The Cloverfield Sequel Viral Marketing Begins

Cloverfield rocked. In my opinion, it’s one of the best Sci-Fi movies of all time. Cloverfield tells the story of a group of people simply observing and trying to survive a giant monster that is busy trashing Manhattan. There are many great and compelling elements here. For one, no one in the story has any information about what’s going on and never does. There’s no quest for information to defeat the beast, no round table meetings with scientists, politicians and generals, it’s just a small group of clueless, ordinary people trying to save themselves. I also really liked the fact that I felt something for the monster. It just seemed like a baby (a big one) with also no clue about what was going down.

There’s a sequel of some sort on the way. We are not sure when but like the first movie the Cloverfield producers (including J.J. Abrams) are spreading the word about a new monster through a new and I thought scary (though I’m sensitive) new viral video. Check it out kids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K8A4L8vXD0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scificool.com%2Fthe-cloverfield-sequel-viral-marketing-begins%2F&feature=player_embedded

http://www.scificool.com/the-cloverfield-sequel-viral-marketing-begins/

I think it's just a fan made vid. But is it? :)

:rofl:

I saved both. :D

I thought of you when I saw them yesterday, I don't know many Godzilla fans.

My own wife teases me for watching Godzilla movies.

I went on a long and passionate rant to her about why the American Godzilla movie (Jurassic Park 2.5) was not true to the Japanese Godzilla movies, and she looked at me like I was joking.

albeit a very good and visceral one. Scifi flicks tend to really explore the new technology and all its ramifications (like Minority Report).
A creature flick is just creature(s) killing off people one by one. No real or at least useful explanation of the creature is usually forthcoming (Halloween, Zombie flicks, etc.).
In other words, just the fact that the creature(s) is relentless and hard to kill, and is systematically exterminating people, and that's the entire plot, EVEN IF there are some scifi trappings, makes it a creature feature.

just IMHO.


however, having said that, I LOVED cloverfield and am looking forward to a sequel.

I took it as a straight monster movie, and was thrilled to see one even being made in the U.S.. Since Godzilla's "retirement" in 2004 there's been quite a few made elsewhere (Korea, Japan, etc) as if they're trying to fill the gap, so when this was announced, and Abrams said he was inspired by Godzilla, it was cool to see.

I enjoyed the movie a lot, and loved all the hidden things in it (like the object crashing into the ocean behind the characters in the final scene on Coney Island. The backstory that was hinted at, both in the movie and in the marketing, is ripe for a sequel.

said they didn't understand why it was made, etc. I personally found it very poignant, to tell the truth. Here are some 20-somethings about to step out into life, and bang, it's over. I LIKED the fact that it was filmed as if it all came from a camcorder. I LIKED the fact that it didn't follow Hollywood's (and fiction's) vaunted "story arc," and I LIKED the fact that I did not end up knowing everything about what happened. Like in some of Cormac McCarthy's books, the point of the movie was how the ppl handled the hand they were dealt, how they, to the end, hung on to their own humanity (or not) under harrowing circumstances. This beats most Hollywood crap to pieces.

A tad short, perhaps, and certainly not without some other flaws. But it was a fun movie. And I'm a sucker for any big monster movie. :)

than a movie with filler.

I've been kind of put off from seeing it because of all the shaky-camera warnings from all over the place.

I'm the guy who has to look away from the TV screen when they're showing basketball highlights because of all the shaky camera and crash zoom-ins followed by crash zoom-outs. I get all asco.

I think I'll brave it. Maybe on the computer screen instead of the 54 inch in the living room, though. Yes. That seems wise.

It will be much less assaulting on your senses for sure. :)

And sadly, I'm betting this will be as good as it gets.

I only saw it a few months ago and had been warned by a lot of people that it sucked but I really dug it. I thought the whole not showing everything bit really worked, it left me wanting more... in a good way... at the end. I would not mind a sequel at all.

The shaky cam thing was ok, but made lots of people hate the film/sick. My wife was mad as hell about it.

I liked the story, but the characters, especially the guy with the camera for most of the film, were completely unbelievable. That, and the incredible coincidences, like the girlfriend in the wrecked builing, but alive, and impaled on rebar, and oh hey, the monster comes back just as they are leaving. Cut off in the nick of time on the bridge. Then they get the evac helicopter thing, and sure enough, the monster shows up and knocks it out of the sky YET the protagonists survive the crash, etc.

Good story, interesting delivery, little bit too hokey.

(The video linked in the OP has got to be fanfic. Terrible sound effects, terrible 'quality'. The Cloverfield viral stuff was much better.)

The monster just pops into frame and it looks like a reject from a Might Morphin Power Rangers episode.

Are we about to be treated to a surprise guest appearance?

;)

Dangit, I avoided Cloverfield because of the love it/hate it disagreements. I might have to watch it after all. I hope that I can count on you folks' opinions! :hi:

It was a competent, well done monster movie. I think the complaints about the camera shaking are silly. But I didn't think the film was anything to write home about. Saw it once, have no desire to see it again.

Although I still haven't figured out that one line about Superman. Superman's from Krypton. Everybody knows that.

Made you dizzy. Why not use stable hidef and just pretend its a cam?

Knowing got such poor reviews - a movie in which the heroes all die can be very disturbing.

I really loved the sense of realism it had. It had everything a "giant-monster" movie fan would want. I really didn't mind the camera style like a bunch of my friends did. Several of them got sick and missed parts of it...wimps. :P It really had a disaster movie feel to it as well. I would be interested in seeing how the story might progress in a sequel.

I would have loved to see a Godzilla movie get this same kind of treatment. Toho is supposed to revive the series in 2014.