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[cloverfield2008]

Part 2 Bad Idea?

[McPhearson]

He wasn't saying that "Cloverfield 2" was a bad idea; just that, instead of a hand-held concept, that should take it differently. Personally, I think that the military looking back at the attack days later, and still hunting for the monster, would be great.

[cloverfield2008]

[McPhearson]

[6slushos]

i liked the handy cam on monster.
if it was proper cam its gotta be darn darn good.

[cowboyfromhell]

A military POV movie would be awesome,but I want a movie that deals with Tagruato,Slusho!,T.I.D.O.,the Chuai station,the origins of MGP...All that good stuff.

[6slushos]

[moviebuff6513]

ok ill agree that the hand camera can be a little confusing at times, but i love the fact that it puts you right there in the action. it makes it so it could be you there going threw this attack. and still every time i see the monster staring down at hud near the end i still get scared. its probably the scariest damn moment in the whole movie. im sick of these monster movies where some scientist come in in the middle of the thing and explains were the thing came from and how to kill it. it just takes away from the mystery of the monster and the terror it should inspire. i think cloverfield is an amazing reinvention of the monster movie genre.

[TheMaximum]

[Kayberry]

If the sequel to Cloverfield tries to push the backstory on people, it will dull the action of the movie. What we got with this movie was what was provided in the very first, original black and white Godzilla movie - Monster comes out of the ocean, trashes the city, the carnage is filmed, the military fights to repel the monster and use a unique and innovative weapon to kill it, but we eventually find out it survived - and throughout all of this, the human aspect is covered almost as equally as the monster's rampage. Cloverfield provides the bonus of parasites which add a bit of alien/zombie thriller appeal.

The sequel can facilitate some of you needs. Start off in another DOD-styled intro where they review information gathered from the last event, including specs and noted capabilities of the monster - less than 5 minutes. They then segue into an independently-recorded taping of another attack in a different city (let's hope it's LA or SF this time) created by a more professional cameraperson working on a documentary for some news station (in order to justify better production quality and avoid Blair Witch-like camera nausea.) The initial footage catches monitors with news blurbs regarding ramifications against Tagurato that they've recently overcome by investing interest in west coast affairs (for backstory purposes, and it's just background noise we're supposed to catch the second time we watch,) as the characters discuss the documentary before heading out. Their doc shooting is interrupted by the monster's assault, and they essentially shift gears into covering the attack as it happens, their lives are threatened, they have to flee for awhile, there's a surprise twist revealed like there's a second monster or it's a different monster, they cover the military routing the monster from the city and the movie ends with the confiscation of the footage by the military.

The last thing we want to see the sequel become is:

[danieltx13]

Some of y'all need to get off the boo boo and quit with this elitist bullshit, thining that your opinion about the film is the definitive view. Some people want a sequel, some people don't, so what? Why can't y'all just let people have their views and leave them be?