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[apocalidiot]

I remember hearing a rumor that Cloverfield was going to be a realistic Rampage movie. That would be nuts

I wish they did a sequel. Heard a other rumor after it was out that the sequel would take place at the same time, but from a different point of view/from a news team

 

[Nemesis_]

I'm pretty sure the team wants to work on a sequel, but they want to think about a way they could do it properly and not half ass it.

 

[Tokubetsu]

Didn't the Cloverfield monster use humans as hosts to breed?
That is really hard to exterminate...

Yea that was the most terrifying/best part of the movie for me. The human infection stuff. R.I.P. Cute chick exploding in CDCC tent.

 

[Data West]

Biollante is probably the biggest 'to scale' kaiju. That's of any note, I mean. I'm sure some Kamen Rider had some planet sized robot like Decade.

 

[PjotrStroganov]

It's the same monster and the teeth are the same.

 

[MarkMclovin]

There was always something that bugged me with that Cloverfield monster at the very end

Spoiler

when the dude gets eaten

and that if the monster was really that big, then it would probably take a massive chunk of the ground to pick him up, but when the camera is looking up at him and it bites down, it barely looks like it's mouth is bigger than a human.

Just looks really off.

I get the same feeling when I see the Pacific Rim trailers, that the guys move faster than the robots when they are controlling it. Yet the movements are supposed to be the same.

 

[Apath]

The idea that the monster survived the air strike struck me as extreme bullshit. So I'm all in favor of the bullshit-yet-less-bullshit idea that the monster died and another with slightly different teeth showed up.

 

[Napoleonthechimp]

Didn't the Cloverfield monster use humans as hosts to breed?
That is really hard to exterminate...

I thought that was the parasites that fell off the Cloverfield monster.

 

[waypoetic]

Yup. Two monsters. Wish they'd make a sequal..

 

[Hot Coldman]

My favourite part of Cloverfield is that woman who blows up.

That was a good film to see at the cinema, but I have zero desire to watch it again.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

I don't know, I was really quite bored watching that movie.

 

[Valtýr]

Cloverfield is great.

 

[Kinyou]

That the monster bothered with eating a single guy annoyed me

 

[Nonexistinghero]

I never understood why people found it a good movie... me and my sister wanted to watch it after all of the positive things we heard, but what we got was a terrible movie. The plot just felt forced an unrealistic. A group of people that just met risking their life to get to the ex-girlfriend of someone... dying in the process. The ex-girlfriend still being in her building, alive and well was stupid too. A ton more things that just didn't make sense happened, mostly unrealistic behaviour of characters.

 

[Patrickv27]

Holy shit I remember watching it with friend and then, after the movie ended, I said that there is some meta(correct word?) on the net.
You know, like adverts, MySpace accounts of the people in the movie and other crazy shit.
It was awesome to search through it all.

We also called the stuff that makes you poof* HAPPY JUICE.

Spoiler

It makes people so happy they'll are like baloons.

And there was only one moster. I hope.

Yeah there are like multiple websites explaining different shits about chemicals like that Japanese drink or something. It was awesome researching things about the movie.

I really wish there was a sequel. (I remember the rumor for the sequel is going to be another person's POV, there was a time that the camera pointed to another person who's also fiming)

 

[Funky Papa]

I usually dislike monster movies and I enjoyed Cloverfield thoroughly. I'm honestly baffled by how much hate it gets, specially considering that most gaffers were pretty positive when it came out.

 

[big_z]

the way the monsters size would change in each scene really stood out to me even the first time I saw the film. I don't understand how you can fuck up scale that bad.

 

[Vyroxis]

Cloverfield was an awesome movie. But for whatever reason people decided to nitpick the movie to justify not liking it.

"The monsters teeth are different!"
Yes, and if I had watched the movie a dozen times I never would have picked up on that because I was enjoying the movie, not searching for reasons to hate it.

 

[Dead Man]

Cloverfield was an awesome movie. But for whatever reason people decided to nitpick the movie to justify not liking it.

"The monsters teeth are different!"
Yes, and if I had watched the movie a dozen times I never would have picked up on that because I was enjoying the movie, not searching for reasons to hate it.

I'm not going to say it was a bad movie (I do think it was a massively wasted opportunity with the very cool background built up in the ARG) but posts like these seem to be saying that thinking critically about films is a bad thing.

 

[EvaristeG]

One of the worst movies I've seen in theaters, along with Super 8. JJ Abrahams is one of the worst director currently in activity.

 

[Ovid]

Two monsters? I've never heard that one before.

There's only one monster in the movie OP.

 

[Human_Shield]

I never understood why people found it a good movie... me and my sister wanted to watch it after all of the positive things we heard, but what we got was a terrible movie. The plot just felt forced an unrealistic. A group of people that just met risking their life to get to the ex-girlfriend of someone... dying in the process. The ex-girlfriend still being in her building, alive and well was stupid too. A ton more things that just didn't make sense happened, mostly unrealistic behaviour of characters.

The main character, his brother, his brother's girlfriend, his best friend, and the ex-GF's friend. All of them a close circle of friends with said ex-GF. Hardly people who "just met".

 

[LosDaddie]

It's one monster.

And the movie was great. The lady & I came away really impressed

 

[Ash_69]

Gipsy would just knee him in the head.

This is wrong. What kind of beta T Rex is 10 ft tall?

 

[TheBear]

Cloverfield is fucking great.
Giant monsters, exploding heads and the hottest woman on the planet

 

[DjRoomba]

TJ Miller was the true monster

 

[Yoshichan]

This is wrong. What kind of beta T Rex is 10 ft tall?

T-Rex was around 11-12 ft so it's accurate.

 

[DarkKyo]

Tempted to shop in TTGL.

If you were comparing the largest mech in TTGL to the scale of that comparison shot, the mech from TTGL would be larger than this entire thread lol

About the size of a supermassive blackhole...

 

[DouglasteR]

Irregardless of the monster, wheres Cloverfield 2 ?

 

[kurisu_1974]

Gipsy would just knee him in the head.

What info is that chart even based on?

 

[NinjaFridge]

I never understood why people found it a good movie... me and my sister wanted to watch it after all of the positive things we heard, but what we got was a terrible movie. The plot just felt forced an unrealistic. A group of people that just met risking their life to get to the ex-girlfriend of someone... dying in the process. The ex-girlfriend still being in her building, alive and well was stupid too. A ton more things that just didn't make sense happened, mostly unrealistic behaviour of characters.

Did we watch the same movie?

 

[Raiden]

Gipsy would just knee him in the head.

Godzilla is like :

 

[Joni]

Irregardless of the monster, wheres Cloverfield 2 ?

Super 8

Spoiler

was rumoured to be a prequel

.

 

[The Elite]

Which one is Voltron?

 

[Mike M]

Irregardless of the monster, wheres Cloverfield 2 ?

Canceled forever for your use of "irregardless."

Thanks. I hope you're happy : (

 

[zma1013]

What info is that chart even based on?

Probably their respective movies. It's pretty easy to tell about how big King Kong is based on how he compares to the woman he holds in his hand.

 

[sixteen-bit]

The second monster was society.

How profound.

 

[Avixph]

Did anyone read the prequel manga?

 

[Odoul]

I've always thought so.

There has to be, otherwise the ending makes no sense,

When the three protagonists are in the park you can clearly still fire being directed at a target far off in the distance, yet HUD is killed by something that snuck up on them.

The gunfire would have had to slowly track toward the park, or else the army was firing at nothing.

A second monster is the only explanation.

 

[Succinct Verbosity]

One of the worst movies I've seen in theaters, along with Super 8. JJ Abrahams is one of the worst director currently in activity.

Abbrams didn't direct Cloverfield.

 

[WarMacheen]

I had no idea what TTGL was so I looked it up...and seriously

It has been confirmed in the data books that the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is 10 million light years in height

http://gurrenlagann.wikia.com/wiki/Tengen_Toppa_Gurren_Lagann


that's pretty tall.

 

[zma1013]

Abbrams didn't direct Cloverfield.

You get out of here, this is no place for silly things like facts.

I've always thought so.

There has to be, otherwise the ending makes no sense,

When the three protagonists are in the park you can clearly still fire being directed at a target far off in the distance, yet HUD is killed by something that snuck up on them.

The gunfire would have had to slowly track toward the park, or else the army was firing at nothing.

A second monster is the only explanation.

Weren't they also fighting an army of baby monsters all throughout the city? As I understood it, they just start carpet bombing the city at the end to try to kill everything.

 

[Red UFO]

WHAT FELL INTO THE OCEAN AT THE END????

 

[zma1013]

WHAT FELL INTO THE OCEAN AT THE END????

The monster in the movie obviously.

 

[Grisby]

Gipsy would just knee him in the head.

Kind of want to see a tripod fight the state puff marshmallow man now.

 

[sunnz]

Meh, I really enjoyed Cloverfield, more so than the US godzilla and the other ones ( haven't watched many, granted)
I think it is the same one.

The design of it I think looks pretty awesome but I remember hearing the main complaint was it didn't look like an aquatic monster, which it is.

 

[Patryn]

Yeah, I was so sure this was going to be a stealth reboot for Godzilla. Pretty bummed when it wasnt

I remember the speculation that it was going to be a Cthulu movie. Just straight up Lovecraftian batshit insanity going on. I was pretty excited about that.

Still kinda liked Cloverfield, but it's a movie you kind of only have to see once.

And what is up with all the recent Western giant monster movies having do long sequences where the heroes are being hunted by smaller creatures that come from the bigger monster? I came to see something HUGE.

 

[zma1013]

I didn't even watch Cloverfield in the theaters and I thought it was really well done. It was more style than anything else. I could tell though it would have had even more impact in theaters though, so after I watched it I was kind of bummed that I didn't go.

And what is up with all the recent Western giant monster movies having do long sequences where the heroes are being hunted by smaller creatures that come from the bigger monster? I came to see something HUGE.

Probably because it's hard to get your cast too directly involved with a building sized creature and survive. With something smaller, they at least have a chance to fight it off. I'm thinking it would be a bit silly to see a man hit Cloverfield monster with a broom handle or something.

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

I remember the speculation that it was going to be a Cthulu movie. Just straight up Lovecraftian batshit insanity going on. I was pretty excited about that.

That would've been so awesome. This needs to happen one day.

 

[NekoFever]

Which one is Voltron?

I remember the rumours that it was a Voltron movie after the teaser trailer came out. People thinking "It's alive!" was "It's a lion!". Madness.