what is cloverfield?

"What is the monster? How do you describe something that doesn’t look like anything you’ve ever seen before? It’s not a fucking upright walking whale. It doesn’t look like any iteration of GODZILLA that we’ve ever seen. It is enormous. And even though I’ve seen it… I am hard-pressed to come up with a comparative creation. You know that big fucking thing in THE MIST? It isn’t that. Is the creature a biped? I’m not sure, I think it might’ve been a four-legged beastie… it has a tail, it has teeth and freaky eyes like that horse that died in ANIMAL HOUSE. It’s kinda of a grayish-yellowish-off-white looking thing. But more important than the creature is what this fucker does. He basically goes bug-nuts."

Harry (AICN-boss) liked it. i mean, from his review, he really really liked it, didn't he? ... me? im just going along for the cyber-ride lah (and having a bit of fun while im at it with my version of the Cloverfield-monster) - becoz the movie's not gonna be released in Singapore on Jan 18th (or anytime soon) and by then, all the mystery would've been regurgitated all over the wwweb (reads to me like a monster/disaster-flick, but from the POV of the everyman instead) and the monster becoming every fanboys' forum avatars, innit? *itz all good lah*

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NOTE: listed below are the basic story/plot-summary, sans the sensationalism (*cough*)
- mirrored from AintItCoolNews.com

- "The film is found footage, not an assembled film. The footage is recovered in Central Park. From trailers and ads you know that it probably starts at a party, something happens, and we think there is a giant monster. You’re pretty sure there’s a giant monster attacking New York City… specifically Manhattan."

- "An intimate perspective on an impossibly grand scale human disaster beyond most human levels of comprehension."

- "But this film isn’t about the scientist, the generals, the Presidents, the mayors or any of the big people. This time, the film is from the perspective of those people that live in those buildings that the monster is breaking through. This is about the people running in the street that scream, “GODZILLA!!!” and run. This is about trying to survive that insanity. Not just that, but to try and save one life."

- "Like SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, but instead of Nazis it’s a giant monster."

- "This is a handheld camera movie"

- "Beth left Rob’s party before the shit went down. They had a fight. When it all goes to hell – Rob and his friends are just trying to get off the island, when a call comes… Beth is somewhere… she can’t move, she’s bleeding and she needs help. And oddly… 911 is busy. This group of friends sets off through the biggest sort of hell you can imagine to save Beth. Characters die."

- "it’s fucking Manhattan being torn to fuck and they’re just smack dab in midtown and midtown has giant lice monsters and some monstrously huge creature… and then there’s the fucking military… and they are on target, and buildings get hit, shit is going everywhere"

- there are "flaming hobos" (LOL)


daymn, sounds too good to be true, innit? *heh*