I watched cloverfield...

[SalvorHardin]

Yes, sir, as far as I'm concerned.

GOOD enough for me! Hey, is MI3 any good? I know that J.J.Abrams directed that one!

I like MI:3. In my opinion it's also the best of the MI movies.

I also more or less enjoyed Cloverfield. It's worth checking out.
Though I still have no idea why we are discussing Cloverfield in the Trek XI forum

 

[miraclefan]

This is a TREK forum?

 

[shapeshifter]

crap, npsf3000. I never though of that thing only being a baby! And, The Academic same for your info about the parasites. Fascinating!

I now want to revisit it but my initial feelings on it were; I hated the people, (wanted them to get eaten.) Hated the shaky cam but it wasn't as bad an experience for me than I thought it would be, going in. The wait to see the Thing was painfully long after anticipating seeing it for so long.

The Creature is freaking awesome! I fell way from my Godzilla addition long, long ago but that beast fully reminded me why I used to like such things in the first place!

I'd probably go see a sequel without much prodding.

 

[M'Sharak]

Though I still have no idea why we are discussing Cloverfield in the Trek XI forum

Yeah, I kinda keep waiting for the thread to develop a point which is pertinent to this movie, but it seems never to have gotten very far past "Luckily Star trek is made 6 times the budget."

 

[Praetor]

Well, I suppose one could argue that 'Cloverfield' is indicative of J.J. Abrams' film-making abilities to some extent...

 

[npsf3000]

J.J. Abram had a significant role in the making of cloverfield, and he has a significant role in Star trek.

By understanding clover field we may understand something about star trek...

EDIT:

I love how everyone says 'hammer down' was not a nuclear strike... though all their reasons (radiation, emp and huge destructive power) completely ignores that nukes range from 0.3 Kilo tons to 50 megatons...

A 1.5 Kiloton B61 is exactly what i would use against a "invincible" monster.

 

[SalvorHardin]

J.J. Abram had a significant role in the making of cloverfield, and he has a significant role in Star trek.

I am repeating myself here but Abrams did not direct Cloverfield which is a pretty important job.
And Orci/Kurtzman did not write the Cloverfield story which is a pretty important job too.
Not to mention the hand held camera premise of the film or the plot that have nothing to do with Trek XI.

So I still don't see why we are discussing Cloverfield.
Imo Abrams being an important producer in a monster movie doesn't show us anything.
If one needs to get a feel for Abrams/Kurtzman/Orci work MI:3 is the way to go.

 

[npsf3000]

Then make a thread based on that, or talk about it here...

Obviously we will see when the movie comes out, but i will see if there are any correlations when the movie comes out.

 

[ST-One]

I actually haven't seen MI:3 myself.

I have it on DVD.
We could watch it together... though I'm sure we wouldn't make it to the end...

 

[ST-One]

Well, I suppose one could argue that 'Cloverfield' is indicative of J.J. Abrams' film-making abilities to some extent...

I don't think it is...
The artistic direction of a movie lies (usually) primarily with the director.

 

[Praetor]

I actually haven't seen MI:3 myself.

I have it on DVD.
We could watch it together... though I'm sure we wouldn't make it to the end...

Well, I suppose one could argue that 'Cloverfield' is indicative of J.J. Abrams' film-making abilities to some extent...

I don't think it is...
The artistic direction of a movie lies (usually) primarily with the director.

Oh, agreed. I didn't say the arguer would be right.

 

[DaveyNY]

I actually haven't seen MI:3 myself.

I have it on DVD.
We could watch it together... though I'm sure we wouldn't make it to the end...

I'm sure..., the two of you would make... ends meet..., somehow...

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[Hober Mallow]

Abrams didn't write or direct Cloverfield, so I'm not sure what about Abrams writing or directing ability we're suppose see from it.

 

[npsf3000]

Abrams is the producer of Cloverfield, Abrams is also the producer of star trek.

From the interviews given, it is apparent that Abrams had a significant role in the making of Cloverfield, from actually envisioning the movie (from a trip to Hong Kong) to things like involving Slusho! in the viral ad campaign.

So it is not completely irrelevant.

Either way we will find out in a few weeks, and this is an experiment for those interested based of thoughts before viewing star trek 11.