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- A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack.
- The US Defense Department finds a videotape in the former Central Park. The footage shows a group of friends celebrating a surprise farewell party in the apartment of Rob Hawkins in Lower Manhattan. Rob is a young man that is leaving New York to work in Japan and his friend Hud is recording messages from his friends. Out of the blue, they are surprised by an earthquake and they see on the news that a ship has capsized in the harbor area. They go to the penthouse to see the accident and they actually witness explosions everywhere; when power goes out in the building, they run to the streets trying to save their lives from the attack of the monster.
- Well for the first 5 min I was not sure about this idea, it seems irritating and some what boring but thats IT! From that point onwards I was on the edge till the very end! The thunders and roars made the whole theater tremble! I felt like being there with them and wanted to escape to safety at any cost. That's success of this movie right there! What more can I say, you have to watch it to believe it! By the end of the whole ordeal, I was feeling a bit nauseous though as the previous poster mentioned :) Very original and thrilling experience... As I came out, I could see all of the other audience completely lost thinking about the movie as if it was still grabbed their attention!<br/><br/>This one will be remembered for a long long time!<br/><br/>Highly recommended!
- Cloverfield is a mish mash of several ideas, none completely original but everything seems to gel together nicely giving the viewer what feels like a fresh experience.<br/><br/>What we have here is the good old classic monster movie of old, you know, big man in monster suit (though the monster FX are awesome)up from the depths (although it could have been outer space, we never do find out for sure) because of some nuclear tests gone west. Monster proceeds to chew it's way through (insert major city here although this time round it happens to be Manhattan, big enough to give the creature ample stomping ground but small enough that if they have to nuke it there's plenty more America left to go around) and laughs off all manner of firepower in the meantime leaving the viewer wondering how the hell humankind's going to get out of this one (in other words which of the standard monster movie/invasion endings are going to save our butts, you know, micro-germs, superior firepower, monster gets bored and goes home etc). We've all seen this movie in one of a thousand iterations before.<br/><br/>What makes Cloverfield unique though is the perspective through which we see the events unfold. The whole thing is presented as thought it were a leaked (although they couldn't really hush up events of this scale)clump of handycam footage taken by a small group of people affected by these happenings. There's no credits till the end, instead at the beginning we get a Department of Defence watermark along with some official blurb stating what this "found" footage is. The movie then is this "raw" footage in it's entirety from the testimonials at a surprise party through the events of the evening to it's conclusion (?!?!) which may or may not be the end of the story. Now because of this, there are bits which feel a bit disjointed. I mean we get everything throughout the evening of the main characters and these things sometimes cross over with the whole monster stomping scenario but there are times you want to see more of what's going on but instead our limited viewpoint denies us these things. This isn't as big a problem as it was with Speilbergs War of the Worlds though. Here you get to see lots of things you wanted to see in that movie but didn't. Massive military might up against this thing, I mean up close and personal (which you did see in WotW but it wasn't as satisfying as it is here)as well lots of convenient and circumstantial encounters with the creature which give you either some "Did I just see that" moments or some real in your face OMG moments.<br/><br/>The parts without the main plot (monster) are still interesting enough though that most of the time you don't mind not seeing what's going on elsewhere though and the film does a good job in the first 10 minutes portraying normal people in a real world situation that when stuff starts going down you think "oh yeah, the monster stuff".<br/><br/>It's also testament that when the main event isn't on screen the story still continues off screen thanks to excellent sound design. One scene where our troupe are down in an underground station talking and stuff, you can still here stuff happening above. Explosions, gunfire, creatures roaring etc. You really feel like you're in the midst of this thing. Some of the jerky handycam footage might make some people a bit sick if you're sitting close to the screen but all up it really helped add to the "in your face and personal" nature of the format.<br/><br/>The look of the creature has been a closely guarded secret which was either because they wanted it be a total surprise or because it looked really pants. Well I'm happy to report that all monsters/creatures and things appearing in this movie looked really cool if a little bit derivative. You rarely see the big picture but you do see up close and detailed bits of the little picture. You're frantically trying to build a picture in your head of what the thing looks like, it's like trying to mentally piece together a jigsaw puzzle.<br/><br/>My only gripe (and it's pretty small) is that due to the way the action is framed around the smaller more personal story of our small group of friends there's little room for exposition and when it does come it's a bit obvious and set up but I really don't know any other way they could have done it. Also there's little real plot or character development but since the movie takes place mostly over the course of one night and again due to the way it's presented I didn't really find it that much of a problem.<br/><br/>J.J.Abrams and team did an admirable job giving the retro Monster Movie a solid reboot here. Some people might find the abrupt ending (which is realistic in light of how it's presented) a turn off but personally I think it's a good opportunity to load up the DVD with extras to fill in some of the blanks (like the Blair Witch Project did)...<br/><br/>There's some real iconic moments in Cloverfield and while this movie is being hyped up to the high heavens so can't possibly live up to all it's expectations, there's definitely a top flight experience offered here that most will surely enjoy.
- Despite its indie-flavored shooting style, first-rate visual effects, reasonable intensity factor, nihilistic attitude and post-9/11 anxiety overlay, this punchy sci-fier is, in the end, not much different from all the marauding creature features that have come before it.
- While attending a surprise party thrown for Rob Hawkins' (<a href="/name/nm1221863/">Michael Stahl-David</a>) impending move to Japan, the party goers are shocked when Manhattan is rocked by an earthquake. Running out in the street in panic, they witness buildings exploding, and Hudson 'Hud' Platt (<a href="/name/nm2554352/">T.J. Miller</a>) (who is the one carrying the videocamera) thinks he sees a giant monster in the distance. Rob, his arrogant brother Jason (<a href="/name/nm1036181/">Mike Vogel</a>), Jason's girlfriend Lily Ford (<a href="/name/nm1140300/">Jessica Lucas</a>), another friend Marlena Diamond (<a href="/name/nm0135221/">Lizzy Caplan</a>), and Hud and his camera decide to get out of Manhattan, but first they must make it to Midtown to rescue Rob's girlfriend Beth McIntyre (<a href="/name/nm0951148/">Odette Annable</a>), who is trapped under debris when her apartment wall fell on her. Cloverfield is based on a screenplay written by American screenwriter Drew Goddard. The inspiration for the movie was a trip by producer J.J. Abrams and his son to Japan. While there, he noted the iconic nature of Godzilla in toy stores and wanted to create a similar story for America. Early in 2008, a four-part manga called Cloverfield: Kishin that depicts the events prior to Cloverfield was released as an online exclusive. It's not just some gobbledegook on the reel or DVD that you're watching. Cloverfield is presented as found footage, meaning that the movie footage is from a film or video that was found, that is, not shot by a film crew. The "found footage" that comprises this movie was supposedly found in Central Park. It was subsequently catalogued by the U.S. Department of Defense under the cover name "Cloverfield." The film footage is attributed to several people. Rob first used the camcorder to film a tryst a few weeks earlier with Beth. Lily passed it to Jason, asking him to film goodbye testimonials to Rob. Jason passed it off to Hud, who films the testimonials and then keeps filming when Manhattan comes under attack. This fan-made map pinpoints all the key scenes in the film by geographical location. The film is remarkably accurate with regard to geography. Director Matt Reeves explained in a USA Today article that Cloverfield is the name of the military operation dispatched to battle the monster. This is spelled out in the film, at the very start: "Multiple sightings of Case designate 'Cloverfield.'" The phrase is superimposed over a backdrop that says "US Department of Defense - Do Not Duplicate." Originally, "Cloverfield" was reported to be nothing more than an early working title, derived from the name of a street near J.J. Abrams's office. In an Entertainment Weekly article (Issue #975, "A New York State of...Panic!" 1/25/08), Drew Goddard, the screenwriter for Cloverfield, says the title was his creation. And the meaning behind the title? "I've never told anyone my reasons," he says, "Not even J.J." Matt Reeves, in an LAist interview, confirms that the title Cloverfield did come from Goddard. He says it's a confused version of the name of a corporation Paramount owns.<br/><br/>When we started the project there was going to be an announcement in the trades. In this case, they wanted to keep everything under wraps. So the movie was going to be made under this outside corporation that was basically a property of Paramount. That corporation had a name that I don't know the name of. I think Clover was the first part of it. Maybe it was Cloverdale. When Drew [Goddard] was putting a name to the project, there was supposed to be a name for the project like there was for The Manhattan Project. So he said, "I am going to use that weird mysterious thing," and he misheard it. He didn't even understand that it wasn't Cloverfield, it was Cloverdale. Maybe that was because of the street by J.J.s old office, but the truth is he just misunderstood it.<br/><br/>Why "Cloverfield"? Fans have many ideas, including the notion that the three-toed monster's footprints make the ground he walks on look like a field of clover. According to the "viral" marketing campaign, the attack takes place on May 22nd and 23rd of 2008. But in the last scene Rob clearly says, "Saturday, May Twenty-third," which takes place in 2009. However, the last time May 23rd was on a Saturday was the year 1998. This just so happens to be the opening weekend of the American version of "Godzilla", the last major giant monster movie in America. It could be the film makers were poking fun at that movie, especially when considering the poor reception it had. A promotional CD compilation was given away at one of the release parties for the movie and is called "Rob's Party Mix." This mix is also currently available as a "mix tape" on iTunes. The complete list of tunes from the compilation: (1) "West Coast" Coconut Records, (2) "Taper Jean Girl" Kings of Leon, (3) "Beautiful Girls" Sean Kingston, (4) "Do I Have Your Attention" The Blood Arm. (5) "Got Your Moments" Scissors For Lefty, (6) "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)" Parliament, (7) "19-2000" Gorillaz, (8) "The Underdog" Spoon, (9) "Pistol of Fire" Kings of Leon, (10) "Disco Lies" Moby, (11) "Do the Whirlwind" Architecture in Helsinki, (12) "Grown So Ugly" The Black Keys, (13) "Four Winds" Bright Eyes, (14) "The Ride" Joan as Policewoman, (15) "Seventeen Years" Ratatat, (16) "Wraith Pinned to the Mist (And Other Games)" Of Montreal, and (17) "Fuzz" Mucc. Note that it doesn't include the Timbaland track or Locksley's "My Kind of Lover." The list may be missing other songs as well. We can't be sure what happened off-camera. The first building we see collapse is the Woolworth Building, located in Downtown Manhattan on Broadway. We see the building while facing directly down Broadway towards the Battery. We don't see anything done to it directly. Its old age, and sunken-caisson foundation, may partly account for its collapse. The Woolworth Building (standing at 792 feet) was the tallest building in the world when it was finished in 1913 and, outside the world of Cloverfield, is still among the tallest buildings in Manhattan. Some reviewers incorrectly identified the Woolworth Building as either the Empire State Building or the Chrysler Building. We never see any damage done to either of them. No. The movie shows us the actual proportions of the Statue of Liberty. These dimensions are taken from the National Park Service: (1) Head from chin to cranium, 17 feet 3 inches (5.26 metres); and (2) Head thickness from ear to ear, 10 feet 0 inches (3.05 metres). The head could easily fit on a city street, even on its side. The whole statue is only 151 feet (46.02 metres) high. The pedestal adds another 154 feet (46.94 metres). The makers of the film cited Escape from New York's poster as the inspiration for the Statue head scene in Cloverfield. However, that film's poster depicts the head as unrealistically large, which might account for the misconception that the head in Cloverfield is too small. There had also been claims that the head is too big. Supposedly, the creators received many complaints of the head looking too small in the teaser trailer, so they increased the head's size by 50% for the movie. If you compare the head in the teaser trailer with the head in the theatrical trailer, it appears larger in the latter. No. The film was shipped to American theaters under the fake title, Bertha. (In the UK, however, it was shipped under its real title, Cloverfield.)The camera the characters use is probably supposed to be a Panasonic HVX200. The production team actually used a variety of different cameras, including the HVX, the Sony F23, and the Thomson Viper. a5c7b9f00b
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