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Otter

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"Cloverfield" - Includes dirty rotten SPOILERS
« on: Sunday 5 August 2007, 07:46:29 PM »
The new film due out in January from Lost creator JJ Abrams. The film hasnt got a proper title yet but one of the coolest teasers i've seen in ages.

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Trailer One:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/hd/

Trailer Two:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cTPLVkEWic&amp;watch_response" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cTPLVkEWic&amp;watch_response</a>


Written by: Drew Goddard
Directed by: Matt Reeves
Produced by: J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burke
AKA: 1-18-08 / Monstrous (promotional titles)
« Last Edit: Monday 4 February 2008, 12:03:34 PM by Dave »
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Happy Face

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 5 August 2007, 07:48:30 PM »
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Otter

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 5 August 2007, 07:50:49 PM »
 :-[

Ah well, still looks intriguing.
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Happy Face

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 5 August 2007, 07:51:58 PM »
Indeed.

But has JJ Abrams ever done anything good?
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The Bonk

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 5 August 2007, 07:52:31 PM »
:lol:  BooBoo, you're defeated?
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Otter

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 5 August 2007, 07:53:34 PM »
Mission Impossible 3?  :cheesy:

I went to see that film a a year ago and the only things i remember is Tom Cruise and the theme music. Hardly a great way for Abrams to make his big screen entrance.
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Rob W

Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #6 on: Monday 6 August 2007, 06:39:29 PM »
surely it should be 18-01-08???
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Optomystyc Knight

Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #7 on: Monday 6 August 2007, 06:47:26 PM »
Abrams is a yank
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Rob W

Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 7 August 2007, 07:29:25 AM »
no!!
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Andy

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 12 August 2007, 10:50:33 PM »
Quote from: Happy Face on Sunday  5 August 2007, 07:51:58 PM
But has JJ Abrams ever done anything good?

Arbams' involvement is limited at best. The movie is written by Drew Goddard, thus its script can be categorized as insanely awesome with brutal dialogue and madcap twists, long before it even screens.
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Decky

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 12 August 2007, 10:51:47 PM »
Whats the point in us not knowing the name of the film, wont they have to give out the name before its release anyway for trailers and screening information etc?
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Andy

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 12 August 2007, 11:21:30 PM »
They mightn't have a name yet. Afterall, it's still a long way away.
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22bnw

Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #12 on: Monday 13 August 2007, 12:04:11 AM »
Can't wait looks like my kinda thing
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Sparks

Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #13 on: Monday 13 August 2007, 12:53:46 PM »
Could have been slightly more original than setting it in New York.... again.
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Nobody

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #14 on: Monday 13 August 2007, 01:05:02 PM »
Probably the best trailer I've ever seen. You really want to see the movie after that.
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Andy

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #15 on: Monday 13 August 2007, 01:25:23 PM »
Quote from: BooBoo on Sunday  5 August 2007, 07:53:34 PM
Mission Impossible 3?  :cheesy:

I went to see that film a a year ago and the only things i remember is Tom Cruise and the theme music. Hardly a great way for Abrams to make his big screen entrance.

True enough; though again, he didn't script the movie.

There's actually quite a lot of criticism of Abrams on UK based messageboards and suchlike. It's strange, because in America he's typically considered to be one of the most creative writers/directors going. And whilst I must admit that his writing is sometimes iffy (stress: sometimes) and certainly not always to everyone's tastes, directorially the praise is more than merited. You only have to watch the few episodes of Alias that he directed and the LOST pilot to see that.
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Dave

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #16 on: Monday 13 August 2007, 01:26:34 PM »
There are only twelve months, stupid Americans.
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Andy

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #17 on: Saturday 3 November 2007, 06:12:18 PM »
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"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."
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Andy

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #18 on: Friday 16 November 2007, 11:07:08 AM »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBb0JHJRK8k" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBb0JHJRK8k</a>
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Andy

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #19 on: Friday 16 November 2007, 11:54:49 AM »
Looks SO good. Glad to see they've apparently gone with a real Godzilla-esque monster as opposed to some kind of robotic thing as first hinted. Smaller dinosaur-like things in there too, apparently. Whole thing just looks f***ing chaotic.

Interested to see how Drew Goddard does with his first movie screenplay. Such a good TV writer, so my expectations of this are high.
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Parky

Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #20 on: Friday 16 November 2007, 11:55:42 AM »
It's going to be a load of old s*** I reckon.
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Andy

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #21 on: Friday 16 November 2007, 11:57:42 AM »
Could go either way.

Abrams' involvement is relatively minimalistic, so I'm happy.
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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #22 on: Friday 16 November 2007, 12:01:02 PM »
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I think it's manbearpig
:lol:
Looks great though
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Andy

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #23 on: Friday 16 November 2007, 12:03:46 PM »
Also, it's directed by Matt Reeves, whose work I remember being impressed by way back when he worked on Felicity. First I've heard of him since then like.
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Dave

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Re: 1-18-08
« Reply #24 on: Friday 16 November 2007, 12:04:43 PM »
Is this the clip posted in the Youtube thread? I like the style.
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