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xboyonfirex
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airteff wrote:
Yeah I said when I first heard the title Cloverfield that it sounded like a government designation for a case.
What I ment in my comment was the numbering 447 etc. I would imagine there are higher numbers
It's definitely something that they could play off of... I mean, with a beginning like that, we don't need a "To be Continued..." aura of an ending. It already sets it up for multiple attacks.
And perhaps the monster does die. The very first Godzilla dies, but it leaves it in a way that sets the movie up for sequels.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:38 am
Red Walrus
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Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 589
One thing to consider is site 447 is not all of New York or the New York attack, it is only one place in New York -- Central Park. If the military are trying to peice together what happened there may well be 447 points of interest in New York itself stemming from the attack. Everyplace the monster hit could have its' own site number. Every place that showed signs of the smaller monsters could have its' own site number. If it's a through investigation the points of interest would be in the hundreds at least. Just a thought.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:15 am
xboyonfirex
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Red Walrus wrote:
One thing to consider is site 447 is not all of New York or the New York attack, it is only one place in New York -- Central Park. If the military are trying to peice together what happened there may well be 447 points of interest in New York itself stemming from the attack. Everyplace the monster hit could have its' own site number. Every place that showed signs of the smaller monsters could have its' own site number. If it's a through investigation the points of interest would be in the hundreds at least. Just a thought.
also, 447 could consist of many, many images of the monster... I mean, everything and [almost] everyone has a camera now-a-days. Each incident could just be a different angle/story of how the incident happened.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:19 am
StayPuftMarshmallowMan
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Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 199
xboyonfirex wrote:
Red Walrus wrote:
One thing to consider is site 447 is not all of New York or the New York attack, it is only one place in New York -- Central Park. If the military are trying to peice together what happened there may well be 447 points of interest in New York itself stemming from the attack. Everyplace the monster hit could have its' own site number. Every place that showed signs of the smaller monsters could have its' own site number. If it's a through investigation the points of interest would be in the hundreds at least. Just a thought.
also, 447 could consist of many, many images of the monster... I mean, everything and [almost] everyone has a camera now-a-days. Each incident could just be a different angle/story of how the incident happened.
I like both theories but i just dont believe they would label each point of view with a different number. Also I think they would just New York City as just one site. I think 447 is just like area 51. Are there 50 more areas around the world like that, i'm not sure. However that 447 different areas could be right because it says formerly known as Central Park not New York City. So each area of NYC is labeled with a number.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:27 am
InAFieldofClover
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Re: [Spec] anyone get the feeling this movie will end.....
Snyde Comment wrote:
hey guys,
does anyone else get the feeling that the movie will end with the monster still being alive
Well, JJ did say that he wanted "Cloverfield" to be the American version of "Godzilla" in terms of iconic status, so it would make sense that GrumpyPants will be returning. (though that's also dependent on how successful the film is as well) In this day and age of American pop culture, I'm not sure that one film would do the trick to bring "Cloverfield" as close to "Godzilla" status as possible. The American public these days are of an "out of sight, out of mind" consciousness.
Whether further films are related to this one, in terms of GrumpyPants surviving to wreak havoc on other areas/countries/cities around the same date, is up to debate. To me, the text before the trailer lends itself to that theory. And if that's the case, it might be that Bad Robot is setting up the possibility of sequels if the film is successful. This film and its subsequent sequels, in that context, could make for some pretty interesting storytelling in that it might play out like a television series, picking up where each one left off. I would personally like that and I wouldn't put it past Bad Robot to conjure up such a concept. After all, every season of "LOST" has picked up where the last one left off, taking place only days after the conclusion to each previous season in the "LOST" universe.
That'd be pretty cool, as I said, and would hook the fickle public into returning for each film.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:34 am
JookNy21
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Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Posts: 238 Location: Brooklyn New York
About the labeling also, I think its just different types of cases throughout the US which now like evidence, the government has taken over, not that the monster attacked numerous locations, which some people are saying. For example, the 9/11 attacks could be labeled as case designate "War on Terror" at Incident Site U.S. "341" and The Pentagon attack is Incident Site U.S. "342". Im just throwing up numbers for reference purposes. It could be numerically like (9/11)"445", (pentagon)"446" then (cloverfield)"447" and so on. Either way its just how the government classifies a certain "attack" or incident and provides the location as well, for quick reference.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:55 am
airteff
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Joined: 30 Nov 2007 Posts: 156
Red Walrus wrote:
One thing to consider is site 447 is not all of New York or the New York attack, it is only one place in New York -- Central Park. If the military are trying to peice together what happened there may well be 447 points of interest in New York itself stemming from the attack. Everyplace the monster hit could have its' own site number. Every place that showed signs of the smaller monsters could have its' own site number. If it's a through investigation the points of interest would be in the hundreds at least. Just a thought.
Yeah I think they have it all sectioned off and numbered Central Park happens to be 447. But I think there are more than 447 and the fact that it is US 447 leads me to believe Cloverfield 2:Electric Boogaloo will be international. I also think the fact that it is US 447 means there is more US destruction than just New York cuz then they would just call it NY 447.
No I don't think they'll call it Electric Boogaloo
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 3:28 am
hawkeye41
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Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 13
airteff wrote:
Cloverfield 2:Electric Boogaloo
Grumpypants can break?
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:51 am
tangledweb16
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LaNcEleCtriKuTion wrote:
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The creature will either be killed or 'get away' somehow. I don't think audiences would buy it if the monster gets out on open ground and isn't literally blown to smithereens by a few Apache choppers. The buildings are the only thing keeping it safe really. Even NYC doesn't have enough 40 story buildings to hide it for long...
Hold Up... If anyone here played StarCraft (Old Game), the Zerg burrowed units into the ground... Maybe Clover/GP was injured and by then he was by a soft ground area and burrowed underground... then...
BOOM
Cloverfield 2...
True... I think he'll/she'll be very hard to take down.
And LMFAO at you're last comment....funny shit.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:54 am
Weyland Yutani
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Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 31
i'd expect an ending with a lot of ambiguity and debate as to what it was and what happened to it. If you consider the source, that could be a pretty fun debate.
Some will believe GP dies. Some will believe he went back to the depths. Some will believe he slipped dimension.
It actually could be very satisfying that way.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:19 am
suckaH
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Weyland Yutani wrote:
i'd expect an ending with a lot of ambiguity and debate as to what it was and what happened to it. If you consider the source, that could be a pretty fun debate.
Some will believe GP dies. Some will believe he went back to the depths. Some will believe he slipped dimension.
It actually could be very satisfying that way.
That wouldn't be satisfying at all! However, it would be the most coherent to fit how this campaigning has been going already.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:51 am
Leyton Stone
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I like the idea that there is no sequal... GP wins; the end. Of everything.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:16 am
Weyland Yutani
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suckaH wrote:
Weyland Yutani wrote:
i'd expect an ending with a lot of ambiguity and debate as to what it was and what happened to it. If you consider the source, that could be a pretty fun debate.
Some will believe GP dies. Some will believe he went back to the depths. Some will believe he slipped dimension.
It actually could be very satisfying that way.
That wouldn't be satisfying at all! However, it would be the most coherent to fit how this campaigning has been going already.
Seriously. It follows the type of speculation and controversy that propels Abrams in everything. It leaves open ended speculation and lots of things that people can answer themselves or argue about. Conspiracy theorists could concoct their story. There could be a few ways of looking at it. I think that would be great for this type of movie.
The alternatives are
*Grumpypants dies
*Grumpypants destroys everything.
I'd rather have something to think about.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 7:35 pm
lapierre520
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Oh Pease God.. if you can hear me ... Don't let there be a sequel to Cloverfield. It would ruin everything. This has to be a one shot movie.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:30 pm
avengedsamurai7
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Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 232 Location: You'd like to know, wouldn't you?
I think that there will be a "Cloverfield 2", so..... Grumpypants will survive and destroy New York, depending if the film does very well, and attack another city (Los Angeles, Seattle? Maybe), the means of how it gets there is up to the writers, obviously. If Rob survives (highly unlikely), then htey would have to build a story about Rob (others are questionable, depending on how the movie plays out) traveling to another city to document what happened, but.... BOOM!! Grumpypants, from out of nowhere, attacks said city, and this time Rob will have the camera.
I know it sounds stupid, made this all up off the top of my mind....
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:54 pm
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