i don’t really like the ‘camera b’ idea much, but obviously the people in charge do so i guess that’s what we’ll see in any second movie that comes along. if an interesting new perspective and characters could be created then fine, but personally i think this would be better left for cloverfield 3!

so Cloverfield 2? for me it’s gotta be just a normal movie. i’d like to see godzilla meets black hawk down. i.e. ditch the handheld camera but keep the dark realism and don’t drift back towards the normal godzilla type hollywood disaster movie with the stereotypical characters an the odd laugh thrown in for the kids etc.

then we’d all get to find out what the thing is, and how it gets killed! hooray! then as i say, do the camera b thing as movie 3 and then shut the fridge door before the food goes off. i reckon that would make a dvd box set worth buying.

For a sequel to this movie should be: Someone else tapes their side of the story, starting from watching the news update on TV. He and his friends escapes across the bridge and films Rob’s brother getting killed along with the collapsing of the bridge. He and his friends make it across and films the monster from the other side. People are being aided while news updates are shown. Whatever happens between then and the nat bomb, unsure. But we all see everything including the nuke coming down and leveling the city. Afterwards they should show the update from that to see if the monster was killed, BUT it doesn’t! News helicptors fly over ground zero and find out that the creature is still up and walking and ever more dropping the tiny minion creatures. The monster then swims over to where the survivors are held, and everyone trys to run away and get evacuated. Military continues to destroy the creature, but with no luck. The creature continues it’s destructive path from New York all the way to Los Angelas. Everything is destroyed. The only remaining survivors are in the frozen parts like Arctic and the Antarctic. Including the snowy moutains. Everyone learns that the creature, and the tiny things, can not function nor survive the cold harsh climates. People learn to survive the remaining days until the creatures simply starve to death. Then the remaining survivors rebuild and try to start their lives over again.

Either that or no one survives and the creatures simply die of exposure and starvation.

If a nuke can’t destroy it, look for a simpilar solution like the cold or starvation.

I don’t think Rob could do as great a job as Hud did.

Plus if it were me I wouldn’t be filming my escape I would focus on getting out alive.
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Rob deffinitly couldn’t pull off the running commetary that Hud did.

I’m sure yove seen my post, I’m sticking 2 it…
Do 2 stories with Military points of view using military steadycams.
They could even show them rescuing Rob and Beth. ???

1. Rob and Beth survive, grab another camera, and film their escape from New York.

Now this would be plausible becasue at the end of the movie, if Rob did say it was still alive, it sure as hell wouldn’t just sit in Manhattan for long. Would be more of the same thing, but I’m sure Matt and JJ could figure out some new ways for the two to interact with the monster. This is my favorite plot for a second movie because I care about the two characters, and I care about their fate.

2. Same event, different perspective.

I dont really care for this one because, as a person to be entirely sucked up by the viral marketing, I wouldnt care for the characters as much. They would just be another group of people running for another 78 minutes, whos fates you could care less about.

3. Same event, but told on a large scale, such as all the “classic” monster movies.

Intriguing but probably will tank badly, IMO its more of the same that we have already seen. Although it could provide the answer we all seek.

After serious consideration, I can’t forsee any way that this franchise could continue to suspend belief if they didn’t use the same events from a different perspective. My friends and I had pegged the sequel as that 5 mins after the movie.

I think the thing that people are lacking when regarding that idea is a bit of imagination. In lost (despite it’s droning unanswered ..ness) it seems that one event can be seen in countless imaginitive perspectives.

Consider that an activist crew (tido?) filming a documentary on anti-drilling end up capturing footage of the monster. It begins with the destruction of the tagruato stations and they realise that in order to salvage their filming, they could win some awards with the footage of this amazing and catastrophic event. Being more professional, the camera work would be tighter, but still immersive. It’s just a very flimsy idea, but considering the scope of JJ’s imagination, this one event could have countless fascinating perspectives.

I felt like I was there with Rob, Beth, Marlena and Hudd. Hell, it felt like an actual event. Seriously, don’t let this become a standard hollywood cookie-cutter film. I could have accepted not seeing the monster in the film at all. It’s what we don’t see that scares us most. As a fan of Alien I’m sure you can understand that.

JJ and Matt, if you want to go ahead with a sequel, as long as you create something as mysterious and gripping as the first, call it something mental like ’001′ or ‘Hampstead’ or hell call it ‘CHEESE’ and string us on for 7 exciting months, we won’t care! and I know atleast 160 people who will be right by your side.

well you really dont know if the creature really did die at the end but if you wait until the end of credits it says help us and if you play that in reverse it says very clearly”it’s still alive”

I know on NBC.com while watching shows you have to sit thru the same dumb commercial…
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This has all been planned very carefully by the studios.

In a way I would love to see the Studios screw YouTube. But YouTube will prob settle. I’m allmost sure most of the file sharing sites will. They won’t have any choice.

This will all occur after the WGA and actors strike is settled later this year.

The studios are holding back there lawyers and once realesed are going to go midevil on these file sharing sites.

This is Not my opinion I have inside info on this.

There putting this out for free because they can’t charge the consumer because to do that would admit there’s a profit involved.
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Mark my words!
Once this strike is over your going to see a new dawn in internet regulation and control of entertianment media the likes that you have never seen.
Kaza and other file sharing sites like YouTube will ether start paying rolyaties or get sued off the planet…
Good or bad the day is coming …..Tivo and Fiber optics will take us there.

I guess it’s to “Jin” up interest before the new quarter season starts up?

Good idea Nigel.!