Spiderman's Theory (1-18-08news)

Clover drops its little monsters. the monster go running around biting people. the little monster, when they bite, they inject sea nectar, or w.e, and it makes the peoples blood to make more and more blood until their bodies can't contain anymore and they explode. but, the nectar or w.e has a scent that clover can smell. in the film, marlena was bit right? and later on she exploded? well at the end, clover is right over hud, hud looks up. clover looks like it's looking around or smelling around. then he looks at hud, it smells the scent because hud was with marlena. the monster eats hud, but discovers that hud has no nectar inside him, so he spits him out. clover only eats the people the little monster bit. for some reason clover can only it them. but since, there are many people in new york, the people who've been bitten can't control their blood, so they explode. clover goes around new york, looking for people to eat, but like i said, too much people.
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The speculation

The speculation of cloverfield 2 has begun and that this website will now post rumours of the sequel and anything related to cloverfield

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New pictures of the cloverfield monster

Cloverfield 2 Info and My review

Matt reeves is talking about doing a sequel to cloverfield as it made 40million over the weekend don't know if jj. abrams is going to be involved with the project but alot of rumours on ign rotten tomatoes are saying that the movie could be released in 2009 so really not a long time to wait for the sequel
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My review
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WARNING: THERE ARE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think that the movie was great the rating i will give it is 8/10

The running time of the movie was 1hour and 15mins which is like WAT its way to short for a monster movie.

Well the monster was freaking awsome it was like a giant 4 legged spider cross between a dinosaur and the face kind of reminded me of a bat also i would describe the tail as a tapole tail
There are mini monsters in the movie but its hard to see what they look like clearly because the camera is really shakey and it goes quickly aswell.
The acting is okey even though we've never seen them before in previous movies so great job.
The speacil effects in the movie is WOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!
The plot: RUNNING AWAY FROM A GIANT MONSTER and thats it no reason where it came from just that what we knew before the release was running away from the monster and after the releaser running away from the monster we know nothing about this monster.

So i think they should do a sequel to find out where this monster comes from and more about why did it attack new york.

Cloverfield Concept art pics

Cloverfield monster revealed [Spoilers]

2 new tv commercials

Cloverfield review from early screenings [Spoiler Alert]

Overall, I thought there was lots of excitement. At times my heart was beating very fast. It's one thing to be in a dark tunnel full of rats, it's quite another when those rats are running from some sick creatures that will jump your face and sink their teeth in your chest. I thought the movie was awesome as a roller coaster ride, especially as a fan of the marketing campaign since the day the trailer hit last July. However it wasn't quite the whole theme park. The characters were realistic, but rather normal. No outstanding performances, and the movie just didn't have the full-story feel of a classic five star release. In some scenes people were giggling, when the director may have meant for it to be serious. One amusing twist, I think HUD was the fav character in the movie, supplying nerdy humor throughout. Since he is holding the camera he's the least seen but most heard.

The Monster
Of course, most 'pre-fans' won't give a w00t! about character performances, it's the action and monster they want to see, and they get plenty of looks before it's all over. The monster was def awesome. I think it will surprise many who were trying to guess its nature. It was big, maybe several blocks long when looking down from head to tale. It could rise up skyscraper high when it wanted, crawl around on weird arthropod legs, and even pull itself along like a slug with elbows. I'm glad producer JJ Abrams and/or director Matt Reeves chose this to be the 'American Monster'.
It wasn't Voltron, it wasn't a whale, it wasn't Cthulu, but it was one big ugly mess! It was as if they took parts of sea animals, through in some extra arms and legs, and put them in a blender 400 hundred feet tall. I saw some definite similarities between the four creatures featured on the hack of the Tagruato site. (Tanner Crab, Irukandji Jellyfish, Dumbo Octopus, and Ogre fish) I'd be comfortable if they suggested it was a mutation involving all those deep sea creatures. Because there are no photos of the monster yet, below is my first attempt to draw the monster from memory. (I'm very tired, so I'll take a second stab at the drawings after school tomorrow. I drew these real fast).





MGP seemed to have the mouth of the ogre, definitely something around the ears akin to the Dumbo, as they swelled, ala the ear of Grendel in the recent Beowulf. It also had smooth grey skin along the head and back which was octopish. It has appendages much like a crab here and there. Though they moved quickly, it also seemed to have some long tentacles it could whip out and smack things, and I think that was the part it may have gotten from the jellyfish, but it may have kept them tucked in its stomach area when not in use. As a refresher, below are the four deep sea creatures cut from the Tagruato hack page:


Critters
There are smaller creatures, lots of them, and they fall off of Mr. Grumpy Pants (MGP). I think MGP can actually choose to shake them loose when he wants to really cause problems for those pesky military assaults. The critters are crablike, (remind me of Zergs from the Starcraft video game, or the bugs in Starship Troopers), and could be younger versions of the big daddy. They are fast, like to spring at you, and leave a nasty bite. I think most of the pre-fans know what happens to someone when they get bitten. I won't tell you what happens when Marlene grows 40 pant sizes in two seconds, but there will be blood.

First Person View
Watching the story through the first-person view was very realistic, and helped create a sense of panic and fear. There were also several 'gotcha' moments, which brought a reaction from the audience. BE WARNED, the camera is very shaky and downright dizzying at times. There were maybe half a dozen times when the characters were in a pinch, and had to take off running. HUD would forget looking through the lens and just book it with the camera running. It was the realistic thing to do, but jarring and spinning views of feet on passing pavement, blurred buildings, and taking corners, can make you dizzy. Three ladies I interviewed afterwards said they felt queasy, and I was told there was another woman in the restroom that was really nauseaus/sick. Another blogger mentioned this in his Cloverfield Sick review. If you get motion sick easy, you might want to take some meds before going. I didn't feel anything, but do admit the camera was all over the place at times. There was no other view during the film. It started with the tape rolling, and ended that way. However, they used a really brilliant idea to show some backstory, without interferring with the hand-held camera idea. Also, as predicted, there were a few situations where the camera looked at a tv screen, to show a view of what was going on in the city.

Marketing vs Movie
Just wanted to add that I didn't see any part of the viral marketing backstory that played a significant role in the movie. Yes there's a tanker burning that looks like it's from Tagruato, but the company, the Chuai station, Slusho!, myspace pages, jamielovesteddy.com, nor seabed nectar is not important in the movie. For that reason, I think the marketing campaign gives the 'pre-fans' a much more entertaining experience than those who haven't checked out the history or participated in the fun. I hold out hope for a dessert on this 7 course meal: I'm hoping that after the movie has launched for a few weeks, that the producers may continue some of the backstory elements to wrap up loose ends with Tagruato/Chaui, so we can extend our fun. BTW, there's no cause given for the monster's appearance in the city, and he seems to have no purpose other than to walk around tearing stuff up and killing folks.

The Ending -- well, you'll just have to see for yourself. I do plan to see the movie again, probably several times. It's the type of movie where I'll probably notice quite a number of things the more I see it, especially with my heart a little calmer, and my eyes knowing just where to look next.

Recommend for: 12 years and above.


The Jan. 10 Screening and Interviews
I have plenty to say on this account. It was a super evening, but I'm waaaaay too tired tonight. I'll add this part of the report after school. Quick shout out to interviewees Luciano, Maurine, Ryan, Logan, and Paramount reps Zach and Justin.

This image is claimed to be the cloverfield monster which I highly doubt it becuase matt reeves won't just reveal the monster at the last week before cloverfield releases on cinema, so don't get your hopes up

Cloverfield Commercial

Jamie and Teddy Video 9

Has this women lost the plot or what

New Jamie and Teddy Video 8

Looks as if Jamie will put anything in her mouth

News Report

A fake news report

Cloverfield Final Updates and Details

January 18th is only 14 days away and after months of waiting, J.J. Abrams' Cloverfield monster will finally be revealed. Some extra juicy details have arrived courtesy of Anne Thompson on Variety and they are all quite intriguing to read. The new details come from the film's director, Matt Reeves, where he talks about everything from the equipment they used to shoot to the theme and feel they were going for, including having to convince Paramount to let them do it, and to the crème de la crème - confirmation on contact with the monster.

For the sake of getting right to the good stuff, we'll just dive right in. To kick off the story of Cloverfield, Matt Reeves and J.J. Abrams "first met as 13-year-olds screening their early shorts at an 8mm film fest in Los Angeles." "They've been creative confidantes ever since." The script for Cloverfield first arrived as a 60-page treatment written by Drew Goddard. Reeves' first response was, "This is enormous. There was so much in it."

Reeves continues on with the details about convincing Paramount about the concept. "The filmmakers coaxed Paramount into letting them use no-name actors who could improvise, low-key natural night light, herky-jerky HandyCams (as opposed to SteadiCams, which can be artificially jerked around later; 'People would smell that in a second,' says Reeves), and no musical score at all — just source music and well-orchestrated ambient sound."

As opposed to using larger 3 lb. cameras for filming all of the scenes, Reeves used the small and lightweight minicam to shoot "intimate scenes among the actors." The scenes are so intimate the Reeves kept tweaking them, shooting upwards of 60 takes. "You see the reflections of the actor holding the camera."

We've already seen it in the trailers and footage, but the visual effects are a key part to the experience. Reeves and his team seamlessly combined all of the shots and worked with multiple visual effects studios, including a stop-motion effects artist, to create "massive effects" including "one five-minute shot incorporates 20 VFX elements."

And as for contact with the monster? Reeves promises "by the end you have intimate contact." Reeves emphasizes the importance of showing the monster, saying, "I didn't want to have all that anticipation and not reveal him. The fun thing is you do see everything over the course of the movie in several different ways, but it's filmed heavily from one point-of-view."

Do you need to be convinced any more? I'll see you in theaters on January 18th wearing my Slusho shirt and with my excitement at the extremes!

Jamie and Teddy Video 7

In this video jamie is just complaining like a normal bitch

Michael Stahl-David Talks Cloverfield Experience

Like the rest of the world, Chicago-born actor Michael Stahl-David was introduced to J.J. Abrams' furtive disaster movie Cloverfield wearing imaginary blindfold. "Man, I had no idea what this movie was going to be. I thought it was something I was going to be completely embarrassed of," he confesses to us with a laugh.

In director Matt Reeves' return to feature filmmaking (after 1996's so-cute-it's-sickening The Pallbearer, starring David Schwimmer), Stahl-David plays Rob Hawkins, a 20-something prepping for a big move to Japan. And as Cloverfield's trailers have shown us, a going away party for ol' Rob at the beginning of the movie is rudely interrupted by the introduction of something huge, something "alive" and something that essentially bends Manhattan over and gives it the ass-reaming of the century. Stahl-David is joined by co-stars Mike Vogel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre '03), Odette Yustman and Lizzy Caplan; altogether, their respective characters careen through the city trying to avoid its latest monstrous resident and the Army in an attempt to find a friend. This dangerous journey is all told through a hand-held video camera.

"They didn't even tell us about the cinema vérité thing," Stahl-David recalls of his audition experience. The script sides he received when he went in required him to pretend he was filming a love interest. "I remember going into the audition and I brought a video camera with me because it made me feel shy and meek to be hiding behind this camera. That was a way into the character for me. I didn't get that nervous about it because I didn't know what [the script] was. When you know the story before the audition, you're like, 'Oh I'd do anything to be in this movie!' and that can put a lot of pressure on you. For this, I was like, 'Whatever.'"

That apathy immediately changed once he signed on board and a complete screenplay was presented, however. With Reeves leading his troupe into the thick of Cloverfield's giant monster melee, filming began in the former half of '07 in Los Angeles and, later, in New York. "It felt like we were on a search for truth together," the actors says commenting on the film's natural slant and the wiggle room for improvisation that opened up as a result during principal photography. "[Reeves] wasn't going to make me do something I didn't feel was real. If there was something on the script I didn't feel quite like it would happen in that moment, we wouldn't do it. I would say something else, do something else. It wasn't about trying to be clever and come up with your own stuff. It's not a very talky movie, it was more about questioning what would you do in this situation? What would I do?"

"I think in some ways it's as much a survival movie as it is about the monster," he continues. "The monster is definitely the problem, but you're seeing it the way we would, we don't pan back and watch it perfectly. It is going to be exciting. It is contemporary film vocabulary - this kind of first-hand account, something that could've been on YouTube or something. Someone just holds up the camera and starts filming, there are probably other accounts, [our footage is] just the one the government happens to find."

Cloverfield's challenges on set arrived, Stahl-David says, when he was asked to react to a creature that would later be added via CGI. He was privy to the beast's guise through early conceptual renderings, still, "Shooting that stuff was not easy. Honestly, the camera work helped sell the [monster stuff] 'cause the camera's going crazy too. I was always trying to get specifics about what the special effects were going to be. When I saw the teaser [trailer], you see me look down the street and I see something way in the distance coming. I was like, 'You know, I don't really buy that. That's not how I'd react to something that far away.' You just try to get something specific about what they were going to put in there."

Did the palpable public hype nearly suffocating the film make him feel like he was a part of something extraordinary? "We were speculating [ourselves] and wondering what the hell were we doing. We had never seen anything like this, it was weird and that made us uncomfortable at first," he says. "Then when we started filming and working with Matt - seeing he was open to us, then seeing the teaser, it gave us a boost from that. The style of what we were doing, seeing how the vision was being executed and how it was going to be cool and different and also the reaction we got from the public was exciting. It was the fruits of brave marketing."

Cloverfield New Year Special

A HAPPY NEW YEAR to all you Cloverfield fans out their 2008 is going to be awsome here is a video which was on tv at midnight last night

Jamie and Teddy Video 6

A new update off Jamie and teddy's site