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Cloverfield *MAY CONTAIN SPOILRS*

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Canuker
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Ya so i saw it, i thought it was pretty good except the ending was absolute bullshit, so dumb.

the three things i didnt like abut it were:

1- Is this camera made out of fucking adamantium or some shit, i mean WTF its invincible, it was working perfect after everything that happened to it. Not to mention the batteries would have run out within the first 1-2 hours.

2- That guys dumb girlfriend is like fucking super women or something, she was fucking stabbed over the heart with a iron rod and after they pulled her off of it she was still able to run and shit and she wasnt bleeding at all, then she survives a fucking helicopter crash ontop of that.

3- the ending......GAY.


oh, but Hub was pretty funny :D

Jan 19 2008 2:15PM
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fillup
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i thoughtit was the shittiest movie ever

having it from that camera the whole time made me quesy seeing it shaking so much
and yeah it would have run out of batteries so fast and she would have been dead for sure
even though the thing in her wasnt that thick or big
Jan 19 2008 2:36PM
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fukeneh
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i'll agree with both of those points, but i still thought overall the direction was amazing to the story

it should have ended right after the helicopter crash when you could hear the army radio
Jan 19 2008 2:49PM
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killabees
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those three reasons were my thoughs exactly. the whole theater was yelling "what teh fuck!!!" when she had been removed from the rod
Jan 19 2008 2:50PM
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Mr.LemonPie
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I work at a movie theatre so I see all the movies that come out...And I thought cloverfield was retarded. I hated the whole thing being from the camera POV and the ending is dumb. Terrible moive not worth seeing, go see bucket list instead.
Jan 19 2008 3:41PM
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killabees
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i wouldnt go ahead and see that movie comon..
Jan 19 2008 3:42PM
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east_toast
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the movie had the potential to be sick.  The whole monster in new york was good but the point of view and lack of info on the monsters ruined it for me.
Jan 19 2008 3:44PM
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Mr.LemonPie
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bucket list is good...great acting, good jokes throughout so you don't get bored...just overall a good movie.
Jan 19 2008 3:45PM
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Canuker
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yea that would have been sick! the camera should have been on the ground pointing to the cocpit  or something and there all unconscious and then the radio goes
"initiating hammer down" or whatever it said.

but that still would have left me with questions like, wtf was that thing, where didi it come from, was there more, did they kill it, will manhatten ever be the same?(well obviously not because they leveled it but still)

I actually loved the directing and thought the whole thing being from the camera was really sick. The whole movie would be a great prelude to a seqaul.
Jan 19 2008 3:45PM
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Scolson
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I almost fell asleep during bucket list.  I didn't like it at all.
Jan 20 2008 11:41AM
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Jake...
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you guys missed the part the helicopter fuckin crashed and they got up and were fine!


the flaming homeless guy in the subway part was hilarious tho i couldn't stop laughing at that
Jan 20 2008 2:30PM
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twix_182
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in the case of batteries, they have long lasting batteries tahst work many hours and the camera was going for whatever the duration of the film was, so...... BLAM!!

to ppl who complain about not getting enough info on the monster and stuff, it's kinda the point. Hud and the other dudes had no fucking clue what was going on, so you shouldn't either.

supposedly after the credits theres a radio transmission you're supposed to hear sounding like "Help us", but when you reverse it it says "It's still alive" so there could be another one if they wanted. they thought of one idea for a sequel where it would be the same thing and the same night but from a different cameramans perspective. so if they did hat you could se events occur taht you didnt see in this one when they were away from the monster.

i thought it was a sick idea for a movie
Jan 20 2008 2:46PM
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twix_182
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and to anyone with any interest. here's news footasge of the monster attacking a station in the ocean before he made it to manhattan

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/06/video-footage-of-cloverfield-monster-destroying-chaui-station-rob-hired-by-slusho/
Jan 20 2008 2:48PM
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Jake...
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who ever disagrees with that is..... well.. i guess everyone is entitled to thier own opinion, but i for sure (and everyone i went with, and everyone i herd at the theater) thought it was a sick idea.

Sick idea and sick movie are two different things. To bad this movie only had one of them.
Jan 20 2008 2:57PM
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twix_182
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had both
Jan 20 2008 2:58PM
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Gavajabra
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Dude I fucking loved this movie, and I thought the ending was sweet. Sure it had its parts, but damn I love movies with cliffhangers
Jan 20 2008 3:58PM
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slimbruddah
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so what happened at the end?
Jan 20 2008 8:17PM
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statuswhitegirl
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there hiding under a bridge and it collapses and they die and the camera goes back to them on a ferriswheel  and its like   ok we have 10 seconds say something and they say some bullshit and it ended

-the WORST movie i think i have ever seen, next to the village

the filming was just so gay, but i guess they had to do it to make the movie, but w.e
Jan 20 2008 8:38PM
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doublexl
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that would be such a sick idea. but seriously, that movie was so fucking baller. it was sooooooooooo fucking intense. but yeah, me n my homie were talking about that chick who got stabbed in the heart.
Jan 20 2008 8:43PM
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jibmaster_josh
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yeah i said the same thing about the diamond coated camera. invincible.

and another thing i disliked, too much plot and not enough crazy monster.
Jan 20 2008 8:56PM
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Mattman
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Haha you don't get,  one of the best I've seen

The only thing is like 20 mins of nothing in the first part of the movie.
Jan 20 2008 9:13PM
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cardoso6
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I saw this movie during a graveyard shift with one of my co-workers. The only people in the theater were me, her, and two other people, basically empty.

I felt like the whole lack of information was to really give you the feel of "what the fuck?". To make you feel like you're really there with them. You know, it's a constant feed, they want to make it seem like you're actually experiencing it with them.

It was a bummer to have no fuckin scientific explanation of any sort. It had potential. I tried to ignore the fact that the camera would have been fucked up in the first 30 minutes. Other than that it was pretty good. Intense, I guess.
Jan 20 2008 10:14PM
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N-John360
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Make sure to stay after the credits. They give you a little extra!
Jan 20 2008 10:16PM
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jibmaster_josh
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^damn man we were like the last ones out but the credits were still rollin. whats the extras?
Jan 20 2008 10:23PM
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cardoso6
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shit, really?

That's unfortunate, because my lame theater didn't play the credits, the screen went black and the lights came on. Cheap bastards.
Jan 20 2008 10:24PM
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Skierguy1234
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ok, well i think there's going to be a prequel, and then definitly sequels.
maybe a TV show? that would make a lot of sense. cuz ive heard rumors of a much more in depth, and awesome plot than the movie showed. im really hoping that information wasn't just totaly bull cuz it sounded freaking sweet!!!!
Jan 20 2008 10:50PM
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General_Shredgnar
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I think people should give it a lot more credit.


For one thing, the movie isn't very realistic is it, a giant monster attacks new york city, so how are you analyzing the details of camera functions.

I thought that the view from a camcorder was a very creative and original idea (despite being used in blair witch project). The directing was great, and using small time actors made it feel really real. I was very much into the movie the entire time, like I was actually there, and thats the feeling they were trying to convey; it worked perfectly. If you didn't pay attention to the camera shakes so much as the actual scene, you wouldn't get too dizzy, but if you have motion sickness problems just sit back. I was right in front and loving it.

Its all about crisis and peoples fears and what the do in times of desperation.

Despite those positive aspects though, I thought that a woman impaled for 6 hours and then removed from the spike would definitely be dead. If not dead later. And the crash was also unrealistic. I was really hoping that they might somehow get the camcorder to a military guy, so the fact that the camera survived actually made sense, but no, it somehow survived the nuclear explosion. The ending was in fact, weak.

But overall a pretty darn good movie, with an interesting and fresh new pespective to cinematography.
Jan 20 2008 10:56PM
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bangarangmules
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i thought this movie was awesome. i hope theres a sequel. becuase the whole time i thought they were gonna explain everything at the end. but i thought it was hella intense with the POV.
Jan 20 2008 11:01PM
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N-John360
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At the very end of the credits they play staticy radio footage  saying "its still alive!" 
Jan 20 2008 11:25PM
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lushlaxstr
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where is the rest of my movie? god damn. what why when where how??????
Jan 20 2008 11:37PM
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Kornn101
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anyone who is bitching about not knowing enuff, well, your too retarded too understand the concept. it was a totally amazing film about fear and desperationg, a first person account of something absolutely absurd happening, thats it. no back story, no explanations, nothing. and for what it was, it was amazing. great direction, really funny parts, really intense parts (turning on the night vision), and a really good movie overall

but yea, ending kinda weak but thats what happens.
Jan 20 2008 11:48PM
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steph32
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Did that one girl explode or did they just shoot her? You know the one bleeding from the eyes and whatnot....
Jan 21 2008 12:11AM
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Onlyexstasy
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I'm pretty sure she just kind of popped like that other girl did
Jan 21 2008 12:32AM
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ConroyAK
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I agree with kid-who-created-thread
If you've seen lost you had to know that cliff hanger ending was coming though
Jan 21 2008 12:34AM
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BEARS.
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whole movie was ill minus ending. HOMO!
Jan 21 2008 1:14AM
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lloyd_christmas
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I'm not going to write a review but to all who are thinking of seeing this movie and appriciate a quality made, different, absolutely entertaining film, go see it.  Those who hate this movie weren't paying attention and need everything to be spoon-fed to them in order to be satisfied.  Read critics' reviews, most of them are spot on.

And for those who completely missed it
Spoiler.........
At the end when they are on the ferris wheel in the backround you can see a large object fall from the sky and make a huge splash in the ocean behind them.  This was set just before the original beginning of the movie.  Hope that helps to spark an idea of where it could have came from.  Definatley a cliff hanger.

Jan 21 2008 1:31AM
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dammitmike
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i definitly recommend coughing up the cash to see this in theaters instead of waiting for it to come out on dvd... unless you have a super baller home theater set up. i thought the movie was a sick ride, really makes you feel like your part of whats happening.
Jan 21 2008 1:37AM
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freezed
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I just got back from it, I thought it was awesome. It was probably the realest movie I've seen in the sense that you get totally engrossed in it. I hate it when people say this to me, but if you didn't like it, you probably didn't "get" it. It isn't a sit back and relax, passive entertainment experience. It was intense, it wasn't spoon-fed, and you don't get tidy explanations or a neat ending. I loved that.
Jan 21 2008 2:36AM
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Onlyexstasy
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I really enjoyed it....the movie was from a fresh perspective and I thought it was really well done......didn't catch the subtle part with the monster falling into the water at Coney Island though...bummer
Jan 21 2008 11:24AM
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Sufferboy
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i want that camera and the batteries
Jan 21 2008 11:30AM
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Nicholas.
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hmmm i think ill wait for it. sounds cool but ive heard it was shitty a lot. ive gotta big tv though.
Jan 21 2008 11:54AM
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Mattman
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Woah, thats huge I might have to see the movie again minus the first 20 mins
Jan 21 2008 12:21PM
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jimmychung
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AHHH SOMEONE BEAT ME TO IT!!!!

SPOILER!!!!

For everyone saying the ending sucked, you obviously missed the one thing that pretty much explained the whole movie. throughout the movie they keep asking if it came from somewhere else or the bottom of the ocean or something. But at the very end with the ferris wheel, over the view of the ocean, in the very far right corner, you see a large object crash down from the sky and into the ocean. THAT MUST BE WHERE IT CAME FROM! I couldn't believe I saw that, I usually completely miss tiny details like that.

As for the movie as a whole, even before the action started I was thinking "Oooh boy, I'm not going to be feeling too good...". Then once they started running around and stuff, NAUSEA killed me. I had to close my eyes and try to feel better during parts that were all dialogue and I didn't need to really see. I thought the monster was good, it wasn't just a dinosaur monster and was actually kind of original. But, at the same time, I feel like I could've thought of that.

Getting a copper rod hurled through your shoulder, struggling for 10 minutes, and then being well enough to bolt on your own? Ehhhh I don't know about that...

Surviving a helicopter crash from a height above NYC's tallest skyscrapers? With hardly any injury? Ehhh..

The part where the girl got sick from her bite in the Military hospital was messed up, wasn't expecting that.

Overall, it didn't really disappoint. I enjoyed it (besides nearly throwing up from motion sickness), and I'd recommend it to anyone wondering what the monster is like and anyone who wants a thrill. The ending was actually pretty good (if you caught that major hidden detail). It was also relatively cliche of a monster movie, but sometimes cliches work. It's incredibly hard to make a movie like this any good at all, so I think they did a good job. I think the viral marketing MADE the movie, if we knew what the monster was like, I don't think nearly as many people would actually see it.

End of review.
Jan 21 2008 12:22PM
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Big--Ben
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the movie was straight GARRRRRbage. an hour and a half of running around, and some dude gets him and all his friends killed bc he's sweating some pussy. weakest shit ever. 
Jan 21 2008 1:16PM
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Kornn101
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about the alien falling from the sky:

The Japanese oil company TAGRUATO drops a satellite (Chimpanz III) into the ocean as part
of viral marketing (shown at the end of the movie when Rob and Beth were on the ferris wheel).
TAGRUATO works with SLUSHO (a slush company), as the main ingredient for SLUSHO is found
at the satellite dropzone (deep ocean). While searching for satellite and ingredients, they
woke Cloverfield (the monster).

The main ingredient of Slusho apparently turns a tiny fish into a HUGE whale, which explains
the size of Cloverfield.

Rob apparently was going to be the Vice President of TAGRUATO in Japan.
Jan 21 2008 1:23PM
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golf
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The movie starts with the 1st person view and I'm like wtf the movie is going to be terrible, but them you realize how fucking scary it is going to be when they are attacked and it is filmed like this. Stop complaining about how unrealistic it is its a fucking movie where a giant monster destroys NYC.
Jan 21 2008 1:38PM
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clova
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..... what?

where the fuck did that come from?
Jan 21 2008 1:59PM
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MLB
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Ok, well i got the point of the movie ( how man reacts in times of crisis, and living in the moment, and how things become clearer in life when events like this happen) BUT, I FUCKING HATE FILMS LIKE THIS.  Films that peak your curiocity then suddenly end.  FUCK THAT SHIT. I  don't want to go home wondering : " Did they kill that monster? What was it? Where did it come from? Are there move movies going to be made?"

Im sorry, i just belive that movies schould be made with an ending so that will let me sleep at night. I just want film makers to stop being so fucking  artistic, and make a good story that makes me curious, gets me sucked into the story, then ties up all the lose ends in my mind. 
Jan 21 2008 5:51PM
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jimmychung
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..were we supposed to get this from the movie..?
Jan 21 2008 5:59PM
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jimmychung
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aw you were just having nightmares ;)
Jan 21 2008 6:00PM
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Kornn101
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lol nah, just took a little outside research with the fake websites that they set up for the movie
Jan 22 2008 10:07AM
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