J.J. Abram's Giant Monster Flick...Cloverfield

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J.J. Abram's Giant Monster Flick...Cloverfield

Post by Joseph Park » Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:34 am

The movie is untitled as of right now, but for the people who saw the trailer while watching Transformers... it states that it comes out on 1/18/08.

It's look like a disaster movie, while it looks like a sequal to Godzilla...

I can't find any info on the movie anywhere. It's like a movie that no one wants you to know about.
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Post by Og » Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:53 am

I think the project is called Cloverfield.

Link at /film.com

Link at ComingSoon.net
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Post by Azzamckazza » Wed Jul 04, 2007 2:27 am

Very clever marketing decision to have the trailer screen only at the movies.

Very clever indeed.
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Post by mr cow » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:44 am

i've also heard this one being called cloverleaf.

that trailer was awesome though. it got me excited! i think the less i know about this one the better. i'm starting to feel the more i know about movies before hand, the less i enjoy them. let this one build up some suspense. :)
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Post by SonOfaRich » Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:22 am

I'm curious about this myself. Its a cool trailer. The documentary feel was a nice touch. The realism got kicked up a notch. I wonder what it could be. I was thinking of those are fireballs flying in the air, maybe it's a three headed dragon or something. Could be a sequel to Godzilla?
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Post by Josh-Ulrich » Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:29 am

I really hope this is not another godzilla movie. I'm so tired of sequels, spin offs, and adaptations, how about an origional film. Especialy with JJ Abrahams behind it, I would love to see something completely origional.
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Post by mr cow » Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:54 am

a trailer was released online this week:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/
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Post by dan » Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:55 am

i don't know what it is, but GOD DAYANG do i want to see it.
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Post by Clio » Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:31 pm

Maybe the smoke monster from LOST? I hope not. :P

Looks good, though, I'm happy the trailer isn't giving away the entire movie.
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Post by dik pose » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:38 am

This trailer is just like an episode of Lost... looks really cool, I got all excited, and then I realized that just like Lost, they aren't giving us anything tangible... Hope this movie is more satisfying than Lost. :)
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Post by thirdeyeh » Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:32 am

I'll be there.
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Post by Anomie » Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:46 pm

Clio wrote:Maybe the smoke monster from LOST? I hope not. :P

Looks good, though, I'm happy the trailer isn't giving away the entire movie.
What the HELL is that smoke stuff?!? I wish they'd tell us already :-P Well, as far as the movie is concerned, it's getting pretty good hype from that single trailer. Let's just hope it was worth all the discussion.
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Post by jshamblin » Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:25 am

An entire film made to look like a bad home movie? It's a creative concept, but I doubt I'll be able to sit through it.
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Post by Og » Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:40 am

Yeah, I know. I don't get the appeal of the home movie approach.

But perhaps the makers are thinking about the success of Blair Witch, which looked like REALLY bad home movies and was a very successful movie. Besides, YouTube et al have really gotten people conditioned not only to watching, but to passing around virally, bad home movies. All of that plus J.J. could equal Huge Success.
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Post by neil » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:10 am

I like how the ordinary digi-cam look lent some verisimilitude to the computer generated imagery. CGI ordinarily looks unreal, and that's totally fine in fantasy and adventure movies, but its potential to scare is rather limited without a creative solution like this (not that it was 100% effective; just a little more unexpected). Anyhow, I didn't see any indication that the entire movie would look like that.

I dunno; like many trailers, it leaves me feeling mostly ambivalent. I'm just glad it didn't use a lot of random cuts and disembodied "WHOOSH!" "THUMP!" sound effects, which I'm sure will make these times a laughing stock to future generations of cinema-goers.
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