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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: GmanJoe on July 06, 2007, 04:41:45 AM
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The trailer had no title. It just says 1-18-08
I heard a roar, I saw NYC exploding....then you see the Statue of Liberty\'s head flying through the buildings. So the monster was in the water and big enough to knock Liberty\'s head clean off.
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i know i was wondering the same thing... what movie is that?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverfield
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverfield
Yeah, I read that before in my search for jj Abrams. Sounds like a big budget Blaire Witch Project movie but in Sci-Fi.
This might also be related.
http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com/
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aren\'t movies that get released in January / February almost always really shitty? I always thought that was the time of the year studios unloaded their crappy movies.
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Winter? Heck no. It\'s usually like march, april and may when shit comes out.
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Ahh I see. I always thought the best movies came out around sept-december. Then the crappy movies, then the summer blockbusters.
And about Cloverfield I can\'t find any trailer for it on the net. Paramount appears to have taken them all away :( sounds interesting tho
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Personally i never listen to the critics. Would rather see for myself
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luZzNPGSvWo
act fast though.. they take it down as fast as people put it up (it works as of now.. 8:50pm)
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i just saw transformers (good popcorn flick like i thought itd be) and i saw the trailer too. I looked at the end/credits thing quickly and i swear there was a title that said like "mean robot"...at least "\'something\' robot"
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Oh yeah...was there anything at the end of the credits for the Tranny movie?
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My dad reminded me of this movie, so now it\'s driving me crazy thinking about it again...
I guess it\'s not godzilla. Bunch of people said Abrams said it\'s a new monster since there hasnt been one in a long ass time. But they have a new poster on imdb with the statue of liberty headless, and a water trail mark so it\'s something that\'s definitly land and sea.
I think it has to be some kind of reptilian thing..personally doubt it\'s going to be something insanely original, but you\'d think hed try to make it not reptilian so people don\'t make comparisons to godzilla, since that\'s already happening before the thing\'s even shown
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Monstrous
That is the current name of the film.
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That\'d kind of be a crappy name IMO..
seems like it could be more than a popcorn flick since the way the trailer was filmed was better than just loud bad-ass music and monstrous monsters blowing stuff up.
maybe it\'s Rampage,haha
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I ve heard a few rumors that it will be based on Cthulhu
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I ve heard a few rumors that it will be based on Cthulhu
I\'m pretty sure that\'s false.
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"Before details of the film were released, the media reported numerous possibilities about what the film would be about. USA Today reported the possibilities of the film being based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft, a live-action adaptation of Voltron, a new film about Godzilla, or a spin-off of the TV show Lost"
From Wikipedia, so take it as you will.
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1-18-08.com
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H.P. Lovecraft? he did stuff about monsters? i thought he was like edgar allen poe and just wrote about crazy people.
I heard someone other production studio is doing voltron so it rules out abrams doing it.
I didnt know you could flip those pictures. none of them have anything worthwhile unless the one in japanese (has a lot of text..but i have a feeling it\'s a recipe since its behind the one with the japanese cook) says something
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H.P. Lovecraft? he did stuff about monsters?
Lol... yeah, he did stuff about monsters. :)
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Transformers ROCKED? With capital letters?
Okay.
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Transformers [SIZE="7"]ROCKED[/SIZE]? With capital letters?
Okay.
Yes. Why?
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=RSPu0iVHzJQ
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Lol... yeah, he did stuff about monsters. :)
Monsters that drive people insane, so you\'re half right.
That\'s funny that someone speculated the monster in this movie might be Great Cthulhu himself. That would actually be kinda cool.
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1-18-08.com
u can turn those pics over, what does all that japanese writing say? tell me the answer now!!
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Monsters that drive people insane, so you\'re half right.
I was being very vague. But I\'d say I\'m 100% right. :p
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Just watched it and guess what?
It did ROCK.
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Just watched it and guess what?
It did ROCK.
I love the scene where the mom thinks her son was masterbating! :laughing: Oh shit! That was gold! :laughing:
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Nadine, from \'Grace Under Fire\'. Man, she use to be so hot.
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http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808
New trailer
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could see the monster/thing in the buildings on one of the shots
someone slowed down the clip of it http://s221.photobucket.com/albums/dd299/serversphere/?action=view¤t=monster.flv
Some people also said the japanese version of godzilla was radioactive..hence the people getting sick and quarantined
but..when theyre in the tunnel and some insect thing makes a sound...kinda makes me think it\'s more than just a big monster
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http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808
New trailer
I wanna like it but it looks questionable a la blair witch...
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I wanna like it but it looks questionable a la blair witch...
i doubt it will be anything like that. they seem to cut from the camcorder shots in like half of the trailer...only when the main character is on screen is when the camcorder is used. meaning it\'s going to be more than "artistic" shots and have some awesome "blow shit up" shots.
It\'s not going to be a thinker..at most theyre just going to be ambiguous about what it actually is through most of the movie.
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I\'m not sure what to make of it, i kinda like how it\'s kind of 911ish with the chaos, but at the same time, it could be a total letdown.
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I have faith in JJ.
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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=40208
First 5 minutes! "OH MY GAAAAWD! OH MY GAAAAWD!"--Cloverfield
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I\'d have to agree with THX, hopefully Cloverfield isn\'t anything close to Blair Witch. I saw that "opening 5 min." doesn\'t look bad at all. That movie 10,000 B.C. the poster looked interesting. Looks like 2008 will actually have good/decent movies.
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2008 will have good movies, however I doubt 10,000 BC will be one of them. Three words: Roland. Emmerich. Godzilla.
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I was on break.com and watched a different trailer about the Dark Knight and I think it was the Joker talking to whole time...then I scrolled down and found a really good picture of the new Joker. I can\'t wait for this year to get here.
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Wrong thread douche bag.
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I can\'t wait for this year to get here.
Wrong thread. And this year is already here. :D
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Wrong thread. And this year is already here. :D
Okay I can\'t wait for 2008...ah fuck it I already made an ass out of myself:thumb:
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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=40208
First 5 minutes! "OH MY GAAAAWD! OH MY GAAAAWD!"--Cloverfield
wow!
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Le monsteur!
http://www.wwtdd.com/photo.phtml?post_key=3352&photo_key=5641
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OH MY GOD!
IT\'S LIKE..A MONSTER FROM ONE OF THOSE GODZILLA MOVIES.
OMFG...!!111!
Honestly, not all that impressive, but the movie still looks like a good popcorn flick.
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If this thing ends up being a Blair Witch Camera Shake-a-thon, I\'m gonna.....throw up.
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I\'ll admit that trailer had me like wtf?...and part of what makes this movie up the suspense factor is that they\'re usin\' that kinda realistic shaky cam effect with the added extreme chaos, (that shot with the statue of liberty\'s head slidin\' down the street was pretty slick) plus throw in the mystery that you can\'t actualy see what\'s causin\' the damage and you\'ve peaked some people\'s interest...
But sadly i don\'t like it when some movies try to use the shaky cam as a good scare/suspense tactic,...it\'s good for the first 15 - 20 min to draw in your audience, but after that you better have some creative special effects and solid storytelling to keep interest in your film. And please...no little kids running around with cute little lassie-like dogs that end up somehow bein the indirect hero of this thing...that would just further ghey-up the whole experience....
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Wait....people liked Transformers?
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Wait....people liked Transformers?
Did you say something?
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Did you say something?
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What a beautiful Transformer.....mmmmmm
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Review: Positive
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35236
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Harry knows what CLOVERFIELD is!!!
Utterly Brilliant.
What is CLOVERFIELD?
For the past year or so, that’s been the question that everyone has been asking. Well… they also wanted to know: What was that trailer? What’s the name of this movie? Who are those actors? What is a SLUSHO? What does any of this mean?
Having seen the film, I can tell you – I have completely forgotten the marketing. I no longer care why the film is titled CLOVERFIELD, I don’t think it has a secret meaning – other than the fact that the movie that the marketing would lead you to, if it will… will knock your cinema-going mind into the floor of the theater.
CLOVERFIELD is a bold genre-reinvention unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.
The basic premise that we know is there. The film is found footage, not an assembled film. The footage is recovered in Central Park. From trailers and ads you know that it probably starts at a party, something happens, and we think there is a giant monster. You’re pretty sure there’s a giant monster attacking New York City… specifically Manhattan.
Well, I’ve just come home from watching CLOVERFIELD. The security on me and my wife for seeing this movie was un-frickin-believable. I suppose some would have the temptation to snap a pic of the monster and send it out online to end, forever, the “mystery” – but folks… there’s no mystery.
The movie is fucking brilliant. It’s what we were told it was going to be. An intimate perspective on an impossibly grand scale human disaster beyond most human levels of comprehension.
What is the monster? How do you describe something that doesn’t look like anything you’ve ever seen before? It’s not a fucking upright walking whale. It doesn’t look like any iteration of GODZILLA that we’ve ever seen. It is enormous. And even though I’ve seen it… I am hard-pressed to come up with a comparative creation. You know that big fucking thing in THE MIST? It isn’t that. Is the creature a biped? I’m not sure, I think it might’ve been a four-legged beastie… it has a tail, it has teeth and freaky eyes like that horse that died in ANIMAL HOUSE. It’s kinda of a grayish-yellowish-off-white looking thing. But more important than the creature is what this fucker does. He basically goes bug-nuts.
The creature isn’t the groundbreaking thing about the film. It is, but it isn’t.
You see, what has me so excited about this film is that this is the giant monster movie that isn’t at all like any giant monster movie we’ve seen before… but is exactly that movie.
I guarantee you that as this movie takes place… all the shit that you’ve seen in Giant monster movies is happening. Somewhere a general is screaming about nuking New York…. Somewhere is a politician screaming that you can’t nuke New York. Another General wants to know why our weapons are not affecting this thing. A PRESIDENT wants to know where it came from – and several thousand journalist are trying to figure all that out too.
But this film isn’t about the scientist, the generals, the Presidents, the mayors or any of the big people. This time, the film is from the perspective of those people that live in those buildings that the monster is breaking through. This is about the people running in the street that scream, “GODZILLA!!!” and run. This is about trying to survive that insanity. Not just that, but to try and save one life.
Like SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, but instead of Nazis it’s a giant monster.
This is a handheld camera movie – knowing this and knowing not to sit too close is probably a good thing… but having said that… you can’t sit far enough from the screen to feel safe. As many of you people know, I am in a wheelchair – and while watching movies, I have my brakes on. There was one moment, so unexpected and so intense that I went 3 ft back.
What about the characters?
You learn everything you need about them in the first 20 minutes. Rob is going to Japan to a new job. He has a brother Jason and a best friend Hud who gets strapped with filming testimonials at his surprise party – but Hud has the hots for Marlena and got talked into it by Jason – who was told to do it by Lily, who loves him. Oh – and they’re taping over a tape that Rob shot of the morning after he and Beth finally did it – after being friends forever. But now he has to go to Japan for his career and Beth shows up with some dick at his party because he didn’t know how to talk with her after they had sex.
It’s a fairly real situation that could happen to anyone. These are just regular good people in the rat race – and trying to have a good time. When the shit goes down.
I wasn’t expecting to like any of the characters. That changes… a lot.
My favorite character? Probably Hud… our cameraman. He’s not a professional photographer, though this “tape” tells an incredibly focused and direct story of epic sweep and filled with intimate reveals. But HUD is “the best friend”. But if I could compare him to any character actor, I’d say he’s like a reigned in Bill Paxton. He’s not going around screaming obscenities… but the shit that comes out of his mouth cracks me up.
The story of this film is actually beautiful though. When the world goes to fuck, you instantly think about the person you love that you don’t know is OK or not. That’s this story. Beth left Rob’s party before the shit went down. They had a fight. When it all goes to hell – Rob and his friends are just trying to get off the island, when a call comes… Beth is somewhere… she can’t move, she’s bleeding and she needs help. And oddly… 911 is busy.
This group of friends sets off through the biggest sort of hell you can imagine to save Beth. Characters die. Shit goes horribly horribly wrong – and it rules!
There’s no score, there’s no rules, there feels like there’s no script and no movie. It feels found, but it is so huge that you can’t ever really believe that… but handheld film just has never had a story of something this fantastical or huge happen. The movie is a landmark genre film. A true milestone in film.
It is all at once art, commercial and grotesquely gleefully gargantuan.
This frankly launches two giant film careers at once. As of this second, I will see and eagerly anticipate every film that J.J. Abrams produces. This sort of stepping back from a genre convention and reinvention is EXACTLY what needs to be done. It isn’t simply going, “Oh, I can make a better Godzilla movie,” but the audacity of saying I’m going to tell that story from one of the most loathed film approaches – the found footage – and simply make the most fucking amazing found tape ever. It won’t just be what it is, but the characters and the story and the emotion and the scope and the journey that the tape takes us on. I can’t wait to see what’s next.
Then there’s Matt Reeves, I don’t know this guy. But I’ll tell you what. You’re gonna mark his name after this. He just came out with a film about as SUNDANCE as you could imagine. This is like an INDIE film – that you’d dream Spielberg would make. Remember the beard’s WAR OF THE WORLDS? Now just imagine that, but with the disarming nature of handheld photography. Where if the camera got dropped and suddenly you’re looking the other way… you don’t see the seams. There’s no backlot, this isn’t two blocks at a time… it’s fucking Manhattan being torn to fuck and they’re just smack dab in midtown and midtown has giant lice monsters and some monstrously huge creature… and then there’s the fucking military… and they are on target, and buildings get hit, shit is going everywhere – and the man directing this apocalypse is Matt Reeves and the planning to just deliver what this spectacle is – is daunting. But sir, BRAVO!
Folks – CLOVERFIELD is worth the obsession, worth the months I’ve had to put up with fans wondering what the hell it was – worth having to deal with reporters asking me what it was – and I didn’t know either. This is a towering movie. A complete reinvention of the disaster movie, the giant monster movie and even the love story. I absolutely love this film and the only thought I had when it was over was how I wanted to watch it 5 more times today.
I want to see the details, I want to watch this film once I’m so familiar with it that I can appreciate the complexity of the frames and the shots. To try to pull the film apart – but I don’t think you’ll be able to. It is just that fucking good! And the flaming hobos... holy fuck man... flaming hobos, but not with shotguns!
Good Bad Robot, Good Bad Robot!!!
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Interesting... Now we\'ll just have to wait for the hordes of people whining about the camera work ("but it\'s handheld!!11111 one one oen!!!1!!").
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This is where cloverfield got it\'s inspiration....;)
http://movies.go.com/trailer?cid=909721&vid=909722