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(NYPost)   Is "Cloverfield" this year's "Snakes on a Plane"? All signs point to yes   (nypost.com) divider line
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lucyfer
2008-01-14 1:39:11 PM  
i think ill actually wait to see the film before passing ridiculous judgment on it.
 
c7hu1hu fh746n
2008-01-14 1:40:24 PM  
I have had it with these motherfarking monsters stepping on this motherfarking city.
 
FarkinFarker
2008-01-14 1:42:37 PM  
What was last year's Snakes on a Plane?
 
xenophon10k
2008-01-14 1:46:57 PM  
The few people who have seen it say it lives up to the hype. The rest of us will have to wait until Friday to find out.
 
Complicit
2008-01-14 1:50:30 PM  
How is this difficult? If you enjoy movies where giant beasties stomp around on metropolitan areas, you'll probably go see this. If you don't like that sort of thing, you won't.

It's not high art, it's a genre film. I'm looking forward to some mass mayhem.
 
Asa Phelps
2008-01-14 1:55:28 PM  
No, it aspires to having the community anticipation that Snakes on a Plane did.

But SoaP would have been far better if the producers had let the original director signed to it actually make it, instead of trying to take it mainstream and then giving up.
 
jevman
2008-01-14 1:56:50 PM  
Responsible journalism that is.
 
aniktwo
2008-01-14 2:00:42 PM  
I'm a big JJ Abrams fan, but this looks like the same-old-same-old.
 
technocrat
2008-01-14 2:07:15 PM  
Any monster movie taking place in NYC is full of win. Monster movies are terrible by nature that makes it part of the fun
 
buntz
2008-01-14 2:08:37 PM  
Looks like Godzilla with a different monster.
Or King Kong with a different monster.
Or Jurassic Park with a different monster.

and

Or Blair Witch with a different monster.

There's only so much they can do in these movies. The problem is the people on the internet that talk about it like it is the second coming based on the fact they know nothing about it!
 
GWLush
2008-01-14 2:11:18 PM  
buntz: Looks like Godzilla with a different monster.
Or King Kong with a different monster.
Or Jurassic Park with a different monster.

and

Or Blair Witch with a different monster.

There's only so much they can do in these movies. The problem is the people on the internet that talk about it like it is the second coming based on the fact they know nothing about it!

Couldn't that be said about the people that take a monsterous piss all over it even though they have not seen it?
 
buntz
2008-01-14 2:14:07 PM  
GWLush: Couldn't that be said about the people that take a monsterous piss all over it even though they have not seen it?

no, no, I totally agree with you. I'm not saying it's bad or good.
I'm just not saying "YAY!! It's FANTASTIC" simply because I don't know anything about it!
 
GWLush
2008-01-14 2:15:26 PM  
buntz: GWLush: Couldn't that be said about the people that take a monsterous piss all over it even though they have not seen it?

no, no, I totally agree with you. I'm not saying it's bad or good.
I'm just not saying "YAY!! It's FANTASTIC" simply because I don't know anything about it!

Thanks for the clarification. I am in the exact same boat as you. Although I am pretty excited to see if it lives up to the hype.
 
sailorman_glh
2008-01-14 2:21:41 PM  
submitter: Is Cloverfield this year's Snakes on a Plane?

No. Ron Paul is this year's Snakes on a Plane.
 
Dallymo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-01-14 2:26:19 PM  
Regardless, I'll be there on Friday in my Slusho! t-shirt, rooting for the monster.
 
Complicit
2008-01-14 2:37:18 PM  
sailorman_glh: Ron Paul is this year's Snakes on a Plane.

*golf clap*
 
Bill_Wick's_Friend
2008-01-14 2:45:41 PM  
at this point bloggers and sci-fi fans couldn't be more excited if their girlfriends greeted them at the door in Princess Leia's gold bikini from "Return of the Jedi."

Imaginary? Pretend? Fictional? Canadian-so-you-wouldn't-know-her? I think this article needs an adjective to describe these bloggers' "girlfriends".
 
jake_lex
2008-01-14 3:05:07 PM  
From TFA, a really legitimate concern about this movie:

"Cloverfield" made its journey from green light to screen in less than a year - an unbelievable turnaround for any movie, especially one with so many visual effects. Reports indicate that there wasn't even a script until well after production started, and that the cast signed on due to Abrams' name alone.

"It moved like lightning," Reeves says. "One of the things I hoped was that the chaos of the way that we made it would inform the movie. It was this crazy, indie, garage-band approach to a tent-pole kind of movie, and that juxtaposition was very exciting for everyone."

Yeah, but this is hardly a Dogme production. It's about a big farking monster stomping the shiat out of New York, and I don't see how you throw a movie with visual effects better than a Sci-Fi Channel original production together this quickly.
 
Cagey B
2008-01-14 3:07:05 PM  
While I look forward to seeing this movie, monster movies reached their absolute zenith when, in "Godzilla 2000", the line "perhaps there's a little Godzilla in all of us" was uttered while the titular character bashes the crap out of Tokyo to a swelling orchestra score.

Nothing can possibly top the ending to that movie.
 
oh and once I saw a blimp
2008-01-14 3:17:59 PM  
LEAVE CLOVERFIELD ALONE!
 
DaBishop
2008-01-14 3:18:12 PM  
Go Monster!
 
tweekster
2008-01-14 3:18:51 PM  
Is the DVD screener out yet?
 
UberNeuman
2008-01-14 3:18:56 PM  
It's like Die Hard - WITH A MONSTER!
 
toejam
2008-01-14 3:18:59 PM  
FTFA:

bloggers and sci-fi fans couldn't be more excited if their girlfriends greeted them at the door in Princess Leia's gold bikini from "Return of the Jedi."

The author clearly knows nothing about bloggers or sci-fi fans.
 
gruntmints
2008-01-14 3:19:38 PM  
this calls for a snakes on a plane parody thread.

Breaks are to blame?

/for the front end crash :-(
 
Crewmannumber6
2008-01-14 3:19:50 PM  
Who the fark is this J.J. Abrams, and why do I give a fark about his farkin movies?
 
tuna fingers
2008-01-14 3:21:12 PM  
The 70's had better "Snakes on a Plane" by far. No fake boobs and nary a rogue condom.
 
excusemesenator
2008-01-14 3:21:18 PM  
sailorman_glh: Ron Paul is this year's Snakes on a Plane.


BAHAHAHA!

/at least SOAP was entertaining
//Ron Paul sucks
 
tricycleracer
2008-01-14 3:21:24 PM  
Will the shaky camera work make me puke in the theater?

All signs point to yes.
 
Wrath of Heaven
2008-01-14 3:21:38 PM  
Crewmannumber6
Who the fark is this J.J. Abrams, and why do I give a fark about his farkin movies?

You're lost, dude.
 
AwesomeIncarnate
2008-01-14 3:21:39 PM  
sailorman_glh: No. Ron Paul is this year's Snakes on a Plane.

You win teh internets today. Your award is on the way.
 
H31N0US
2008-01-14 3:21:45 PM  
Judging from the trailers, Manhattan is populated exclusively by twenty-something hipsters and party people.

Who knew?
 
toejam
2008-01-14 3:22:09 PM  
gruntmints: this calls for a snakes on a plane parody thread.

Breaks are to blame?

/for the front end crash :-(

Michael J. Fox in Shakes on a Plane?

/one ticket
 
E.S.Q.
2008-01-14 3:23:23 PM  
technocrat: Any monster movie taking place in NYC is full of win.

I dare you to watch 'I AM LEGEND' and say that with a straight face.
 
earthwirm
2008-01-14 3:23:26 PM  
toejam:

Yah i know. It'd be more lolcattish. As in,
bloggers and sci-fi fans couldn't be more excited if their cats greeted them at the door in Princess Leia's gold bikini from "Return of the Jedi."
 
fireclown
2008-01-14 3:23:26 PM  
Very few things ever live up to hype. That said, the first time I saw the teaser, I was very very intrigued. I'll see it.
 
IdBeCrazyIf
2008-01-14 3:23:48 PM  
jake_lex: Yeah, but this is hardly a Dogme production. It's about a big farking monster stomping the shiat out of New York, and I don't see how you throw a movie with visual effects better than a Sci-Fi Channel original production together this quickly.

That's the catch.. because the visuals are done with a handi cam, there is no need for such lengthy post processing in the special effects department.

They can get away with artifacting, shearing, etc... because when it's the big screen you can't farking tell anyway.
 
Tentacle
2008-01-14 3:24:06 PM  
UberNeuman: It's like Die Hard - WITH A MONSTER!

Wouldn't it be hilarious if JJ had cast Bruce Willis as John McLane, and you briefly see him head toward the monster, and you never see or hear from him again in the movie?
 
7pointedstar
2008-01-14 3:24:43 PM  
Note to Hollywood:

Handheld shaky-cam is not "artsy," nor does it create "tension." It does, however, contribute to the number of people leaving the theatre early to vomit in the nearest restroom.
 
Wolf_Blitzer
2008-01-14 3:24:49 PM  
I wonder if the thought occurred to the author of this story that maybe his 2 The budget is tiny. might be a direct result of his 1 It has no stars and an unknown director? Lack of big names is bullshiat evidence for why a movie will suck.
 
gorgor
2008-01-14 3:24:51 PM  
Pr0nzilla! (new window)
 
Marshmallow Jones
2008-01-14 3:25:24 PM  
Annoying manhattan hipsters, shaky camera nonsense, invisible monster bites off SOL's head and strategically spits it up Broadway

sounds like the typical shiat being churned out these days. 31 flavors of FAIL
 
donnyd
2008-01-14 3:25:33 PM  
I posted this in another thread, but what the hell, right? I mean Fark just loves repeats these days.

Here is a picture that's supposedly pretty darn close to the monster.

[image from img5.ranchoweb.com too old to be available]

If you read the review here it matches the simple sketch the reviewer posted. I dunno. Just something for all the curious people out there.
 
Modest Me
2008-01-14 3:26:05 PM  
It looks like Blair Witch Project meets Signs.


I still will waste my hard earned money to go see it...

instead, I think I'll just download it.
 
bra1n
2008-01-14 3:26:08 PM  
It was better when it was called Alien.

Ridley Scott > JJ Abrams
 
RyanWillia
2008-01-14 3:26:23 PM  
It's a street light.
 
Ld.Edward
2008-01-14 3:26:33 PM  
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These three are sadly disappointed that they can't get a lead spot in the movie...
 
DaBishop
2008-01-14 3:27:26 PM  
toejam:FTFA:

bloggers and sci-fi fans couldn't be more excited if their girlfriends greeted them at the door in Princess Leia's gold bikini from "Return of the Jedi."

Fighting....urge...to post.....Princess Leia.....movie line.....muffin shot....
 
earthwirm
2008-01-14 3:27:27 PM  
Tentacle:

Wouldn't it be hilarious if JJ had cast Bruce Willis as John McLane, and you briefly see him head toward the monster, and you never see or hear from him again in the movie?

NO. More like you'd never hear of or see the Monster again.
 
Quasar [TotalFark]
2008-01-14 3:27:28 PM  
I'm excited to see it, simply because the trailers are so intriguing, but I fear it will be like every movie of its kind - hinges on 'the reveal.' Curiosity about the monster generally trumps the actual monster itself, and there's plenty of room to be disappointing.
 
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