Something tells me that the wild speculation this movie has been getting will end up having been much more entertaining than the movie itself.
EDIT: someone tell me what it says on the back of this photo on 1-18-08.com
“Everybody, thank you for viewing! I’ll introduce this week’s delicious recipe. Please make sure to keep this one cold!
*Skinless chicken breast - 2, cut in halves
*Soumen (a kind of japanese noodle) - 10 oz.
*Watercress - 1/2 cup cut into small strips
*Turnip - 1/2 cup, thinly sliced
*Shiitake (japanese mushrooms) - 1/2 cup
*Chicken stock - 1/3 cup
*Sake (japanese rice wine) - 2 tbsp.
*Sugar - 1/2 tsp.
*Ocean-bottom crab - one
In a small saucepan, stir together 1/3 cup water, chicken stock, sake, and sugar. Chill it until it becomes cold. Grill the chicken breast on both sides for about 8 minutes, and then chill. Boil the noodles for about 3 minutes, and then run under cold water until chilled. Mix the watercress, turnips, and mushrooms into the soumen. Slice the chicken thinly and arrange on top of the soumen mix. Just before you serve, put the crab in the sauce and pour over the noodles generously.
Go go Oishii (”delicious”) Chef! ”
Someone at Bad Robot finally decided they might need to start working on the Cloverfield Project. Earlier this week saw a new picture added to the 1-18-08 website featuring a Japanese cook and his recipe. Today we have the Tagruato Corp website, which by all indications is fully involved with the 1-18-08/Cloverfield/Slusho movie.
JJ Abrams TV hit show 'Lost' has been fueled with mystery by the viral and fictitious Hanso Foundation. Those guys were a scientific group that created the orientation videos and various buildings on the island for unknown experiments.
Now, Abrams seems to have taken a page out of his own book and created another fictitious organization and having subsidiaries which include the infamous Slusho company. The Tagruato Corp is a deep sea petroleum drilling company based out of Japan with industry related subsidiaries.
Here is a statement from Tagruato Corp CEO Ganu Yoshida:
Tagruato is a collective of top scientists, engineers, and businessmen committed to leading our investors and the whole of mankind into the future.
We regard ourselves as explorers, and believe there is much more our planet has to offer than has already been discovered. We view every challenge as an opportunity for innovation. With our groundbreaking deep-sea drilling technology, Tagruato has positioned itself to become a world leader in energy resources, medical research, advanced technology production, and consumable product.
- Ganu Yoshida
C.E.O
Subsidiaries of Tagruato include YOSHIDA MEDICAL RESEARCH, SLUSHO!, BOLD FUTURA LOGO, and ParafFUN! Wax Distributors.
YOSHIDA MEDICAL RESEARCH (YMR)
YMR is a genetic research firm specializing in deep sea bioprospecting.
YMR is a genetic research firm specializing in deep sea bioprospecting. YMR implements Tagruato's advanced exploration technology to study extremophiles found only in the deepest parts of our oceans. The understanding of such organisms that thrive in conditions of extreme pressure, temperature, and toxicity has boundless pharmaceutical and industrial promise.
We explore cold seeps and seamounts, where species diversity is known to be as high a 1,000 per square meter. Hidden among these deep sea ecosystems is the potential for medical advancements that will contribute to the future well-being of mankind. YMR doctors are currently developing marine biotechnology drugs that may one day be used as anti-cancer, antioxidant, antibiotic, and anti-malaria.
Treatment applications for Alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis, and herpes are also under consideration. Our hope and our belief is that the work being done at YMR will prove to be the key to a cure for the diseases that have plagued mankind for centuries.
SLUSHO!
Created by Tagruato C.E.O. Ganu Yoshida, Slusho! brand happy drink is a icy cool beverage that is rapidly becoming one of the company's most profitable expenditures. Slusho! contains a "special ingredient" that customers can't get enough of. Bearing the slogan, "You can't drink just six!", Slusho! has grown to the second most popular frozen drink in all Asian markets.
Hip adult drinkers have begun concocting deliciously intoxicating alcoholic mix drinks starring Slusho! The beverage's popularity has spawned overwhelming sales of brand apparel, a hit theme song, and coming soon: an animated television show starring the Slusho! Flavor Droids! The next step is to introduce Slusho! to the rest of the world.
A search is on for top marketing professionals who will be tasked with duplicating the drink's Asian popularity in the Western market. Our aspiration is to one day place Slusho! dispensers in every convenience store and mini mart. Slusho zoom!
BOLD FUTURA
Bold Futura is the contractor sector of our company principally engaged in the conception, design, manufacture and integration of advanced technology products. Our engineering technology is the most superior of its kind. A machine made with Bold Futura parts works where others fall to pieces. A vehicle made with Bold Futura equipment will travel where others cannot reach.
Our unique ability to function in areas of severe temperature or pressure can have desirable implications for our clients. In the past, Bold Futura has partnered with military organizations, space exploration institutions, and arms manufacturers. Confidentiality is the first pillar of Bold Futura.
We keep the identities, orders, and intentions of our patrons strictly to ourselves. If you are interested in partnering with us, email us at the address below. Let's build a bold future -- together!
ParafFUN! WAX DISTRIBUTORS
One of the many byproducts of our Petroleum reservoir is paraffin wax, an alkane with dozens of handy uses in your day to day life! Edible, malleable, colorable, and a fine electrical insulator. ParafFun! Wax Distributors meets all your wax needs.
Making shiny candles? ParafFun!
Sealing a jar? ParafFun!
Coating your hard cheeses? ParafFun!
Gripping your surfboard? ParafFun!
Creating paintballs? ParafFun!
Preparing specimens for histology? ParafFun!
Coating your waxed paper? ParafFun!
Propelling your hybrid rocket motors? ParafFun!
Improved bowel movement? ParafFun!
Lighting your camping lantern? ParafFun!
Testing samples in infrared spectroscopy? ParafFun!
Moderating neutrons? ParafFun!
Making a box of crayons? ParafFun!
ParafFun! Rewax, it's ParafFun!
Drilling stations
We have fourteen drilling rigs strategically positioned around the globe, each a billion dollar marvel of modern engineering. One, the Chuai Station, is opening in September 2007 off the east coast of North America. [view interactive map]
Tagruato explores the final frontier on planet earth -- the deepest recesses of our oceans. Our scientists and engineers have created drilling technology that can withstand degrees of extreme pressure, cold, and heat never before thought possible. This groundbreaking feat of industrial triumph allows for research and retrieval in areas previously unexplored by man.
Tagruato covers the planet. We have fourteen drilling stations strategically positioned around the globe, each a billion dollar marvel of modern engineering. Thousands of hardworking, well-paid, satisfied Japanese employees man their posts with honor and integrity. From the Arctic Ocean to the Mid-Atlantic ridge, we go deep. Capable of excavation at distances exceeding 7,000 meters of water and 9,200 meters of seabed, the greatest depths of the oceans have been opened for business.
The implications are vast and bountiful. Tagruato boasts sole ownership of the functionality designs implemented in our drilling stations. This gives us unparalleled access to the natural resources that lie below the ocean floor. Namely Petroleum, the most sought-after resource in the world. Opening these new regions is projected to boost Japan's national oil reserves by as much as sixty percent. Analysts believe that with the bounty it is about to attain, Tagruato will soon join the ranks of the world's wealthiest corporations.
Its Godzilla!! and yeah Ragnar is right, this is offensive to Asian people. I saw this awhile back, looked alright, the CG still needs work but it was looking alright. It's about time someone made a proper Godzilla movie, after watching that last piece of shit they made.This isn't Godzilla.
Guys at :38 in the trailer you hear a girl say "R'lyeh" so I guess it is Call of Cthulu after all!
Guys at :38 in the trailer you hear a girl say "R'lyeh" so I guess it is Call of Cthulu after all!
you know, I think Roman is the first person to notice it! I haven't seen ANYONE say anything like it!
At the end of the trailer someone mentions a "large lion" or something? Does anyone have any ideas about that?
She says "the myth", not "R'lyeh".
who says it? I can't hear anything but the song
Edit: or is the song?
It is the big groaning sound that sounds a lot more like "wrngngngngogngng" than "myth", "rlyeh" or "my dad molested me". At least that's how I see it.
spoil the plot please :)It's not really anything special... Monster attacks, people run, you follow a group of friends trying to get to one of their friends who lives near central park and try and get out alive. That's pretty much it.
So it's essentially the 1997 Godzilla movie?
I didn't like this much btw.
Kind of a slap in the face to all the fans who spent all that time on it but whatever it didn't really bother me much.
2. What the hell was with that ending? The least they could do is at least have someone pick up the tape recorder a year later or SOMETHING, it was way too abrupt. The very last black screen remained for 10 seconds and when the credits rolled the audience simultaneously all yelled "what the? that's it?"
lso I guess my real problem with the movie was how it had no point other than being 9/11 porn! I can elaborate but I think no one wants that.
The producer J.J. Abrams says, "The concept for the monster is simple. He's a baby. He's brand-new. He's confused, disoriented and irritable. And he's been down there in the water for thousands and thousands of years."
And where is he from? "We don't say deliberately," notes the writer, Drew Goddard. "Our movie doesn't have the scientist in the white lab coat who shows up and explains things like that. We don't have that scene."
right, first off, you have to understand why people make movies; they are meant to show us something, however flimsy the premise. this is ESPECIALLY true with science fiction. Frankenstein was about how man shouldn't play God, King Kong's final line has a really stretched premise about how beauty destroys ambition, and Godzilla has its parallel to Hiroshima.
so what's the point in Cloverfield? the monster is never elaborated on, so it can't be that. as far as I can tell it's to present a story. now what kind of story is it? honestly, if you really thought the love story was GOOD in any way, you won't have a problem, and apparently the Notebook would just break your heart.
no, to me, the point of the story was to show how people would react in a disaster. and therein lies the 9/11 problem. none of the characters are really that great in the movie, mostly developing motivations of "I...like you..." and we're supposed to treat this like a pseudo-documentary I suppose, but it just falls flat when you realize it's all just 9/11 shit over and over. there's that smarmy JJ Abrams gleam on everything too, like how we never get to see the monster till the end or how nothing in the viral marketing made any sense at all (Marcus, what are you talking about? virally marketing shit works on brands because people want to find out what's in the brand, like who the new Batman villain is or what Halo 3 is about. you can't do it well with a monster no one knows about, and it kind of falls flat when the site in question has nothing to do with anything). it all seems very Lost, with home cameras. no one is really allowed to develop in any scene, by necessity of the movie, and the whole movie is just OH MY GOD...THE CITY...THE PEOPLE...and it all struck me as very lame and hokey.
a random monster attacks a city for no reason we are given, and we follow a bunch of flat characters around while 9/11 happens all around them continuously. it's all rather boring and pointless and full of moments where JJ is probably looking at his audience, fist pumping his dick, because he's just so proud how clever he was!
and granted a bit of it is clever, like the flashbacks, but when none of it leads to any cool or significant plot moments, when it's all a documentary that gives no answers at all, all those cool little gimmicks are just kind of irritating. you're supposed to hold on and enjoy the ride, and in that aspect Cloverfield doesn't disappoint, but neither does Spiderman or the Incredibles or any other of thousands of movies.
it was just pretty disappointing for me, especially considering the original predicted premise of multiple cameras recording the monster, and it possibly being Godzilla or Cthulthu. Abrams couldn't get over his gimmicks long enough to have our characters be more than backstories that resolve themselves, and the result is a rather pornographic disaster movie that seems more like 9/11 than it does an actual film.
that being said, go ahead and see it if you already were going to. it's not a bad movie by any means, but it irritates me because I feel like it could have been so much more under a more competent director.
Yes, apparently it does have something to do with Slusho.
There was a character in the movie who wore a slusho t-shirt as a in-joke.
There you go.
I don't think its a positive, but I think they developed it the most they could of through the format the film utilizes.
I'm not trying to say its one of the most emotional and romantic love story ever in film, I just think it was satisfying enough to justify where the plot goes.
I just saw this today. Personally I really enjoyed this film and was pretty satisfied in the end. I didn't really think this was the best movie, but probably the only film of this kind I will ever experience.
That camera musta have had crazy ass battery life and durability. The fact that the tape survived shitloads of explosions..
It made me think more than every other movie I have seen.
anyway i saw this and uh yeah it was pretty cool. after watching it i bought a nokia phone and sipped on some mountain dew but i'm not sure why???I did the same thing after watching Transformers.....weird.
There was a character in the movie who wore a slusho t-shirt as a in-joke.There is also a scene one of the last Heroes episodes in which a woman is drinking Slusho.
There you go.
you must not watch a lot of movies huh
anyway i saw this and uh yeah it was pretty cool. after watching it i bought a nokia phone and sipped on some mountain dew but i'm not sure why???
I went with 4 other friends and all of us hated it. There's a lot of arguing and I'm not going to repeat what people said here.
But basically, I think the idea was good, but it was executed VERY poorly.
the acting was pretty bad and it all leads to a nothing story of some dude and some dudette who just can't love each other and it kind of annoyed me with smarm.
idk a lot of is 9/11 shit and i know you are an aficionado so you might not like it.well i may be able to at least tolerate it(which is all i'm aiming for) if it's more about individuals and doesn't make some gigantic spectacle out of PATRIOTISM and SACRIFICE which is what really got under my skin about 9/11. also bonus points will be awarded if tops of buildings fall on the annoying characters. and x10 bonus points if MUCH marshmallow falls on the bad guy.
also it was waaayyyy hyped and it wasn't worth half of the hype.well fortunately i ignored all of that and what little i did see made me go PFFFFF YEA RIGHT(I HOPE THEY ALL FUCKING DIE)
it was no the man from earth thoughThe idea was good: take a monster movie and actually do a different viewpoint than ARGH BLOW UP THE MONSTER GO MILITARY!
why exactly do you think it was poorly executed? i'd like to hear it man i'm curious!
The acting just wasn't good, the "plot" was ridiculous (and cliché with the save this girl thing) and it was just not well done.
Also, at the beginning, there are some words on the screen about the military having the camera in posession. That could mean that something in the movie has relevance to where the monster came from????
Also the 9/11 stuff is bullshit imo, new york + any kind of building blowing up = 9/11 I guess. Maybe I'd have to be american to get it.
Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times wrote that the film is "pretty scary at times" and cites "unmistakable evocations of 9/11". He concludes that "all in all, it is an effective film, deploying its special effects well and never breaking the illusion that it is all happening as we see it."[48]
Todd McCarthy of Variety called the film an "old-fashioned monster movie dressed up in trendy new threads", praising the special effects, "nihilistic attitude" and "post-9/11 anxiety overlay", but said, "In the end, [it's] not much different from all the marauding creature features that have come before it."[49] Scott Foundas of LA Weekly was critical of the film's allusions to the September 11, 2001 attacks and called it "cheap and opportunistic". He compared its "stealth" attempts at social commentary unfavorably to the films of Don Siegel, George A. Romero and Steven Spielberg, saying, "Where those filmmakers all had something meaningful to say about the state of the world and […] human nature, Abrams doesn't have much to say about anything."[50] Manohla Dargis in the New York Times called the allusions "tacky", saying, "[The images] may make you think of the attack, and you may curse the filmmakers for their vulgarity, insensitivity or lack of imagination", but that "the film is too dumb to offend anything except your intelligence." She concludes that the film "works as a showcase for impressively realistic-looking special effects, a realism that fails to extend to the scurrying humans whose fates are meant to invoke pity and fear but instead inspire yawns and contempt."[20] Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com calls the film "badly constructed, humorless and emotionally sadistic", and sums up by saying that the film "takes the trauma of 9/11 and turns it into just another random spectacle at which to point and shoot."[51] Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune warned that the viewer may feel "queasy" at the references to September 11, but that "other sequences […] carry a real jolt" and that such tactics were "crude, but undeniably gripping". He called the film "dumb", but "quick and dirty and effectively brusque", concluding that despite it being "a harsher, more demographically calculating brand of fun", he enjoyed the film.[52]
they are all american?!?!
I don't see how reviewers for American magazines wouldn't have the same bias any other american would about 9/11?
I am Canadian, and I don't see any kind of 9/11 crap in that movie, its just shit blowing up, woo hoo.
it was also an american made movie so maybe the movie makers have that same bias???
or not retarded? just looking at wikipedia:also yeah me and another one of my friends (out of the 4 that went) thought of 9/11.
LOOK AT ALL THESE NOOBS WHO COULDN'T FIGURE SHIT OUT...
edit: man I love this Salon.com review.
also yeah me and another one of my friends (out of the 4 that went) thought of 9/11.
hell, that scene at the beginning with buildings crashing and they had the giant smoke/debris storm sweeping down the street as people dived into the stores....that was EXACTLY what people did in 9/11. i'm pretty sure there was like a video of something during 9/11 of people doing that, though not too sure.
Is "Cloverfield" trying to be a "fun" monster movie, or is it trying to say something about the way, post-9/11, we experience horrific events? I simply have no idea. There are many people who walk around thinking, "9/11 is the most dramatic, most significant event in our lives," just as there are others who think, "Big deal. It was only a matter of time until we were attacked on our own soil." If 1950s horror films were really about the communist threat, as we're constantly and needlessly reminded by film scholars, then why can't modern horror films mirror our own fears about real-life terrorism? There's no reason that they can't. But there's also no reason we have to accept the cheapening of real-life tragedy as a means of entertainment. "Cloverfield" harnesses the horror of 9/11 -- specifically as it was felt in New York -- and repackages it as an amusement-park ride. We see familiar buildings exploding and crumpling before our eyes, and plumes of smoke rolling up the narrow corridors formed by lower-Manhattan streets, images that were once the province of news footage and have now been reduced to special effects. Kewl!
I'm not saying those images should never be used dramatically in any way. But like all potent images, they deserve some care and respect, and some discretion. Why use them just for kicks, as a means to get a rise out of the audience as it recognizes something familiar and terrifying? "Cloverfield" takes the trauma of 9/11 and turns it into just another random spectacle at which to point and shoot. The picture's overconfident sense of immediacy is precisely what makes it so remote. Maybe we now live in a world where we record the moment first and feel it later. If that's the case, "Cloverfield" leaves us waiting to feel.
jesus christ how did you people not see the clear 9/11 shit everywhere.
look when a movie has no point to the disaster other than SHOW...THE HUMAN CONDITION... and you set it in New York, and said disaster involves a lot of shit blowing up and rubble flying, and it's all filmed via shaky cam, and everyone is acting confused and running around, do you really think the director didn't think he was appealing to people's memories of 9/11?
i don't get why everybody so vehemently denies the idea that this movie could possibly be referencing 9/11. a lot of people seem to get very offended by that notion! like it was pretty obvious to me but everybody thinks that people are attacking the movie by saying it references 9/11 which they aren't necessarily doing.
so you're telling me he shot an entire movie with handheld cameras about a disaster in New York from a civilian's perspective and not once thought about 9/11 or how much like 9/11 this would look.
wow omg, people diving into stores to save their lives which is probably the only OBVIOUS solution when there is GIANT SMOKE AND DEBRIS GOING EVERYWHERE well shit man, it must be about 9/11 i mean its not like this is what you would do with debris going everywhere.you totally missed my point and looked at the wrong statement
I don't think its a positive, but I think they developed it the most they could of through the format the film utilizes.
I'm not trying to say its one of the most emotional and romantic love story ever in film, I just think it was satisfying enough to justify where the plot goes.
Actually they did horrible on the monster...it made no sense at all.
I think this is a good way to put the love plot in the film into words. It wasn't incredible, but it did add some direction and they did a pretty good job building some sort of character connection while a gigantic fucking thing was smashing buildings left and right.
But yeah, Lyndon is right. You gotta see this at the movies or it's not worth it. I feel much the same about it as I did with WotW (except without the anger at the butchering of my favourite book waah) - awesome at the cinemas, probably not so much on a rewatch. But I was impressed, and it'd be one of the most intense movie experiences I've had in a long time.
Most of the complaints I've heard from people were "I got sick" or "love story lame" so I'm guessing that means they at least nailed the monster part.
If you feel sick also move back from the screen if at all possible.
Actually they did horrible on the monster...it made no sense at all.
I've heard talk of a 2nd one planned. Is there any truth to this, or is it just bull crap?