You know what's amazing? They made the footage shaky for realism back in 2008, but 13 years later I'm about to buy a couple of GoPros with very sophisticated image stabilization and a lens mod that keeps the horizon level no matter how far you turn the camera. Technology is insane!
5-10 years from now people are going to be utterly confused by the term 'shaky cam' and I remember watching the first Blair Witch and was like... wow... I feel like I'm watching the end of 3 people to a witch in the woods.
@@KingmanHighborn Dude, I have a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K and like everyone else that owns one, I have no idea how they can sell such an incredible cinema camera for only $1,300. It's good time to be a filmmaker.
This was one of my favourite monsters. Great design, lots of novel biology and then you find out it's just a baby, which totally kicks into the stratosphere.
I’d love to give some praise to the unsung hero of this movie, Hudson, who provided substantial documentation of all the events that occurred within the movie.
idk, personally i found hud pretty annoying in this movie. sure he was funny but he didnt give off total terrified vibes, like this whole movie felt like hud screaming “OH MY GOD!! ARE YOU SEEING THIS????” and shit like that. love this movie though.
My first date ever I was 16 and we went to see this movie. As soon as the National Guard showed up and started blasting the monster I forgot about her and was in total awe at how real it felt lol. Shame the sequels didn't have the same hype around them JJ Abrams is really hit or miss when it comes to movies.
One thing that frequently annoys me about deep sea creatures is how common it is for them to "have a very thick carapace" or "have really tough skin" because they "have to resist a lot of pressure". When humans go very deep, we need this kind of protection, because our internal pressure is the atmospheric one, so we need to stop all that pressure to get to us, but a creature that lives in that kind of pressure has that internal pressure, it is balanced, so there is no pressure diferencial between inside and outside for it's skin to resist. Actually, for those creatures to go to the surface, then they would need a pressurised aquarium to keep them alive. Take a look at the blob fish to see what I'm talking about.
@@eligreg99, in this case they could simply jump the explanation. If you give an explanation that doesn't work it just takes away from the suspension of disbelief.
@@steamedyam, I don't think I've seen people saying that godzilla is résistant because he lives in the bottom of the ocean. My problem is with the cliche explanation that doesn't work.
Yes look at jelly fish and blob fish and siphonophores. They literally explode when they get too close to the surface because they depend on the pressure for existence.
As an Air Force member for 19 years and counting, it always drove me crazy with the military basically causing NO damage to Clover, despite hitting it with HEAVY munitions and small arms fire throughout the night, including a direct hit from a carpet bombing run. Its so frustrating from any logical sense since it is a biological creature regardless of how strong it is.
I had the same issue, I enjoyed the movie but taking rounds and bombs that can level a city block without visible damage just irritated the hell out of me. Then again many in entertainment just think of tank guns and other military hardware as blow up machines and nothing else. They don't know tanks fire darts for armor piercing work and they don't know anti tank missiles can pierce heavily into inches of solid steel or the fact that bombers never fly that low to deliver a payload. But it sure is pretty I'll give em that
The problem is humans ignorance of biology which they only know a small portion of. Same with space. Your over inflating the human military due to its capacity for human killing power
"The idea for Cloverfield first came to Abrams..." Did he also get the idea for how to conclude the story in a satisfying way? Because that would be the first and only time he's come up with that.
People like you wouldn't be satisfied even if there was a genuine ending so shut up and accept that it began and ended the way it did instead of projecting your expectations onto everyone simply because YOU were disappointed
I genuinely enjoyed all 3 films. I thought they were all interesting and different and entertaining in their own way. I would like to see more originality like this.
They're all interesting concepts, but the fact that they had Cloverfield labels slapped on them midway through production kinda sucks, considering how popular the MCU is, and a coherent Cloververse would've been really cool to see.
They ruined the third part by trying to be woke and push all kinds of agendas into the movie. Plus a lot of things happened randomly which couldn't be explained. Like gyroscope being found later inside that dude's body. if the gyroscope was transferred soon after they used the Quantum leap thing then that guy should have died on the spot after the process was done. there's no way he could have lived after having his organ replaced with a gyroscope. And all those random horror phenomenons happening without any logic or explanation behind it. Like the metal acting like a live alien tentacle monster.
I wish Cloverfield Paradox actually dealt with the monster itself more. I understand it came from the dimensional portal or whatever they created but it just didn’t connect in my opinion. Same with 10 Cloverfield Lane. The first one is great tho. They should do a thing with this, I guess they already did it, where all the sequels are in the same timeline with the monster but it just shows how it effects all these different stories.
I think the biggest reason why this movie did well was because you got to see the monster and it was a......cool monster. It looked like a monster, it looked primal and lost to time.
This movie had some amazing scenes. The decapitation of the Statue of Liberty, the tank firing on the side street flanked by soldiers, the couple hiding under the bridge were iconic. I didn't care for the parasites, they seemed very unoriginal. Reminded me too much of the bugs in Starship Troopers.
it really was, everything coming out recently is straight up dog shit. so bad. im sure it has something to do with these writers strikes and all, but everything after 2019 or so is really not worth a watch.
"Sir we found a large monster in our ocean, should we contact the Foundation?" Japan's current prime minister at the time: No, we can do this ourselves.
IJAMEA agents: Aw shit. Here we go again!!! For those who don't know, (and if if this comment is based on the SCP Foundation), IJAMEA is the Imperial Japanese Anomalous Matters Examination Agency, a branch of japanese government during the WW2 era of Japan(essentially the Japanese version of GRU-P, the UIU, ORIA, or The British Occult services.)
This may be an odd question, but how the hell does a Kaiju adapted for *deep* water and pressure survive out of the ocean? With effectively no pressure I have no idea how it manages, we have problems with very little in ways of water pressure.
It's an excellent question. Having it be a deep sea organism makes less sense than it be extra terrestrial or extra dimensional. Claiming it's deep sea nature makes it bulletproof makes even less sense, as survival under high water pressures has little to do with "tough skin". Giant squid are not bulletproof. They die on the surface, and cannot move when away from the bouyancy of the ocean.
@@kevingooley9628 sacrificial armor? like those parasites that clings into it, some that couldn't get off? though i guess that doesn't stand up especially with the volume of fire it receives throughout the movie
Wasn't Clover part of The Mist realm of creatures from an alternate dimension/reality? Clover seems a bit large to exist so deep in our oceans where most aquatic life must adapt to extreme pressures and no light.
And then there's the third Cloverfield movie. Which essentially was a Science Oops that _tore open holes between worlds_ in every movie that had Cloverfield in its name.
@@Springbok295 No, and there isn't. But the same type of event depicted in the ol Mist book, and Half-Life, is what caused the Cloverfield multiverse to get jumbled up.
Cloverfield is one of my all time favorite horror movies and I actually have my own extended cut of it with a alternate ending . And would love for you to do a explored or a explained video to the total recall remake especially the director’s cut . Because that a remake I find to be extremely underrated
What made this story so interesting is just how little we knew about it. They literally told us nothing in the trailer or the movie. It was so interesting and leaves you wanting more but the sequals just kind of hint at stuff. I clicked this video so fast just to get an explanation on what it all meant.
There was speculation that it was going to be, especially considering there are two stars in it that had featured heavily in previous Cloverfield films. Considering the multiversal possibilities opened up by The Cloverfield Paradox, I guess you could add it to your own headcanon. I still feel the same way about Super 8 and A Quiet Place.
Word. One of my favorite channels, needs to get the kinda recognition Dead Meat gets. (Not comparing, just think these two channels are like pantheon gods of youtube horror channels)
Fun fact, if you play Cloverfield 1 with the Cloverfield paradox, at the same time, its cannon. When the beam shots from space from CP, IN C1 hits the same time. Pretty cool!
Honestly one of the most memorable movies I saw at theatres. I took a trip to Seattle in Feb a month after movie released. Me & my brother saw this on a whim one late morning & pretty much had the cinema to ourselves while watching! A gem of an experience.
@@Shanbo26 Within film logic, it simply looked cool to send a stealth bomber because it has a cool design to show off. Within a possible in-universe explanation, they probably literally just sent in any available jet with a bomber design ready on the go, and probably that stealth bomber was one of the few things available. Frankly a bigger complaint to be made is, outside of the chosen ammunition, the fact that it moves in VERY danger close to the bombs its dropping, usually jets fitted with bombs and various other explosive ordinance engage a given enemy position from kilometres far up in the skies, using laser guided technology to stream in the upmost accurate bombing possible with the least risk of being shutdown by enemy AA, only when they do strafing runs with their main guns they start to move in relatively close to their targets. I presume that if such a creature were to be engaged "somewhat" realistically, it would be with an incessant stream of explosive ordinance sent in by jets and drones, the US Airforce has loads of this stuff to send off nearly at any moment, without counting ground missiles fired from safe positions.
@@Shanbo26 good point. I assumed it was because the bomber was the only thing available with the capacity for the payload. Considering that the other jets were likely either overseas in other parts of the world or they were already in the airspace and trying to target the monster with whatever munitions they have. Maybe the bomber was the only thing available and could be loaded up with enough ordinance to drop in a run while other large capacity planes were used to evacuate the area.
@@Archer89201 was it a nuke??? I don't think it was. I haven't seen this movie in a long time but a nuke would cause a lot more damage. Even an atom bomb which isn't as powerful as modern nukes is way more powerful than the bombs used to kill it.
@@ramongonzalez1564 According to Cloverpedia Prior to the beginning of the protocol, Mk-82 general purpose bombs were used against the LSA. A number of eighty bombs were dropped in a single bombing run by a B-2 Spirit.[2] According to the case notes from the investigation of the footage that survived the protocol, the HAMMERDOWN Protocol used "significantly heavier ordinance" than that witnessed by Hudson Platt from the evacuation helicopter. So we dont really know what Bombs are used for Hammerdown Protocol
What I loved that it captured New York City in 2008 perfectly. I lived in Brooklyn at the time the movie was coming out and I was a child, I remember watching it and thinking how real it looked
Right? Really takes away from the creature IMO. If it was an alien its strength and invulnerability can be explained away. As an earth born (somehow?) deep sea creature it makes no sense that it would be so invulnerable. Deep sea creatures are paper thin in reality. I haven’t seen the extra content or third movie so maybe there’s some explanation as to why it’s unkillable by conventional weapons
Ah, J.J. It's because of you that many story tellers now think it's still a story if none of the questions get answered and the story is without an actual ending.
So True. Though I think Lovecraft started it. Even Stephen King shit on him for not knowing how to end a story. At least JJ does some things considered original.
@@Upsideround I don't agree. For a start "At least JJ does some things original" on the heels of mentioning Lovecraft? Lovecraft was quite good at original concepts as a whole and is widely regarded as the father of cosmic horror, which was a pretty original thing to have done. As for how his stories might end, I think it's important to recognise that they're very frequently written as letters, not stories. That's a clear "Out" for the sake of some authenticity. It would be needed in most cases.
A lot of people give this movie shit because of the shaky cam when that would that would literally be any home video footage during this scenario, even when you have a video on your phone doing something exciting the camera is bound to shake at least once. Call me on board for the direct sequel hype train
@@spicyshark so was my comment. an example. I liked the movie but when people get sick it's overdone. imo. That said with the amount of youtube people watch now days I don't think a shaky cam would effect people the same as it did.
I always felt like "found footage" films were cheap, but Cloverfield managed to not feel cheap-- but still looked like it. Hard to imagine that now with how cameras have all these anti-shaking systems, the shaky-cam is unrealistic.
I applaud the creators’ creativity to keep coming up with different ways to go along with these movies. Each movie appeals to a different genre. 1st was found footage action and horror with a strong emphasis on growing characters, 2nd was a physiological thriller that played with your mind with also an emphasis on character, and the 3rd was a space action movie with (most importantly) some more backstory to the monsters. They all brought something new to the table, which is why someone could like one of these but not the other. I personally liked the 1st and 2nd better because they were more original ideas imo but I see why the 3rd one was necessary as it basically explained everything that was needed to understand this universe better, for the average viewer that hasn’t read into the lore. I highly recommend though that you definitely watch 1 and 2 BEFORE 3 since you will probably be confused watching it and thus end up not liking it as much because you didn’t understand it. All in all, the cloverfield series has a really good take on the “sequel” premise with originality not seen in other franchises. If you take in the fact that these movies are’t really meant to be compared between each other in terms of action or other factors, I can guarantee you that you will have a much funner time watching these movies. 1 and 2 are really top tier original cinema though imo :)
when it originally released there was a website for the slurpo company that the main character was going to work for. its a beverage company that says they drill for their secret ingredient right outside of new york, and the quote is "stomach bursting good" led everyone to believe that the drilling awoke the monster
i was one of those who got sick watching this,, i never threw up but 20 min in i had to close my eyes and just listen to the rest of the movie. i would have left but i was with friends.
Extremely well done discussion of many things we already knew, but discussed in a well written narrative with insight and logical progression. A pleasure to subscribe!!!
One of my all time favorites. I love how the screenwriters didn’t feel the need to create a villain in humans. Even the military shows their humanity by letting them go. For all the reasons many stated the movie was epic.
The movie is actually in development but it keeps getting delayed, it’s going to 100% come because the public want it but it will probably be a while just like we waited a while for the 3rd cloverfield
My favorite piece of the Cloverfield campaign was the weirdo slusho site which had bizarre descriptions of this japanese company's discovery of the special flavor ingredients of their frozen drink, coming deep from the ocean. The site was just...idk, everything seemed a little odd about it.
I love this movie and I like how many people in the comment section expressing their love for this movie. Especially after all this time when I watched many videos about Cloverfield, and found out that it's actually being hated by everyone.
Man I remember going to see this with my dad back in 08 and being horrified. This was back when found footage films were so new and fresh and it just made the whole experience so much more terrifying.
Imagine a Cloverfield movie set like 1500 or 2000 years in the past... other monsters coming from other dimensions crashing into the past, creating all the legendary monsters in Greek, Egyptian and Norse mythology 😲
Rewatched this movie recently, got me thinking, 1 how good of a found footage movie it is, and 2 how did such a horrifying monster for 2008 become what it is.
I am always said that Abrams has ability to make good original content. Outside of his tendency for lack of payoff on them notwithstanding, far superior to when he takes the reins of pre-existing franchises. He should leave those alone
The viral marketing for this movie was incredible. On the day of the movie's release they even changed Hud's height on his MySpace profile to 2'6" because he had been bitten in half by Clover.
I love all of them for unique reasons each. I think that’s why I like the franchise so much. Each entry could stand on its own as a unique story. They don’t rely on each other much.
@@user-xj3mo2lx9z are you smoking crack? 10 clover field lane was brilliant. Best film of 2016 imo. Probably John Goodmans best work. The clover field paradox is pure crap.
@@nickgoode8579 i just watched cloverfield and the cloverfield paradox back to back and paradox is indeed a flaming pile of crap. It's so bad that I didn't realize I already watched it until the "arm scene" -- still didn't remember a thing till it got to her crying about stopping everything and holding "her" family -- the movie is so bad, my brain somehow pushed it from my memory
I think the original 50s thing from another world would be a good idea. Technically it's a multiverse type creature, its implied that its from another earth. Ur voice makes ur vids even better, keep up the great work
Look, guys, here's the real question: Is the Cloverfield monster a extradimensional entity as the latest movie implies, or is it still just a big fish?
i feel that this movie is still massively underappreciated. the amount of AR that went into this.....the concept was great, well delivered but the amount of interaction didn't catch on the way AR is now. this movie never needs a remake.
I love Clover as what's basically an American kaiju, but damn does it disappoint me that there's been little done with it. What has happened since the original movie? The cameo in Paradox? I think there were a few comics? That's about it. Squandered potential in my books.
Great video! Cloverfield is one of my favourite movies ever. The amazing marketing campaing brings me back a lot of memories of that year and how every little piece of information was being tracked by fans. I hope someday we get that the so-called "true sequel"
You know what's amazing? They made the footage shaky for realism back in 2008, but 13 years later I'm about to buy a couple of GoPros with very sophisticated image stabilization and a lens mod that keeps the horizon level no matter how far you turn the camera. Technology is insane!
5-10 years from now people are going to be utterly confused by the term 'shaky cam' and I remember watching the first Blair Witch and was like... wow... I feel like I'm watching the end of 3 people to a witch in the woods.
@@KingmanHighborn Yup! 🤣🤣🤣
@@KingmanHighborn Dude, I have a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K and like everyone else that owns one, I have no idea how they can sell such an incredible cinema camera for only $1,300. It's good time to be a filmmaker.
You are forgetting the Blair witch project in 1999 plus the many films predating that like Chinese cinema were using it heavily pre 2000.
@@rikorobinson I'll write the script. When are we doing this?
and that fact that they confirmed it was a baby looking for its parent was even more scary
Are you serious? Then was that larger one breaching t clouds an adult?!!
@@seventhdeadlysin3168 yes
@@seventhdeadlysin3168 it’s actually revealed to be the Same clover baby in the first movie.
@@brendagarcia8513 no, it's confirmed that the one in Cloverfield Paradox is an adult
@@gremlin_uwu it says on the internet to be confirmed to be the same one the character profile point out last appearance cloverfield paradox
Considering his work on this and The Planet of The Apes movies. Matt Reeves will do an excellent job with The Batman.
That's the year I became a dad 😳😬😳
Affleck deserved the good Batman movie
I was so confused for a sec when I read Gran Torino 😂
2008 was the arguably the best yr of the late 2000s.
@@SaurianStudios1207 Possibly the greatest year between 2000 and 2020. The year 2019 might be second place.
The theater I used to work at still used the code “Cloverfield” to notify the employees that someone had vomited lol.
As a former theater employee myself, I find this hilarious. For my old crew, we used _"Exorcist"_ for when someone blew chunks.
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Omg 🤣
I had to close my eyes a few times because I was feeling some motion sickness, but I still enjoyed the film!
God such an annoying watch. But makes total sense
This was one of my favourite monsters. Great design, lots of novel biology and then you find out it's just a baby, which totally kicks into the stratosphere.
I’d love to give some praise to the unsung hero of this movie, Hudson, who provided substantial documentation of all the events that occurred within the movie.
Hated how he died though. Died a terrifying and brutal death I wouldn't wish on my enemies if these monsters were real
@@rickriot8743 That's the kind of death you get when you tell everyone at Rob's surprise party that he slept with Beth 😂
RIP Hudson
idk, personally i found hud pretty annoying in this movie. sure he was funny but he didnt give off total terrified vibes, like this whole movie felt like hud screaming “OH MY GOD!! ARE YOU SEEING THIS????” and shit like that. love this movie though.
Same
My first date ever I was 16 and we went to see this movie. As soon as the National Guard showed up and started blasting the monster I forgot about her and was in total awe at how real it felt lol. Shame the sequels didn't have the same hype around them JJ Abrams is really hit or miss when it comes to movies.
What happened to her?
You a real one for forgetting your date and enjoying the action 😂
That’s so funny. I kind of serial dated in my senior year and I took like four different girls to this movie while it was in theaters.
@@talisdorman.9796 No one knows. No one knows.
You were 16 😂 no one cares about your underaged love life
One thing that frequently annoys me about deep sea creatures is how common it is for them to "have a very thick carapace" or "have really tough skin" because they "have to resist a lot of pressure".
When humans go very deep, we need this kind of protection, because our internal pressure is the atmospheric one, so we need to stop all that pressure to get to us, but a creature that lives in that kind of pressure has that internal pressure, it is balanced, so there is no pressure diferencial between inside and outside for it's skin to resist.
Actually, for those creatures to go to the surface, then they would need a pressurised aquarium to keep them alive.
Take a look at the blob fish to see what I'm talking about.
Yeah but I don’t think the same logic applies to creatures the size of buildings. Also it’s a movie so applying real logic to it is silly.
@@eligreg99, in this case they could simply jump the explanation.
If you give an explanation that doesn't work it just takes away from the suspension of disbelief.
You must really hate Godzilla
@@steamedyam, I don't think I've seen people saying that godzilla is résistant because he lives in the bottom of the ocean.
My problem is with the cliche explanation that doesn't work.
Yes look at jelly fish and blob fish and siphonophores. They literally explode when they get too close to the surface because they depend on the pressure for existence.
As an Air Force member for 19 years and counting, it always drove me crazy with the military basically causing NO damage to Clover, despite hitting it with HEAVY munitions and small arms fire throughout the night, including a direct hit from a carpet bombing run. Its so frustrating from any logical sense since it is a biological creature regardless of how strong it is.
Some people can't imagine the destructive power that the military has
I had the same issue, I enjoyed the movie but taking rounds and bombs that can level a city block without visible damage just irritated the hell out of me. Then again many in entertainment just think of tank guns and other military hardware as blow up machines and nothing else. They don't know tanks fire darts for armor piercing work and they don't know anti tank missiles can pierce heavily into inches of solid steel or the fact that bombers never fly that low to deliver a payload. But it sure is pretty I'll give em that
It’s why you should always just assume that their biology works around if
It’s silly but what’s the point of producing a movie where when things get tough the army kills the bad guy instantly
The problem is humans ignorance of biology which they only know a small portion of. Same with space. Your over inflating the human military due to its capacity for human killing power
"The idea for Cloverfield first came to Abrams..." Did he also get the idea for how to conclude the story in a satisfying way? Because that would be the first and only time he's come up with that.
The man is like HP Lovecraft. Gets you thinking about creepy shit and then can't end the story.
No.
People like you wouldn't be satisfied even if there was a genuine ending so shut up and accept that it began and ended the way it did instead of projecting your expectations onto everyone simply because YOU were disappointed
I know right....hey btw your movie had a great story.
You make work fly by listening to these. Should be a podcast!
I’d tune in
You must be a terrible employee! Just kidding haha
I have considered this!
Great breakdowns!!! 💯💯💯
How many subs to start a podcast?
I genuinely enjoyed all 3 films. I thought they were all interesting and different and entertaining in their own way. I would like to see more originality like this.
They're all interesting concepts, but the fact that they had Cloverfield labels slapped on them midway through production kinda sucks, considering how popular the MCU is, and a coherent Cloververse would've been really cool to see.
Technically it should've been 4 already, overlord was supposed to be part of the franchise
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They ruined the third part by trying to be woke and push all kinds of agendas into the movie. Plus a lot of things happened randomly which couldn't be explained. Like gyroscope being found later inside that dude's body. if the gyroscope was transferred soon after they used the Quantum leap thing then that guy should have died on the spot after the process was done. there's no way he could have lived after having his organ replaced with a gyroscope. And all those random horror phenomenons happening without any logic or explanation behind it. Like the metal acting like a live alien tentacle monster.
I wish Cloverfield Paradox actually dealt with the monster itself more. I understand it came from the dimensional portal or whatever they created but it just didn’t connect in my opinion. Same with 10 Cloverfield Lane. The first one is great tho. They should do a thing with this, I guess they already did it, where all the sequels are in the same timeline with the monster but it just shows how it effects all these different stories.
I think the biggest reason why this movie did well was because you got to see the monster and it was a......cool monster. It looked like a monster, it looked primal and lost to time.
This movie had some amazing scenes. The decapitation of the Statue of Liberty, the tank firing on the side street flanked by soldiers, the couple hiding under the bridge were iconic. I didn't care for the parasites, they seemed very unoriginal. Reminded me too much of the bugs in Starship Troopers.
Really? Because I kinda hate this movie lmao
@@Crazy-pl1lo No one cares plus ratio.
@@thedarkangelthe2 who?
@@Crazy-pl1lo well I replied to you did I?
Cares
The late 2000s was a hell of a time for movies. I remember seeing this with my brother. It did not disappoint.
This movie and Disturbia are 2 of my favorites from the late 2000s. I always liked Saw too but there's not many people I know that feel the same
@@JayTheGreat. Saw def was a classic.
it really was, everything coming out recently is straight up dog shit. so bad. im sure it has something to do with these writers strikes and all, but everything after 2019 or so is really not worth a watch.
"Sir we found a large monster in our ocean, should we contact the Foundation?"
Japan's current prime minister at the time: No, we can do this ourselves.
IJAMEA agents: Aw shit. Here we go again!!!
For those who don't know, (and if if this comment is based on the SCP Foundation), IJAMEA is the Imperial Japanese Anomalous Matters Examination Agency, a branch of japanese government during the WW2 era of Japan(essentially the Japanese version of GRU-P, the UIU, ORIA, or The British Occult services.)
They infact could not handle it
Should've called us smh
bring in gojira
Call for an Exterminatus
This may be an odd question, but how the hell does a Kaiju adapted for *deep* water and pressure survive out of the ocean? With effectively no pressure I have no idea how it manages, we have problems with very little in ways of water pressure.
KA-BOOOOOM! No more monster!
It's an excellent question. Having it be a deep sea organism makes less sense than it be extra terrestrial or extra dimensional. Claiming it's deep sea nature makes it bulletproof makes even less sense, as survival under high water pressures has little to do with "tough skin". Giant squid are not bulletproof. They die on the surface, and cannot move when away from the bouyancy of the ocean.
@@kevingooley9628 maybe its alien that fell to the sea
@@jacekstankiewicz1594 possible, but in the video the director said it was a deep sea life form
@@kevingooley9628 sacrificial armor? like those parasites that clings into it, some that couldn't get off? though i guess that doesn't stand up especially with the volume of fire it receives throughout the movie
Wasn't Clover part of The Mist realm of creatures from an alternate dimension/reality? Clover seems a bit large to exist so deep in our oceans where most aquatic life must adapt to extreme pressures and no light.
I hadn't considered that, but when you look at the creatures in both films, there is quite a similarity, it works well.
And then there's the third Cloverfield movie.
Which essentially was a Science Oops that _tore open holes between worlds_ in every movie that had Cloverfield in its name.
@@JoshSweetvale Were there any Easter eggs in The Mist that confirm a possible crossover between the Cloverfield universe and The Mist?
@@Springbok295 No, and there isn't. But the same type of event depicted in the ol Mist book, and Half-Life, is what caused the Cloverfield multiverse to get jumbled up.
Nope, totally separate.
This is one of the few found footage movies I actually like.
Chronicle & Troll Hunter
Movie is awesome. The girl who exploded still haunts me though 😂
Same lol…I can never watch Mean Girls the same
That whole scene was pretty hardcore for a pg13 movie there’s even a part right before that where they show a person with their torso busted open
I laughed. The entire cast was so unlikeable I rooted for the monster.
@@badlaamaurukehu ratio 😬
@@badlaamaurukehu true they were which annoyed me
Cloverfield is one of my all time favorite horror movies and I actually have my own extended cut of it with a alternate ending . And would love for you to do a explored or a explained video to the total recall remake especially the director’s cut . Because that a remake I find to be extremely underrated
Sounds good!
You can't just say that you have your own extended cut with an alternate ending without sharing it.
@@jetlag1488 the truth is I do have my own extended cut that I edited on my computer with additional footages Added in I just haven’t share it yet
@@tonymoviechappied9neillblo526 Oh now you have my attention.
@@tonymoviechappied9neillblo526 oh really?
What made this story so interesting is just how little we knew about it. They literally told us nothing in the trailer or the movie. It was so interesting and leaves you wanting more but the sequals just kind of hint at stuff. I clicked this video so fast just to get an explanation on what it all meant.
I lowkey feel like the movie “Underwater” should’ve been a part of the cloverfield franchise
There was speculation that it was going to be, especially considering there are two stars in it that had featured heavily in previous Cloverfield films. Considering the multiversal possibilities opened up by The Cloverfield Paradox, I guess you could add it to your own headcanon. I still feel the same way about Super 8 and A Quiet Place.
the said the same for that one movie overlord to which they should have tied it in
I literally just commented on the same thing bud
Underwater was fantastic I’m really bummed it didn’t do that well at the box office.
I lowkey feel like another cruddy movie is just what the franchise needs...
You seriously need to reach 1 million subs. Your content is top notch.
You're too kind! :)
@@filmcomicsexplained Well you’re very welcome! :)
I agree bro this s*** has opened me up to so many things
Word. One of my favorite channels, needs to get the kinda recognition Dead Meat gets. (Not comparing, just think these two channels are like pantheon gods of youtube horror channels)
@@brina5064 yes
Fun fact, if you play Cloverfield 1 with the Cloverfield paradox, at the same time, its cannon. When the beam shots from space from CP, IN C1 hits the same time. Pretty cool!
As a kid, I was so scared of this film because it looked so real.
In my honest opinion, this is THE best explanation of the CLOVERFIELD film and Clover. Excellently done. Just sayin'. 🇨🇦👊🏼🤙🏼
Canda ☝️👆
Honestly one of the most memorable movies I saw at theatres. I took a trip to Seattle in Feb a month after movie released. Me & my brother saw this on a whim one late morning & pretty much had the cinema to ourselves while watching! A gem of an experience.
The Clover monster reminds me of Sin from FF10, dropping deadly parasites specifically.
One of my favorite parts of that movie is when the B-2 stealth bomber start dropping cluster bombs on the Cloverfield monster.
I have to ask though, what's the point of sending a stealth bomber against an enemy that doesn't have radar?
It looked like JDAMs
@@Shanbo26 Within film logic, it simply looked cool to send a stealth bomber because it has a cool design to show off.
Within a possible in-universe explanation, they probably literally just sent in any available jet with a bomber design ready on the go, and probably that stealth bomber was one of the few things available.
Frankly a bigger complaint to be made is, outside of the chosen ammunition, the fact that it moves in VERY danger close to the bombs its dropping, usually jets fitted with bombs and various other explosive ordinance engage a given enemy position from kilometres far up in the skies, using laser guided technology to stream in the upmost accurate bombing possible with the least risk of being shutdown by enemy AA, only when they do strafing runs with their main guns they start to move in relatively close to their targets.
I presume that if such a creature were to be engaged "somewhat" realistically, it would be with an incessant stream of explosive ordinance sent in by jets and drones, the US Airforce has loads of this stuff to send off nearly at any moment, without counting ground missiles fired from safe positions.
@@Shanbo26 good point. I assumed it was because the bomber was the only thing available with the capacity for the payload. Considering that the other jets were likely either overseas in other parts of the world or they were already in the airspace and trying to target the monster with whatever munitions they have. Maybe the bomber was the only thing available and could be loaded up with enough ordinance to drop in a run while other large capacity planes were used to evacuate the area.
yes
The fun Thing is Clovi is a little Kid basically.And you already need Very heavy Artillery to kill him. MOABs probably
It survived the nuke, don't think MOAB would kill it
@@Archer89201 Clover was killed in the end of the movie, the director confirmed it
@@Archer89201 was it a nuke??? I don't think it was. I haven't seen this movie in a long time but a nuke would cause a lot more damage. Even an atom bomb which isn't as powerful as modern nukes is way more powerful than the bombs used to kill it.
@@ramongonzalez1564 According to Cloverpedia
Prior to the beginning of the protocol, Mk-82 general purpose bombs were used against the LSA. A number of eighty bombs were dropped in a single bombing run by a B-2 Spirit.[2]
According to the case notes from the investigation of the footage that survived the protocol, the HAMMERDOWN Protocol used "significantly heavier ordinance" than that witnessed by Hudson Platt from the evacuation helicopter.
So we dont really know what Bombs are used for Hammerdown Protocol
@@anaschibani1338 really? What happened about that Easter egg at the end where there was a radio call saying it’s still alive
What I loved that it captured New York City in 2008 perfectly. I lived in Brooklyn at the time the movie was coming out and I was a child, I remember watching it and thinking how real it looked
The deep sea origin just makes it's ability to function so well in such a different environment seem off to me.
Right? Really takes away from the creature IMO. If it was an alien its strength and invulnerability can be explained away. As an earth born (somehow?) deep sea creature it makes no sense that it would be so invulnerable. Deep sea creatures are paper thin in reality. I haven’t seen the extra content or third movie so maybe there’s some explanation as to why it’s unkillable by conventional weapons
I love this movie and the creature attacking the city so happy to see you reviewing this classic monster movie.
Anytime Damian!
@@filmcomicsexplained your welcome you should do an update video on the boys with season 3 coming out !
"classic" are we getting old?
@@RustyShackleford051 yes, i was 11 when this came out and i’m going to be 25, thats not like OLD OLD but it’s pretty old
It stood out for me. Ignoring the lack of destruction and impact on the monster from the military, I loved the base idea and how it was done.
I would agree. But it was done good enough to suspend my disbelief.
Clover: destroying the city.
Gipsy Danger: *sigh* where is it?
I love love loved this movie
Definitely a great rewatch every time
One of the best movies that has gotten even better with age.
Ah, J.J. It's because of you that many story tellers now think it's still a story if none of the questions get answered and the story is without an actual ending.
So True. Though I think Lovecraft started it. Even Stephen King shit on him for not knowing how to end a story. At least JJ does some things considered original.
@@Upsideround
I don't agree. For a start "At least JJ does some things original" on the heels of mentioning Lovecraft? Lovecraft was quite good at original concepts as a whole and is widely regarded as the father of cosmic horror, which was a pretty original thing to have done.
As for how his stories might end, I think it's important to recognise that they're very frequently written as letters, not stories. That's a clear "Out" for the sake of some authenticity. It would be needed in most cases.
Nuclear bomb isn’t an ending?
Cloverfield is an awesome, unique series. The ending is especially unique.
The clover field film series is really good, I hope they have more in the works
A lot of people give this movie shit because of the shaky cam when that would that would literally be any home video footage during this scenario, even when you have a video on your phone doing something exciting the camera is bound to shake at least once. Call me on board for the direct sequel hype train
but you wouldn't show your cell phone video for 90min in a theater.
@@Upsideround it’s just an example it doesn’t really mean its 90 minutes long
@@spicyshark so was my comment. an example. I liked the movie but when people get sick it's overdone. imo. That said with the amount of youtube people watch now days I don't think a shaky cam would effect people the same as it did.
@@Upsideround fair point
I always felt like "found footage" films were cheap, but Cloverfield managed to not feel cheap-- but still looked like it.
Hard to imagine that now with how cameras have all these anti-shaking systems, the shaky-cam is unrealistic.
One of my favorite love stories of all time. Thanks for the video
I applaud the creators’ creativity to keep coming up with different ways to go along with these movies. Each movie appeals to a different genre. 1st was found footage action and horror with a strong emphasis on growing characters, 2nd was a physiological thriller that played with your mind with also an emphasis on character, and the 3rd was a space action movie with (most importantly) some more backstory to the monsters. They all brought something new to the table, which is why someone could like one of these but not the other. I personally liked the 1st and 2nd better because they were more original ideas imo but I see why the 3rd one was necessary as it basically explained everything that was needed to understand this universe better, for the average viewer that hasn’t read into the lore. I highly recommend though that you definitely watch 1 and 2 BEFORE 3 since you will probably be confused watching it and thus end up not liking it as much because you didn’t understand it. All in all, the cloverfield series has a really good take on the “sequel” premise with originality not seen in other franchises. If you take in the fact that these movies are’t really meant to be compared between each other in terms of action or other factors, I can guarantee you that you will have a much funner time watching these movies. 1 and 2 are really top tier original cinema though imo :)
The sequel was originally it's own movie, but was produced by Bad Robot, and they decided to make it part of Cloverfield.
When I first saw Cloverfield I had no idea what to expect and at the time it was the scariest most believable movie I had ever seen.
when it originally released there was a website for the slurpo company that the main character was going to work for. its a beverage company that says they drill for their secret ingredient right outside of new york, and the quote is "stomach bursting good" led everyone to believe that the drilling awoke the monster
That’s awesome!
i was one of those who got sick watching this,, i never threw up but 20 min in i had to close my eyes and just listen to the rest of the movie. i would have left but i was with friends.
Extremely well done discussion of many things we already knew, but discussed in a well written narrative with insight and logical progression. A pleasure to subscribe!!!
One of my all time favorites. I love how the screenwriters didn’t feel the need to create a villain in humans. Even the military shows their humanity by letting them go. For all the reasons many stated the movie was epic.
A proper sequel to the 1st one would be awesome to watch.
That movie is in development right now
The movie is actually in development but it keeps getting delayed, it’s going to 100% come because the public want it but it will probably be a while just like we waited a while for the 3rd cloverfield
I get why people hate the shaky cam, but I absolutely love it! Quarantine is kinda similar if I remember correctly.. loved it then too!
My favorite piece of the Cloverfield campaign was the weirdo slusho site which had bizarre descriptions of this japanese company's discovery of the special flavor ingredients of their frozen drink, coming deep from the ocean. The site was just...idk, everything seemed a little odd about it.
I had bought this film from a bargain dvd stall a month ago and was planning on watching it in half an hour. This popping up on my feed was surreal.
Where's Godzilla when you need him
Ong
This film has some genuinely amazing scenes.
Amazing content as always. Would you cover the island and lore of Lost?
Yeah I've been meaning to, but its been a decade since I last saw an episode. Would have to re-watch the entire series first! :)
@@filmcomicsexplained Probably have to do a couple of videos if you did. There’s a lot there.
"They had to learn to do things less perfectly." Little did they know, JJ would master that concept in the future.
Not gonna lie , the concept of Cloverfield would be a kickass VR game lol
Someone was making one a year after this came out but idk what happened to it
@@angelfuturejobimgin if cloverfeild cou wrk first person survival horror gsme
My favorite film of all time! I don't hold my breathe for a direct sequel..
I love this movie and I like how many people in the comment section expressing their love for this movie. Especially after all this time when I watched many videos about Cloverfield, and found out that it's actually being hated by everyone.
Man I remember going to see this with my dad back in 08 and being horrified. This was back when found footage films were so new and fresh and it just made the whole experience so much more terrifying.
Imagine a Cloverfield movie set like 1500 or 2000 years in the past... other monsters coming from other dimensions crashing into the past, creating all the legendary monsters in Greek, Egyptian and Norse mythology 😲
I fondly remember keeping up to tabs with 1/18/08 news back in the day and all the slusho marketing it was all great
You should do a video on the 2016 film Shin Godzilla, it’s another kaiju movie with a lot of mystery behind the monster as well.
Well, the fact that the monster is a scared little baby changes everything!!
I actually enjoyed the Cloverfield series. I remember the 1-18-08 trailer in theaters.
I never knew about the marketing for this film but I loved it
Saw this soon as it uploaded
I saw this at the cinema when it came out. It really does make a difference seeing it on the big screen.
Thanks for continuing the great content. There was nothing to watch today!
No worries! Hope you enjoyed it!
The only thing about this that is really unrealistic (expect the gigantic monster) is how would a animal that huge survive, like what would it eat?
Whales? And other unidentified sea creature maybe
@@kchuckles1 would have to eat a lot of whale, probably constant eating… which would probably be noticed right?
Rewatched this movie recently, got me thinking, 1 how good of a found footage movie it is, and 2 how did such a horrifying monster for 2008 become what it is.
The found footage always gets me.. just watched this masterpieces..
One of the first movies I remember seeing with friends. Freaking awesome
Omg your that young........I'm going to cry. Lol
So good!
Nice, just rewatched Cloverfield on Saturday!
I am always said that Abrams has ability to make good original content. Outside of his tendency for lack of payoff on them notwithstanding, far superior to when he takes the reins of pre-existing franchises. He should leave those alone
This is my favorite found footage movie. A very solid kaiju movie
Idk why but this movie is the only one where I’m genuinely uncomfortable and freaked out while watching it
The viral marketing for this movie was incredible. On the day of the movie's release they even changed Hud's height on his MySpace profile to 2'6" because he had been bitten in half by Clover.
Cloverfield was such a fun movie, but god damn was 10 Cloverfield Lane incredible
the cloverfield paradox is way better than 10 cloverfield lane.
I love all of them for unique reasons each. I think that’s why I like the franchise so much. Each entry could stand on its own as a unique story. They don’t rely on each other much.
@@user-xj3mo2lx9z are you smoking crack? 10 clover field lane was brilliant. Best film of 2016 imo. Probably John Goodmans best work. The clover field paradox is pure crap.
@@nickgoode8579 i just watched cloverfield and the cloverfield paradox back to back and paradox is indeed a flaming pile of crap. It's so bad that I didn't realize I already watched it until the "arm scene" -- still didn't remember a thing till it got to her crying about stopping everything and holding "her" family -- the movie is so bad, my brain somehow pushed it from my memory
Happy to see more videos diving into Cloverfield show up again
One of my all tine favorite movies.
I think the original 50s thing from another world would be a good idea. Technically it's a multiverse type creature, its implied that its from another earth. Ur voice makes ur vids even better, keep up the great work
Now they are saying on the 15 year anniversary that it is infact alien
Shakey cam is so bad now that Cloverfield looks smooth and stable.
This movie is very unrealistic. Whole plot is based on the unrealistic assumption that he would go and save his ex
I really hope they do a proper follow up to cloverfield straight after the events of the first film.
Unfortunate that the Sequels Sucked.
What an amazing movie this was. Definitely one of my favorite all-time.
it's me blitza but i have a different PFP and name, i love Cloverfield
I really enjoyed this movie, wish they’d make more.
The real Clover were the friends we lost along the way.
We were the real monsters
I need to watch this again... one of my favourite movies
Look, guys, here's the real question: Is the Cloverfield monster a extradimensional entity as the latest movie implies, or is it still just a big fish?
A big fish/Deep Sea Creature. The third movie made no sense at all and tried to kill the first movie's origin for Clover.
But its Canon. So in facts the Monster came out of a "Portal"
i feel that this movie is still massively underappreciated. the amount of AR that went into this.....the concept was great, well delivered but the amount of interaction didn't catch on the way AR is now. this movie never needs a remake.
I love Clover as what's basically an American kaiju, but damn does it disappoint me that there's been little done with it. What has happened since the original movie? The cameo in Paradox? I think there were a few comics? That's about it. Squandered potential in my books.
I guess you can say he’s CLOVERLEY thinking a well thought out plan
Hell yeah love this movie 🤘 👽
Great video! Cloverfield is one of my favourite movies ever. The amazing marketing campaing brings me back a lot of memories of that year and how every little piece of information was being tracked by fans. I hope someday we get that the so-called "true sequel"