The Cloverfield Paradox

I’m about half way thru this and have yet to see a single giant monster - WTF?!

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Piss off with this bait meme

No seriously; will there be giant monsters and/or aliens in this flick, or just weird unexplained shit happening on a space station?

Anybody?

Monster has 2 second cameo at the end to justify it having Cloverfield brand.

As well as the B-Plot being an entire retread/remake

>Monster has 2 second cameo at the end to justify it having Cloverfield brand.

Thanks.

>As well as the B-Plot being an entire retread/remake

What do you mean?

The monster is actually an overt presence in the movie. Not just at the end.

The B-Plot is a pseudo remake of the original but very badly done

>The monster is actually an overt presence in the movie. Not just at the end.

After I posted I started watching again and saw the shadown of the monster in the clouds.

>The B-Plot is a pseudo remake of the original but very badly done

The B-plot being the events on Earth?

>overt presence
His silhouette in and his popup at the end are his only two appearances, no?

Yes, but it is clear it's a monster and the entire B-Plot is trying to run from it. Just not very well done.

>The B-plot being the events on Earth?
Yes

This movie would have been better if they just focused on the space station and ignored the love story plot

the movie was ok but that fucking forced appereance of the monster in the end got me goddamn pissed; it just made no goddamn sense whatsoever, I'm fuckin done with this "saga"

remake? there is no mention to any energetic crisis in the first movie of the "franchise", and seems to be set in a completely different world; they just threw the monster in without any logical reason

Didn't the monster appear cause they opened up different dimensions by successfully getting the accelerator to work?

Exactly why I said remake. Not sequel.

they could have thrown fucking john locke in the mix while they were at it and said he was from an alternate dimension. What a shame, the first two movies were actually good

>What a shame, the first two movies were actually good

There was WAY too much shaky-cam in the 1st movie but otherwise, both flicks were good.

His whole part in the movie is right at the beginning talking about how the particle accelerator will open different dimensions from the future and past and smash them together. He even says that they will bring out monsters and demons.

They explained why the monster was on Earth. It wasn't necessarily a good explanation, but it was explained. That being said, I never saw the 2 movies and thought this Netflix one was alright. Not great, more like something to watch if you want to kill some time.

Did the capsule make it or was it destroyed when it hit the creature?

Can anyone explain how the arm was still animate?

Great movie

10 cloverfield lane was great. This was meh, but I liked the characters. Some choices like the arm etc. were not very good.

Exactly. Parralel dimension where arms move on their own. Fucking stupid.

>ireland
>space

I assume cause the guy kept talking about how unsafe it was on Earth, that they died.

The only thing that explains it was different dimensions. That pretty much was the only explanation they gave in the movie

It's connected to a future version of that guy who knew what was going to happen. That's why it tries to get somewhere, writes the message and then waits impatiently at the end.

I found another connection to the franchise thanks to your pic: the news girl on the left (she also stars in silicon valley) appears in 10 cloverfield lane as an infected woman; maybe that's not something totally random

But how did the gyroscope end up in Volkov's stomach?

fuck me
sorry, I've should have used the spoiler
I don't come much often on Sup Forums

To be fair there's literally a monster in that exact scene, possibly even in that exact screenshot.

although yeah it barely appears in the movie at all apart from a few seconds at the end which is disappointing but the entire cloverfield trilogy is basically "five seconds of monster and an hour of human drama: the series"

it's all from an alternate dimension were the film is actually good

well not the first one which is the best one

Same way the worms did, I guess, extra dimensions or some shit like that.

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Who else didn't finish it?

Someone's been on YouTube.

Volkov got stuff teleported in him over time. He melded with an alternate self, then the worms gradually teleported inside him, then the drive either killed him or showed up after he was dead.

wrong, on wikipedia

I'm with you there, it was a fun way to kill time, it didn't stick with me after I saw it but it was fun

heh, critics has been a bit harsh on it tho
metacritic.com/movie/the-cloverfield-paradox

btw the superb owl trailer literally said it takes place 10 years after the first one and that is supposed to explain how did the monster ended up on earth.
Jesus that makes it even more naive

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Good thing they called it Paradox cause my brain hurts.

So do all 3 Cloverfield movies happen at different times in different dimensions?

yes

Kind of. They’re going to use the plot of this movie to explain all the weird shit that’ll happen in later entries. Retcons and such.

They meant that as in the original Cloverfield movie came out in 2008.

Anyways here's the synopsis for people who cbf to watch it like me.

>In the year 2028,[5] Earth is suffering from a global energy crisis. The space agencies of the world prepare to test the Shepard particle accelerator aboard the Cloverfield Station, which would provide Earth with infinite energy, while conspiracy theorists fear it will create the "Cloverfield Paradox", opening portals to other dimensions, allowing horrors from those to threaten Earth. Among the crew is Ava Hamilton, who frets about leaving her husband Michael, a doctor, potentially for years, as their relationship struggles since the loss of their children to a house fire.

In orbit, after about two years of unsuccessful testing of the Shepard, they eventually achieve a seemingly stable beam, but it then overloads and creates a power surge on the station. After restoring basic power, they find Earth has vanished from view, and the gyroscope that aids in the station's navigation is missing. As the crew work on repairs, strange events begin to occur, including finding an unfamiliar woman called Jensen fused with wires inside a wall. Volkov fears something crawling beneath his skin and is compelled to craft a gun. He uses the gun to threaten the crew, but as he does he convulses and dies, and the station's colony of worms bursts out of him. Mundy's arm gets pulled into a solid wall, and then severed clean off; they find the arm roaming on its own volition. When they recognize that it is trying to write something, it instructs them to dissect Volkov's body, where they find the missing gyroscope. They quickly locate Earth and restore their communications, but transmissions state that Cloverfield Station was destroyed and fell to Earth.

>Jensen is found to be a crew member of the space station but from a different dimension. In this dimension, Hamilton's children did not die, she stayed on Earth as a civilian engineer, and Jensen replaced Tam as the station's engineer. They plan to reactivate the Shepard device to return to their own dimension. While the crew repairs the station, Tam works out a means to make Shepard work properly, but she is killed in a freak accident. Meanwhile, Hamilton decides to return with Jensen to Earth to be with her kids. As they prepare, Mundy is killed in an explosion caused by a strange magnetic field. After the explosion, the station's commander, Kiel, sacrifices himself to disengage a wildly-spinning accelerator ring that was jeopardizing the whole station, leaving Hamilton in charge.

>On Earth, Michael wakes up to discover a wave of destruction ravaging the planet, witnessing the silhouette of a giant monster in the distance. On his way to offer his assistance at the local hospital, he stops to help a young girl named Molly. After learning that the hospital has been destroyed, he takes her to an underground shelter belonging to a friend and tends to her wounds.

How did a monster that was larger than mount Everest get concealed by rubble from a two story building? Wouldn't its foot be larger than the entire block its walking through?

With Shepard ready to activate again, Hamilton prepares to leave with Jensen, but Jensen suddenly knocks her out. Jensen kills Monk with Volkov's gun, wounds Schmidt, and insists that the station must stay in her dimension, to keep the Shepard device there. Regaining consciousness, Hamilton uses the gun to shoot out a window, ejecting Jensen into space. Hamilton decides to return to their dimension with Schimdt and makes a recording for her alternate dimension self, giving her the plans for the Shepard device and stressing the importance of her family. Hamilton and Schmidt reverse the dimension shift and use Tam's modifications to finally make Shepard work. After reporting in, the two eject themselves in an evacuation capsule towards Earth. Michael learns from mission control of the station's reappearance and his wife's return to Earth, but he lambastes them for not warning them not to do so, in light of the ongoing situation. As the capsule re-enters the Earth's atmosphere, a giant monster comes up roaring through the clouds.

This is a good synopsis, but nothing ever explains why the ship turned evil and started killing the space crew Final Destination style

That was just it's balls dragging along the street

>Did the capsule make it or was it destroyed when it hit the creature?

I just finished the movie and I'm guessing the escape pod we see jettisoned in Cloverfield 3 is the same object we see in the background of the home movie in Cloverfield 1.

Whether they survived I dunno but presumably not, as the object in Cloverfield 1 was moving too fast for a safe landing.

In the Cloverfield Paradox a yuge monster is ravaging earth for 2 or 3 days in the first Cloverfield a baby comes out and surprises everyone. Wouldn't they have noticed if a bigger monster was tromping about?

>a monster that was larger than mount Everest

Yeah, WTF was up with that?

p sure it's not the same object user, paradox takes place 20 years after the first one

>Wouldn't they have noticed if a bigger monster was tromping about?

The connection of Cloverfield 2 to the first movie was a tacked-on after thought, while everything in Cloverfield 3 is an ass-pull.

what if it was just a low fog and monster is only like 90 feet tall

Because there is no explanation. The reasoning for it is roughly equivalent to "Nobody really knows how inter-dimensional travel works, reality would probably break or some shit, so here's a sentient hand" The movie's writing is terrible, don't read too much into it.

>p sure it's not the same object user, paradox takes place 20 years after the first one

Sure, but when you’re talking about alternate dimensions, timelines and such, anything is possible.

Yeah, I know. That was the pretty much the explanation for anything that happens in the movie.

I just like to think it was fate from Final Destination getting another role but not having any acting range, so it's playing the same role.

The movie clearly states in a not-so-subtle foreshadowing that things happening "now" can also influence the past and the future because of dimensions n shiiet. It's heavily implied that this is the reason the monsters appear.

>A JJ Abrams movie was hackneyed and disappointing
Who could have possibly predicted this?

The giant monsta is Liz Debicki who stands 6'3" barefoot and makes my peepee get hard

Yes. And it threw it back in time.

That part where wall took dude arm and later it writes what to do to push plot further made me loss all hope

>Cloverfield 1: flip phones
>10 Cloverfield Lane: iPhone
>Cloverfield Paradox: high tech space station
>wut

>Time: Is a flat circle

The pod is about 5 meters in height. It's not that big. Sure, it's bigger than the first one, but it's not 'mt everest' big.

I swear I saw the monsters giant leg in the background while he was texting in the car, I expected them to get knocked off the road or something any second.

How did they know? Did volchok's stomach get put into their gyro drawer or something?

Isn't Cloverfield about just experimental filmmaking like LOST was experimental TV series? About new ways of storytelling?

The monster was taller then clouds.

>Isn't Cloverfield about just experimental filmmaking like LOST was experimental TV series? About new ways of making money?


FTFY

Was this movie a joke? Hands can't crawl around on their own and write things

this movie was unironically too smart for Sup Forums
they wanted to be spoonfed, but weren't

There's more than one monster. Black dude says "things" in the end.

It's weird. We had some five threads with full on theories about minutea trivia from the other movies being referenced, but this thread is brainlet central.

the real mystery is why chinagirl spoke chynese

it's not even evil. It's just chaos. It killed some of the crew, it ate one of their arms and spat out a helpful independent version, it fucked with magnets, it played some foozball and changed the little soccer men's colors.

It's not evil or good. It's just fucking chaos. Chaos usually hurts more then helps beings who run on order but that doesn't make chaos intentionally evil.

russian guy was the best character, too bad magial space worms killed him

Why can't Cloverfield just be a goddamn Kaiju movie again?

I don't care about the shitty sci-fi part and love stories and shit, I just want a fuckhuge Kaiju wreaking havok in a big ass city with people screaming and running away

come the fuck on JJ

what if it was just fog

here's the movie for (you)

ok can someone explain me how the fuck the hand knew about voskov or whatever his name was?

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Review kino.

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I like your style of thinking m8

>tfw death is typecasted

...

what if it was standing on mt everest

This movie had so much potential to be cool. The entire cast sucks though. The only way they could have saved it is by turning it more into an interdimensional slasher flick. Like the crew were killed off gradually, but only 1 or 2 of the deaths really played with it's concept. The others could have happened in any other space movie had the plot required it. They should have gone full gross-out.

The original Cloverfield had shitty characters, but it had the brains make their deaths into spectacles and not try and fail to do anything emotional.

I didn't even like this boring piece of shit, but this thread is just proving that Sup Forums is too retarded to pay attention for an hour and a half. There's clearly multiple monsters.

also keep in mind it was standing on the ocean floor

That is exactly what the first one is.

Hard to continue but will still watch the end.
Had to take a small break when "the oxygen exploded" (TAKE A BASIC CHEMISTRY COURSE FOR 12 YEARS OLD FAGGOT WRITERS).
Had to at least pause the movie and angrily ran my hand through my hair when the water just turned instantly into ice outside and inside the station when the seal broke and said water got exposed to vacuum.

Jesus fucking christ, movie.

anyone who say this movie and didnt realise Mina was a demon should give back his Sup Forumscard

WTF was her problem, Sup Forums?

>gugu

I found the movie to be alright, but it played with ideas and themes that were very intellectual considering this is just a B movie. The whole element about the dude's arm writing a message from an alternate version of himself. The ethical battle with Hamilton about whether or not her children in the alternate dimension are truly her's. This film definitely has opened up the series for more philosophical discussion which hopefully will be elaborated in future films.