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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Monday, January 07, 2008 - 4:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
Anybody else dying with anticipation to see this?

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Monday, January 07, 2008 - 4:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
With a capital D

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Monday, January 07, 2008 - 4:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
Sorry Ketchup, not me. It's ala "Blair Witch" with a handheld shaking camera. I'll get 'seasick'...lol.

If you go, enjoy!


Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, January 07, 2008 - 4:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Not "dying", but certainly curious. I have to wonder how many more times NYC can be destroyed in the movies before the idea gets old...LOL

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Monday, January 07, 2008 - 10:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
I just hope it gets shown here.

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 8:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
Ketchuplover, I might eat my words. My ds received some tickets for the premiere next Thursday (I think he said Thursday) and he's invited me to join him and a few of his friends. I'll probably go because it's being shown in some theater in L.A. (sorry, I don't recall the name of the theater right now) that I've never been too, so that in itself would be a fun, new experience for me!

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 1:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
That's great Egbok

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 1:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
if you need a friend to go with, just let me know LOL

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 5:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
www.aintitcool.com/node/35236

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 2:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
Cloverfield's coming to town.

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 7:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
Yay Ketchup...I'm happy for you!

Naja
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06-28-2003

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 8:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
UGGG, I didn't want to be spoiled for this one but I stupidly clicked one link too far.

I hate when I do that

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 3:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
Thanks Egbok :-)

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Friday, January 18, 2008 - 12:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
We're going tonight.

Gumby
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08-14-2004

Friday, January 18, 2008 - 4:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Gumby a private message Print Post    
My 15 year old and his friends just got back from seeing this and said it's terrible. He's a big sci-fi fan so I was surprised he said this. We normally don't agree on what's a good movie, so who knows?

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Friday, January 18, 2008 - 5:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
***Spoiler space, just in case, although I'm not going to say exactly what happens, just my impressions.***


It scared me. Then again, I'm a coward. The entire audience was pretty silent during the movie - not a bored silence but a tense, alert silence, broken by intermittent groans and gasps.

I wouldn't call it terrible even if it wasn't perhaps a "great" film. I thought for what it was, an ambiguous monster movie, it was good. My friend was disappointed however and I bet many others will be as well. While it had some humor, overall it was perplexing, maddening, depressing and sobering. Poor Manhattan. Poor carriage horsey! Poor everyone.

Btw, more than a sci-fi movie, I'd almost call this a psychological film. The scenes reminiscent of 9/11 were particularly chilling and there was a sense of fear and dread and confusion that really hung over the whole movie.

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Friday, January 18, 2008 - 6:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
It didn't live up to the hype imo. The monster couldn't attack in the daylight? Not terrible. Not terrific. Grade:C

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 12:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
See now, I only saw a few commercials for this and heard a little about the story so whatever hype overload there may have been out there didn't affect me. I just went 'cause it's from the guy who does Lost.

I know the studios hype and market movies to the nth degree nowadays but think fans are almost as, if not equally, guilty of the same thing. The studios can create all the websites they want or plant stories all over the media but none of that would work if people didn't go along with them.

But like I said, I understand and am not surprised that some (lots?) will feel let-down. I had problems with it too but overall, I thought it was good if not a true classic - at least on one viewing.

Btw, I think it was scarier being set at night. And after all, there are things that happen after the sun rises. My friend is now trying to claim "it wasn't scary". Liar! I saw him jump and cringe more than a couple times (when I wasn't hiding my eyes myself, lol).

Naja
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06-28-2003

Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 12:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
I haven't seen it yet, but if it doesn't give away too much, why is the movie named "Cloverfield"?

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 12:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
I think "Cloverfield" is the military designation of the "incident"

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 12:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
Naja: Like Blair Witch, the movie starts with text on-screen. It says this is footage from a videocamera found in the area formerly known as Central Park - the tape was labeled "Cloverfield" by the Dept. of Defense.

Spoiler
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We never find out why they call it that.


Naja
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06-28-2003

Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 12:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
ahhh, I see :-) Thanks very much Ketch and Calamity :-)

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 1:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
The creature's name is Mr.Grumpy Pants. :-)

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 3:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I just read that Cloverfield is a street around where he grew up. It was used as a working title so no one would know what the project was and then they decided to just keep the title.

true JJ stuff. He used to do that a lot in ALias. there was a # everyone stressed over and it was something like his dorm # in college LOL

Lost's #s are prolly the combo to his HS locker HAHAHAH

Konamouse
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07-16-2001

Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 12:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Konamouse a private message Print Post    
Cloverfield was the code name for the movie because the Bad Robot production offices are in Santa Monica on Cloverfield Blvd. They had planned to call it Greyspot (after a location in Central Park - probably where the video camera is found) but after all the internet hype this summer and people discussing it in the various forums were calling it "Cloverfield", they decided to keep the name.

The Mr GrumpyPants (aka MGP) as a name for the monster came about in the Cloverfield discussions occuring in Unfiction.com (and then continued in CloverfieldNews.com and other blogs.