[Dilmah G]

Well as someone who saw it as a 13 or 14 year old and never read and probably isn't going to read the book, I'd rate it 7.5/10.

Adaptation or not, I saw it as a standalone movie, and I'll take it that way.

[General Battuta]

Well as someone who saw it as a 13 or 14 year old and never read and probably isn't going to read the book, I'd rate it 7.5/10.

Adaptation or not, I saw it as a standalone movie, and I'll take it that way.

Right, but adaptation or not, it's also a movie that doesn't make any sense.

[Dilmah G]

I don't remember a lot of the details, but it made enough sense to me for me to like it. I can't remember any gaping inconsistencies.

[Wobble73]

I found myself watching Cloverfield last night with my "Comic book store guy" from the Simpsons hat on.

1. The lead characters cell phone battery dies, he goes into an electronics store and picks a new cellphone battery up of the shelf, fits it into his phone and it works...............without charging?? All my cell-phone batteries need charging for a good few hours first!!

2. He then receives a phone call from his mother while in a subway tunnel?? How the hell did he get a signal down there?

3. The building leaning against another building...........how would that be possible??

4. His girlfriend (Beth?) when found has a spike through her shoulder/chest and she appears close to death.......they lift her off the spike, she doesn't go into shock? She then seen running around the city few a good few hours later, by the end of the film, when they are under the bridge, she hardly seems injured at all!

Still a bloody good film though! 

[Dilmah G]

4. She was probably right up on it with adrenaline.

[BloodEagle]

I found myself watching Cloverfield last night with my "Comic book store guy" from the Simpsons hat on.

1. The lead characters cell phone battery dies, he goes into an electronics store and picks a new cellphone battery up of the shelf, fits it into his phone and it works...............without charging?? All my cell-phone batteries need charging for a good few hours first!!

2. He then receives a phone call from his mother while in a subway tunnel?? How the hell did he get a signal down there?

3. The building leaning against another building...........how would that be possible??

4. His girlfriend (Beth?) when found has a spike through her shoulder/chest and she appears close to death.......they lift her off the spike, she doesn't go into shock? She then seen running around the city few a good few hours later, by the end of the film, when they are under the bridge, she hardly seems injured at all!

Still a bloody good film though! 

Did they have time for '5. Re-apply make-up several dozen times'?

[watsisname]

4. His girlfriend (Beth?) when found has a spike through her shoulder/chest and she appears close to death.......they lift her off the spike, she doesn't go into shock? She then seen running around the city few a good few hours later, by the end of the film, when they are under the bridge, she hardly seems injured at all!

What?!  I thought she died shortly after they found her.  Unless I'm thinking of someone else?

* watsisname needs to see the movie again

[Nuclear1]

4. His girlfriend (Beth?) when found has a spike through her shoulder/chest and she appears close to death.......they lift her off the spike, she doesn't go into shock? She then seen running around the city few a good few hours later, by the end of the film, when they are under the bridge, she hardly seems injured at all!

What?!  I thought she died shortly after they found her.  Unless I'm thinking of someone else?

* watsisname needs to see the movie again

Spoiler:

That was Marlena who died from the bite.  Rob and Beth were the two that were hunkered down in the tunnel at the end when the bombing started.

Damn you all use spoiler tags!

[iamzack]

Spoiler:

That was Marlena who died from the bite.  Rob and Beth were the two that were hunkered down in the tunnel at the end when the bombing started.

Spoiler:

BOOOM!!!!!

[Flipside]

There's talk that Super 8 might be part prequel to Cloverfield, it's all scuttlebut at the moment, but personally, I wanted that trailer to end with a long-fingered hand rising from the wreckage and a voice saying 'E.T. Kick Ass....'

http://super-8.movie-trailer.com/

Not a million miles from possibility, I could be wrong, but that face at the end of the trailer... Is that... Elliot?





Hopefully the hotlinking will work without Deckering me or anything...

[Nuke]

Hopefully the hotlinking will work without Deckering me or anything...

im sure that dekker wasnt the first to hotlink and have his image replaced by goatse man and tub girl.
but then again he is cool enough to name things after.

[Ransom]

Pretty sure Abrams has said Super 8 has nothing at all to do with Cloverfield.

[Flipside]

Yup, been looking it up, it was theorized, but he announced it was nothing to do with it.

Still, that face at the end does have me wondering, especially considering this is a joint project with Speilberg, a Close Encounters beginning, a flash of a young boy who does, to my eyes, looks quite a lot like Elliot McNaughton, it's got me interested

[FireSpawn]

I've read on the net that there is a manga out there that can either be seen as a stand-alone jobbie or tie-in. Apperently it eplains more about the monster and its reason for attacking. Info is kinda vauge as i have not read it, so find it, read it and tell everyone about it.