Cloverfield Series

[The Lobo]

Anyone watch the new one on Netflix yet? I am a huge fan of the series and the whole story outside the movies. For those of you who don’t know google that poo. Clover field ARG (alternate reality game) is a bunch of websites with clues, codes to decipher, hidden secrets in the movies and other plot points not mentioned in the story. Each movie is connected, yet somewhat not connected. Great story telling in and out of the movie. The fact that the releases are so secretive and sudden make these movies more fun. Rumor is, a fourth cloverfield movie will be released this summer and it centers around WW2 and allied forces fighting nazi experiments...awesome.

another fun fact: the last two were passed up scripts that JJ Abrams company picked up and turned them into cloverfield movies. 

Anyway, let me know what you all though.

[GRWatcher]

https://observationdeck.kinja.com/ignore-the-cloverfield-part-of-the-cloverfield-paradox-1822718194

I didn't like either of the first movies. Will definitely never watch the first one again. I thought the web games were cool until I watched the movie. Think I'll skip this one.

[The Lobo]

27 minutes ago, GRWatcher said:

https://observationdeck.kinja.com/ignore-the-cloverfield-part-of-the-cloverfield-paradox-1822718194

I didn't like either of the first movies. Will definitely never watch the first one again. I thought the web games were cool until I watched the movie. Think I'll skip this one.

That’s fair, but please don’t listen to the article. This movie is what connects the movies. I will admit, the second one really had nothing to do with the first, other than the fact that John Goodman’s character worked for a company mentioned in cloverfield 1. This movie deals with alternate realities and rips in space time. The monster at the end had everything to do with the other movies and shows that what happened in this movie, led to the events in the first two. Anyway, if you are bored one day, it’s worth a watch.

[chknwing]

I watched, wasnt that great.  you get the sense that you've seen it already. feels like a mashup of other space horror movies

[Johnny Rockets]

I saw the first 2 and was excited to hear that this was out on Netflix after the SB. Was going to watch it last night until I read everywhere how horrible it was. I couldn't find one positive thing that was said. Basically said Netflix bought it dirt cheap because no movie distributor wanted to touch it. 

[Jeremy Igo]

I watched. 

 

Average made for TV movie with above average special effects. 

[The Lobo]

I guess I was more excited than most haha. Maybe the story of the combined movies and ARG has me hooked. Hopefully, the one this summer will be better.

[CarolinaCoolin]

Don’t listen to critics who have had a bone to pick with 1) Netflix movies in general as i believe there is a concerted effort to blast movies like this and Bright to kill Netflix hope into feature films. And 2) because the release of this movie was so direct and fast critics didn’t get there special treatment where they got to watch it first. 

 

The critics against this movie have never been more meaningless because people don’t have to read the reviews they can just watch it for themselves.

 

ive loved every single cloverfield movie. The first one is in my top 5 all time. 

[Goondal]

35 minutes ago, CarolinaCoolin said:

Don’t listen to critics who have had a bone to pick with 1) Netflix movies in general as i believe there is a concerted effort to blast movies like this and Bright to kill Netflix hope into feature films. And 2) because the release of this movie was so direct and fast critics didn’t get there special treatment where they got to watch it first. 

 

The critics against this movie have never been more meaningless because people don’t have to read the reviews they can just watch it for themselves.

 

ive loved every single cloverfield movie. The first one is in my top 5 all time. 

ha, it is in my bottom three.  It did have a great trailer though.

[CarolinaCoolin]

Just now, Goondal said:

ha, it is in my bottom three.  It did have a great trailer though.

I loved it. The experience and the mystery of that whole movie left me in aw. 

 

Just curious, how old were you when you saw it?

[Goondal]

1 minute ago, CarolinaCoolin said:

I loved it. The experience and the mystery of that whole movie left me in aw. 

 

Just curious, how old were you when you saw it?

I saw it in theaters so assume it was around when it came out, would have made me 26.

That is the great thing about movies though, they all have their audience.  My favorite (Cloud Atlas) is loathed by probably one-third of those that have seen it.

[CarolinaCoolin]

1 minute ago, Goondal said:

I saw it in theaters so assume it was around when it came out, would have made me 26.

That is the great thing about movies though, they all have their audience.  My favorite (Cloud Atlas) is loathed by probably one-third of those that have seen it.

I guess to me it was the first true monster movie of my generation. I must have been 14 when I saw it. I didn’t grow up with Godzilla or Frankenstein or Dracula or King Kong.

 

The websites and the viral media surrounding the release and not knowing what the monster was until you were in the theater was so cool. 

 

I guess older people didnt like the way it was filmed though

[Goondal]

6 hours ago, CarolinaCoolin said:

I guess to me it was the first true monster movie of my generation. I must have been 14 when I saw it. I didn’t grow up with Godzilla or Frankenstein or Dracula or King Kong.

 

The websites and the viral media surrounding the release and not knowing what the monster was until you were in the theater was so cool. 

 

I guess older people didnt like the way it was filmed though

Possibly.  I do remember looking forward to it because the preview was really good, one of the better ones I have seen.  Made you want to see it without giving anything away.

[CarolinaCoolin]

25 minutes ago, Goondal said:

Possibly.  I do remember looking forward to it because the preview was really good, one of the better ones I have seen.  Made you want to see it without giving anything away.

It came out in 2008 but it was still not that far removed from 9/11 so seeing the Statue of Liberty head getting thrown through nyc was crazy to see