Cloverfield/1-18-08

It looks like you could be right according to this on Coming soon.net:

"All has been relatively quiet on the 1-18-08 front for the last few months since the San Diego Comic-Con, but a source for ComingSoon.net has revealed to us that the J.J. Abrams-produced monster movie will get a new trailer AND its title will finally be revealed on November 16 in front of Robert Zemeckis' animated Beowulf.

So far, we know very little about the movie beyond what we've seen in the teaser this past summer, the pictures on the official site, the director and writer (Matt Reeves and Drew Goddard) and some of its cast (Michael Stahl-David, Odet Jasmin, Mike Vogel, Lizzy Kaplan), but hopefully, more will become clear in a few weeks."
 
Whoa @ that news clip! :D :eek:

I went to the Cloverfield page on IMDB and people there apparently have a conceptual drawing of the THE actual monster...I kinda spoiled it for myself...but... :eek: !!!!

They could always be lying but it seemed to be the genuine article...
 
Here is the decription of the trailer which is on Chud.com:

"I have seen the trailer for the monster movie coming from producer JJ Abrams on January 18, 2008. The trailer, which was dated last week and lasts 2 minutes and 16 seconRAB, will debut in front of Beowulf on November 16th, and it's supposed to be when the title is announced. The version of the trailer I saw had the title attached at the end, so unless this title card was a temporary placeholder for the real title, this movie is called... wait for it...

Cloverfield.

Yep, the name we heard from the start. This does make me think that maybe this trailer, marked as Trailer #1, V.17, with "Newest FX Shots", could change between now and the 16th, especially in regarRAB to the name. We'll see. In the meantime, here's a rundown of what I saw in the trailer (based on the notes I took when I was shown a poor quality copy of the trailer. I was only allowed to watch it twice):

It opens with text:

Multiple sightings of case designate 'Cloverfield'
Camera retrieved at incident site 'U.S. 447'
(Area formerly known as Central Park)

Then we see the footage from the teaser trailer, mostly fast forwarded up to the end, with the explosion and the Statue of Liberty's head landing in the middle of the street. Then there's a guy speaking into the camera.

Guy: My name is Robert Hawkins. Approximately seven hours ago, someTHING attacked the city.

There are flashes of chaos. Much of the trailer is made up of split second moments, and when combined with the fact that it's extreme shaky cam style and that I was watching a terrible copy, it can be hard to make things out. There's a helicopter shot of the headless Statue of Liberty.

Guy again: I have no idea what it is. If you found this,if you're watching this thing, you know more about it than i do.

Then there's a shot of jets flying overhead, in daylight.

A title card reaRAB 'From producer JJ Abrams'

There's more flashes of chaos, there's a guy on a cellphone trying to find out where 'Beth' is, and then there's a girl yelling, 'We cannot go in the middle of the city! we've got to get out of here!'

More chaos. More quick shots. I imagine this stuff will be picked apart when the trailer debuts online.

Over this is what seems to be a conversation between an Army guy and a girl.

Army dude: There's nothing we can do right now

Girl: do you know what that thing is?

Army dude: Whatever it is, it's winning.

More flashes. An argument:

Guy 1: We have no idea what's out there!

Guy 2: I don't care what's out there. Listen to me - she's dying!

Then there's footage of army guys running and shadows on a wall. Shadows of a screaming woman being attacked by a small monster (possibly two - either she's being pulled away from the monster by someone behind her or there's another monster behind her). It's confirmed: the movie has a big beast and small ones. Like the American Godzilla.

People are hiding in a store, and there are huge thumps making everything shake. The windows of the store explode in.

The big sequence is next: Army guys running up a street, firing into the air. Tanks come up behind them, firing. Rockets launch up.

We see the big monster briefly passing between two buildings. I couldn't make it out at all, but it appeared to be HUGE.

Characters race down subway steps, there's a giant explosion, the cameraman is down, there's a figure in a tunnel, people are yelling 'Run!' and running through the tunnel.

Outside of Central Park, a horse drawn carriage goes by.

Guy: Are you still filming?

Cameraman: Yeah. People are going to want to know... how it all went down.

Shot of the Brooklyn Bridge. A helicopter taking off. Some chaos. Then inside the copter girls screaming as the copter spins out of control.

Cut to black, then the title comes up: Cloverfield.

Then the text: End of tape

Then the release date: 1-18-08

So the info I gleaned from this:

The title is Cloverfield.
There are smaller monsters.
This movie will quite probably make a lot of people motion sick."
 
Lol Assa...maybe that is how the monster got to the city but either way i would not be 'let down' if i were never to find out the truth. I enjoyed this film for what it was and i actually preferred the style of which it was told..ie hand held camera.


You make a good point in your post and i never thought of it that way. I have to say tho i do agree with alot of what you said :)
 
To avoid fainting after your rant keep repeating: It's only a movie It's only a movie It's only a movie It's only a movie.


JJ Abrams in a recent interview talked about the current climate we live in.

He talked of how people can go to this movie experince the fear that we are all living of a city being terrorised (safe in the knowledge that its a monster)
 
saw the movie this evening - just realised over here in NZ.

i saw the trailer some time ago - and was excited over it.

i had no idea that there were other sources milking it - i looked a bit at the conspiracy sites over the movie (fan made) - no other film beats the Blair Witch for the whole build up thing though.

i aint going to say anymore - as i have tried to write my view of the movie - and cant find the "spoiler" option!!!!! and dont really want to spoil it for you guys. i will write a review on facebook
 
I have to say I wasn't at all effected by the shaky cam and was certainly entertained throughout the whole film. eein the monster does have that WOW-effect as previously said and I am looking forward to seeing it again to look at it more in-depth. Theres s much more room here for more story, I hope that they don't move away frm the concept if there is a sequel.
 
Okay... But whereabouts? I know that's what we've all believed since this all began, and I'm sure there's a reason for that - but that youtube clip isn't the first place to state that the new trailer refers to the film as "Cloverfield". I just can't place where Abrams himself has overtly stated that Cloverfield (or The Cloverfield Project), whilst the working title, was most definitely not going to be used in the final product.
 
I loved the film, it was definately one for the big screen, with all the jumpy scenes and the explosions. I did feel kind of sick with all the camera shots lol. Oh and I agree with the above poster, the guy recording the footage was loathsome, even though there wernt really any likeable characters but then that wasn't the type of movie. Enjoyed it a lot, 9/10.
 
well the director has apparently said that while they were filming it, they discussed the idea that the people we see weren't the only ones making a film that night.

so i guess the concept for the sequel would be the same night and same monster attack, but told from a different perspective.
 
Saw this yesterday and I enjoyed it - not best film I've seen by a long shot but enjoyable.

I wanted to see it as a disater film from a different point of view. I don't care about oil rigs, sateltites or what the monster was. In a way I would have preferred to not se eth monster AT ALL, to PURELy focus on what it's like to be a normal person on the street when all hell breaks loose.

Stuff like them walking across the bridge, and when the mum phones, are the kind of touches I thought made it good - the REAL things that would happen in a disaster that you don't tend to think about.

My only thought was how there is no-one in the world I would go up 39 floors onto the roof for. But then my OH said, if you've got that fair you'd just kind of go "Well I've gone through all that, might as well just go for it".

I did think however that knowing what's going to happent o the people at the very start of the film (becuase fo the info about the video camera's lcoation) does spoil it a little.
 
Thank you for the links. :)

The other thing about the Statue of Liberty is that it's facing the wrong way in the posters for the movie! So I suppose the monster dragged it round when it ripped the head off.
 
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