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Trailer for "10 Cloverfield Lane" (aka Cloverfield 2) airs before 13 Hours
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OricWindstar
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Haha, you know it's coming.
When it was over one guy in my theater said "that was one hell of a Godzilla movie."
Ah, close enough.
Represent.
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Holy fuck, what awesome news.
More studios should do this, just make the film and announce it after its done. FUCKING legit.
More studios should do this, just make the film and announce it after its done. FUCKING legit.
Fancy Clown
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Mmm yes please
Bobby Roberts
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People trapped underground slowly going insane and "becoming the monsters" while forgetting why they're even trying to survive in the first place, and then deciding they need to try something else (anything else) before they go mad and kill each other.
XANDER CAGE
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I feel like the marketing had more of that stuff in it than the actual film. There's not really much going on in the movie in terms of mystery - shit's just happening and the characters have to deal with it. That's not a bad thing by any means, but boy howdy it really felt like the film completely disappeared after its release. Maybe I've just been in the wrong places, but compared to say... I dunno, Blair Witch or some other cult open-ended movie, discussion pretty much died after it came out. There wasn't much to analyze - again, not a bad thing for a movie to do, but I definitely walked away feeling like there wasn't much payoff for all the initial sleight of hand.
You can do all of that without the ridiculous conceit of narcissistic special snowflakes running around with a camera believing their experience needs to be recorded for historical posterity.
Children of Men is a classic example of keeping the camera grounded and with the characters' POV in mind nearly the entire film. No need for found footage shaky cam.
Same. I remember it getting some hate around the internet for a while. I'm glad people see how good this movie is.
Abrams is having a good year.
how was Super 8?
It's a shame found footage got over saturated really quickly. Led to some interesting concepts and variations of old themes.
XANDER CAGE
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I really liked it, but I'm gonna admit, it's got a certain problem Star Wars TFA has but doubled that given it's kind of a homage.
ChosenPredator
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it's one of those movies that makes you want to do detective work, thats why i appreciate it.
I like what someone said, it does look like their in a bunker so it could be that the world is infested by infected humans/parasites.
Well there was that Super 8 teaser in Portal 2 and then JJ Abrams came up on stage with Gaben that one time.
It's all connected.
ultrazilla
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Both?
The only found footage movie I've ever liked was Europa Report because it had a sensible explanation for the footage existing. It didn't rely on people stupidly and constantly endangering themselves further by focusing on filming their life or death experiences. Makes complete sense for a huge space mission in the future to be littered with cameras recording everything.
Anyone who's trying to survive a giant monster attack and runs to get batteries and keeps stopping to do man on the street interviews with his friends to ask how they're coping with the deaths of other friends deserves to die themselves, way faster than this movie allowed. Put the fucking camera down!
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
It was too cheap to make them, so they got run into the ground quickly.
There was a good "use the nightvision camera mode to hide the shitty CGI" drinking game with found footage movies though.
illmatic22
Banned
OUTTA FUCKIN NOWHERE
CLOVERFIELD FANS REPRESENT
Releasing so close to BvS tho? Yikes...
CLOVERFIELD FANS REPRESENT
Releasing so close to BvS tho? Yikes...
Sweeney Tom
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it's been done for over a fucking year holy shit
Something tells me they went through hell and highwater to not call it Cloverfield in anything until they made this trailer.
From what I've seen of BvS this movie is quite safe...
ultrazilla
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They filmed it while filming Star Wars The Force Awakens. LMAO.
JJ is the master magician. Diversion. Interference. Slight of hand. Haha I love it!
Because JJ.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
That's a lot of time to work on post.
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Wow. How does an entire movie get made and no one finds out.
Plot twist: JJ Abrams is actually Stanley Kubrick pulling one of the most dedicated art performances commenting on Hollywood of all time.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
The monster sounds? I love them. It sounds sort of like a sad whale cry, which fits the idea that it's just a terrified deep sea creature, not some malicious nuclear demon dinosaur hellbent on destruction.
I never found the monster itself to be very scary, but it sure was a fascinating creature.
YASSS, Cloverqueen SLAYYYYYY TUMBLR ETC
Wow I enjoyed the fuck out of the original, I'd given up on a sequel ever happening, yet there it is. And its out in two months, wow.
Kevin Garnett was right, anything is possible.
Now do the right thing, unveil the whale monster.
AND MAKE NEW MYSPACE PAGES FOR THE CHARACTERS!
Sweeney Tom
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It's JJ Abrams.
If Quentin Tarantino tried this shit, he'd call a sequel Loving Nine or something, and immediately after writing the title someone would leak "Hateful Eight sequel in development" to everyone
JJ knows how to keep a secret
What did he mean by this?
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Saw the first in an empty theater with my mom, bro and sis. Great experience, bad movie.
Excited for this?: yes
Excited for this?: yes
Kwansu Dudes
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I'm the only one among my friends who's excited, ha. This is certainly surprising.
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