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/Film Reader Gabriel P spotted the Cloverfield Monster while watching NBC’s 30 Rock.
“The image I have attached is a screenshot of the latest episode of 30 Rock (207). I just might be a little paranoid, but my wife and I both first thought of Cloverfield when Kenneth showed a sketch of his dreams. Then again it could just be coincidence. Euring the same segment, Kenneth mentions that he dreamed about it and that so far all his dreams have come true.”
Cloverfield hits theaters on 1-18-08.
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December 2nd, 2007 at 8:22 pm
The joke “Cloverfield Monster Revealed” posts were old with the first one…
December 2nd, 2007 at 8:47 pm
I saw this and thought the same thing, for sure. Not sure how I feel about viral marketing sneaking into actual sitcoms, though.
Reviews at AICN say that it is, repeat, “not Star Wars” but “awesome.” hmmm.
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Maybe if we put it slo-mo we can see what it really looks like :-)
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Just thinking. He says in the clip to show him the new FIELD.
The monster has 3 hands and is green. A CLOVER USUALLY has 3 pieces and is green.
CLOVERFIELD Coincidence? Maybe
Clip: h**p://youtube.com/watch?v=DtW-72Y6rzQ
December 4th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Sorry, I posted this exact same thing on another thread, but I’m looking for a lil imput to see how off base I am…
After reading the “History” section on the Slusho! website, it sounds like whatever they found at the bottom of the ocean mutates people. They put the ingredient they found in the ocean into Slusho! and there is some comment about the guy who finds it having a dream to drink it, and when he does he “grew from a small fish into an enormous whale!!!”
So with the image of a woman doubling in size, the fact she is bleeding from the face (internal bleeding) and another production photo where a guy and a chick are holding a door shut, she has three claw marks on her upper arm (which had to be made by something much smaller than the “main” monster)…there has to be smaller creatures.
My guess is that people who drink “More than six!” Slusho!’s suffer some form of mutation, and the main monster is the root of it.
Why the Hazmat suits?
December 4th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Wasn’t there a Slusho drink on the next to last episode of Heroes? That’s some sort of viral marketing.
December 8th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
I think ‘lunchbox’ is right. The nectar found in the ocean is definitely an organic ingredient that makes the drink tasty / nutritious / addictive or all of the above. The problem is, however, that the ingredient also causes genetic mutations or changes in tissue if too much is consumed. The victim or consumer starts feeling side effects and seeing symptoms (as the man in the Slusho commercial changes almost instantly after he has the drink) then suddenly changes into something. This explains the ‘expanding woman’ behind the tarp image in the trailer.
How does the monster connect to all this? Possibly a couple of ways. It could be that the monster is ’summoned’ by the people who have morphed. The more there are on land, the stronger the pull on the creature. Or, my personal favourite theory is, perhaps once morphed, the victims run to ‘join’ with the creature, thus making it stronger.
Which explains why the protagonists in the move choose to run toward the monster, as is revealed on the trailer and some other websites.
Are we getting closer to decoding the clues? Methinks…that’s a pretty strong possibility. Discuss. :)
January 7th, 2008 at 1:14 am
As reviewed by Neil Cumpston(who is the fucking man, btw) on AICN
I got to see Cloverfield Monster Goes Apeshit two weeks ago. We’ve been on double shifts at Wetzel’s Pretzels because we’re selling these goddamn frosting and cinnamon pretzels that are supposed to look like a snowman waving at you and guess what all our retarded customers like biting the heads off of?
Also, the “snowmen” don’t look like snowmen – they look like fat babies that can stand up and wave, and that someone has spooged on (the frosting).
But Cloverfield Monster Goes Apeshit was the perfect movie for me to get to see, because now every time one of our swamp-ass customers comes in and wants a Sal-Tee the Snowman I can imagine the Cloverfield monster biting their goddamn heads off.
And yes, in the movie, the Cloverfield monster bites off some fucking heads. Only you get to see it from a way you don’t normally get to see heads getting bitten off, so basically the movie – which I’m just going to call Cloverfield for the rest of this review because typing out that long-ass title is pee-hole – basically makes other head-biting-off-movies look like Georgia Rule with a peppermint cock in its ass.
The movie starts off really shitty though, with all this stuff about a young couple that’s in love, and she’s hot and he’s hot and I’m all like, “Who’s filming the Ambercrombie and Fitch catalogue?”
But then it’s like the movie heard you calling it a pussy so it puts on its dick-stomping boots and then surprises your dick with a punch from a fist wearing a cock-punch glove.
Things just don’t get scary – they get FUCKED UP. And I mean fucked up like the whole movie’s shot through a hand-held video camera, so you feel like this is happening to you (apparently, the video camera was recovered by the government, so at the beginning of the movie, when you’re told this, you think, “Man, something bad must’ve happened to whoever filmed this”, and you imagine a lot of shit, but then when you get to what ACTUALLY HAPPENS you’re like, “Fuck you, imagination, this was ten times worse than I thought” and then to get back at you your imagination makes you think about 2 Girls 1 Cup if Rhea Perlman and Edith Bunker were the girls)
So here’s the story: a monster attacks News York City.
But that’s not the fucked-up part.
The monster RIPS THE LIVING SHIT out of the city, and everyone in its path. It’s like the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina and Kathy Griffin’s vagina combined and turned into a giant murder-beast and it’s hungry for every hip person in Manhattan.
Which is another cool thing about the movie – everyone that’s getting eaten are like characters you see in those annoying movies that are always on IFC and Fagdance. Movies with titles like Thinkin’ ‘Bout Being Sad and Zoe Gets a Latte and 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath and a Whole Bunch of Cock-fucks Running Their Mouths.
And if that wasn’t bad enough, the giant monster starts rubbing itself on buildings, and then stuff falls off it’s gross body and crawls the fuck away – only the crawling-away stuff doesn’t stay away for long, if you know what I mean.
And then – and THEN – and I mean, at this point, the movie’s like a speed freak yelling at you, as if the giant monster and the things crawling away weren’t bad enough, there’s a third, even more messed-up thing the monster can do to a person, which I won’t spoil ‘cuz it made me kind of sick and the people on this website are the kind of assholes who’d come in to the W.P. at two minutes before I have to clean the cinnamon nets and order ten Sal-Tees so fuck everyone, so maybe you’ll see it and get sick and not want a Sal-Tee and I can go the fuck home.
Also, I don’t know if the movie-makers are looking for poster quotes, but this movie is like a pussy that eats YOU out.
So, here’s my final thoughts:
The good: Monster fucking everything sideways, creepy-crawly things fucking everything that’s still not fucked, indie movie characters getting eaten and mutilated before they can talk about coffee or e-mails or their feelings.
The bad: Smarty-pants story-telling shit where the video you’re watching has un-recorded bits where you see the hero’s relationship a few weeks back, before the monster shows up. Except then there’s this final shot (from the flashback section) that’s actually kind of awesome ‘cuz it’s this very sweet, sunshine-y shot of something, except at that point you’re thinking some really bad thoughts about what the shot represents.
The shitty: I had a long dream about the male star of the movie two nights after I saw this, where we both had shirts off and he was helping me do sit-ups. So fuck this movie for that part.
January 12th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
This is about the time when Hollywood starts laying their crap fils on us….I must admit though it is a bit early for crap…The oscars havent even passed yet …These days I dont even go to the movies to watch fils…Cause if I go with another person I end up paying 20 bucks or more anyway …So I’ll just wait to buy the DVD
January 18th, 2008 at 9:46 am
By the time this is read, most interested parties will probably have seen the film, and find out whhat the monster is.
One hint I can think of..
the 1977 cult classic Food of the Gods where everyday farm animals expand. I’ll find out tomorrow if I’m right!