How disappointed were you it wasn't a lion nor was it huge?
i wasn't
>>63219430
>Look at that pic.
>Not huge
>>63219430
I remember following this movie religiously with it's ARG campaign. I love how everyone thought that Lion bit was a reference to the movie being Voltron
I wasn't disappointed by this movie at all. I had no expectations going in and by the time the movie ended the monster had killed every last annoying asshole in the cast.
There hasn't been a single good movie with the video camera gimmick.
one of the worst movies I've ever seen
>>63219430
>>63219579
Post evidence of supposed lion-bait
>>63219640
You're too young then. People heard
>"I SAW IT IT'S A LION IT'S HUGE"
instead of
>"I SAW IT, IT'S ALIVE, IT'S HUGE"
I thought people were trolling when they kept saying that. But it turns out, many people genuinely thought that is what was said.
>>63219622
You didn't enjoy TBWP?
>>63219640
I think it was just in the teaser trailer or something like that. Possibly one of the ARG videos. Dude was in a car who said it. I think it was either muffled sounding or he mouthed it. Can't recall, it's been years.
>tfw it wasn't a gigantic Mayan statue come from the depths to destroy civilization on Dec. 21 2012
You wouldn't BELIEVE how disappointed I was.
BRAVO JJ
R
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>>63219622
*cough cough*
>>63219430
>always thought it would be some original giant monster that would eventually tie in with a new Godzilla movie
>mfw it was an original monster and looked pretty cool
Yeah, the movie itself was shit, but after that asinine viral marketing campaign, all I cared about was the monster. I'm just glad it didn't turn out to be this retarded orca whale thing.
>>63219798
this is so much better
>>63219798
Would you like some Slusho?
>>63219686
Remember when people were sure it was a Voltron movie?
>>63219622
The Bay, Europa Report, Lake Mungo, Noroi, REC, and The Tunnel all range from decent to pretty good. End of Watch is the greatest found footage film of all time.
>>63219798
Giant crab whale thing is a great idea.
Much better than giant albino stick insect.
Why do all American monsters look the same? Cloverfield, Super 8, MUTOs from Godzilla. All of them have this same arachnid aesthetic design, theres nothing unique
>>63219846
Are you a fucking toddler? How would this not look ridiculous on screen?
>>63219635
one of the worst comments ever :^|
>>63219899
>the bay
Stopped reading there.
>>63219798
That monster looks way better, wonder why yhey changed it
>>63219901
The whale thing wouldn't have the same impact as stickbug. The stickbug was quick and got around buildings super fast, the whale looks slow and cumbersome and would have just knocked everything over all the time.
>>63220032
Realistically, giant bug should collapse on the floor when reaching the surface.
If its used to extreme high pressures of the deep sea to live, it probably relies on that pressure to stand and move. The thin air would make it unable to move.
>>63219798
>Orca
:^)
do you even whale?
>>63219986
>p-please don't insult my favourite jew jew abrams movie ;_;
holy shit kill yourself
>>63220092
fuck off nerd we dont need logics
>>63219430
How nice from him to carefully step between the houses and not on them
>>63220092
Yeah, but giant sea monsters aren't really realistic anyway man. If you want to be totally realistic, the creature's blood flow would be moving nowhere near fast enough to keep it alive, unless it had multiple hearts all throughout its body.
>>63219622
Blair Witch Project is one of the greatest horror movies of all time
Modern western creature design is such shit. I'm terrified JJ and crew will bring the Cloverfield / Super 8 / Star Trek monster shit to Star Wars. If Snokes or whatever looks like pic related I'll drop so hard.
>>63220032
>looks slow and cumbersome and would have just knocked everything over
Yeah it's almost like it's a giant monster.
I like the insect monster design, but the whale crab thing looks more like it really came from the ocean. And it doesn't look like a MUTO, Super 8, etc. It's more distinctive looking.
>>63219430
You never get a good look at it. Even this shot is taken a second before they do some snap zooms and the copter swerves.
Getting a look at it though, it does look very creepy.
>>63220124
>I don't understand satire: the reply
>>63220168
Cloverfield DID come before the MUTOs and Super 8 though, so technically they were ripping Cloverfield off.
I like the whale look too, by the way, I like it a lot. But to get what JJ was going for in directing, to not have the monster show up until the end of the movie, it needed to be quick and agile (at least for monsters), not big and cumbersome.
>>63220218
>I don't know what satire is: the post
>>63219955
>Cloverfield, Super 8
These two were by the same designer and also the same film director.
They actually look quite different from each other when you look at their models, but you barely see either them long enough to form a cohesive image. You just see the stick legs, the black eyes, the same shit.
With Godzilla they went with an intentionally muted and boring design with the MUTOs, because the movie had to be about Godzilla coming about and kicking their asses, and didn't have time to introduce any existing kaiju respectfully. In the commentary they even mention the MUTOs originally had a drastically different design, but they specifically wanted them to look like "modern movie monsters" so they could have Godzilla come and kick their asses, as the true king of the monsters.
>>63219622
>There hasn't been a single good movie with the video camera gimmick.
look at this edgy fellow
>>63220233
Neville Page designed the creatures for Cloverfield and Super 8, so Godzilla is ripping him off. Page also designed the creatures for Avatar and Prometheus.
>>63219430
>a lion
please dont tell me people thought it would be a lion, it came from the fucking ocean jesus
>>63220092
>Realistically, giant bug should collapse on the floor
But would he walk the dinosaur?
>>63220233
>technically they were ripping Cloverfield off.
The Super 8 monster and the MUTOs were designed by the same guy. They sought out the guy intentionally for the MUTOs because they wanted a classic monster like Godzilla to kill off essentially the "current" movie monsters like Cloverfield shit, since they wouldn't have time to introduce a second kaiju in the first movie.
>>63219622
One Night in Paris
>>63219430
I missed all the hype and saw it just knowing it had some kind of monster in it
Thought it was great
I was hyped as fuck for Cloverfield based on that teaser. Like with It Follows, my best expectations weren't met, but Cloverfield was mostly alright. The "zz zz zz" monsters in the tunnel were alright, some of the crazier moments were good, but there's was a lot of retardation piled onto the plot.
>>63220233
Yeah, but slow and cumbersome isn't really a bad thing. It's a giant monster, that's the point. It's supposed to be knocking everything over and destroying everything. It's not supposed to be dashing all over the place dodging gunfire and shit.
If it was a Mothra-type monster then yeah it shouldn't look like that. But the Cloverfield monster itself wasn't the fastest anyway and the whale thing would have looked better and more unique/memorable.
>>63219430
That's such a weird shot. Everything around him is untouched, how did he even get there without breaking anything? Why is there like full undisturbed traffic below him?
>>63220360
sea lion
>>63220360
>it came from the ocean
Which is why it should have looked like >>63219798
>ywn relive the hype that existed online after the 1-18-08 trailer was first played in theaters
I saw it the night it aired behind the Transformers premiere with a packed crowd. One of my favorites memories.
that movie is like 70 minutes long iirc. I should probably watch it tonight, it's been way too long.
>>63220359
>>63220363
I had no idea, thanks for the info. Hopefully the guy can make things other than giant bugs.
>>63220360
Yes. They did.
It's explained earlier in the thread.
I had a friend who was absolutely convinced this was going to be a Voltron movie because he bought into the idea.
He hated the movie when it came out, not because it was a shit movie, but because it wasn't Voltron. He still rants about it "Those pricks promised us a Voltron movie and gave us this crap. Goddamn liars!!"
If anyone is actually wondering, the line in the trailer was, "its alive, its huge."
Do you know who Superman is?
>>63219764
There's nothing good about that movie except maybe how it opened doors for actually good movies.
>>63220487
I CLEARLY hear him say "It's a lion, it's huge!"
>>63219963
Thats meaningless, what they went with looks just as ridiculous.
>the giant monster movie craze that was suppose to happen after Cloverfield and Godzilla 2014 never happened
>>63219579
Man, same. I was 14 and obsessed.
>>63220309
>no! y-y-you're wrong
>doesn't give a example
>>63219430
It's a lion! It's nude!
>>63219579
THIS. I was 16 at the time. Fucking loved everything about it. Genius marketing.
>>63220436
guess I walked into that one
>>63220360
A far superior design
>>63220595
that actress starred in end of watch
>>63219430
The monster was cool as shit, so were the little bug things, shame the rest of the movie was crap.
I was on the "man, I hope it's a Cthulhu movie" side for no real reason. Then all the Lovecraft nerds started yelling about how a Cthulhu movie wouldn't be about the actual dude wrecking shit, it would be more psychological and blah blah blah.
>>63219430
Why does he even need to say "it's alive"? Isn't that sort of for granted? Otherwise the movie would be about a giant dead alien that falls on Earth and now people have to deal with the grief from this giant beast falling on everybody and killing their loved ones inadvertently.
>>63219899
Dubs confirm. End of Watch is amazing, based Gyllenhaal at his best
>>63220702
He's saying that it's not like rockets and shit.
>>63220702
I think most people, upon seeing huge dust clouds and hearing buildings collapse and shit blow up, would be to assume it was some kind of bomb or something, or a natural disaster.
Seeing a building fall down and a huge fucking monster crawl over it must be kind of a shock. Hence, "it's alive, it's huge."
>>63219430
>>63220432
>Director Matt Reeves likened the monster to a baby elephant who wasn't used to being on its legs yet and therefore would be clumsy and destroying everything
Yeah, I agree it makes no sense that nothing around him is damaged. Just goes to show that a solid creature design can be completely undone by incompetent direction, lack of intelligent plotting and chaotic cinematography.
>>63220702
All the screaming in that first scene where everyone is on the ground watching the monster approach is pretty unnerving.
>be a teenager
>remember watching the trailer over and over, listening to that guy scream "OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!"
>>63220694
I was 13-14 when the trailer premiered, and lurked the imdb message boards for the film following the entire ARG campaign and learned about Lovecraft because of it. God that was fun.
Trailer and teaser was better than the movie
I remember when watching Pacific Rim, one of the thoughts I had was "what if this is the same universe as the Cloverfield movie and that monster was the first one?"
That would have been cool.
>>63220541
go mouth the word vacuum to your mom.
I obsessed over the movie for a while after it came out, looking for all those fictional sites and stuff to learn more about what was happening. But in the end it seems they left it hanguing.
Even worse, I was hyped by the "still alive" easter egg in the ending credits, I was hoping there would be another movie or some form of continuation, maybe dealing with the parents of the monsters if it's true that it was a baby... but apparently someone who worked on the movie confirmed that the nukes eventually killed the monster off-screen.
What a let down.
>>63221109
Didn't it come from space? Like, you see a thing fall into the water behind New York in one of the final flashback clips. It's at the end of the movie.
>>63219686
the fucking first trailer didnt show anything but the party then the statue of Liberty's head. In the street, some guy yells "I SAW IT ITS ALIVE ITS HUGE" then they hear a roar. at the end there's no title or anything but the date 1-18-08.
If I remember right, I read updates on a LOST forum. Then there was an ARG about Slusho and something they found on the ocean floor and shit that didnt make it into the movie.
There was a site where they put up fake polaroids of the party and there was one pic where people swore you could see a demon reflected in a girl's hair.
>>63220485
>"Those pricks promised us a Voltron movie and gave us this crap. Goddamn liars!!"
Man, your friend sounds kind of retarded.
>>63221144
No, that's a satellite from the Slusho company or whatever. It hit the baby on the head waking it up.
>>63221109
JJ did originally have an idea for a sequel and even a movie where it took place on the same night from a different groups perspective, but then he started getting wrapped up in big projects like Star Trek and Star Wars.
>>63219622
Man Bites Dog
>>63219622
The Dirties
>>63220360
at the end, it cuts back to the couple at a carnival and you see something fall into the ocean.
I think they tried to say it was a satellite that fell and woke up the monster, but that's retarded.
>>63221238
That's not a movie, but you are right.
>mfw that show was completely scrubbed from Netflix for no reason
Like, you can't even rent the DVDs from them. As far as Netflix is concerned it doesn't exist anymore.
>>63221252
>>63221233
>the satellite hit the creatures head
Where did this come from? In-universe, how would anybody know that?
>>63221290
The ARG talks about the company satellite going down and the last reported co-ordinates are the GPS for Coney Island.
There's also a manga.
>>63221290
ARG for Slushmo or whatever. They lost a satellite on the date of the recording where it falls and the area was Coney Island.
>>63219430
Is this JJ Abrams best movie? It's the only one of his that I can remember enjoying.
Went to see it when I was 16 on a double date. I hurled, she was not impressed. Fucked you J.J, you cost me sweet teen poom.
>cloverfield
>same writer as LOST
>people wonder why nothing makes sense
fucking idiots
I remember heated debates over wheter there were two giant monsters or only one.
Also a lot of analysis of the poster, it's like every fucking cloud had the monster's face hidden.
>>63221522
If you spew and she stays, she's yours.
If you blow chunks and she bolts, it was never meant to be.
>>63221575
I threw up on my current gf 2 years ago while watching the second hunger games, it's how we started going out
Who here went to unficiton dot com and partook in the ARG there
>>63221646
Oh come on, the hunger games weren't *that* bad.
>>63221720
they really were
>>63221720
I drank everytime I thought it was shitty and 45 minutes in I literally threw up all over her and myself
>>63221575
Sha-wing
>>63221535
I just finished rewatching Lost, it does make sense its just shit.
>>63219899
The bay took a good potential idea and executed it as shit as possible
>>63220702
>>63221787
Can't hack the session.
>>63219688
>>63220137
Kill yourselves, my mans.
>>63219622
First 'monsters' was p. good tbqh
>>63220092
But it wasn't from the sea.
It was extraterrestrial in origin.
Did you not see the splash as it crashed into the water behind the couple in the last 'flashback' sequence?
>>63221535
>>63221121
>>63220309
>Anna Kendrick
This is a board for /tv/ and film.
Not an "American rats with fetal alcohol syndrome wasting away from the effects of coke addictions sympathy" board.
>>63222694
no, you kill yourself, retarded pleb
>>63222835
>Being afraid of one jump scare that took an hour and 45 minutes of college students yelling at each other to build up.
>>63219955
The Pacific Rim kaiju are pretty varied
>>63220573
>Pacific Rim 2 is dead in the water
>>63222958
Shut the fuck up. Pacific Rimjob has some of the worst creature designs in all of cinema.
>>63223050
I'm sorry, what?
>>63223115
Your pic proves >>63223050 right
>>63219430
I was more disappointed that the military somehow couldn't kill it despite dropping a 100 tons of bombs on it, shooting it with takes and infantry and nuking the whole city.
Yeah that was fucking retarded the military would be able to kill something like that in 5 minutes
>>63223115
I can't hear you over the sound of this goddamn TEMPLE CRAB
>>63223178
How the fuck is Otachi a bad design?
>>63219635
reddit welcome
>>63223050
>Monsters
>Cinema
They're an animated children's flick at best, anon.
>>63223211
It's generic as fuck, the only difference is a graboid mouth on the tail.
How is it a good design?
>>63223186
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FnFKG-aYww
>I MUS CUMFESS THAT I FILL LIEK A MONSTURRRxD
>>63220573
>King Kong origin movie to build up King Kong Vs Godzilla
There is still hope, just that it's a shitty one
>>63221266
are you talking about this one?http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103905/
>>63219430
>shitty movie
>shitty monster
why do people like this? even p.diddy godzilla is better
I feel like the only person that really enjoyed Godzilla 2014
>>63222928
not even a jumpscare, just a dude masturbating on the corner.
That movie was groundbreaking for its time, that's why it's considered one of the best. But taking off the nostalgia glasses those characters are as annoying and unlikable as the ones in Paranormal Activity.
>tfw there was nothing as superb as giger
>>63219430
I unironically thought this was well done and thoroughly enjoyed it
>>63220456
that design makes no sense, if it lived in the bottom of the ocean it wouldn't have fat storage like that
go look at a deep sea thread, it's like a habitat for skellingtons
>>63222734
That was a satellite you pleb.
The monster lives in the deep sea and the faggots who make slusho woke it up.
>>63220092
Uh, don't you mean it'd explode or something?
>>63223413
You're not alone, anon, I did too.
Watching it in a packed screening when Godzilla unleashes his fire breath... One of my favourite cinematic experiences ever.
>>63223581
Same here man, spent a solid hour with a huge fuckin grin on my face after that. In hindsight though, I feel I wouldn't like it so much if I saw it again
>>63223626
it's because the sound design was ridiculously good
>>63219594
This.
>>63219622
And This.
>>63220137
Kill yourself.
So did anyone read the manga that was published along side this movie?will they ever do anything now that the manga mentions there are more than 1 monster?
>everyone expecting some kind of pacific rim or godzilla fat ki jew that makes no sense
everything at the bottom of the ocean is some kind of creepy skeletal abomination, there was nothing wrong with this one
also IIRC it's supposed to be an infant
>shaky cam the movie
I couldn't even finish this movie, this movie is a perfect example on how not to do a found footage movie
>>63223682
Pacific Rim
>>63221238
CINEMA.....CINEMAAAAA!
>>63223713
Nah, Pacific Rim was garbage in its purest form. clover field at least had some good backstory
How the fuck did this shit manage to sneak up on them in near the end of the movie. so fucking stupid.
Shit changes sizes more than broderick godzilla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocb7pXndlug
>>63219430
The only thing that would have made Cloverfield good is if at the end it zooms out to reveal a giant Bulbasaur. Then we find out this is what goes on inside a pokeball in-between battles.
>>63223773
0/10
>>63223773
You're an awful human being
So from the sounds of it, it looks like most people that don't like this movie are just upset they didn't get more out of it.
This is a dumb fucking reason to dislike a movie. I mean feel how you want, but it's so fucking stupid haha. Maybe it's because I really love this movie. I was only fifteen when it came out and I stayed up night after night working with people I didn't even know on the ARG and looking at all the character myspaces and studying trailers and pictures and shit. And I was completely satisfied with what I got. None of the characters in the movie are related to the ARG aside from the main character getting a job with the company that mutated Clover. They didn't know ANYTHING that we knew going into it. They're not stupid, they just didn't know shit.
So people acting like the movie sucked because they didn't get some big whole spoon fed explanation of the shit they already knew from playing the ARG are just being fucking HUGE cunts.
This movie is great. If you got sick because of how it was filmed, that also doesn't make it a shitty movie. It makes you a shitty human. You're sitting still and looking at a screen. If you puke from that you are one of the weak ones and I don't care about your opinion anyways.
>>63224023
pacific rim felt cheesy and lame
the special effects were the only decent thing and even then the monsters looked like trash
eat shit
>>63220461
Love that memory
>>63224023
>>63224035
Back to Reddit with you
>>63223830
The monster must have a very good aiming to bite a tiny human in half like that without crashing its head in the ground.
>>63221065
what? I don't get this
>>63221238
That move sucks. Main kid killed himself IRL
>>63220156
This is what Snokes looks like..
>>63221245
M Y N I G G A
The time the trailer hit and the whole ARC started was one of the best of my life.
The nostalgia just thinking about it, physically hurts me.
>>63224023
>>63224035
>HURRR DONT YOU WANT TO PRETEND TO BE 5 YEARS OLD? WHY WOULDNT YOU WANT TO PRETEND TO BE A CHILD AND ENJOY BIG THINGS SMASHING THINGS ON EACH OTHER???
>YOU KNOW WHY PACIFIC RIM IS AWESOME? BECAUSE A MONSTER HITS ANOTHER MONSTER WITH A FUCKING BOAT
>HA HA, IF THAT DOESNT GET YOU GOING I DONT KNOW WHAT WILL
>I LIKE PRETENDING TO BE 5 YEARS OLD BECAUSE IM AN IDIOT
>>63219430
I watched this at the cinema and I loved it. Haters gonna hate.
>>63223773
Never said PR is good.
Cloverfield isn't good either, backstory on what? The monster's backstory is cookie-cutter shit, the humans are unrelatable and annoying, not sure why you would be interested in their backstory.
>>63224237
>>>/reddit/
I actually like the premise of Cloverfield but the execution was off.
I want to see a superhero film shot like this, like Lois Lane filming Superman fighting Doomsday when the world doesn't know who either of them are.
>>63219622
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLEo7H9tqSM
>>63224300
Yes that's what you are
>>63219622
I-I liked it...
>>63224355
nah, Trollhunter falls apart on the second half
>>63220156
>le westies
kill yourself. i mean it.
>>63219686
Why would they say it's alive? Nobody should say that unless they're talking about something you wouldn't expect to be alive. It's not something someone would say about a giant monster. Is this shit writing, shit ad lib or an attempted ruse?
>>63221252
Wouldn't it make more sense to assume the monster rode in on an asteroid or something?
>>63219899
>The Bay
But that's one of the worst movies ever
>>63221720
They were, the only males that would find it appealing are betas who believe they have a chance with a girl like Katniss just because Peeta had one.
>>63224355
someone actually made a movie about trolls,kek
>>63224795
if you're curious this will save you a lot of time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNR4zQKNORU
>>63224844
i just read the wikipedia article and holy shit it sound so bad,where can i find it?
>>63224844
>the music playing
kek,subtle
>>63224041
Nigga you still 15
>>63224359
Same here Anon, I thought it was cool
>>63224909
Its on Netflix. Its also pretty good.
>>63224357
>2015
>No u
>>>/reddit/
>>63219691
You really weren't around. The first trailer when people were calling it by its release date. On the roof when the explosion went off. Somebody said its alive and even I thought it was a lion. Eventually wished it was Cthulhu. Underwhelming but still think the movie is underrated. Best big monster movie in decades at the time.
Massive disappointment
I was kind of hoping you didn't see the monster at all. I thought nuking NYC was dumb too.
>>63219622
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