Cloverfield

The Only Minute Of Cloverfield Viral Video You Should Watch

The still-mysterious Cloverfield monster destroys a deep-sea oil-drilling station in a new set of promo videos. Here’s the best minute, in which you actually see the chaos and the people fleeing the sinking platform. The voice-over comes from a fake newscast in Italian, shown on Italian TV. Other videos aired in Spain and Germany. We…

We’re Starting To Think Cloverfield Has No Monster

Paramount released another photo from the upcoming Cloverfield yesterday, and it’s nothing less than completely pointless. The poster for the movie tells us loads more than the above shot featuring actors Michael Stahl-David and Mike Vogel does. But leaking irrelevant pictures is typical Hollywood behavior. Still, give us a little monster willya? Director Matt Reeves…

15 Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year

Some movies radiate their awesomeness backwards in time as well as forwards. You practically have memories of enjoying films that haven’t come out yet, the anticipation is so great. Other movies are so horrible, the pain travels back in time and becomes your childhood trauma. Here are the 2008 movies that are already thrilling and…

First Glimpse Of Indiana Jones Aliens — In Lego!

Those rumors about aliens in the new Indiana Jones movie? Appear to be true, judging from new images of the Lego playset. Click through for a picture of skeletons in alien helmets, plus Terminator TV and movie spoilers. It’s all part of Morning Spoilers, where we reveal the plot twists of tomorrow. The Cloverfield monster…

Don’t Pull A Wanker Star Trek Move

J.J. Abrams is tacking the teaser trailer for Star Trek onto the front of his monster movie Cloverfield, which opens in three weeks. The whole thing smells wanky. Does Cloverfield really need any more buzz to get people to go see it? Why not just film a better ending to Abrams’ Alias series and tack…

No Bad Taste In Our Mass-Murder Porn, Please

There’s a right way and a wrong way to destroy New York, according to an expert quoted in the New York Times. The right way (like I Am Legend) is tasteful and pays homage to the city even as you crash it into rubble. The wrong way (like Cloverfield) is exploitative and brings up memories…

Dune Remake Will Be Budget-Killer

A new Dune movie will be “big big big,” says director Peter Berg (The Kingdom.) The David Lynch version was dandy, but “that interpretation has left the door wide open for a remake,” Berg says. If it wasn’t for the writers’ strike, he’d be working on his version of the Frank Herbert mega-novel right now.…

Klaatu Comes To Madison Avenue

The delay-plagued The Day The Earth Stood Still remake gained a shot of credibility with the casting of Jon Hamm, fresh from his Golden Globe nod for Mad Men. The movie, also starring Keanu Reeves (playing the alien Klaatu) and Jennifer Connelly, started principal photography Dec. 12. [Reuters] A new Jericho pic, plus bad signs…

It’s Raining Big Metal Heads In Cloverfield

A new viral video for Cloverfield shows nothing new, except the Statue of Liberty’s head rolls down the street in a cool way.[Slashfilm] The hero of Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth becomes a quasi-immortal genius and then splits into two personalities, who debate the future of humanity. [MoviesOnline] Heavier spoilers for Battlestar, Dark Knight…

Slusho! Promo Is Piss-Poor Copy Of Real Japanese Ads

The Japanese Slusho! commercial (to promote January’s Cloverfield) is boring compared to Serenity’s classic Fruity Oaty Bars ad, says John Brownlee at SciFi Scanner. Not only that, but you can find a zillion real ads on Japanese TV that are more surreal and wacky than the Slusho! ad. Honestly, isn’t everybody already sick of the…

Cloverfield Monster Is Free Willy With Pubic Lice

The monster in the J.J. Abrams-produced Cloverfield movie has had everyone speculating about what it could be. For months people have been wondering if this was a new Godzilla movie, a return of the Loch Ness monster, or something more sinister. We’ve found out that it is a lot more sinister than that. In fact,…

When a former cultural phenomenon jumps on the bandwagon of a current cultural phenomenon, does that mean that the current phenomenon has become a former phenomenon? That’s the admittedly convoluted question raised by the fact that Cloverfield’s Slusho teaser product showed up on this week’s Heroes. Does that mean that Heroes has something to do…

Which NYC Doomsday Scenario Has You More Stoked?

This winter movie season will be tough on New York, with 6 million people succumbing to a pandemic and then a giant crab (turtle?) decapitating the Statue of Liberty. Blame Bloomberg. Are you more excited to see NYC destroyed by a plague (in I Am Legend) or by a giant monster (in Cloverfield)? Gawker Media…

Apocalyptic Weather Hits LA, Movie Producers Take Credit

The producers of The Mist claimed credit for a "dense foggy mist" that swamped Los Angeles on Monday evening. The fog shut down one of two arrival runways at LAX, forcing the cancellation of a dozen flights. Police blamed one traffic fatality on the freak weather. So it may not have been the best plan…

Monster movie Cloverfield is a huge (and annoying) mystery. But maybe it’s just a remake of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms? Adam Polselli has compelling evidence that Cloverfield may update the Beast’s 1950s atom-bomb scare to a global warming scare. Yay for monster relevance! [Adam Polselli] http://io9.com/scifi/cloverfield/twelve-new-cloverfield-images-test-the-limits-of-teaser-campaigns-323931.php

Twelve New Cloverfield Images Test the Limits of Teaser Campaigns

Twelve new images from the upcoming monster film Cloverfield have been released online. But just like the new trailer, they sadly don’t reveal anything new about the J.J. Abrams-produced thriller. If they keep releasing non-information to the masses, people are either going to turn out in droves to find out what it’s all about or…

You Cannot Escape Shaky Camera Syndrome

During a real alien attack, most of us would have no clue what the hell was going on. And judging from both trailers, J.J. Abrams’ Cloverfield will bend over backwards to simulate that state of confusion. The first trailer, especially, has a hand-held camera swooping and jostling as if the camera holder is running for…

The newest trailer for J.J. Abrams’ top secret monster flick Cloverfield started airing in front of Beowulf last night, and of course its popping up left and right all over the web already. The only problem is that it’s via a handheld cam from an enterprising young YouTuber sitting in a theater, so prepare your…

Poll: Which Monster Movie Will Kick The Most Ass?

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