<![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> @jane2073: They are! Also "Alien vs. Hunter". They've got a business model and they're sticking to it!

Captain Valiant

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> @Klebert: Did you see Rob's beard? I ask you, did you see his beard?

Jonn

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> @Jonn:
Hipster can't mean Yuppie, they weren't hip at all.
-Kle.



Klebert L. Hall

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> If you guys mean by "highly choppy video", "highly crappy video", I completely agree.

Makes me YEARN for sci fi channel acting abilities.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> When I fear the b-movie fallout approaching from Cloverfield clones, I'm encouraged that the Blair Witch Project spawned one of my personal favorites, FreakyLinks. Art, it most definitely wasn't, but it's the closest series - in spirit - to the original Kolchak, the Night Stalker that recent TV has produced (despite many dismal failed efforts).

MonkeyT

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> @Jonn&Katana

I swear I didn't read your posts before I wrote mine.

Great minds apparently think alike!

Ha!

RRich

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> I don't understand the hostility to the Cloverfield characters.

"Entitled yuppies"?

Perhaps a bit of projection there?

I thought it was a kick-ass movie and dug the hell out of the viral web stuff, even though it ultimately didn't pay off, and they dropped it as soon as the movie came out.

But would it have been better with different characters? I dunno, but deeper characterization would have dragged the story down, imho. Keeping it simple kept it nice and tight.

Just my 2 cents...

RRich

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> @CaptainValiant: Are they the same ones that brought you Snakes on a Train?

jane2073

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> Going back to Cloverfield for a sec: Personally I really liked the fact that I did not connect with the characters. Monster movies tend to juxtaposition evil/good in such a formulaic way that you already know how things are going to pan out by merely holding it in your hand.
Cloverfield was different in that aspect. I could immerse myself in the experience of "wtf would I do if my town suddenly was under attack?".
"War of the Worlds" tried, with an eerily similar scene, to convey that trundled mass hysteria of tons of scared people getting onto a ferry. In Cloverfield it was a bridge. The scenes handled basically the same reactions, but, in Cloverfield, thanks to the POV and the totally random and generic main characters, I felt what the crowd felt.

I think that it was a clever way to tell a story, and I would'nt mind seeing at least two more iterations of it. One traditional big budget, no-bars-hold-explosions-and-tits-action movie, and one, of course, from the perspective of the monster itself : )

Katana_Mind

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> Why do they have swords?

"entitled yuppie main characters"
I think you're projecting some sort of prejudice you have onto them. For one thing, the word "yuppies" hasn't been in since the early 90s. The current term is "hipsters", and I think only Rob qualifies.

Jonn

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> I'm having the same issues with videos. The video loads completely, just plays back in a choppy way. At first I thought my video card was crappy or something (well, it kind of is), but I guess not.

/the shiny guy always worries.

SunZhiQian

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> is it just me or is that REALLY similar to THE THING

ithidet

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> @Charlie Jane Anders: only the picture is affected, it is choppy and skips. the video loads completely

Steve

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> Don't forget last year's DVD smash hit ripoff "Monster", from "The Asylum". That's the people that brought you "Transmorphers", "I Am Omega", "Pirates of Treasure Island", and "The Da Vinci Treasure". Later this year, they've got "100 Million BC".

I bet you think I'm kidding.

Captain Valiant

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> @epitomeoftight: Can you describe the problem? Does it keep stopping and starting? Pausing? Does it affect the sound or just the picture?

Charlie Jane Anders

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> @epitomeoftight: I'll third (second was taken)

Conrad

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> @Charlie Jane Anders:
the trailer on the film's website/youtube doesn't look very choppy :-\
it happens with pretty much all of the videos i've tried to watch

Steve

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> Sure sign of doom: director, writer, and producer are the same guy, and he names the production company after himself.

Doug Nelson

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> @epitomeoftight:

Same here, using Opera 9.24.

So it sounds like Squirm 2? "You be da wormface!"

Bio Slime might be ok, awful title though. Does it all take place in a single room?

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> @epitomeoftight: Well, this clip was sourced from a slightly choppy trailer, that had a couple of noticeable stutters... what are the other ones you've had trouble playing lately?

Charlie Jane Anders

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> yo dudes
i have no idea if it is my connection or what but every time i watch a clip hosted on the site, it is choppy.
does this happen for anyone else/is there a fix?

Steve

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> That's a pretty polished trailer for "in production." If the acting's up to par, I could easily see it getting picked up on the festival circuit.

But I'm a big champion of homebrew filmmaking, but those descriptions of Birth of a Legend: Story of the Wawa and Serpent Lake both sound like every bad logline from every mediocre spec script I've ever read. I'm hoping that's not an omen.

Rus

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> Ooh. Bio-Slime looks pretty ace. I love "corrupted human" horror.

Ed Grabianowski

]]> <![CDATA[Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> Sci-Fi Channel here we come, doo-dah, doo-dah
or
Nice to see Tommy Wiseau branching out.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

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