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Just finished seeing Rambo. Awesome. a bit gruesome. Makes Passion of the Christ look like Ice Age.

The review of cloverfield is spot on. You know they will make a pre/sequel

JVelez on January 27, 2008 at 7:59 PM

LOL Thats what I wish I had saved my money for!

Looking at these spoilers, during certain parts, I just closed my eyes until the scene changed. It saved me a bit.

Come on, arsehule director, STEADY CAM!! Even COPS has them. IF you have to put out a press release apologizing for making people sick, then you screwed up. Chalk this up under “what not to do…”

Otherwise, Liked it, cool concept. This opens up some fan fiction ideas, too.

Wish I had known about the audio at the end and the something falling from the sky in the final shot. Abrams loves to plant easter eggs. Being a LOST nut, I should have remembered that and payed closer attention.

I also heard there were a few Lost references, very subtle and kept looking/listening for them but never saw any. No way I could have with everything being so shaky.

jewells45 on January 28, 2008 at 10:57 AM

For fun, just google: lost cloverfield connection

There’s a few sites to poke around on, some giving some decent evidence that the Cloverfield monster may be realted to LOST.

Wish I had known about the audio at the end and the something falling from the sky in the final shot. Abrams loves to plant easter eggs. Being a LOST nut, I should have remembered that and payed closer attention.

I also heard there were a few Lost references, very subtle and kept looking/listening for them but never saw any. No way I could have with everything being so shaky.

I always hate that kid. His presence in the film is always contrived and he’s given screen time that would better spent serving up more monster mayhem.

Then you might like this, Bryan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cxV8Bf8ND4

I saw Rambo this weekend myself. I was impressed, it actually had a storyline and kept my attention. It was a good end for the character too (and no I’ve given nothing away).

Jimmy the Dhimmi, thanks for the link.

Had great fun at this movie.

My big problem with the movie is what little affect getting impaled through the shoulder for several hours had on that girl. Not very believable that, even with all the adrenalin, anyone could walk, run, or pull someone out a helicopter after being impaled.

Lots of fanboy stuff. I’ve been following the web stuff for months, very cool way of getting a lot of back story out of the way for very little.

The shot of the B2 coming in for the payload drop was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. The first person view really brought you in to the story.

And the sense of dread that the first Alien had was there, very claustrophobic.

I may see this if it hits the $5 bin at Walmart. maybe.

Thanks for the heads up.

The original Godzilla movie was inspired by an incident where a US nuclear test poisoned a catch of fish by a Japanese trawler. Since the Japanese eat mostly fish it had a big effect. That’s where the idea of a mutant monster coming out of the ocean came from. It also played off the fears from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I might also add the cardinal rule of monster movies which is that the monster threat is not truly serious until the Air Force, our premier military service, is called in to nuke it from the air. The fact is that the army, navy, and marines simply can’t handle your giant ants, scorpions, or alien invaders. Only the Air Force can put those monsters down.

“Yo, didja heer dat? Sum kinda ertquake or–? Whaddafock?”
“Ay, Rob-BEE… Da woird on da street iz dere’s a muthafockin’ maunster smashin’ Manhattan.”
“Hud, we godda get da fock outta heer!”
“Lemme take dis camerah wid me…”

If you say: “That’s easy to explain because they just moved to NYC from [insert name of a midwestern American city where everyone apparently has diction similar to grad students from UCLA's Theater Arts Program] and haven’t had time to pick up that accent,” then please look me in the eye and tell me that if the movie centered around a monster attacking Houston, Texas that every single one of the main characters would NOT have outrageous hick accents while screaming that the monster “done crowled frum out uh th’ Book uh Rever’lashuns as Gawd’s punishmunt fer all them that’s sinned uhgahnst Him.”

Dude.

People, you really don’t need to go to the theatre to see this movie. Go downtown, take out your cel-phone and record a movie for 90 minutes while shaking it erratically the whole time. You have just seen almost all of Cloverfield. It had few characters, and no personalities. I’ve never seen a more vapid, self-centered, dumb bunch of young adults in any movie. None of them had the survival instincts of a grape. The whole city is being attacked all around them and nobody has or looks for any kind of a weapon. Of course that might offend their metrosexual sensitivities. Even when a woman is cut all to hell and bleeding terribly, they actually put one paper napkin on it and figured that was good enough. Ugh! They didn’t deserve to live! Most of the movie the camera moved around so fast, even when they showed the monster, that you only got blurry brief views of it. The only real clear steady shot lasted about five seconds. If you want to go see it, go ahead, I spend the entire first half of the movie looking at my watch and fighting the urge to leave.

Here you go. I don’t know if I’d go so far as “Ron Paul,” but it is pretty nutty. And, like Ron Paul, only people on the Internet care about it.

Jim Treacher on January 27, 2008 at 12:43 PM

Supposedly, the “Slush-O” drink’s secret ingredient is from the monster itself. The deep sea drilling platform was drilling into the monster.

In other words, they ripped off Futurama and “Slurm”.

Just finished seeing Rambo. Awesome. a bit gruesome. Makes Passion of the Christ look like Ice Age.

The review of cloverfield is spot on. You know they will make a pre/sequel

I read reviews from the local website, and folks either liked it or they didn’t. I am one who did. When the movie was over, there was a couple behind us that whispered to each other “I can’t believe we sat through the whole thing.” I felt like asking them “then why did you?” LOL.