Jackskeleton

I don't think the Shepard "created" the multiverse, it just displaced the two, as in, the multiverse already existed. in the other one history had already happened differently and that crew went straight in to the ocean.

How the fuck any of this creates monsters other than by some quack on a news program pulling it out of his ass, let alone displacing them in time and space, makes little to no sense to me.

OldBoy

So what are numbers on this thing? Do they track that?

Michael Corvin

Is it just me or I am crazy thinking Netflix should have picked up Cloverfield and 10CL to coincide with this release? Seems like a shortsighted decision. It's hard for people to jump into movie 3 if they missed one or both of the others.

Abob Teff

Well, yes. It didn’t create the multiverse. All the independent universes/dimensions/timelines existed in infinite permutations. The Shepard experiment fractured and connected them.

And yes, it still doesn’t exactly explain where the monsters come from. I presume they come from any of an infinite number of possibilities, Morty.

You do raise a good point I forgot to ask about though: what exactly is the Cloverfield Paradox? Stambler carries on about monsters, but never explains the paradox. I guess we have to read his book.

DWilson

Netflix knows, -and they tell you when it goes their way.

mphtrilogy

I treated this like an episode of Black Mirror.. the first half was very good then things went bad quick... limped in to the finish

d2cheer

Agree with all of this. Watched it last night. Nice little time-waster. I thought the parallels were pretty obvious between all movies.

Rival11

The entire premise of the film is based on what CERN does with the large hadron collider. The conspiracy is that they are trying to tap into dark matter which is allegedly known to show nothing but negative affects.

There is some rumor that anti-matter was stored at a college and it was turning people crazy or something........but yeah, this film is literally based off that exact concept - I thought that part of it was pretty fun.

Abob Teff

In an interesting twist ... installment #4 has already wrapped and comes out this fall. It was announced today that part 5 was actually released 30 years ago and will begin filming next spring.




OK, seriously ... an interesting “something” I saw in the film but have not seen mentioned anywhere ... the foosball table has players wearing red uniforms and players wearing blue uniforms. In the scene where the players spin uncontrollably, once the spinning stops we see one of the teams is wearing yellow uniforms.

Jackskeleton

well then, I guess 10 cloverfield lane makes perfect sense now.

Abob Teff

An interesting article on the good and the bad ... https://www.cbr.com/cloverfield-paradox-pros-cons/

Some excerpts:

whotony

Watched it today.

Really lumped to the end, third act was a bore.

The Earth stuff might have been a better movie.

Take out the cloud monster and the one the guy sees walking in the dust at the destroyed hospital and it’s any other regular movie.

I don’t know why they don’t make a direct follow up to the first one instead of these quasi-sequel things that barely have anything to do with the original.

Jackskeleton

"The Cloverfield series is an ingenius Trojan Horse for original stories in a film market scared of them. "

Sorry, but a film market is open to a lot of these ideas. Shit, the damn thing felt like a black mirror episode for a brief second until it just became boring. Even polished, this would have been a bad theater release. the market isn't afraid of stuff like this, it just has to be done better.

Rob V

Yeah, I'm with you. This was a movie about some experiment gone wrong, took way too long to get there and then BOOM, cloud monster = Cloverfield!.
We could have had a 20 second screen crawl about the failed Shepherd experiment and gotten a true Cloverfield sequel / prequel... instead we got any sci-fi story tied together by 5 seconds of a monster.
The same is true for 10 Cloverfield Lane... a tight movie, but was only "Cloverfield" because you throw a couple monsters in at the end? Hell, if Driving Miss Daisy had a monster pop up at the end, could that be Cloverfield too?

VHS?

Cloverfield Paradox: How All 3 Movies Are Connected
Breaking down every connection in the Cloverfield movies and how Netflix’s The Cloverfield Paradox explains the origin of the monster. Spoiler alert!

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Brian T

Interesting recap, but The Beast from Two Thousand Fathoms?

dsa_shea

I don't think they want to make a true Cloverfield sequel as I don't think they have any clue as to what they would do in the movie. Would it be a traditional movie and not a shaky cam film? Would it pick up right after the original? Would we see the bigger monster or would it be the "baby" monster from the first film? A lot of things that I don't think they care to figure out and instead want to bank of tangential at best movies from what they established in 2008. I'd love to see a sequel and would be willing to come back and eat crow if it happens.

Why So Blu?

If they wanted to go the linear route I'd rather that they make a sequel to Cloverfield Lane and see where Winstead's character went off to -- Houston, right? At least there you'd have people fighting spaceships and more compact monsters. With Godzilla, King Kong, etc., then this new monster -- it seems like giant monster overkill at the moment.

dsa_shea

Another War of the Worlds? I got that vibe from the last five minutes of 10CL. The problem is not they have created multiple dimensions and can continue to throw new, weird stuff at as and bypass creating a second of any of the previously made films.

Azor Ahai

Just finished it. Man, I woulda been pissed if I actually drove to my local movie theatre and paid the ten dollars to actually watch this thing.


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RichC2

I've read this kind of comment a few times, I almost feel like Netflix bailed out the entire franchise and not just this entry

Edit: Ah crap I already said that. But yeah. That.

Rival11

So Cloverfield 4: Overlord is coming this October and will take place during WW2, on d-day.

islandclaws

Just watched this and looks like I'm in the minority that dug it.

Sure, the third act begins to suffer from "Sunshine" syndrome and it goes to cliche places I didn't care to see, but overall I liked all the weird dimensional stuff. It opened up the rules and let things play loose because who the hell would be able to explain any of this in real life anyway?

As for the Cloverfield connection... eh, whatever. Connect them. Fine. I enjoyed the majority of what this specific film showed me, and while the Earth scenes added little and the connective tissue tenuous at best, I'm digging this weird little universe Bad Robot is building.

Bring on the next one.

Dr. DVD

Because this one was pretty much sold as having a direct relation to the original.

TGM

I enjoyed it, but I am a sucker for space horror. The cloverfield connection was tenuous at best. But for something that was essentially free, it entertained me.