Comments on: ‘Cloverfield’ Mythos Explored: Monsters + Marketing = Millions

By: Full Metal Cynic

Full Metal Cynic — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:19:24 +0000

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By: Mat Brady

Mat Brady — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:54:57 +0000

To TheBranders: I think the second Cloverfield movie (Cloverfield2) will be shot from the perspective of the military. (They all had cameras on their heads, so… yeah).

I have a poster of the sequel “the Cloverfield 2 poster!” and a script outline of Cloverfield2. It’s fun to read, and you can read it here: http://planetmat.blogspot.com/2008/01/cloverfi eld-2.html

By: Blaster Atoms

Blaster Atoms — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:47:18 +0000

I’d like to see an alternate cut where they still act like it’s a home movie, but stabilize the picture just a little bit.

By: TheBranders

TheBranders — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:57:01 +0000

In my opinion the second film should be from the perspective of the man filming on the bridge. But dont have this character and his group running from monsters all night, maybe they get caught up in the very innerworkings of tagruato itself, and its attempts to cure bite victims on the opposite end of the island that central park isnt on. Maybe we dont need a conventional film to explain to us the backstory on cloverfield, maybe we need another “from camera” perspective from someone who just happens to be in the right places at the right time.

idk if anyone cares about the comment or even follows it, but its an idea that hit me that i had to jot down on something.

By: Joe momma's friend

Joe momma's friend — Sun, 25 May 2008 06:15:33 +0000

WTF?!?! SO WHAT IF THIS..WAIT..so what if this movie has a lot of holes and stuff? Just fill in the empty parts of the story with your imagination and it’s all good. But I was still curios so I came here :P. For seriously …it’s just a movie, don’t get so worked up about it

By: Joe Johnson

Joe Johnson — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:23:01 +0000

Hey, i read the website but still dont understand something..If the monster really is a sea creature then why was it able to breathe without water..does that make sense??

By: Man with the answer

Man with the answer — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:54:54 +0000

cloverfield is a terrorist attack from Japan…

put the clues together.

By: vegard

vegard — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:42:20 +0000

thanks for filling in a whole lot of holes. interesting stuff.

as for people saying that the camera would run out of battery….come on, we’re talking about a movie where a monster the size of a skyscraper attacks new york.

By: alex tinajero

alex tinajero — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:31:58 +0000

Excellent review!!!! Your article must be placed in the end of the credits…. I really liked the movie, but it leaves you that taste of uncompletion……

By: Robby Toxic

Robby Toxic — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:25:08 +0000

Hey everyone, I found this interesting photo gallery of the new Hasbro toy. Still pretty breath taking…for me, at least. I think the interchangeable head is rad…one for happy clover, one for pissed/Hud eating clover. I could talk and talk about this, but it’s probably just better for everyone to have a look for themselves. Enjoy :)

http://tf08.figures.com/showphoto.php?photo=12 4

By: Grelbar

Grelbar — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:27:01 +0000

As discussed earlier, the number six does appear in a lot of places:
- The movie was 84 minutes long, making it 6 minutes short of a full 90 minute tape.
- The Slusho slogan “Can’t have less than six!”
- Also, if you have a look at http://jamieandteddy.com and log in to the video-page, you will notice that the number6 video is the only one spelled with a capital letter, i.e. Number6.mov. Could be co-incidence, but i doubt it ;)

Also, a connection to Lost and the number six. In the beginning of Season 4, the survivors are refered as the Oceanic Six.

By: Robby Toxic

Robby Toxic — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:34:00 +0000

That angle has been bothering me, too. The only thing I could figure…alright…everyone take a deep breath here and try to follow me…….is the monster is thousands of “human” years old. Kind of like, how dogs have dog years? So, relative to human years the monster is thousands of years old. Perhaps the species that the monster is sprung from has been in the ocean for millions of years and have life spans that can be tens of thousands of years long….so, compared to it’s own species it’s still a newborn.

That’s all I got though, I’d love to see other’s theories. Sad that Cloverfield mania is starting to die down, and this forum won’t be going nuts again until sequel rumors start kicking up.

By: memoirs on a rainy day

memoirs on a rainy day — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:59:43 +0000

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By: MissLondon

MissLondon — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:35:00 +0000

I saw the film on Saturday without being aware of any of the viral marketing and LOVED it! Since then I have become really obsessed and have tried to find out anything I can about the backstory. I don’t think it was so heavily marketed in the UK as most of my friends have never even heard of the film. One of the things that has bothering me is the newborn baby/thousands of years old angle. Could it possibly be that the mother was fossilised and somehow was reactivated with the deep sea stuff then grew massively and gave birth to the rampaging baby? I know its far-fetched but then so is the whole story.

This site is the best I have found BTW!

By: playmate

playmate — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:36:39 +0000

amazing film saw it again today.

but one thing why does the monster spit Hud out? & also when they get attacked in the tunnels Hud says it felt like the parasite things were pulling him away…?

By: Argel V

Argel V — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:23:09 +0000

People, all minucea about the movie aside, IT ROCKS!!! WOW!! Rarely can you see a movie that totally captures your imagination as Cloverfield does. WHAT A JOURNEY! I only wish we had more of it to see. You laugh, cry, puke, scream, etc…. All for the price of 1 movie ticket? BARGAIN!

By: Moguzz !

Moguzz ! — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:13:23 +0000

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By: Sydney

Sydney — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:01:12 +0000

Has anybody read the blog on Hud’s myspace titled “Gather ’round the campfire kiddies! It’s time to write a story!”? Basically it is a blog where Hud starts a comic book story with some characters contributed from his myspace friends and users add comments that continue the story. In my opinion, the story in the blog parallels some of the events in the story of Cloverfield. And some of the pictures contributed by the user Vlad resemble what I believe to be some places in the movie. There are also small details in the pictures and the characters that remind me of either what I have read online about the movie or have watched in the movie.

On a totally different subject:

CAMERA RETRIEVED AT INCIDENT SITE “US-447″
AREA FORMERLY KNOWN AS “CENTRAL PARK”

This is just a question to inspire thoughts, but does one think that maybe the “US-447″ part maybe ties in to the sequel? Or maybe the government already in real life names sites in that manner? Because it says incident site, so maybe the monster attacks more places?

Maybe in the next movie the monster moves to another region. A few of the myspace friends of the characters in the movie live in the colorado region, maybe they will tie that in somehow. There is also a few italian friends. Hmmm…

By: insignificant thoughts

insignificant thoughts — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:22:43 +0000

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By: Slothien

Slothien — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:52:17 +0000

oops, forgot to add to my comment, when i left the movie, i LIKD it, but after having research all this afterwards, i LOVE the movie, one of my fav movies of all time!