JJ Abrams' "Cloverfield" (working title) first 5 minutes preview

[GazeboflossUK]

J.J Abrams project "Cloverfield" has first 5 minutes preview....

 

http://www.cloverfieldmovie.com/widget.html

 

 

......Something has found us.

 

Film info here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/

[RunForTheHills]

I havnt been caught up in all the hype surrounding it, but it does look intruiging.

[TraceOddity]

WHOA!!! I hadn't heard of this, but IT LOOKS GOOOOOOOD! Is it slated for a general theatrical release?

[GazeboflossUK]

Yeah, 18th Jan 2008 I think.

 

1st February 2008 in the UK

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverfield

[TraceOddity]

Thanks. Looking forward to it.:)

 

Completely off-topic, but I just (finally) watched V for Vendetta...WOW! *shivers*

[Black Rose]

It looks interesting, although from the trailer shown at the cinema doesn't look like anything new.

[yellowwasapieceofshit]

dis iis da film mayt3 liik3 s0 g00d

[Matter-Eater Lad]

It was fucking amazing, I saw it before it came out at a pre showing.

 

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm really pissed they didnt say what the creature was.

[Guest LiquidSky]

Maybe I expected too much. It was allright. I was expecting to see MORE!!! But hopefully next one will be even better! :D

[Black Rose]

 

 

Plot

During a leaving party for Rob (Stahl-David) something attacks New York and stands between him and the woman he loves (Yustman). So begins a race to rescue the girl and avoid getting eaten, all viewed via camcorder.

 

Verdict

 

A dazzling experiment that paid off immensely, this is cinematic pleasure at its purest. One caveat: If they ever make a sequel, we’re taking two stars back.

 

 

Reviewer: Olly Richards

 

 

Good that worked :)

 

If you took the plot as for what it is, then it doesn't really sound interesting, sounds a bit war of the worlds, but the trick is that it's recorded via camcorder.

[Black Rose]

Got my tickets to see it tomorrow :)

[Jenjie]

Cloverfield - Times Review

 

On Monday I thought Cloverfield was a brand of butter, or a mock-Tudor retirement home in South Wales. The film is actually an old-fashioned monster movie that has been retuned into an unexpected - sometimes unwatchable - sensation. Cloverfield is a reality-TV chiller, written by Drew Goddard, who cut his teeth on Buffy, Alias and Lost, about the most ferocious monster attack on New York since King Kong slipped his chains in 1933. It is also the first horror film that has given me motion sickness.

 

An hour in I started to sweat. I couldn't look at the grim stroboscopic lighting effects in the final reel, and I nearly threw up trying to make sense of the increasingly chaotic and frightening scenes of the gripping climax. On a giant cinema screen like that of the Empire in Leicester Square the discomfort is rude and disorientating.

 

Matt Reeves's apocalyptic thriller is a genuine scare. The film begins with a stuttering romance between a young city hunk (Michael Stahl-David), and his shapely squeeze (Odette Yustman). It then plummets into an appalling piece of chaos when an earthquake buries plans for sex in heaps of dust and rubble.

 

The real stroke of genius is the visceral sense of increasing panic. There is no warning of just how demonic this flesh-eating monster actually is when it is glimpsed by drunks from the balcony of the hero's flat.

 

The film is recorded like a diary piece on Stahl-David's camcorder. The luckless cameraman is a fabulously useless jock called Hud (T.J. Miller). It is Hud's precarious forefinger on the “record” button that makes the footage of this film such a stop-and-start marvel.

 

The horror begins with tremors in central Manhattan. The expensive and jaw-dropping stunts that are carved into this cheap camera are extraordinary. This is horror unplugged. A monster is trashing New York - God knows why - but it's one of those films where you feel obliged to suspend every ounce of disbelief.

 

The devastation looks like a fireworks display. Skyscrapers and bridges are shredded. The torpedo might of the US Air Force merely eggs the monster on. The severed head of the Statue of Liberty is tossed down the street. The young heroes seek refuge in underground stations crawling with spidery, flesh-eating aliens. This is almost a biblical interpretation of 9/11.

 

The panic is exquisite. The unnerving novelty about Cloverfield is the quality of shock. Fantastic.

 

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article3277480.ece

[Mimixxx]

It's making people sick, they're getting motion sickness because of the way it's shot.

[Black Rose]

Getting motion sickeness was the least of my worries today, keeping warm in a cinema screen where the heating was broken was a bigger issue.

 

Good ending though, although I can see how they could make a part 2 if they wanted to.