Mildly interested. Only because I have very little to do right now.
Quote from: Sir Slash on March 07, 2016, 03:28:16 PM
Mildly interested. Only because I have very little to do right now.
That's basically how I feel about it.
I'll catch it on Netflix or Amazon Prime down the road.
I never bothered to watch Cloverfield. The characters seemed like a bunch of hipster douchebags and that shaky cam thing was at least as off-putting as the characters.
Looks like this one will it least be filmed in a conventional manner.
^I liked it because the hipster douches got smashed into small hipster bits.
I would enjoy watching that.
It would be my luck to be stuck in an underground bunker for eternity with Roseanne's husband. And no game to play but Life. :-[
You both would probably like the original Cloverfield if you root for the monster(s) like I did. Very satisfying.
Quote from: Gusington on March 07, 2016, 10:17:12 PM
You both would probably like the original Cloverfield if you root for the monster(s) like I did. Very satisfying.
I liked it once my vertigo calmed down. If the new one is nothing more than a bunker pressure cooker, then I'll pass.
I'm willing to share a bunker with Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Quote from: mirth on March 07, 2016, 10:23:41 PM
I'm willing to share a bunker with Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
So long as she waxes her upper lip! O0
Sure. Whatever.
Quote from: Gusington on March 07, 2016, 10:17:12 PM
You both would probably like the original Cloverfield if you root for the monster(s) like I did. Very satisfying.
Yep, I dug it. And it was easy to root for the monster when all of the characters were obnoxious dicks.
Success! Down with bearded hipster doofuses!!
Quote from: Gusington on March 08, 2016, 11:47:08 AM
Success! Down with bearded hipster doofuses!!
So you don't like Mary Elizabeth Winstead either?
Is it tied in to the monster movie?
^Yes.
Not sure about Mary. Physically I see nothing not to like.
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Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on March 08, 2016, 12:22:46 PM
Quote from: Gusington on March 08, 2016, 11:47:08 AM
Success! Down with bearded hipster doofuses!!
So you don't like Mary Elizabeth Winstead either?
I've actually seen her major movies:
Sky High - great job!
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - Excellent!
Live Free or Die Hard - awesome movie. No idea what she did in the movie - but it was an awesome movie.
We own all three of these.
She got to be McClane's daughter Lucy, with all that that implies. She was a hoot. I thoroughly enjoyed that movie.
Also enjoyed Cloverfield, but the cutesy misleading title makes me want to ignore Abrams and whatever his new mystery box is. :P
I dig MEW's big .... .... brown doe eyes. :smitten:
I thought people were overly critical of The Thing remake, with her in the lead. Of all the recent movie remakes, that was one of the rare few that still managed to keep the feel of the previous movie. Sure, nobody can replace an awesomely bearded Kurt Russell but she didn't do bad as the lead.
As for the movie, I would like to see it in the theater. Not sure if that's gonna happen but perhaps. I'll probably be disappointed if the end doesn't feature some kind of Lovecraftian monster reveal. But people are saying the movie is very Hitchcock-like and the mystery building is great. Also: John Goodman.
Fat or not I love John Goodman as well. I am just thankful he's still actually alive!
Just watched Revenge Of the Nerds the other day for the first time in 30 years. I had forgotten John Goodman was the coach of the Alpha Betas.
He's young and relatively svelte in that too.
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I totally forgot about that
IIRC, Goodman was actually a male model when he was in his 20's.
Saw the film today mainly as a way to avoid retarded drunken Brits during Songkran in Bangkok. It wasn't very good. The first two thirds are all shot in a bunker and the ingredients were there to make it interesting (is Goodman's character crazy? Is he correct? Will MEW's character end up damning them all?) but the director mishandled it and it cones off as strictly by the numbers. The last third was kind of a slasher flick chase sequence and didn't manage to induce any tension. No real tie-in to the original movie apart from the same sound. I'm not sure if the stories are supposed to take place in the same universe or not.
First film was so much better..not that there was any link between the two films except the word Cloverfield. It was OK if nothing else is on and you had time to kill.
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on April 13, 2016, 04:16:17 AM
No real tie-in to the original movie apart from the same sound. I'm not sure if the stories are supposed to take place in the same universe or not.
Boo!
That's unfortunate.
There are links between the two films, but those links can only be found on social media; occasionally only by solving puzzles.
John Goodman's character lost his job predicting [spoilers], correctly as it happens. He was working for a conglomerate company whose drilling awakened the Cloverfield monster, which was an infant form of [spoilers].
There is no way however to connect those plots only by watching the movies. The tie-ins are purely meant to be a reward for fan support.
(There are somewhat more dubious connections to the Abrams films Super 8 and Cabin In The Woods, too, although CITW would seem to have a plot antithetical to a shared universe.)
Quote from: Gusington on March 07, 2016, 08:55:14 PM
^I liked it because the hipster douches got smashed into small hipster bits.
You're getting old Gus.... sounding grumpy.... go motorboat the wife... or something
That's part of the damned problem. Get off my lawn.
Jason what explains the space ship thingymajig then near the end?
Alien invasion. The precise nature of the aliens hasn't been established, but the conglomerate was drilling for something that turned out to be alien yolk or similar fluid, and awoke the Cloverfield monster in the ocean by doing so. This also triggered the invasion.
Specifically the conglomerate was drilling for Seabed Nectar, a substance they discovered while harvesting seaweed for their Slusho chilled drink. The main character in
Cloverfield was about to move to Japan, coincidentally, to work for Slusho. One researcher working on the rig discovered not only the monster but something so bad that he murder-suicided himself and his family -- in hindsight this was the coming alien invasion. (The Cloverfield monster destroys the rig soon afterward, in an interesting bit of sfx that fans can find online.) John Goodman's character ran across similar evidence, and also went somewhat crazy, wanting to protect his wife and daughter from it and losing them in the process (they were still alive at the start of the movie, just living in Chicago with a restraining order against him.)
A movie should be self contained. If you need to go to additional sources to understand what was presented on screen, then the film is a failure of storytelling.
Anyway, there's really no mystery to 10 Cloverfield. Guy brings a woman in to share his home, she trashes everything he values, destroys his friendship with his buddies, and then ruins his life. How is this a surprise to anyone?
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on April 25, 2016, 09:46:10 PM
A movie should be self contained. If you need to go to additional sources to understand what was presented on screen, then the film is a failure of storytelling.
Tend to agree. Not a big fan of the only-hardcore-fans-will-ever-be-able-to-get-it mode of filmmaking; just providing the info so far as I stumbled across it one day while doing something else. ;)
I finally watched 10 Cloverfield Lane yesterday. It was good not great. Goodman's performance was excellent. He's become one of my favorite current actors.
I liked how it went from horror to an action flick at the end. Mary Elizabeth Winstead made a solid action heroine and I kept thinking how her pop, John McClane, would be proud.
I'd be much more interested in seeing the second chapter of her story that starts as the movie ends.
Haven't seen it yet but it's on my short list and that mostly because of Goodman. Seriously, that guy steals every scene he's in. Go back and watch Red State if you haven't seen it already. Goodman makes an average thriller well worth watching all by himself.
I enjoyed 10 Cloverfield Lane more than the original Cloverfield, but the original did not annoy me as much as it annoyed others.
Quote from: Gusington on March 13, 2017, 09:01:15 AM
I enjoyed 10 Cloverfield Lane more than the original Cloverfield, but the original did not annoy me as much as it annoyed others.
Hipster doofus.
You know my go to line for that.
Quote from: Gusington on March 13, 2017, 12:47:55 PM
You know my go to line for that.
Something about my dead mother?
Nothing about her. Just a reference. Don't force my hand!
^ :-" :DD
Your collective moms.
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Quote from: Gusington on March 13, 2017, 12:56:10 PM
Don't force my hand!
I never had to before.
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Quote from: mirth on March 13, 2017, 12:59:56 PM
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Don't force my hand!
I never had to before.
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