Cloverfield

[innerSpaceman]

Heheh, I noticed the product placements, too ... and immediately thought of Gemni Cricket!


But, um, they were on streets of New York where they might actually lean against the wall of a Sephora, and well, a big scene took place in a subway station where you could hardly expect to aim a camera in any direction without seeing an advert.

I'm not saying Nokia didn't pay to have it be their advert ... just that, especially in a film where "really happening" is the specific gimmick, fake ads and businesses would simply not do.





(I aslo "imagined" they looted some camcorder batteries when they did the cellphone batteries, but that doesn't explain how long that tape was .... although, the tape as shown in the film is 84 minutes long in real time ... is that unlikely or plausable?? - - - either way, lots of Coney Island. Maybe they filmed her giving him a blow-job on the tilt-o-wheel, but that part got taped over. Too bad, I'd like to see Rob's junk.)



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[innerSpaceman]

I just read that J.J. Abrams' production company offices are on Cloverfield Ave. in Santa Monica, hence the movie's name which thus signifies nothing.

Can anyone confirm that? Insider-info Gemini Cricket??

[Alex]

According to Google Maps, Abrams's production company Bad Robot is located on the corner of W. Olympic and Camden Avenue and is about 3 miles from Cloverfield Blvd in Santa Monica.

It may just be a street name they see all the time and liked. Also, Santa Monica airport used to be named Clover Field.

Don't know if it is accurate but this page claims to have an email saying
that "Cloverfield" was just a code name and that they planned to eventually announce a different title but then it leaked out and all the movie geeks knew it by that name so they decided to leave it that way.

[innerSpaceman]

Yeah, i had always understood Cloverfield to be the Blue Harvest code name ... but G.C.'s on-the-set info above pegs the code name as Slusho.


Eh, who knows? Cloverfield is an odd name for this picture, with zero explanation given. I'll likely always think of it as the code name that stuck. The teaser that famously started the hype on this film did not have a title attached, so i like the idea that the code name just stuck after that teaser got such an amazing reaction.

[Alex]

Apparently there was serious consideration to titling the movie 1/18/08, which would certainly have strengthened the 9/11 comparisons but would have been even more meaningless since the movie is set in April.

A thought just occured to me. When digital projection is the standard, the technology could conceivably exist so that all of the time stamps in the movie would automatically display whatever date the movie was being viewed in the theater. I can't decide if that would be cool or not.

[Gemini Cricket]

Cloverfield was a government name like Manhattan Project for the monster or the tape... It's at the very beginning of the film.

I don't know if I believe this bit of YouTubery...

[sleepyjeff]

Just got back from the movie.

I liked it.

[blueerica]

As my faith in the general movie-watching public was confirmed as low... my faith in the LoT movie-watching community has been affirmed.

[Alex]

In searching for something else I've found online that the generally accepted version of the post-credits sound is:

Spoiler:

it is reversed audio and when you reverse it back it clearly says "it's still alive." Whether that was Rob talking or audio from a nearby walkie talkie (and thus staticky) seems debated. You can hear the audio reversed here. The sequel implications are even stronger and I dislike it for the same reasons stated above.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Alex

In searching for something else I've found online that the generally accepted version of the post-credits sound is:

Spoiler:

it is reversed audio and when you reverse it back it clearly says "it's still alive." Whether that was Rob talking or audio from a nearby walkie talkie (and thus staticky) seems debated. You can hear the audio reversed here. The sequel implications are even stronger and I dislike it for the same reasons stated above.

Spoiler:

After hearing it again, I would agree with that assessment. However, in the theater about 10 of us all hear "now what". I also don't recall the vocal part of the clip being longer than 2 words. "It's still alive" is only 3 words. Either way, it's open for a sequel. I'm still hung up on the lack of a conclusive ending, and I hope that any sequel does answer those questions I want to know. But as BE pointed out last night, I think I really want to know because of the unanswered questions of Lost. Which isn't fair to the movie (which I did enjoy)