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

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

And now months...weeks...hours, MINUTES of anticipation.

Is this project ever going to get a title?!?!

Oh, I see what the thread revive is about now (non-Super Bowl household here).

So apparently this went live on Netflix right after the game? Earliest responses ... not positive.

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.

I haven't seen it yet, but you can't expect much mythology building when they're retrofitting these things around pre-existing scripts

reviews for this are brutal but I like clumsy-but-ambitious genre mashup films so I'm thinking this will be fun

so was this event horizon 2 or what?

no way it's that good

This was fun enough. Not as good as 10CL by a stretch though.

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?

It'll still be more consistent than whatever Ridley Scott plan for more Alien movies is.

This is a dud but the last three seconds are fun

whatever Ridley Scott plan for more Alien movies is

1) Spend the budget on design
2) Cobble a plot together on the morning you start shooting
3) ?????
4) Profit

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