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I was a big fan of the original Cloverfield movie that released more than a decade ago. I would follow the pre-release ARG stuff and ended up being a bit of a nerd regarding important details omitted from the actual movie. I really liked the design of the sea monster Clover to the point where I had entire sketchbook drawings of it and what I thought its parent or grown-up version of the monster might look like. And then after a while I forgot about it. The new Godzilla came along as well as the first Pacific Rim and I liked those movies. I didn't follow the marketing for those movies like I did Cloverfield.
Anyways, the Cloverfield "sequels" are garbage. Cloverfield to me is about a sea monster attacking New York City and the video of the Tagruato oil rig collapsing into the sea. It is NOT about Cloverfield easter eggs that were shoehorned into movie scripts that end with a woman confronting some fleshy alien ship, or an even worse movie about horrific parallel universes.
Matt Reeves, who directed Cloverfield, would go on to direct Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes which I thought were good movies. He's also directing The Batman that as we know will star Robert Pattinson in the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman.
That last part is important as I read that J.J. Abrams is developing a true, dedicated Cloverfield sequel but there's no chance that Matt Reeves will be returning seeing as how The Batman is in pre-production, and even if he were to return along with writer Drew Goddard (World War Z, The Martian) in my opinion it's already too late. I have no excitement left for this so-called movie franchise.
When talking about Cloverfield, I can only recommend the original for awesome little moments like this:
A good example of special effects aging nicely more than a decade later.
I also really liked the scene when everyone walks out of the convenience store back into the street after the cloud of debris from the collapsed building rolled in. The one that immediately follows the Statue of Liberty's head crashing onto the street.
So I'm just going to pretend the sequels don't exist. Leave Cloverfield alone, J. J. Abrams.
Anyways, the Cloverfield "sequels" are garbage. Cloverfield to me is about a sea monster attacking New York City and the video of the Tagruato oil rig collapsing into the sea. It is NOT about Cloverfield easter eggs that were shoehorned into movie scripts that end with a woman confronting some fleshy alien ship, or an even worse movie about horrific parallel universes.
Matt Reeves, who directed Cloverfield, would go on to direct Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes which I thought were good movies. He's also directing The Batman that as we know will star Robert Pattinson in the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman.
That last part is important as I read that J.J. Abrams is developing a true, dedicated Cloverfield sequel but there's no chance that Matt Reeves will be returning seeing as how The Batman is in pre-production, and even if he were to return along with writer Drew Goddard (World War Z, The Martian) in my opinion it's already too late. I have no excitement left for this so-called movie franchise.
When talking about Cloverfield, I can only recommend the original for awesome little moments like this:
A good example of special effects aging nicely more than a decade later.
I also really liked the scene when everyone walks out of the convenience store back into the street after the cloud of debris from the collapsed building rolled in. The one that immediately follows the Statue of Liberty's head crashing onto the street.
So I'm just going to pretend the sequels don't exist. Leave Cloverfield alone, J. J. Abrams.
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