft that was its own thing, and was around for a while,” Abrams said. When his production company, Bad Robot, acquired the script, “we started to think, ‘What are ways that this might fit into the world?’ But when we started shooting the movie, it was still something we were thinking about. Because the idea for the Cloverfield series was not so much that it be this narrative throughline, but more that they be these really fun sort of thrill rides. Like, if you imagine an amusement park, that’s a Cloverfield amusement park, and every ride has a different purpose, but they all connect in some way or another.”
“While we were shooting, we were making adjustments,” Abrams said. “This was a movie that went through many different iterations as it went along.” He added that the film’s Earth scenes were only built out after test viewers insisted on knowing what was happening on the planet during the story, which otherwise takes place on a space station.
― Number None, Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
I mean I totally like the concept that there are all these different movies, each representing its own genre, and each kind of loosely Cloverfield-branded; it's just that this movie is a very crappy product and I don't understand why Abrams would want to incorporate it into the brand.
The Earth scenes, in particular. WHO CARES? There is a generic "child in peril" and the plot of this part is... the husband tells somebody to call her parents? And then the resolution of the suspense is .... somebody calls her parents?
This was, for instance, much more amateurishly acted and scripted than a typical second-tier SyFy show that no one watches or takes notice of.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
It seemed like a really odd fit and *possibly* answered too many questions through expository dialogue and inserted earth footage outside of the space station. The main problem in the movie is a completely different science fiction plot, the connection to the series is literally staged as a side effect ("the cloverfield effect"!)
The heart of the connective glue being a tv interview with Donal Logue, who seems to have filmed his entire scientific gibberish spiel in an actual remote location, was definitely some prime cheap syfy channel material
― mh, Thursday, 8 February 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
Figures that the worst one would be the one that has the origin story tho
― scrüt (wins), Thursday, 8 February 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
there is absolutely no reason to ever have one, which means Abrams was definitely going to do it and fuck it up
― mh, Thursday, 8 February 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
I just rewatched Cloverfield today. I am very happy that most of this thread is about what douches the characters were. They should've named the movie "Rob...Rob! ROB!"
― Yerac, Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
that's my name so every original friend in the world that I saw that trailer with kept going "LOL IT'S ABOUT U NEANER"
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link