Cloverfield

[King 277]

The link is down bud.

[Guest Nemesis Enforcer]

The link is down bud.

Cheers for letting me know will go look for another one and re link it

[Fidel Cashflow 130]

Yeah I saw the trailer for that in the theatre a few weeks back. Looks 100% pure class.

 

There are a few viral sites out there with clues hidden around. Looks brilliant.

[BRM 220]

Found this on AICN

 

I have seen the trailer for the monster movie coming from producer JJ Abrams on January 18, 2008. The trailer, which was dated last week and lasts 2 minutes and 16 seconds, will debut in front of Beowulf on November 16th, and it's supposed to be when the title is announced. The version of the trailer I saw had the title attached at the end, so unless this title card was a temporary placeholder for the real title, this movie is called... wait for it...

 

Cloverfield.

 

Yep, the name we heard from the start. This does make me think that maybe this trailer, marked as Trailer #1, V.17, with "Newest FX Shots", could change between now and the 16th, especially in regards to the name. We'll see. In the meantime, here's a rundown of what I saw in the trailer (based on the notes I took when I was shown a poor quality copy of the trailer. I was only allowed to watch it twice):

 

It opens with text:

 

Multiple sightings of case designate 'Cloverfield'

Camera retrieved at incident site 'U.S. 447'

(Area formerly known as Central Park)

 

Then we see the footage from the teaser trailer, mostly fast forwarded up to the end, with the explosion and the Statue of Liberty's head landing in the middle of the street. Then there's a guy speaking into the camera.

 

Guy: My name is Robert Hawkins. Approximately seven hours ago, someTHING attacked the city.

 

There are flashes of chaos. Much of the trailer is made up of split second moments, and when combined with the fact that it's extreme shaky cam style and that I was watching a terrible copy, it can be hard to make things out. There's a helicopter shot of the headless Statue of Liberty.

 

Guy again: I have no idea what it is. If you found this,if you're watching this thing, you know more about it than i do.

 

Then there's a shot of jets flying overhead, in daylight.

 

A title card reads 'From producer JJ Abrams'

 

There's more flashes of chaos, there's a guy on a cellphone trying to find out where 'Beth' is, and then there's a girl yelling, 'We cannot go in the middle of the city! we've got to get out of here!'

 

More chaos. More quick shots. I imagine this stuff will be picked apart when the trailer debuts online.

 

Over this is what seems to be a conversation between an Army guy and a girl.

 

Army dude: There's nothing we can do right now

 

Girl: do you know what that thing is?

 

Army dude: Whatever it is, it's winning.

 

More flashes. An argument:

 

Guy 1: We have no idea what's out there!

 

Guy 2: I don't care what's out there. Listen to me - she's dying

 

Then there's footage of army guys running and shadows on a wall. Shadows of a screaming woman being attacked by a small monster (possibly two - either she's being pulled away from the monster by someone behind her or there's another monster behind her). It's confirmed: the movie has a big beast and small ones. Like the American Godzilla.

 

People are hiding in a store, and there are huge thumps making everything shake. The windows of the store explode in.

 

The big sequence is next: Army guys running up a street, firing into the air. Tanks come up behind them, firing. Rockets launch up.

 

We see the big monster briefly passing between two buildings. I couldn't make it out at all, but it appeared to be HUGE.

 

Characters race down subway steps, there's a giant explosion, the cameraman is down, there's a figure in a tunnel, people are yelling 'Run!' and running through the tunnel.

 

Outside of Central Park, a horse drawn carriage goes by.

 

Guy: Are you still filming?

 

Cameraman: Yeah. People are going to want to know... how it all went down.

 

Shot of the Brooklyn Bridge. A helicopter taking off. Some chaos. Then inside the copter girls screaming as the copter spins out of control.

 

Cut to black, then the title comes up: Cloverfield.

 

Then the text: End of tape

 

Then the release date: 1-18-08

 

So the info I gleaned from this:

 

The title is Cloverfield.

 

There are smaller monsters.

 

This movie will quite probably make a lot of people motion sick.

[Guest Nemesis Enforcer]

Good find BRM :xyx

 

This is getting exciting now :D

[Guest Max]

Not trying to read any potential spoilers, but I remember hearing about this exact date which of course was revealed to be as a movie sometime earlier this year on one instance, and immediately afterwards, it was a mere thing of the past - in other words, this whole "hype" of a movie (considering that it was over one year beforehand) that I came across was completely forgotten by myself. Anyhoo, I hope this whole scenario of this sort of a movie with such a, considerably, interesting title really pays off into a memorable, highly-talked about film because at this certain point and time, I think it's safe to say that it's just there.

[Guest Oblong]

I'm really excited about this.

If there's one thing Abrams is great it, its leaving people in suspense, wanting to know more.

 

He's done it for 3 series (and more) with Lost, and he's got me hooked on this too... in just 2 minutes.

Bravo.

 

Can't wait for the release.

[BRM 220]

And the trailers been released now !!!!!

 

Y'know it could be called Cloverfield :)

 

Funky Cloverfield Trailer Clicky, Go on you know you want too.

[Guest Nemesis Enforcer]

I sooo want to see this movie even more after seeing that trailer!!

[DC 536]

Here is a link to some more footage. It features soldiers with guns and a fighter jet, which are two things that can automatically make a movie cool.

[DC 536]

And here, courteousy of those fantastic people at Empire, are various videos showing "news footage" of an oil rig being attacked (still no glimpse of the monster yet) in the ocean.

[Guest bigmatt]

This has got my interest especially after J.J Abrams' work with lost.These secretive promotions usually don't work out as well as this one so far.

[DC 536]

Release dates:

 

January 17th - Australia

January 18th - US

February 1st - UK

[DC 536]

Credit: Totalfilm.com

 

Cloverfield monster revealed

Huge spoiler alert!

08 Jan 2008 12:03pm

 

Yes, some bright spark has leaked a crystal clear image of the Cloverfield monster toy and, well, you can see it for yourself.

 

Normally, we'd stick the picture with the story, but in this case, it's too big a spoiler.

 

Head over to movieweb to see it but don't say we didn't warn you.

 

Oh, and head for our forums to tell us what you think.

I don't want to know until I'm watching the movie, but for those of a less patient disposition, here is a link to an image of a toy of the monster, which is the most anyone outside the FX department of the movie has seen.

 

 

 

***I'VE POSTED THIS LINK TO ALLOW THOSE WHO WANT TO SEE THE MONSTER TO DO SO. PLEASE, FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO GO IN COMPLETELY IGNORANT, DO NOT POST ANY PICTURES OR DESCRIPTIONS.***

Edited January 14, 2008 by DC

[Guest Anime Otaku]

Nice looking monster, not too far from what most will have been thinking of but is

 

anyone else reminded of a really big unarmoured Krogan (Wrex) from Mass Effect?

Thats what came to mind when I saw it, same bodyshape except the hands and very similar face.

[Guest Nemesis Enforcer]

Very good looking Monster, very impressed with it and can't wait for the movie to come into cinemas!

[BRM 220]

From AICN, sorry about the swearing, hopefully the filters will catch everything.

 

Does sound very very very very positive though.

 

Harry knows what CLOVERFIELD is!!!

 

Utterly Brilliant.

 

What is CLOVERFIELD?

 

For the past year or so, that’s been the question that everyone has been asking. Well… they also wanted to know: What was that trailer? What’s the name of this movie? Who are those actors? What is a SLUSHO? What does any of this mean?

 

Having seen the film, I can tell you – I have completely forgotten the marketing. I no longer care why the film is titled CLOVERFIELD, I don’t think it has a secret meaning – other than the fact that the movie that the marketing would lead you to, if it will… will knock your cinema-going mind into the floor of the theater.

 

CLOVERFIELD is a bold genre-reinvention unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.

 

The basic premise that we know is there. The film is found footage, not an assembled film. The footage is recovered in Central Park. From trailers and ads you know that it probably starts at a party, something happens, and we think there is a giant monster. You’re pretty sure there’s a giant monster attacking New York City… specifically Manhattan.

 

Well, I’ve just come home from watching CLOVERFIELD. The security on me and my wife for seeing this movie was un-frickin-believable. I suppose some would have the temptation to snap a pic of the monster and send it out online to end, forever, the “mystery” – but folks… there’s no mystery.

 

The movie is ****ing brilliant. It’s what we were told it was going to be. An intimate perspective on an impossibly grand scale human disaster beyond most human levels of comprehension.

 

 

What is the monster? How do you describe something that doesn’t look like anything you’ve ever seen before? It’s not a ****ing upright walking whale. It doesn’t look like any iteration of GODZILLA that we’ve ever seen. It is enormous. And even though I’ve seen it… I am hard-pressed to come up with a comparative creation. You know that big ****ing thing in THE MIST? It isn’t that. Is the creature a biped? I’m not sure, I think it might’ve been a four-legged beastie… it has a tail, it has teeth and freaky eyes like that horse that died in ANIMAL HOUSE. It’s kinda of a grayish-yellowish-off-white looking thing. But more important than the creature is what this ****er does. He basically goes bug-nuts.

 

The creature isn’t the groundbreaking thing about the film. It is, but it isn’t..

 

 

You see, what has me so excited about this film is that this is the giant monster movie that isn’t at all like any giant monster movie we’ve seen before… but is exactly that movie.

 

I guarantee you that as this movie takes place… all the **** that you’ve seen in Giant monster movies is happening. Somewhere a general is screaming about nuking New York…. Somewhere is a politician screaming that you can’t nuke New York. Another General wants to know why our weapons are not affecting this thing. A PRESIDENT wants to know where it came from – and several thousand journalist are trying to figure all that out too.

 

But this film isn’t about the scientist, the generals, the Presidents, the mayors or any of the big people. This time, the film is from the perspective of those people that live in those buildings that the monster is breaking through. This is about the people running in the street that scream, “GODZILLA!!!” and run. This is about trying to survive that insanity. Not just that, but to try and save one life.

 

Like SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, but instead of Nazis it’s a

giant monster.

 

 

This is a handheld camera movie – knowing this and knowing not to sit too close is probably a good thing… but having said that… you can’t sit far enough from the screen to feel safe. As many of you people know, I am in a wheelchair – and while watching movies, I have my brakes on. There was one moment, so unexpected and so intense that I went 3 ft back.

 

What about the characters?

 

You learn everything you need about them in the first 20 minutes. Rob is going to Japan to a new job. He has a brother Jason and a best friend Hud who gets strapped with filming testimonials at his surprise party – but Hud has the hots for Marlena and got talked into it by Jason – who was told to do it by Lily, who loves him. Oh – and they’re taping over a tape that Rob shot of the morning after he and Beth finally did it – after being friends forever. But now he has to go to Japan for his career and Beth shows up with some dick at his party because he didn’t know how to talk with her after they had sex.

 

It’s a fairly real situation that could happen to anyone. These are just regular good people in the rat race – and trying to have a good time. When the **** goes down.

 

I wasn’t expecting to like any of the characters. That changes… a lot.

 

My favorite character? Probably Hud… our cameraman. He’s not a professional photographer, though this “tape” tells an incredibly focused and direct story of epic sweep and filled with intimate reveals. But HUD is “the best friend”. But if I could compare him to any character actor, I’d say he’s like a reigned in Bill Paxton. He’s not going around screaming obscenities… but the **** that comes out of his mouth cracks me up.

 

The story of this film is actually beautiful though. When the world goes to ****, you instantly think about the person you love that you don’t know is OK or not. That’s this story. Beth left Rob’s party before the **** went down. They had a fight. When it all goes to hell – Rob and his friends are just trying to get off the island, when a call comes… Beth is somewhere… she can’t move, she’s bleeding and she needs help. And oddly… 911 is busy.

 

This group of friends sets off through the biggest sort of hell you can imagine to save Beth. Characters die. **** goes horribly horribly wrong – and it rules!

 

There’s no score, there’s no rules, there feels like there’s no script and no movie. It feels found, but it is so huge that you can’t ever really believe that… but handheld film just has never had a story of something this fantastical or huge happen. The movie is a landmark genre film. A true milestone in film.

 

It is all at once art, commercial and grotesquely gleefully gargantuan.

 

This frankly launches two giant film careers at once. As of this second, I will see and eagerly anticipate every film that J.J. Abrams produces. This sort of stepping back from a genre convention and reinvention is EXACTLY what needs to be done. It isn’t simply going, “Oh, I can make a better Godzilla movie,” but the audacity of saying I’m going to tell that story from one of the most loathed film approaches – the found footage – and simply make the most ****ing amazing found tape ever. It won’t just be what it is, but the characters and the story and the emotion and the scope and the journey that the tape takes us on. I can’t wait to see what’s next.

 

Then there’s Matt Reeves, I don’t know this guy. But I’ll tell you what. You’re gonna mark his name after this. He just came out with a film about as SUNDANCE as you could imagine. This is like an INDIE film – that you’d dream Spielberg would make. Remember the beard’s WAR OF THE WORLDS? Now just imagine that, but with the disarming nature of handheld photography. Where if the camera got dropped and suddenly you’re looking the other way… you don’t see the seams. There’s no backlot, this isn’t two blocks at a time… it’s ****ing Manhattan being torn to **** and they’re just smack dab in midtown and midtown has giant lice monsters and some monstrously huge creature… and then there’s the ****ing military… and they are on target, and buildings get hit, **** is going everywhere – and the man directing this apocalypse is Matt Reeves and the planning to just deliver what this spectacle is – is daunting. But sir, BRAVO!

 

Folks – CLOVERFIELD is worth the obsession, worth the months I’ve had to put up with fans wondering what the hell it was – worth having to deal with reporters asking me what it was – and I didn’t know either. This is a towering movie. A complete reinvention of the disaster movie, the giant monster movie and even the love story. I absolutely love this film and the only thought I had when it was over was how I wanted to watch it 5 more times today.

 

I want to see the details, I want to watch this film once I’m so familiar with it that I can appreciate the complexity of the frames and the shots. To try to pull the film apart – but I don’t think you’ll be able to. It is just that ****ing good! And the flaming hobos... holy **** man... flaming hobos, but not with shotguns!

 

Good Bad Robot, Good Bad Robot!!!

 

 

Edited January 14, 2008 by BRM

[DC 536]

Thank you BRM for posting that. After asking people not to post a description of the monster, you go and post an article that basically does that.

 

The section in the article where the guy tries to describe the monster by telling us what it's not. I don't want to know what it's not, because that gets me one step closer to what it is.

 

Can you (or a mod) at least go into the article and put spoiler tags around the "describing the monster" part?

 

I really want to go into this movie knowing as little as possible about the monster, and seeing stuff like that erodes that feeling.

[Guest Reno]

Thanks for that warning, DC. I was about to read that article, too. All I saw was...

 

 

"GODZILLA" in capital letters... now I really hope it's not :(

 

[DC 536]

I've read that the 'Star Trek' teaser trailer will run before Cloverfield (which makes sense, as they are directed by the same person).

 

Spoiler if you don't want to know what the trailer contains...

CHICAGO – HollywoodChicago.com on Tuesday had a trusted source post on our message boards a description of the upcoming teaser trailer for J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek”.

 

Following this post, various other movie sites (including IESB.net, /Film and TrekMovie.com) have confirmed the accuracy of this information with multiple sources along with a source at Paramount Pictures. Here’s our exclusive teaser trailer description. Warning: This is full spoiler information about the teaser trailer.

 

Here’s the “Star Trek” trailer description. Hope you can use it.

 

Slow Paramount logo.

 

Bad Robot logo.

 

Black, suddenly some sparks (very saturated [with] Michael Bay-looking cinematography).

 

We hear an old NASA radio countdown: “30 seconds and counting.”

 

Close up of a timeless guy with goggles leaning down doing some wielding and sparks flying around.

 

He lifts his googles. Slightly futuristic head covering. It’s not a space suit, by the way.

 

The dude leans down and wields some more. He’s standing on big metal.

 

“From director J.J. Abrams” (blue font with a nice lens flare).

 

Some Kennedy speech about space flight: “The eyes of the world now look to space.”

 

People walking around the saucer section. The wielders are everywhere – showing size.

 

We hear: “The eagle has landed.”

 

Huge overhead shot pans across [and] suddenly [shows] what looks like miles of scaffolding underneath.

 

Title: “The future begins”.

 

Really impressive shot from … people all over the ship and you can see a huge industrialized city or shipyard in the background. It’s being built on Earth [rather than] in space.

 

Neil Armstrong: “One small step for man…”

 

Camera slowly cranes up over the whole saucer section.

 

Then we hear Leonard Nimoy’s line: “Space. The final frontier…” and the familiar “Star Trek” theme horns.

 

The shot continues [and reveals] the writing on the top of the saucer – “U.S.S. Enterprise” – and these huge aircraft-like warp engines in the background. Technically, the first reveal of what we’re seeing.

 

Just the Starfleet logo (no title).

 

Title card: “Under construction”.

 

“Christmas 2008”

 

Overall, really great teaser (by the definition of the term). Very industrial. I’m most intrigued by the background Earth stuff.

Credit: http://www.hollywoodchigaco.com