1-18-08: "Cloverfield"
This post is dedicated to Michael Briggs, who was earlier complaining that "I never update my blog" and to "get off my lazy arse". So, this one's for you Mike. Didn't realise you were such a fan...
Anydiddles, my chum Dave just returned from Vancouver, where he was fortunate enough to watch robots fighting in the new Transformers movie (his verdict? "Ludicrous but good fun"). Before the movie they showed a trailer which flies in the face of contemporary trailer wisdom by not giving away most of the film, which means you might actually go to see it (even if it means sitting amongst gluttonous, nacho-chowing cattle, but I'll leave that rage post for another day). in fact, far from giving everything away it shows very, very little - no voiceover, no plot hints, not even a name! All we're told is the director and the release date.
But I'm digressing as usual. Watch it below, and see for yourself (probably worth fullscreening it, but remember to come back! There's more!):
Interest piqued then? Mine certainly is. All I've been able to discover is that it has a working title of Cloverfield, is somehow linked to www.slusho.jp, might be shot entirely on handheld and cost less than $30m. Geek speculation is rife, however, with some nerds claiming it's a Godzilla movie and others arguing with them ("Paramount don't own the rights to Godzilla, so it can't be" "Actually, I think you will find that they settled in case #82249 that they can use the name Zilla"). One particularly salient geek does point out that the seemingly innocuous sounding "It's alive!" that can be heard by one bystander may in fact refer to the fact that New Yorkers thought Godzilla was dead, which seems fair enough to me.
By the time the movie comes out it will probably turn out to be the usual guff, but that has to be one of the best trailers I've seen in a long time. And whilst it's inevitable that my excitement will no doubt be turned against me when Cloverfield comes out, I'm going to throw caution to the, nail my geek colours to the wall and say "Yes, I am excited about seeing a monster throw the statue of liberty's head down a new york street".
Anydiddles, my chum Dave just returned from Vancouver, where he was fortunate enough to watch robots fighting in the new Transformers movie (his verdict? "Ludicrous but good fun"). Before the movie they showed a trailer which flies in the face of contemporary trailer wisdom by not giving away most of the film, which means you might actually go to see it (even if it means sitting amongst gluttonous, nacho-chowing cattle, but I'll leave that rage post for another day). in fact, far from giving everything away it shows very, very little - no voiceover, no plot hints, not even a name! All we're told is the director and the release date.
But I'm digressing as usual. Watch it below, and see for yourself (probably worth fullscreening it, but remember to come back! There's more!):
Interest piqued then? Mine certainly is. All I've been able to discover is that it has a working title of Cloverfield, is somehow linked to www.slusho.jp, might be shot entirely on handheld and cost less than $30m. Geek speculation is rife, however, with some nerds claiming it's a Godzilla movie and others arguing with them ("Paramount don't own the rights to Godzilla, so it can't be" "Actually, I think you will find that they settled in case #82249 that they can use the name Zilla"). One particularly salient geek does point out that the seemingly innocuous sounding "It's alive!" that can be heard by one bystander may in fact refer to the fact that New Yorkers thought Godzilla was dead, which seems fair enough to me.
By the time the movie comes out it will probably turn out to be the usual guff, but that has to be one of the best trailers I've seen in a long time. And whilst it's inevitable that my excitement will no doubt be turned against me when Cloverfield comes out, I'm going to throw caution to the, nail my geek colours to the wall and say "Yes, I am excited about seeing a monster throw the statue of liberty's head down a new york street".
Labels: 1 18 08, cloverfield, cloverfield trailer, godzilla, jj abrams
posted by Richie at 6:03 pm
4 Comments:
See that cloverfield is now known as '01-18-08' and is a monster movie according to the IMDB
Yeah, although recently I've been thinking it might be linked to lost somehow... the monster noises sound uncannily similar given it's the same direcotr. Would make a hell of a spin off.
Has anyone noticed on the 1-18-08.com pictures on the very blurred one times 1:24am with the soldier in center you can make out a face on a monster on his uniform?
Looks like a load of guff.
hahaha
;-)
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