Comments on: Cloverfield Scores $41 Million Opening Weekend

By: Steph

Steph — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:51:05 +0000

While the shaky camera was rather annoying and gave me a headache at times, the actual story of the movie was amazing. It’s so interesting to see a movie that leaves you thinking “How did this happen?” They made a lot of fake websites for things in the movie- such as Slusho, a fictional soft drink that contains a secret frozen ingredient found and harvested deep under the ocean by a japanese drilling company. This appears to be what has disturbed the monster, and it followed the oil drilling ship back to New York City, where it attacked.

In the part where Marlena starts bleeding through her eyes and explodes- it’s actually kind of realistic. The venom in most parasites speeds up circulation, and the venom in those parasites must have been much stronger than parasites we normally see. It probably sped up her circulation and caused her heart to explode.

Also, there were probably two monsters. See, the Cloverfield monster was downtown when a tail collapsed the Brooklynn bridge. There’s no way it could have been over there. There may have been a second monster in the water- when I first saw the thing collapse the bridge I thought it was a tentacle.

There aren’t too many movies out there that are so interesting it makes you want to research how everything happened. It leaves out enough information to keep you guessing, but not so confused you just say “Screw it, I don’t care.” Cloverfield was a great movie. It’s about time a movie got us thinking. I kind of want to see it again a few times to see some of the things I missed.

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:03:32 +0000

they showed godzilla a whole lot in the U.S. version. Remember how that turned out.

By: Daniel Camarillo

Daniel Camarillo — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:14:17 +0000

From what I noticed, this movie takes someone with an imagination to understand. If you done like the movie, maybe you are just simple minded.

The way they filmed this movie was to put you in the persons place, see things from their point of view. I think they did that perfectly.

If this happened to you, do you think you would have stood there to gaze at the monster? Chase it down to get a better look, so you can go tell all your friends you saw more then 5 minutes of the monster? NO you wouldnt. You would run and hide and be scared shitless.

I was with a group of eight, and we all loved it. My brother is in Vegas, he is going to corner Mike Swick in the UFC Wednesday night. He is one of the pickiest people I know when it comes to movies… He already saw it twice..

By: thegomez

thegomez — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:14:12 +0000

I said it in an early post, I totally agree with Serena, they show way too much of the monster.
Spoiler.

Did we really need the monster standing over HUD staring directly into the camera. I liked not knowing anything about the monster, and not really knowing what it looked like.

I understand what John is saying, but I really don’t know what showing more of the monster would have done. Show it smash a few more buildings, have a chase scene a la Jurassic Park? The five minutes of the monster worked for me, might not have worked for others but like John always says this is why he loves movies everyone takes something different away from a film.

By: probitionate

probitionate — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:08:41 +0000

Interesting. Try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzTq4bbj9V4

By: Nec

Nec — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:02:41 +0000

It says “Help us” (not in reverse)

By: probitionate

probitionate — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:28:59 +0000

Supposedly, backwards: “It’s still alive.”

By: nancy

nancy — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:24:40 +0000

After the movie was over and the credits were finished what did the guy whisper does anyone know??

By: calviin

calviin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:25:19 +0000

It’s the trouble with text sometimes, John. The words are your choices, but the tone in which people read those words are their choices. They heard you being dismissive to the movie when you intended to be cautious. Not much you can do about it.

-Calviin

By: John

John — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:43:36 +0000

Hey Sfsilver

You said:

“(John) put his foot down that it would suck, fail, and that there was no reason to even anticipate seeing it.”

Ummm… no. That’s nothing short of a total lie. These are my exact quotes:

“The movie may rock, as a matter of fact I think it will, I’m just saying the marketing campaign hasn’t done anything to get me excited”

And…

“Will the movie be a legitimate 100 million dollar hit? I don’t know”

How the fuck does that translate into me putting my foot down and saying the movie will suck and fail?

I love how people rewrite history.