I think footage movies like this are the correct way to approach chaotic horror cuz it makes it more inmersive than watching it from a steady angle and lacking information about the plot just like the characters is far more interesting
I remember being obsessed with this movie and the ARG. I raced to the theater to see this opening night (Thursday) at a midnight showing...and I was the only one there.😅 I still love this movie to this day.
I was 10 or 9 when i first watched cloverfield, i couldn't sleep cause i had to sleep in my uncles room for the night, i had his ipod which was the small squared ones and he had the movie downloaded on there, i remember being so into it, having earpods and had the ipod so close to my face cause of the small screen. Since i was pretty young i pretty much thought it was completely real and was something that took place in new york in the past lol i even told my mom about it if she was alive when it happened lmao but it was such a thrill when i first watched it. My favorite monster movie for sure
Right now I can think of only 2 movies where the marketing was quite mysterious, in a good, unique way. "Cloverfield & War of the Worlds", because both didn't show the threat or spoil the holy shit out of it. When I watched both in theater, it realy surprised me. It also surprised me they didn't go any further than just that 1 movie, so the mystery-box BS is also a problem for no reason.
I had a pretty similar experience in watching cloverfield, my sister had asked if I wanted to watch a movie and put on a random movie from Netflix. I didn’t pay much attention in the beginning because again, it was pretty average and then I heard the panic. I loved clover field so much. It felt so genuine and it definitely kept me interested. It took me months, maybe years to find out about clover field paradox when I found it scrolling through random movies on Netflix. I was so excited I ran to my sisters room telling her there was more. But no matter what, neither of the other two movies/series encapsulated that same feeling. It took me until last year to find out there even was an arg! Loved this video, I can’t wait for your deep dive into the arg! I usually keep these video essays as background noise but you definitely also kept my attention. Awesome work!
I remember seeing this trailer. Everyone was silent when the Statue of Liberty head went sliding past the camera. Of course I had to go to the movie theater to see it.
@@unknowndirector7207 Yeah I thought the same until you mentioned you reached 220 subs and i was like, what? I checked you subs count found it it was 369.
I remember watching "Cloverfield" when i was 14. I was soooo intriguied by it's style and sense of mysteries! I was especially curious about the whole biology of the creature. Like, where did it come from, how does it's functionality work? Such a good film
I seem to recall somewhere on the dvd extras it was revealed that the monster was a baby. And the monster was always shown going north, from the New York harbor to the Brooklyn Bridge to Grand Central and finally to Central Park. So how did the huge towers on Columbus Circle, on the southwest corner of Central Park, get destroyed? I figured it was the monster’s mother and baby monster was following her scent. “I want my Mama!”
The first Cloverfield movie was definitely an awesome and highly underrated monster flick. Loved 10 Cloverfield Lane, too ... the third one was kinda weird but I really like the way it tied into everything from the other movies :P
I would love more movies like cloverfield, i remember being so fascinated with this movie back in the day. It was really fun having this in the time when there was no godzilla and i do miss it.
I bought this on DVD having vaguely heard about it, but never having seen it. At first, as the party scene went on and on and nothing really happened, I thought, well, this is 'great'. . . But then we got the rooftop scene, and from then I was hooked. I can honestly say that, as you don't see the creature all that much, it truely is scary, and I was tensed up all throiugh the film. I didn't even mind the enigmatic ending, and if you wait long enough for the end credits musical theme, 'Roar' to begin. . . WOW! I have never seen the other movies so I can't comment on them, but Cloverfield is a real masterpiece of the monster horror genre.
I watched Cloverfiled back when I was a godzilla fan in 2010 I think. When I had a 3 day vacation on NYC for an Anime Con, On the first night I watch cloverfiled lol
Godzilla would probably be able to kill these things But the alien aspect of this universe is very interesting My guess, that it's all connected, aliens plant the seeds and come on check on their creation
I was neck deep in the discussion about the film on the original Cloverfield Forums. It was so much fun to talk to people about the ARG and all the things they could pick rewatching the film.
Also, JJ is even sillier because… I love kaiju movies. I loved Pacific Rim. I loved shin Godzilla and Godzilla minus, kong skull island, the American Godzilla movies. I love loved Cloverfield. Fans of the others would’ve been drawn to it.
I´m gonna be honest, i would have loved this movie if the guy holding the camera would not have been so insufferable. Trying to hit on the other girl (come on man, not really the best moment to do that), constantly making stupid remarks and following his friend around like a puppy, calling him all the time. I spent half of the movie hoping he would just die and let someone else use the camera and the second part resigned to the fact that would not happen (at least untill the end of the movie).
I always likened the film to a sort of allegory of the opioid crisis. Company decides to put trace amounts of a crazy addictive chemical into snack foods. (Bet you can't eat just one!) and all Hell breaks loose. At least what I pieced together from the ARG. Except the plant being sourced was all that was keeping the 'Bloop creature' at bay. It went into agonizing withdrawal and seeks out a source of that chemical... Which is now only available in 'scream flavor' :|
The irony is the animal is likely entirely herbivorous in its natural state. There are some pants staining parts in that ARG where you find out the snack food company tested high concentrations of the chemical on humans and they 'bashed themselves into mush' banging against the walls of their cells trying to get out to obtain a bump.
yup! I loved this movie and how I went down the rabbit hole. Same with "Super 8" when it comes to searching for answers. I did enjoy the "10 Cloverfield Ln" because some of the clues left behind was connected towards the website.
Cool tribute vid!! Seen this one multiple times. Really like the found footage angle.. it sure beats Godzilla 1998, that one's atrocious. Emmerich dropped the ball there big time.. Really liked what Gareth Edwards did with Godzilla 2014. Unsure if Cloverfield direct sequel gonna happen still...
wait...did somebody lose cloverfield? *checks behind skyscraper* nope. nope -not lost, here she is! ...still confounding those of us who spent (wasted?) the time on the bloody ARPG(s) and tried to sloppily fit the malformed jigsaw pieces of Cloverfield Lane (which was arguably better) and Cloverfield Paradox (which was objectively worse) *sighs* whilst waiting for the true sequel promised by jj 13 years after teasing us with the post-production decisions on the aforementioned subsequent Cloverfield films to force them into the franchise (with bad to middlin' results)... Cloverfield is a great film and fantastic representation of its genres (both kaiju and found-footage alike), but IMHO the massive potential of JJ Abrams and the Cloverfield franchise (if one could really call it that) has been wasted, and I feel that the time to strike while the iron was hot as it were has long since past.
100% disagree. I was excited for this one with all the build-up. What I got was a generic short movie lacking interesting characters, good actors or any coherent plot.
Didnt see the movie back then because of the incoherent trailers. What was revealed here today, I was lucky to never waste any time on this for a) such a large creature could hardly feed underwater without beeing noticed but more severely, b) could not stand nor move like this above water when it had evolved to live underwater. This movie is just an offense to any intelligent viewer. Oh wait, its from JJ Abrams, who has become notorious for this kind of mischief, so no wonder.
@@redpillnibbler4423 Thanks for the info. That could count as an explanation, but as this clue wasnt given in the same movie, I would still have felt given a runaround back then.
I walked out. The shaking of the camera was too much. The acting wasn't really all that good and neither was the writing. A giant bat dropping spider babies was it for me.
2nd movie is good, but a bad sequel, even though it isn't a sequel at all, so a kinda nothing-burger. Sequel to that might be nice, though. 3rd movie is a bad joke, though the concept of damaging the space/time gobbledygook, so "monsters" from somewhere else can slip through, is kinda nice. But it's not "Cloverfield", so bad. The brainfart to just buy whatever IP & connect it to the 1st movie, without connecting it, is peak stupidity & laziness, going the dark, dramatic, realistic way, just to switch to multiverse-shenanigans, Tier 1 buffoonery. I realy hope they completely ignore the 3rd one. Still so very weird they never did just a simple continuation before, not even animated, or a comic. There is a manga, but let's not go there, that's a strange thing & even less "Cloverfield".
Cloverfield is an unwatchable pile of dung. Yeah, god knows if Godzilla were attacking my city, the first thing on my mind would be making sure I filmed by friend breaking up with his girlfriend . Found footage has always sucked, and it sucked ten times harder with JJ Abrams involved.
Sheeesh your channel popped off with this one congrats!!
Thank you! :)
I think footage movies like this are the correct way to approach chaotic horror cuz it makes it more inmersive than watching it from a steady angle and lacking information about the plot just like the characters is far more interesting
The monster is significant smaller than pretty much any other monster in modern cinema but it feels so much larger because of the perspective.
I remember being obsessed with this movie and the ARG.
I raced to the theater to see this opening night (Thursday) at a midnight showing...and I was the only one there.😅
I still love this movie to this day.
Same to all of that! To the point where all my screen names are Phantoms_In_15 - a reference only real Cloverfield fans would get
This movie is without a doubt one of the best found footage movies, I've ever seen.
Easily.
I was 10 or 9 when i first watched cloverfield, i couldn't sleep cause i had to sleep in my uncles room for the night, i had his ipod which was the small squared ones and he had the movie downloaded on there, i remember being so into it, having earpods and had the ipod so close to my face cause of the small screen. Since i was pretty young i pretty much thought it was completely real and was something that took place in new york in the past lol i even told my mom about it if she was alive when it happened lmao but it was such a thrill when i first watched it. My favorite monster movie for sure
Right now I can think of only 2 movies where the marketing was quite mysterious, in a good, unique way.
"Cloverfield & War of the Worlds", because both didn't show the threat or spoil the holy shit out of it. When I watched both in theater, it realy surprised me.
It also surprised me they didn't go any further than just that 1 movie, so the mystery-box BS is also a problem for no reason.
If Bad Robot would just make a direct sequel I think it would be huge!
I‘ve heard they’re making a direct sequel, but it won’t be a found footage movie!
Cloverfield is one of those movies i can and have repeatedly watched.
I do rewatch it and it never gets old 👍
I once watched this 2 times back to back. Can confirm.
This movie is better than Godzilla 2014
I had a pretty similar experience in watching cloverfield, my sister had asked if I wanted to watch a movie and put on a random movie from Netflix. I didn’t pay much attention in the beginning because again, it was pretty average and then I heard the panic. I loved clover field so much. It felt so genuine and it definitely kept me interested. It took me months, maybe years to find out about clover field paradox when I found it scrolling through random movies on Netflix. I was so excited I ran to my sisters room telling her there was more. But no matter what, neither of the other two movies/series encapsulated that same feeling. It took me until last year to find out there even was an arg! Loved this video, I can’t wait for your deep dive into the arg! I usually keep these video essays as background noise but you definitely also kept my attention. Awesome work!
Thank you! :)
Shocked this didn’t have over 200k views when I finished it, amazing vid and I hope it blows up soon 🎉
Haha thank you!
The best thing about Transformers. The teaser for this. The crowd went nuts.
I remember seeing this trailer. Everyone was silent when the Statue of Liberty head went sliding past the camera. Of course I had to go to the movie theater to see it.
dude this is great. I miss going through old videos of people breaking down the lore and impact of this film. KEEP IT UP!!!
oh damn i thought you had 324K subs instead of 324 subs, this is a really well made video tbh
Haha thank you
@@unknowndirector7207 Yeah I thought the same until you mentioned you reached 220 subs and i was like, what? I checked you subs count found it it was 369.
I really enjoyed your video. I loved Cloverfield from the first time I watched it. It's just so good
It has great rewatch value too.
I remember watching "Cloverfield" when i was 14. I was soooo intriguied by it's style and sense of mysteries! I was especially curious about the whole biology of the creature. Like, where did it come from, how does it's functionality work? Such a good film
Remember when people thought there were two monsters?
Good times.
And having a hard time figuring out how the monster looks like
I seem to recall somewhere on the dvd extras it was revealed that the monster was a baby. And the monster was always shown going north, from the New York harbor to the Brooklyn Bridge to Grand Central and finally to Central Park. So how did the huge towers on Columbus Circle, on the southwest corner of Central Park, get destroyed? I figured it was the monster’s mother and baby monster was following her scent. “I want my Mama!”
The first Cloverfield movie was definitely an awesome and highly underrated monster flick. Loved 10 Cloverfield Lane, too ... the third one was kinda weird but I really like the way it tied into everything from the other movies :P
Yes,I loved the first two - Paradox was good but not great.
It's one of those movies you remember was extremely good and wonder how did you forgot to recommend it so now you have to watch it again lol
KEEP CLOVERFIELD COMING
It’s not lost. It’s on my blu ray shelf
So YOUV’E got it !!
I would love more movies like cloverfield, i remember being so fascinated with this movie back in the day. It was really fun having this in the time when there was no godzilla and i do miss it.
so many new creators! hope you have a nice grow here
Thank you :)
Movie idea Godzilla vs Cloverfield who else would like to see this fight
I mean let’s be real Godzilla would wreck his shit and he basically already fought 2 Cloverfield esque monsters in 2014.
Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby
I bought this on DVD having vaguely heard about it, but never having seen it. At first, as the party scene went on and on and nothing really happened, I thought, well, this is 'great'. . . But then we got the rooftop scene, and from then I was hooked. I can honestly say that, as you don't see the creature all that much, it truely is scary, and I was tensed up all throiugh the film. I didn't even mind the enigmatic ending, and if you wait long enough for the end credits musical theme, 'Roar' to begin. . . WOW! I have never seen the other movies so I can't comment on them, but Cloverfield is a real masterpiece of the monster horror genre.
Think it's a bit of a push to describe cloverfield as "lost"
I think it gets overshadowed by the quality of 10 cloverfield lane. More people seem to remember the marketing than the movie itself
I watched Cloverfiled back when I was a godzilla fan in 2010 I think. When I had a 3 day vacation on NYC for an Anime Con, On the first night I watch cloverfiled lol
Godzilla would probably be able to kill these things
But the alien aspect of this universe is very interesting
My guess, that it's all connected, aliens plant the seeds and come on check on their creation
One of my favorite movies ever
I was neck deep in the discussion about the film on the original Cloverfield Forums. It was so much fun to talk to people about the ARG and all the things they could pick rewatching the film.
Cloverfiled is one of the best giant monster movies ever made!
Also, JJ is even sillier because… I love kaiju movies. I loved Pacific Rim. I loved shin Godzilla and Godzilla minus, kong skull island, the American Godzilla movies. I love loved Cloverfield. Fans of the others would’ve been drawn to it.
One of my biggest regrets was not seeing this movie in the theaters
I´m gonna be honest, i would have loved this movie if the guy holding the camera would not have been so insufferable. Trying to hit on the other girl (come on man, not really the best moment to do that), constantly making stupid remarks and following his friend around like a puppy, calling him all the time. I spent half of the movie hoping he would just die and let someone else use the camera and the second part resigned to the fact that would not happen (at least untill the end of the movie).
Yeah, that's what happens when you cast T.J. Miller. Just a lot of forced jokes.
He didn’t bother me to be honest.Besides which he got a memorable send off.😅
Bro this is a qualify video you’re gonna have like 25K subs with content like this
I always likened the film to a sort of allegory of the opioid crisis. Company decides to put trace amounts of a crazy addictive chemical into snack foods. (Bet you can't eat just one!) and all Hell breaks loose. At least what I pieced together from the ARG.
Except the plant being sourced was all that was keeping the 'Bloop creature' at bay. It went into agonizing withdrawal and seeks out a source of that chemical... Which is now only available in 'scream flavor' :|
The irony is the animal is likely entirely herbivorous in its natural state. There are some pants staining parts in that ARG where you find out the snack food company tested high concentrations of the chemical on humans and they 'bashed themselves into mush' banging against the walls of their cells trying to get out to obtain a bump.
Im not gonna lie. I watch this now and again 😅
yup! I loved this movie and how I went down the rabbit hole. Same with "Super 8" when it comes to searching for answers. I did enjoy the "10 Cloverfield Ln" because some of the clues left behind was connected towards the website.
To me I consider it a modern retelling of the story of Seigfried
One reason I love this movie it feels like an ARG turned movie
It’s a gem but it’s not lost!
This was a nice idea, but the shaky cam gave me a headache.
......FACTS
Cool tribute vid!! Seen this one multiple times. Really like the found footage angle.. it sure beats Godzilla 1998, that one's atrocious. Emmerich dropped the ball there big time..
Really liked what Gareth Edwards did with Godzilla 2014. Unsure if Cloverfield direct sequel gonna happen still...
#333 sub right here! 🎉
Haha cheers!
I mixed this movie up with The Happening
Ah yes - because they are almost exactly the same arn’t they?
😅
Good movie and a great video to match it
Haha thank you!
I have not forgotten still one of my favorite movies.
Godzilla still wins.
wait...did somebody lose cloverfield? *checks behind skyscraper* nope. nope -not lost, here she is!
...still confounding those of us who spent (wasted?) the time on the bloody ARPG(s) and tried to sloppily fit the malformed jigsaw pieces of Cloverfield Lane (which was arguably better) and Cloverfield Paradox (which was objectively worse) *sighs* whilst waiting for the true sequel promised by jj 13 years after teasing us with the post-production decisions on the aforementioned subsequent Cloverfield films to force them into the franchise (with bad to middlin' results)... Cloverfield is a great film and fantastic representation of its genres (both kaiju and found-footage alike), but IMHO the massive potential of JJ Abrams and the Cloverfield franchise (if one could really call it that) has been wasted, and I feel that the time to strike while the iron was hot as it were has long since past.
100% disagree. I was excited for this one with all the build-up.
What I got was a generic short movie lacking interesting characters, good actors or any coherent plot.
Didnt see the movie back then because of the incoherent trailers. What was revealed here today, I was lucky to never waste any time on this for
a) such a large creature could hardly feed underwater without beeing noticed but more severely,
b) could not stand nor move like this above water when it had evolved to live underwater.
This movie is just an offense to any intelligent viewer. Oh wait, its from JJ Abrams, who has become notorious for this kind of mischief, so no wonder.
It probably came through a portal from another dimension,as partially explained in The Cloverfield Paradox.
@@redpillnibbler4423 Thanks for the info. That could count as an explanation, but as this clue wasnt given in the same movie, I would still have felt given a runaround back then.
I walked out. The shaking of the camera was too much. The acting wasn't really all that good and neither was the writing. A giant bat dropping spider babies was it for me.
LOST 😅 ?
No, I have a map (I'll see myself out)
Cloverfeld: 4/10 *(getting bored fast)*
10 Cloverfield Lane: 10/10 *(THIS IS CINEMA)*
Cloverfield Paradox: 0/10 *(Apeshit)*
I think Cloverfield is at least a 6/10. it’s dumb fun. But 10 cloverfield lane is peak cinema
2nd movie is good, but a bad sequel, even though it isn't a sequel at all, so a kinda nothing-burger. Sequel to that might be nice, though.
3rd movie is a bad joke, though the concept of damaging the space/time gobbledygook, so "monsters" from somewhere else can slip through, is kinda nice. But it's not "Cloverfield", so bad.
The brainfart to just buy whatever IP & connect it to the 1st movie, without connecting it, is peak stupidity & laziness, going the dark, dramatic, realistic way, just to switch to multiverse-shenanigans, Tier 1 buffoonery.
I realy hope they completely ignore the 3rd one.
Still so very weird they never did just a simple continuation before, not even animated, or a comic. There is a manga, but let's not go there, that's a strange thing & even less "Cloverfield".
even south park made fun of this crap
South Park made fun of everything that's why it's awesome
Atleast "this crap" is better than South Park
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Should stay lost
Cloverfield is an unwatchable pile of dung. Yeah, god knows if Godzilla were attacking my city, the first thing on my mind would be making sure I filmed by friend breaking up with his girlfriend . Found footage has always sucked, and it sucked ten times harder with JJ Abrams involved.
Get a load of this loser 🫵🤡
shaky cam movies like blair witch project are garbage. not good or lost gems. if it was a gem it wouldnt be lost
Congratulations on being certified brain-dead
Found footage movies, this one included, are garbage
U have no taste in films
L take
@BB-oh6ho
Does it hurt to drag your knuckles around all day 😆