Spine_Ripper
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First one was okay. I'm not gonna pretend this doesn't get me excited though. Any mainstream monster movie getting attention is good. Here's hoping it's actually...good.
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Trailer for "10 Cloverfield Lane" (aka Cloverfield 2) airs before 13 Hours
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Devilinthiscity
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I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned already, but the fist half of that trailer reminded me of the Desmond episode of LOST when he's in the hatch going through his daily routine while music is playing in the background.
Looks really interesting though! I don't know if this is a sequel, but if it is i'm glad they ditched the found footage format.
Looks really interesting though! I don't know if this is a sequel, but if it is i'm glad they ditched the found footage format.
Buttonbasher
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I don't think I will. I would have been interested to see this any way, but putting the Cloverfield name on it adds different aspects to my excitement.
I wasn't a big fan of the first movie but like you said this trailer makes it look like "the Lost hatch movie" which I could totally be into, still my favourite part of that show.
The Lone Courier
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Heh wonder if thats why their facebook page came back to life a few months back.
LyleLanley
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Bring it back!
immortal-joe
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John. Fucking. Goodman.
Yes please.
Yes please.
That was quick.
Chiggs
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The backlash should be pretty bad. People want more of that monster. If somehow this is related to the 1st (and I'm doubtful), perhaps Abrams was able to keep this a secret by shooting two different movies separately that are somehow related, then making it work in post-production.
Anyway, remember all the hype about the 1st Cloverfield really being a Cthulhu movie? None of that shit panned out. I think some folks are setting themselves up for disappointment with this one too.
That said, I'd love to be wrong.
YES.
That was the apocalyptic ARG that got tangled with the Cloverfield ARG!
And then the people doing it had to figure out how to let us know while still in character.
edit: though now that I look it up, it may not be so much of a coincidence that they got associated with Cloverfield, hrm
Yeah.
I remember when this was being passed around as the monster:
More_Badass
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Come on, the clues are all there. The loud rumbling, the IMAX release, Cloverfield in the title, the bait-and-switch reveal.
Why even keep it secret and reveal it like this, if it's just a regular sci-fi movie?
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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The only acceptable alternative to Cloverfield 2 is this being a stealth Voltron film.
I have checked for news on any of Dan Trachtenberg's potential directing projects now and then for years after the Totally Rad Show ended, had just done so a week or two ago when he was mentioned on the /FIlm podcast.
Not a Cloverfield fan but rooting for Dan here. Trailer looked interesting enough, though nothing shockingly fresh.
Not a Cloverfield fan but rooting for Dan here. Trailer looked interesting enough, though nothing shockingly fresh.
Hype and speculation helps to sell low key experimental products, and the best brand Abrams has for selling something like this, is Cloverfield.
Chiggs
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Just going off what I'm reading here:
www.slashfilm.com/10-cloverfield-lane-trailer-cloverfield-2/
Not saying it's completely out of the question...just that this might be going in a different direction?
Not left field.... Cloverfield.
Even if it's a great movie, this would ruin Abram's mystery box hype forever more.
The backlash would be unbelievable.
More_Badass
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A low key experimental movie without giant monsters doesn't really warrant an IMAX release. IMAX implies large-scale spectacle. And having Cloverfield in the title and then not having monsters would just be cruel
I was so into the background and mythos in the ARG, I was utterly deflated when bugger all of that was in the movie.
Yeah because the only thing IMAX is good for is giant monsters. Right. I think Abrams is trying something interesting with the marketing here, I'm just wondering if it'll land with fans if expectations and reality are substantially disconnected.
Chiggs
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He made a Portal movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4drucg1A6Xk
That, and people just know him from the old Totally Rad Show.
More_Badass
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No, but it's good for spectacle. A movie about a few people trapped in a bunker isn't actually a premise with a lot of space for the large-scale spectacle that makes a movie worth seeing on IMAX, i.e. sweeping space vistas or bombastic action.
But a movie with giant monsters?
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Awesome. Cloverfield in the theater was a great experience.
WordAssassin
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Can we really say something like "Cloverfield is the brand JJ uses to make these kinds of things" when there is exactly one movie with the Cloverfeild name to it, and it's a giant monster movie?
Yeah, I guess the only two types of films which exist in the world are those about a few people trapped in a bunker or those with giant monsters. Right. Damn you got me there.
Well, we can say that after March. If the brand still has any value.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Hype and speculation is a different thing from this. 99% of people who see this trailer will think it's either Cloverfield 2 or heavily Cloverfield related. And the only people who would care about the Cloverfield branding are those that loved the first, aka the people that would be really pissed if it wasn't. It'd be colossally stupid to do what you're suggesting. I'll gladly eat crow if I'm wrong about that.
I'm pretty sure his argument is that a movie about people trapped in a bunker would be an odd choice for an IMAX release. A movie about a few people trapped in a bunker that has a giant monster third act though? ACES FOR IMAX
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
Why the hell would the first fade in be "Cloverfield" singularly if it was bait and switch.
That makes absolutely no sense.
That makes absolutely no sense.
And it was released eight years ago.
The first 20 minutes of Oldboy?
I haven't gotten around to watching that yet. I'm thinking of an older scifi film where the person gets out and the world really is ruined. It's not THX 1138 of whatever.
Because it's not a bait and switch. It's a Cloverfield movie to the people making it. I feel the question is, do you think the people making it have the same definition of Cloverfield as the majority of fans anticipating this now?
Drew Goddard said he had nothing to do with the viral stuff.
I've always found the last paragraph interesting, as that's what the ARG pointed towards. I always kinda felt like the movie taken on its own didn't really lead in the ARG's direction.
Chiggs
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Well, we know the script to The Cellar, which was what the movie Valencia was based on, got heavily rewritten, so maybe that's Abram's angle here?
Still think it's going in a different direction, though.
The Lone Courier
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What if its a lion and its huge.
More_Badass
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That's not what I'm saying
The Revenant
Civil War
BvS
Interstellar
Gravity
Godzilla
Pacific Rim
Warcraft
Prometheus
Cloud Atlas
Life of Pi
and so on
All those movies are cinema spectacles. Big action, or sweeping vistas and landscapes, or amazing vibrant effects
Those are the kinds of movies that appear on IMAX. The fact that this seemingly unassuming movie about people in a bunker is getting an IMAX release implies that it's more than just that, simply because it would have scenes and scale that would look good on IMAX
The different fonts all cobbled together are really bothering me design-wise.
Edit: I've watched the offscreen version so many times the actual colors of the movie looks way too bright to me haha
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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L for lions.
And I still can't make out what Goodman's second line of dialogue is, so I'm assume it's also lion related.
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