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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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

Figures that the worst one would be the one that has the origin story tho

there is absolutely no reason to ever have one, which means Abrams was definitely going to do it and fuck it up

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!"

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"