I, for one, have no interest in a Cloverfield week. I want MORE not less, dammit.

(Thank you very much.)

Er, I mean I have no interest in a Cloverfield-FREE week. (I want more, not less.)

But I'd like to have an editing-capability-added-to-comments week. That would be fine.

-- or was the creature attached to the satellite and it came from space...? --causing the satellite to come down in the first place?

If there IS a sequel, let's hope that it's an actual film and not more found footage-- I think it was an awesome gimmik for the first film ( and I loved it ) ...kind of a prelude for things to come... but it might wear thin for a second whole film.

@bma2192:
Definitely! I liked the movie and think the general storyline is a very intriguing idea, but I would like to see a bit more detail and some engaging dialog about what the creature is, where it's from, why 2K lb bombs can't kill it, etc.

I would have definitely liked the monster to be a bit more multidimensional, instead of just kill, eat, smash.

Although, the creature definitely appeared slightly pissed when it ate Hud.

@bma2192: Well, according to the press notes it's been underwater for thousands of years. So... who knows!

I think a movie from the perspective of soldiers with Helmet-cams might be really cool (like some of the stuff in "Aliens") maybe hunting the monster through a decimated manhattan or something.

@bma2192:

I'm hoping that the creature came down with the satellite. I found it a bit too convenient that the army was deployed so quickly in Manhattan.

If the military knew something weird caused the sat to come down, they would have definitely sent in some troops for salvage and containment ops.

WHAT WAS IN THE BITE?! I was sooo hoping for an ALIEN-style abdominal-cavity birthing...

I think it was a terrible thing.

@MeepsZoR:
pop rocks and cola. COMBINED.

I am actually hoping it was just an explosion of the insides, which were being liquified by the venom from the crab-o-spider thingy. After all creature did not eat HUD just killded him. ( well at least did not wat the enire body i suppose)

it's safe to say it wasn't Mr. Pibb and Red Vines...

Saw it Friday. It sucked. I mean SUCKED. really, no kidding. have we become this hungry for sci fi that we accept this garbage.

@mitchel_stevens: "i don't know, also something terrible."

I was born to love a movie like Cloverfield. I grew up on Japanese monster flix. I love the genre and I'm a fan of both the director and producer, but this movie just plain blew chunks. Destruction without a story is tedious bad sci fi. Part of the problem was the complete lack of rules or backstory. Part of the problem is that the main characters kept making stupid choices. Even the handheld camera was a bad choice. It didn't add "reality", it just made a quarter of the audience queasy. Please no more. And no sequels. Make it end.

Movie was good. Can I just say I know where the real idea came from, and it's not Godzilla... [youtube.com]

@monkeemike: I think that the soldiers shot her, knowing she would turn into something...

@Klink258: She was taken away by people in hazmat suits, she got blowed up by the bite.

@spacedcowboy: More people disagree with you than agree. You can't please all of the people all of the time.

hey! wher did ya get the screenshot? i saw the first release of the movie in Malaysia...and those are Malay subtitles...unless you guys bought a pirated copy...which most certainly came from the movie pirate capital of the world...Malaysia! :D

Satelite fell, radioactive mutated and fused a few fish, seas slugs (which explains why bombing it doesnt work..it just grows back), jelly fish and king crabs and you get Cloverfield monster!

@monkeemike: Yeah I was surprised that something as dramatic as Marlena popping like a balloon was so quickly passed over. I didn't feel gypped, just intrigued, and who knows? Maybe the hazmat-suit-folk didn't even know what was happening. I agree, I figure it was some kind of venon-driven liquification with accompanying gas bloat. The lice seemed unusually aggressive for parasites, but I figure they eat the monster's dead skin scales with a pre-digestive acid. HEY - maybe that's the key to killing it!

Also, I feel like the creature must have come down with the satellite, or at least have been some ancient hibernating alien. In the 50s maybe we could accept that Godzilla was some "heretofore unknown from the fossil record" prehistoric giant, but the idea that there are these enormous things in the sea all the time and we just never noticed beggars belief.

Oh yeah, and what about its eyes? I've heard talk of its wild & crazy googly "frightened horse" eyes but I could barely even see them. And why did it even kill Hud? Why would something that big even notice a human, which is the same scale as an ant to it.

Oh well. I liked the movie, it gave me a nightmare actually. Bring on the sequel.

i'm glad it was left at "something terrible" and not overly-exposed-- see how much fun we're having finding these little bits in the movie and emailing them to each other? i think that makes the monster more scary. it is "something terrible" that is scarier b/c we don't understand its motivations and therefore can't reason with it, contain it, or disregard it as a cultural caricature or allegory.

PS: Dear io9, you don't have to stop talking about CL0V3RF31LD! until the sequel comes out for The Host, there ain't any other good rampaging-monster things going on...

@SeeingI: Yea, The whole "Frightened Horse" thing was a real turn on for me, I'm actually really disappointed to have not seen it in the actual film.

Maybe JJ left it out in effort to make the creature have absolutely no personification to it, no human-esque emotion, no thought, just rage.

Personally, and this is just me, if I were to have seen that it was genuinely scared, I probably would have felt bad for it at some point, but like I said, thats just me.

Well, I don't mean to burst any bubbles, but after seeing the movie I did a bit of research on the ARG for the game (I loved the movie).

The company (Tagurato or whatever) who's satellite crashed is involved with the origin of the monster, but as far as I know, they did so at an oil derrick in the Mid-Atlantic range. There were some kind of messages sent from a "worker" on this derrick who reported mysterious accidents and implied that there was no oil at the site, there never was, and Tagurato knew it. Obviously implying they were looking for something else down there.

I think the idea of the satellite crash is either completely unrevealed at this point, or is possibly what attracted the monster to NYC (sonar or something).

@SeeingI: Current estimates say we've explored roughly 3% of the ocean. 3%. There is plenty of room to hide stuff down there. The only problem with this in respect to Cloverfield is the splashdown seemed to be too close to land for that to be a plausible explanation.

@SeeingI: ^^ thats right, less is known about the ocean than outerspace ... and read this.

[en.wikipedia.org]

there are giant things down there, that we dont know about!

Poor Marlena!

I got the feeling the lice layed eggs under the skin of the monster to incubate, and since it was so big, they were not in danger of killing the host.

Then when they tried to do the same to humans, our bodies can't support it and the host dies. Messily.

Of course, it happens in a movie, so the gestation is about 15 minutes, and people can be infected with a bite.