Cloverfield [BLU-RAY] (Paramount Home Entertainment, 6.3.2008)
Disguised under deliberately goofy, yet deliciously edible-sounding, aliases such as Cheese and Slusho, Matt Reeves'
Cloverfield was produced and rushed into theaters under an equally appetizing shroud of secrecy. From last year's incredibly elusive Super Bowl ad to the film's viral marketing campaign,
Cloverfield had everybody scratching their heads and drooling in anticipation. Aside from the as-yet untitled title and the
Blair Witch-ian visual style, the film's biggest appeal was the enigmatic creature who was last (un)seen hurling the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty onto the crowded streets of New York City. All we knew about the mysterious beast was that it was big and angry. Now that the highy-anticipated project has come and gone, one question has fortunately been answered:
Cloverfield was a major success.
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comment #1
JHRussell says ...
Yawn...did somebody say something important? I didn't think so...
Posted by JHRussell at August 19, 2008 12:23 PM
comment #2
thevisceral says ...
Okay I won't.
Posted by thevisceral at August 19, 2008 12:38 PM
comment #3
SaveFarris says ...
He sure didn't.
Posted by SaveFarris at August 19, 2008 12:47 PM
comment #4
Yves says ...
How is this any different from "I told you so, nya nya nya nya nya nya"? Yes, we are ready for regime change. Chirac-- check. Blair--check. Putin--check? Olmert--check. Musharraf --check. Bush--next.
Posted by Yves at August 19, 2008 1:01 PM
comment #5
D.Z. says ...
Yves: The guy who replaced Putin is just his puppet. The Russkies don't really care about "regime change", unless Putin starts losing it like Mugabe.
Posted by D.Z. at August 19, 2008 1:43 PM
comment #6
dre says ...
Yeah, pointing out hypocrisies isn't important at all.
Posted by dre at August 19, 2008 1:51 PM
comment #7
aspiringcrackaddict says ...
Yves I think he's trying to point out that the direction Bush has
taken the country has not worked out for the best and if
Mccain simply stays the course then we're just in for more
bad news.
I'm not sure what you think is so wrong with his statement.
Posted by aspiringcrackaddict at August 19, 2008 2:08 PM
comment #8
dinther says ...
"Yawn...did somebody say something important? I didn't think so..."
JH, from your previous posts on HE, it's not a surprise that you don't understand the significance of Obama's statements.
Nonetheless, you post something anyways. Also, not a surprise.
Posted by dinther at August 19, 2008 3:15 PM
comment #9
Mgmax says ...
As someone said, the alternate title of every Washington memoir is "If Only They'd Listened."
Yeah, if we'd listened to an obscure first-term senator, all these wonderful things would have happened. Damn! Why don't we listen to obscure first-term senators! They know so much!
Posted by Mgmax at August 19, 2008 4:29 PM
comment #10
Josh Massey says ...
"The terrorists who attacked us are still at large..."
Well, technically, they're dead. Of course, I know what he means, but many, many, many of the planners of 9/11 have either been captured or joined the guys on the plane in the years since.
Posted by Josh Massey at August 19, 2008 5:12 PM
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dre says ...
Mgmax
Fair point but I don't think he's saying "You should have listened to me you nitwits!" as much as he's saying, "If you listen to McCain, you're listening to thinking that led us down this road and this road and this road etc." For the people that like the road, more power to them I guess. My thinking is more aligned with someone like Obama's though (of course).
Posted by dre at August 19, 2008 5:30 PM
comment #12
dangovich says ...
Hey, let's invite Russia's immediate neighbors into NATO and then supply them with radar installations and weapons. And F the Ruskies if they don't like it!
Seriously, it's like the U.S. foreign policymakers miss the Cold War so much, they're doing everything in their power to bring it back.
Posted by dangovich at August 19, 2008 6:01 PM
comment #13
D.Z. says ...
Josh: "Of course, I know what he means, but many, many, many of the planners of 9/11 have either been captured or joined the guys on the plane in the years since."
Except for Bin Laden and those guys attacking us in Afghanistan, sure.
dangovich: Not that I disagree that increasing tensions with Russia is a bad thing, but if it was a guy like Yeltsin running the place, and not Putin, we wouldn't be so concerned. The real problem, though, is that we have no clout there, anymore; and Russia made us look like chumps who just talk big.
Posted by D.Z. at August 19, 2008 6:55 PM
comment #14
Kim Voynar says ...
dangovitch,
No kidding. That's because they're playing the same bullshit game they've always played. In this particular iteration it's another variation on the "Red scare" theme that's worked so effectively to keep Washington funneling money to the war machine in the past.
Have you read Manufacturing Consent by Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky? Older book, but they do an excellent, detailed job of outlining the media's complicity in shoveling propoganda. Great book, but actually pretty damn scary.
Posted by Kim Voynar at August 19, 2008 6:59 PM
comment #15
Josh Massey says ...
"Except for Bin Laden"
I agree. Hard to catch a guy who's been dead for years.
Posted by Josh Massey at August 19, 2008 7:14 PM
comment #16
Mgmax says ...
"Have you read Manufacturing Consent by Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky?"
Says it all.
Posted by Mgmax at August 19, 2008 7:51 PM
comment #17
D.Z. says ...
Josh: If he's dead, how come he managed to do a recording a year ago?
Posted by D.Z. at August 19, 2008 9:05 PM
comment #18
Chapman Carruthers says ...
"Have you read Manufacturing Consent by Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky?"
"Say's it all."
I think what MGMax is trying to say is this makes you unbelievably well-read, Mensa smart, a pleasure to be around, sexually attractive, and a damn fine American.
It's about time folks started dropping names like Chomsky. If someone were to mention the name Matthew Jospehson, my faith in this forum would be totally restored.
Posted by Chapman Carruthers at August 19, 2008 9:33 PM
comment #19
Josh Massey says ...
"Josh: If he's dead, how come he managed to do a recording a year ago?"
The same way Fred Astaire managed to dance with the vacuum cleaner. ILM - Islamic Light and Magic.
Posted by Josh Massey at August 20, 2008 5:14 AM
comment #20
The Hoyk says ...
Mgmax: Why don't we listen to obscure first-term senators! They know so much!
I thought it was September Gurls that knew so much?
Posted by The Hoyk at August 20, 2008 5:29 AM
comment #21
Mgmax says ...
"and a damn fine American."
Now that's gotta be a blood insult to a Chomsky sheeple.
"If someone were to mention the name Matthew Jospehson, my faith in this forum would be totally restored."
Dude, Mark Crispin Miller totally explains everything!
Posted by Mgmax at August 20, 2008 6:38 AM
comment #22
D.Z. says ...
Josh: "The same way Fred Astaire managed to dance with the vacuum cleaner. ILM - Islamic Light and Magic."
In a place which bans and/or is lacking in any major audio/video editing equipment? Not to mention that, assuming they do have all that junk, they're shooting from a cave, which is bound to screw up the reception of at least one electric connection.
Posted by D.Z. at August 20, 2008 8:53 AM
comment #23
Jerome says ...
I don't think he's saying "I told you so" at all. He is concisely outlining the facts and countering the misinformation that has been freely distributed by his opponents with regards to his position on the war on terror. I think he's doing a great job and it's nice to see him sticking up for himself.
Posted by Jerome at August 20, 2008 8:58 AM
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