Cloverfield

[HaemishM]

They're just lucky they kept the budget down and made everything they needed in the first weekend, because it dropped almost 70% in the second.  Word of mouth shot this movie dead.

Since they almost doubled their budget opening weekend, I'm sure they are crying great big crocodile tears at their second weekend.

[Paelos]

They're just lucky they kept the budget down and made everything they needed in the first weekend, because it dropped almost 70% in the second.  Word of mouth shot this movie dead.

Since they almost doubled their budget opening weekend, I'm sure they are crying great big crocodile tears at their second weekend.

And the sequal will have all the acclaim of Blair Witch 2.

[HaemishM]

Well, it can't be a worse movie than the Blair Witch 2. At least it's likely to have ZOMGBOOMCRUSHRAAARRGGG!

[Nerf]

I wouldn't mind if the sequel was your standard huge monster destroying major city, complete with the president getting cold feet on pushing the big red button, as long as it involves things getting killed.

Hell, run it parralel to this storyline, but with more "oh shit the world is doomed" and less shaky cam nonsense.

[Phildo]

No, no, no.  The sequel is going to be about Rob and whatsherface after they survived the firebombing of Manhattan.  They're going to wake up in the rubble and run into Will Smith who is at that very moment fighting off hordes of vampire-zombie-robots being controlled by the aliens who sent the original Cloverfield monster as an advance force to soften us up.  Cameos will include Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell and Jason Mewes.

[schild]

I would watch that.

[Velorath]

They're just lucky they kept the budget down and made everything they needed in the first weekend, because it dropped almost 70% in the second.  Word of mouth shot this movie dead.

Since they almost doubled their budget opening weekend, I'm sure they are crying great big crocodile tears at their second weekend.

Much like with Assassin's Creed, the lion's share of the money Cloverfield brought in should be given to the people who came up with the marketing campaign.  That movie wouldn't have done shit at the box office without it.

[Abagadro]

Part of the big 2nd week-end drop can be attributable to lots of people seeing it the previous Monday which was a holiday.

[Ironwood]

I would fucking Be There.

 

[DraconianOne]

Much like with Assassin's Creed, the lion's share of the money Cloverfield brought in should be given to the people who came up with the marketing campaign.  That movie wouldn't have done shit at the box office without it.

Maybe, maybe not.  It was quite a low budget marketing campaign and mainly spread through word of mouth.  What was it?  A couple of trailers and a load of websites?  That's hardly going to be expensive. 

Blair Witch was a box office success and made the directors millions through a fantastic marketing campaign as well.  This was mostly done by publicity stunts such as buying all the tickets at the midnight showing they had at Sundance and paying people to queue for it which meant that people thought it was a fantastic film as well as getting "word of mouth" promotion over the internet (even to the point of getting IMDB to erroneously report that the 3 actors were all deceased, propogating the myth of reality about the film.)  The total cost to Lions Gate was minimal but the revenue generated is stuff of legend.

[sidereal]

I desperately hope they're smart enough to drop the Blair Witch schtick for the sequel and film it more traditionally.  I wouldn't mind a little Aliens 2 remake-slash-Halo with some super Marine squad going in to clean it out.  "Game over, man!  Game over!"

It's not that I didn't like the shakycam.  It was a cool twist and the difficulty of conveying a real plot through a single lens that is also a character is not to be underestimated.  But I don't need 3 or 4 hours of it.

[Velorath]

Much like with Assassin's Creed, the lion's share of the money Cloverfield brought in should be given to the people who came up with the marketing campaign.  That movie wouldn't have done shit at the box office without it.

Maybe, maybe not.  It was quite a low budget marketing campaign and mainly spread through word of mouth.  What was it?  A couple of trailers and a load of websites?  That's hardly going to be expensive. 

I never said it was an expensive marketing campaign, I said it was an effective one.  The first trailer (you know, the one they attached to Transformers, a movie which did about $320 million at the box office in the U.S.) got people interested in this movie before we even knew what its name was.

[DraconianOne]

I never said it was an expensive marketing campaign, I said it was an effective one.  The first trailer (you know, the one they attached to Transformers, a movie which did about $320 million at the box office in the U.S.) got people interested in this movie before we even knew what its name was.

Somehow I managed to read "would" for "should" in your original statement.  In which case, yes, the marketing people should get their dues for the campaign. 

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more.

caffiene.

[WindupAtheist]

Moviegoer A: "So I saw Cloverfield over the weekend."
Moviegoer B: "Yeah, so what's the monster look like?"
Moviegoer A: "I don't really know, they never really show it clearly."
Moviegoer B: "So do they kill it in the end?"
Moviegoer A: "I think, maybe.  I don't know."
Moviegoer B: "Do the good guys survive?"
Moviegoer A: "Maybe.  I'm not sure."
Moviegoer B: "This sounds like bullshit.  I'm not seeing it."
Studio Beancounter: "Who gives a shit?  We made our money!  Small budget FTW!"

[Surlyboi]

For those of you that haven't seen the monster...

There ya go. Just before it tears the East Village a new asshole.

[HaemishM]

Moviegoer B: "Yeah, so what's the monster look like?"
Moviegoer A: "I don't really know, they never really show it clearly."

Moviegoer A is a fucking liar who did not see the movie. There are several good, clear shots of the monster. It just doesn't look like other movie monsters, or have an easy allegory to real life animal like a giant lizard or ape or anything. It walked like a praying mantis with a lizard-like tail, gray skin and insect-like mandibles and eyes.

[Xanthippe]

Pretty close to Godzilla only smoother.

[sidereal]

Trilaterally symmetrical below the waist.  The scene in the park where he eats the cameraman (OMG SPOILER) is as clear a shot of above the waist as anyone would ever want of anything.  People who say you can't ever see it probably left halfway through because they had to throw up in the lobby.

[DraconianOne]

Saw it tonight finally.  Thought it was pretty good.

Shame I'd read some stuff on this thread before going in as it spoiled the best bits.

[Morfiend]

Ok, so some thing has been bothering me for a while about this, what the fuck happened to the tentacles? In the beginning all you see of the monster are tentacles, yet once you start getting more and more full body shots, no tentacles. Its really pissing me off.

[Surlyboi]

Only tentacle I remember was the tail.

[Evil Elvis]

It has long, gangly arms that might look like tentacles in brief clips.  I'll see if I can find the model image of it....


Edit: here it is
http://www.hasbrotoyshop.com/ProductsByBrand.htm?BR=863&ID=21030

[Morfiend]

Spoilers  - At this point dont complain.

Yeah, I saw the toy and I saw the movie, in the beginning there is tentacles I was positive, one smashed the bridge and killed the brother.

[Mazakiel]

That's what I'd thought I'd seen too, but everyone I've talked to attributes it to being the monster's tail, so...who knows.  A tentacle was still my first thought, and thinking back, it didn't look anything like a tail. 

[Surlyboi]

That was the tail.

[Falconeer]

Liked the movie a lot.

Disliked the monster itself.

Hated the zerglings (fucking fillers!). They subtracted 15% by my global appreciation of Cloverfield.

[Falconeer]

Are there _any_other good lovecraft films?

http://www.digitaldesk.it/roadtol/

[Morfiend]

That was the tail.

Except if you look at the hasbro toy, the tail is WAY to short and doesnt look anything like the tentacle in the movie. Ill see if google can get me a better image of the tail.

[Tannhauser]

Well grats for an original idea, even if I didn't see the movie.  As an early champion of sequels now I gotta say "PLEASE FUCKING STOP".

[Xuri]

*120-day bump!*

So, I've had this film lying around on DVD for months without seeing it. I never saw it in theatres, I never saw any trailers of it, I never read any reviews.

Just finished watching it now, and I liked it a lot, it was wonderful! It was great! Well, pretty good, at least. Wasn't bad by any means. There were parts that weren't that good, though. I guess I could've liked it a lot better. In fact, I didn't really like it, it was pretty terrible. It was bad. Awful. Terrible! Bah, boo!

(No, really, I liked it)

[slog]

No, no, no.  The sequel is going to be about Rob and whatsherface after they survived the firebombing of Manhattan.  They're going to wake up in the rubble and run into Will Smith who is at that very moment fighting off hordes of vampire-zombie-robots being controlled by the aliens who sent the original Cloverfield monster as an advance force to soften us up.  Cameos will include Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell and Jason Mewes.

Isn't Owen Wilson dead?

[FatuousTwat]

I think he tried to kill himself... Or something like that.

Also, mods move this to the movie section? Might not be worth the bother.

[apocrypha]

I only watched this recently too, really liked it. Girlfriend can't watch more than 20 mins of it before getting motion sickness :/

[Ozzu]

I only watched this recently too, really liked it. Girlfriend can't watch more than 20 mins of it before getting motion sickness :/

I had the same issue in the theater. I spent a lot of time staring at the ceiling trying to stay un-sick. I liked the movie though and staring at the ceiling doesn't cause you to miss as much as you'd think.

[FatuousTwat]

I've never had the motion sickness. I read all the time in cars, trains, whatever.

Only time I've been sick in a car was in an old beetle, the heater was broken, I had just eaten for the first time in over a day, and I had just gotten out of an ear operation. Of course, the windows were hard as fuck to roll down, so it was on the floorboards.