Cloverfield

[Kevy Baby]

Of the multitudes of stories about how people are getting queasy watching this film, this one has my favorite headline:

Monster-ful ‘Cloverfield’ does barf-o box office

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

I wouldn't mind seeing it again, if perhaps they issue it on DVD in a special "stabilized" edition. (Not happening, I'm sure.)

I seriously doubt that anyone would get sick watching it on a smaller screen.

And the more I think about it, the more I liked the ambiguity in the movie:

Spoiler:

The chick that got bit -- what happened to her? Did they shoot her? Did she explode? Why?

What happened to Central Park afterwards? Did it get bombed? How did the camera survive? Did our main characters survive and did they just lose the camera under rubble?

What was the black thing plopping into the water in the Coney Island ending? A satellite that woke up the monster? The monster itself?

Etc. etc. I like how it makes you come up with your own theories.

One thing though that I thought was odd was how the monster, while ginormous, was always like RIGHT NEAR where our main characters were. I mean, Manhattan is small, but not THAT small.

My roommate said that if you plot out on a map the path of the creature and our main characters, they were just going in a straight line the whole time, but I dunno about that. It seemed too coincidental that they were constantly running into it.

Spoiler:

And while I liked that closeup payoff of the monster's face at the end, it seemed like the scale was off -- like it was MUCH smaller than it was at the beginning.

I really want to see that movie again....

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Chernabog

I seriously doubt that anyone would get sick watching it on a smaller screen.

I can't watch people's home movies, or play first person shooters, on ANY size screen without getting sick. I will never be able to watch this movie.

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I can't watch people's home movies, or play first person shooters, on ANY size screen without getting sick. I will never be able to watch this movie.

Wow that IS odd. I would think that because the small screen isn't giving an illusion that the entire room around you is moving, then you'd be okay. I guess you're just one of the hyper sensitive ones. If you'd like, we can re-create the movie for you at the next LoT party using Not Afraid's animals.

"Roar Thurston, roar boy! Roar!"

*Thurston yawns* *Gemini Cricket runs in terror to find his girlfriend*

"Good boy!"

[Gemini Cricket]

I must warn you, I'm in SAG.

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I must warn you, I'm in SAG.

Aaah yes, the cure for homosexuality.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I must warn you, I'm in SAG.

Viagra will help with that.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I must warn you, I'm in SAG.

Chins up!

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Chernabog

Spoiler:

The chick that got bit -- what happened to her? Did they shoot her? Did she explode? Why?

What happened to Central Park afterwards? Did it get bombed? How did the camera survive? Did our main characters survive and did they just lose the camera under rubble?

What was the black thing plopping into the water in the Coney Island ending? A satellite that woke up the monster? The monster itself?

Etc. etc. I like how it makes you come up with your own theories.

Spoiler:

1) Violent hemorrhage(explode).

2) Fuel Air Bombs(two or more). Could not have been nukes since there were two explosions and doubtful the camera would have survived nukes. We know that the "target" was very close so the bombs must have been conventional. I am thinking that at least one of the main characters under that bridge may have survived based on the post credit audio.

3) Satellite would be my guess.

[innerSpaceman]

The movie had the fifth-biggest ever second weekend drop in box-office (after having the biggest January opening ever).


Of course, just about everybody who wanted to see it did so on opening weekend, explaining the above numbers. Perhaps word of mouth wasn't so great ... but since the film only cost $25 Million to produce (and another reported $25 Mill to market), it's already a huge profit-maker.