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Cloverfield

  • 20082008
  • 14A14A
  • 1h 25m
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Cloverfield (2008)
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A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack.A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack.A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack.
IMDb RATING
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    • Matt Reeves
    • Drew Goddard
  • Stars
    • Mike Vogel
    • Jessica Lucas
    • Lizzy Caplan
    • Matt Reeves
    • Drew Goddard
  • Stars
    • Mike Vogel
    • Jessica Lucas
    • Lizzy Caplan
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    • 64Metascore
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    Lizzy Caplan and Jessica Lucas in Cloverfield (2008)
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    Mike Vogel
    Mike Vogel
    • Jason Hawkins
    Jessica Lucas
    Jessica Lucas
    • Lily
    Lizzy Caplan
    Lizzy Caplan
    • Marlena
    T.J. Miller
    T.J. Miller
    • Hud
    Michael Stahl-David
    Michael Stahl-David
    • Rob Hawkins
    Odette Annable
    Odette Annable
    • Beth McIntyre
    • (as Odette Yustman)
    Anjul Nigam
    Anjul Nigam
    • Bodega Cashier
    Margot Farley
    Margot Farley
    • Jenn
    Theo Rossi
    Theo Rossi
    • Antonio
    Brian Klugman
    Brian Klugman
    • Charlie
    Kelvin Yu
    Kelvin Yu
    • Clark
    Liza Lapira
    Liza Lapira
    • Heather
    Lili Mirojnick
    Lili Mirojnick
    • Lei
    Ben Feldman
    Ben Feldman
    • Travis
    Elena Nikitina Bick
    Elena Nikitina Bick
    • Party Goer
    • (as Elena Caruso)
    Vakisha Coleman
    • Party Goer
    Will Greenberg
    Will Greenberg
    • Party Goer
    Rob Kerkovich
    Rob Kerkovich
    • Party Goer
      • Matt Reeves
      • Drew Goddard
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    • Trivia
      The running time of the film, without credits, is about 80 minutes, the length of a long-running MiniDV tape, a common format used in consumer camcorders.
    • Goofs
      "In the movie, footage is shown being recorded over existing footage, as if the camera were recording on digital or analogue tape. Rob and Hud even discuss whether the tape was changed during the party. However, the title card at the beginning of the film claims the footage was recorded on an SD card." The footage was captured on tape, and after retrieval was later transferred to an SD card by the Department of Defense along with overlaid official document reference codes, a time counter, and the watermark "PROPERTY OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, DO NOT DUPLICATE", which can be seen at the very beginning of the film.
    • Quotes

      Hud: Ocean is big, dude. All I'm saying is a couple of years ago, they found a fish in Madagascar that they thought been extinct for centuries.

      Rob Hawkins: So what? It's been down there this whole time, and nobody noticed?

      Hud: Sure. Maybe it erupted from an ocean trench, you know? Or a crevasse. Crevice. It's just a theory. I mean, for all we know, it's from another planet and it flew here.

      Marlena Diamond: Like Superman?

      Hud: Yeah, exactly like... Wait. You know who Superman is?

      Marlena Diamond: Oh, my God. You know who Superman is?

      Hud: Okay, I'm not...

      Marlena Diamond: [sarcastically] I'm, like, feeling something. Are you aware of Garfield.

    • Crazy credits
      At the end of the closing credits there is a garbled radio transmission which some say sounds like "Help us!", when played backward it says "It's still alive!"
    • Alternate versions
      In India, the film was edited to achieve a parental guidance rating for television broadcast.
    • Connections
      Edited into 365 days, also known as a Year (2019)
    • Soundtracks
      Pankhida
      Written by Lekha Rathnakumar

      Courtesy of APM Music

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    Great Invasive Idea
    Sometimes the idea of a movie can transform the experience of watching it, and sometimes only on remembering it. The challenge is to have ideas that are not only clever and appear so, but which actually make good, effective films that matter.

    I went into this thinking that it would be an evolution of "Transformers." That film worked for me, and worked in ways that were beyond anything I had seen. Sure the story was dumb and the very idea of the robots was childish. But the way the film was put together was a bit astonishing. In old movies, if there was a monster destroying a building, well then you saw the building being destroyed as if you were a placid god in the sky somewhere. With Transformers, you never really saw things this way. You saw them as if you were an observer threatened by and involved in the action. You were running, avoiding, occasionally glancing and sometimes accidentally seeing part of what was happening.

    It was new, marvelous. But we always knew the cameras were not associated with humans, at least not the ones on screen. The idea was to trick us into adopting the disembodied cameras we always accepted and allowed us, the audience to be threatened, to be there.

    Now this. Some of the effects are the same. At least in the beginning of the disaster, we only partially see what is happening. And there are many times when the camera is unsteady. But I got the impression that although the camera was handled by a panicked character, we always saw more than he would have. The camera was always where we would have wanted it, arranged to increase the dramatic effect.

    Transformers was silly and we could assault it. Cloverfield was supposedly real and it assaulted us. That makes the deliberation of camera a whole different thing. Its control is external to what's happening. We do realize this without thinking about it, and it diffuses the terror and changes it to spectacle. This folding technique only works when you have the commitment of the audience. They thought they would get it with the teen soap opera at the beginning. Didn't work for me.

    It would have worked better if she hadn't ASKED to be rescued.

    Nice bridge though.

    Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.
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    FAQ49

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    • Release date
      • January 18, 2008 (Canada)
      • United States
      • Paramount (United States)
      • English
      • Russian
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      • Japanese
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    • Filming locations
      • New York Street, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Paramount Pictures
      • Bad Robot
      • Cloverfield Productions
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    • 1 hour 25 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital
      • DTS
      • SDDS

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