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Yup. When Rob & Beth are in the ferris wheel, he pans out to the ocean. We see a yacht in the distance. Just before he turns the camera back, we see an object (supposedly a satellite) falling from the sky. I heard the backstory is that the falling satellite is what caused the creature to awaken/be let loose in the first place.Andy Dufresne said:Weren't the final two scenes under the Central Park bridge and then the flashback to Coney Island???
Yup. When Rob & Beth are in the ferris wheel, he pans out to the ocean. We see a yacht in the distance. Just before he turns the camera back, we see an object (supposedly a satellite) falling from the sky. I heard the backstory is that the falling satellite is what caused the creature to awaken/be let loose in the first place.Andy Dufresne said:Weren't the final two scenes under the Central Park bridge and then the flashback to Coney Island???
I just returned the DVD...
Nothing really surprising happened at any point in the movie, and every moment was telegraphed well in advance.
Valid points with all of your criticisms, but they were not enough to detract from my overall enjoyment of the movie. I thoroughly enjoyed the 75-80 minute ride of the movie and really liked all of the characters (excluding the cameraman... he was just too much). I thought it was just a well done and fun movie from start to finish.With respect to the helicopter crash, their ability to walk/crawl away from it was just silly, but I was happy to see some sort of closure of the characters as they presented it.Just watched this today on DVD. I'm not going to bother with spoiler tags since it's been out for months now, and if anybody is reading 9 pages into this thread they obviously don't care about having it spoiled:
1. I hated the camera guy with a passion. His dialog was horrible and out of place. I'm not sure if they were going for comic relief or not. If so, that was a bad decision. Either way, this character was poorly-written.
2. The writing in general sucked and made the entire film entirely predictable. As soon as somebody says "Oh, it's just a bite," then you know its venomous or parasitic or something. When they say "Wait for us; we'll be on the next chopper," you know that's the last time they'll be seeing each other. "Turn on the night vision:" Gee, I wonder what we'll see now. Then you have horrible expository dialog like "Hey, the rats are all running the same direction, like they're running away from something." Oh, okay. Thanks. I didn't notice that on my ownNothing really surprising happened at any point in the movie, and every moment was telegraphed well in advance.
3. I know movies like this deserve some suspension of disbelief, but the idea that they all go back into the city just wasn't credible to me. Maybe other people bought it. Once they got to the apartment building and found it semi-destroyed, it's hard to believe that actually make their way through it, or that they would even choose to try.
4. Having said all that, I like the premise of doing a movie from the POV of some poor schmuck stuck in the middle of a Godzilla film. That was a nice twist on the genre.
5. The effects are excellent.
6. One last complaint: The movie should have ended with the helicopter crash. In fact, I thought that was the ending at first. Everything that happened after that felt tacked on for people who needed to have closure on all the characters. Blair Witch is a better film than Cloverfield for this reason, at least IMO.
Overall, it was worth a rental because of the idea behind the movie and the good sfx execution. It needed better writing and a less-meandering ending. Definitely an above-average horror flick, but that's it.
The story is still unfolding thru the viral marketing campaign. Follow it here:www.cloverfieldclues.blogspot.com/bostonfred said:I remember that the producers said that the monster was supposed to be a confused baby, randomly lashing out at everything in its path. That's pretty cool. But I don't really need a bigger badder monster to keep this interesting. We really only got a partial look at it the first time. I like the idea that there's room for growth - are there parents? What are those things crawling around on it? Where did it come from? What else can it do as an adult? What does it want? Can it be killed using conventional weapons? Nukes? Some type of chemical, biological, or other kind of weapon? Did it die at the end of the movie? What was the satellite? Did the main characters from the first movie die? What blew up at the end of the movie? Was it a nuke? It was left open enough to really give them a lot of room for the sequel. They can use some characters from the first movie, or none of them. They can show it from another group's camera angle, or from the military's perspective. It can be about the people again, or the monster. That's very cool.Andy Dufresne said:Apparently this monster was just a baby of the breed. If/when they make a sequel, expect a bigger, badder monster.bostonfred said:
They are working on something...not sure if we will see it in the next 2-3 years however.
I really did like it.
But you also liked Alien v Predator.
touchéBut you also liked Alien v Predator.
Really? They could tell it from the point of view of the army and how they're dealing with the whole situation. It would be ####### awesomePlus they could get rid of the handheld camera
Something about the hanheld camera that I liked. It made me feel like I was there. I didn't remember anything about the previews, so I had no idea there was some type of monster. I was trying to figure out what the hell was going on just like they were. Sure there were a couple of flaws but I didn't mindI guess they could do it from the military's point of view, but I don't think it would interest me as much. It wouldn't be different than any other sci fi movie then.scoobus said:
There are two camps..#1 The Splash you see at the end of the movie is the Creature arriving.#2 The Splash wakes up the creature which had been "sleeping".
I don't recall all the details now...but IIRC the belief was it was a mother and baby monster awakened by the Japanese company Tagruato who was searching the ocean floor for the magic ingredient they were using in the drink Slusho! from the story...the same Japanese company the main character in the movie was going to work for. The satellite was also related to Tagruato somehow...but it would not have been the monsters, since the mother at least was older than that.Tagruato discovered something deep on sonar, then had a rig destroyed by it...but tried to hide it. The baby found it's way to shore in NY.There are two camps..#1 The Splash you see at the end of the movie is the Creature arriving.#2 The Splash wakes up the creature which had been "sleeping".
Yeah I thought it was fantastic, but I also don't really care for the steady cam type filming. It was done well enough here and helped build suspense, but it's hard to watch for too long.
