I wonder if that means the fictional characters will be updating their Myspace pages again?

I wouldn't say that none of the original characters' fates were sealed on camera is exactly true.

That one chick exploded, and the camera guy got eaten by the monster.

I haven't watched it yet, but there is an alternate ending on the DVD, but I think it has more to do with soldiers than the escapees...

Oh! Here's a great title for the sequel: Cloverfield 2: Book of Shadows

Bear with me, here... a bunch of teenagers, obsessed with the film, venture into Central Park on a dark night to investigate to see what happened themselves... then, strange things start happening and the group is slowly killed off, one by one!

...and you have to watch it backwards.

Will the sequel have a flying moth and three inch high twins who sing the moth's theme song? No? Then feh!

Well, my face won't be familiar at the theatre when this comes out.

Cloverfield 2: Electric Boogaloo

I bought the DVD but still haven't watched it.

I'm still pining for the old-school Toho tone in the sequil, but based on LOST, Abrams doesn't know when a gimmick is ready to be put out to pasture.

Godzilla vs. Gammorrah vs. Mothra vs. Cloverfield monster thinge vs.... oh wow. It's wrestling for the 21st century!

I can only pray that the next tape they "discover" will have been shot with a steadicam.

You know I really would have loved to enjoy this film not only that but I really would have loved to have been able to watch it. But because of all the shaky camera movement, it just never happened. Maybe I'll rent it and try dramamine. Dramamine does a hell of a job when I have to take a plane.

@mackensie:
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

Nooooooo. Hud MUST stay dead! I enjoyed the movie, but could have enjoyed it MORE without his moronic yammering. His voice was the true horror of CLOVERFIELD.

I liked this movie. One thing that I like about it was that the annoying people I was forced to watch whine their way through tough Manhattan living got squished at the end. All of them. Now you are telling me some survived? Do I get to watch them get squished again?

I would welcome a sequel to this film with open arms... And I do so hope they *DON'T* use steady-cam. I thought the shakiness added to the whole "You are there" feel of it.

While I really liked Hud - I kind of identified with the big dope, what can I say - I'm pretty sure he's dead. He got chomped then spit out, then probably blowed up in the carpet bombing.

If he's not dead, he's at least not very mobile.
Oh! That'd work: He's in a wheelchair, which would explain why the sequel has more stable camera work.

@mackensie: Kudos!

I thought the whisper was "..its still alive..".

It should be "No Country for Old Monsters...Cloverfield 2". The monster eats the people, shrugs off the military and pays off some kid for his shirt.

Oh, those crazy "unnamed sources". You'll never know what they'll come up with.

I'm still hoping for "Terminator vs. Cloverfield" taking care of the whole Arnold problem, too.

In the immortal words of my boyfriend ... "If I had to pay money in a theater to see that, I'd be pissed..."

The actors were shallow, stupid and unlikeable; the roof-to-roof scene was ludicrous; the opening party scene dragged on with a tedium that makes Merchant Ivory look like Speed Racer; I cared more about the lice creatures than the humans; and it was just not worth wading through an hour of crap for one decent 4-second look at the creature that I had already seen online months before.

Between his TV series Heroes and this shitfest, JJ Abrams wants New York City destroyed even more than Osama Bin Laden. I just wonder how he'll work his repeated (twice in two seasons on Heroes, plus Cloverfield now) fetish fantasy of murdering Americans in New York into his new Star Trek movie. Stray photon torpedo anyone? Not that button Jim!

With or without bringing characters back, I'd love to see a post monster ravaged world and how we go about our ways as a society knowing who we share our world with.

But it's probably just going to be parallel events that happened during the attack. Like how his girl's building toppled and what happened there.
Also cool (I guess).

@munkles: Abrams has a show called heroes too? I wonder if that other tv show about the people with powers knows about it.

@munkles:
Pretty angry response. Especially considering the fact that Abrams had nothing to do with Heroes.

Meh, every complaint I hear about Cloverfield falls into one of two (sometimes both) categories:

1) ZOMG the shakycam makes the movie bad
and/or
2) The characters are dumb, and they do unrealistic things and people die and there's no closure (or explanation).

*sigh* People... this isn't a Godzilla movie... it's not about 'brave heroes defeating a monster'... its a movie about a bunch of NORMAL EVERYDAY FOLKS (ie- not that interesting really) people stuck in a situation NOBODY has ever faced, and how they try (unsuccessfully for the most part) to survive said situation. There's no third-person perspective, you are given about as much info as anyone else would be, to say "Oh I would NEVER do that" is pure speculation. How DO you react when a 50 story monster starts meandering down the streets of a major city? And lest we forget- when they TRIED to follow the 'smart' option (escape) the first of their merry band of twentysomethings DIED. At that point any expectation of rational thought is a bit presumptuous.

And I LIKED Hud, he kept the movie from sinking into a depressing snuff-fest.

Frankly I was impressed that the movie didn't slap on a happy ending, or explain everything to death. American cinema usually can't handle something where your hand isn't held every step of the way, and the 'heroes' don't actually WIN (and BOY do some of the reactions from the masses validate that!). Yay for there being something... DIFFERENT out there. :P

Oh... and for those of you who've seen the movie and need a good laugh, read the 'Cloverfield in 15 minutes' version here: [community.livejournal.com]
I nearly peed myself laughing reading it... and I LIKED the movie :D Friends who HATED it laughed their asses off too. ;)

Why all the Cloverfield hate? I just saw this movie over the weekend and I loved it. I liked the characters and I liked the camera. Did most of you haters sit around scouring the web for months prior eating up all that stupid viral marketing junk and really expect this movie to live up to your self imposed hype?

I'd like to see the sequel from the prerspective of the military fighting the moster with more scenes from the make shift hospital. More exploding humans can only make a movie better.

@Furiursa: True dat.

I really dug Cloverfield. It was a first-person perspective monster movie... Great!

I for one, would love to see this treatment done to Godzilla by Toho. I love the man in suit movies, but they always seemed so safe. No main characters ever died; they always get away from monster really safely. If they did Godzilla movie like Cloverfield it would hella awesome...

I did not find the 'shaky-cam' an issue, personally.

Count me as a fan. It was a great way to portray a monster movie in a way that hadn't really been done properly before. Shakey-cam + really cool monster + NY backdrop = FUN.

Though I DO have to confess...the first time one of lead characters did something asinine...placing me or mine at risk...I would have hit em in the head with a brick and left em for clover-kibble.

@girraffesack: that's actually a great idea: have a sequel where the government keeps using the threat of Giant Monsters to dump billions into the military, take away civil rights, illegally spy on people etc. It would be like some kind of alternate universe where moneyed interests took advantage of a tragic disaster for their own gain. Talk about science fiction!

It was by no means a exceptional movie, but dammit it was entertaining. I can appreciate it if you had some sort of orientation issues with the camera, but otherwise complaining about a shaky camera is being a little pissy.
I loved it in the same way I loved AvP:R. The characters establish a rapport with the audience, appealing to the realism with normal situations (baw I love you baw, caw I have a boyfriend caw). Then they just disgard the the relevance of the humans, making them expendable.
There is no real evil antagonist, just a neutral entity which treats the human element as nothing. Very Lovecraftian, and that is why I loved this movie.

So here's what I think should happen in Cloverfield 2. Sadly, JJ Abrams' email address cannot be found.
Ok, so my idea was to kind of run with the person on the ground point of view without doing the home video thing. I think that the sequel should pick up shortly after the end of the first, and be with the point of view of an embedded reporter with a military group. So we have better camera work, but we still get the "you're right in the middle of this" feel. Any military = action, the reporter can be just as freaked and confused as everyone else, perhaps the military still doesn't really know what they are facing or have good info (or contact with others?). If you don't want to go too much into the military side, most of them can die in a monster attack, and some civilians can be rescued as well, not necessarily in that order. Anyways, I think that'd be neat.