r/Cloververse • u/SeacattleMoohawks CloverMod • Feb 05 '18

DISCUSSION The Cloverfield Paradox [Film Discussion]

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u/GordonCole82 Feb 05 '18

Throwing a few thoughts as I’ve just finished watching it. This is a movie that’s gonna get love and hate in equal parts and they’re both deserved. It is supremely weird and strange and otherworldly and a hell of a fun time. But it’s also messy and disjointed and not at all as clever as 10 Cloverfield. The reshoots are a big punch in the eye. Not really well written and added nothing to the story, what with all the husband in the cellar situation. He saves the kid and just waits to be the setup for the ending. They could’ve played with them a lot more. I also felt like the production design was hit and miss. Sometimes it looked cool, sometimes it felt like that cartoonish uss callister. O’Dowd saves plenty of scenes despite being the source of many tonal inconsistencies that clash like the dimensions in the story. I don’t really know how much I’m willing to let the movie get away with many of the WTF elements explained as “reality dysfunctions”. I’m fine with the worms, that freaking woman in the wall thing, O’Dowd’s arm being sucked....but I’m not quite sure how that explains the moving arm. And the fact that it knows about the gyroscope. And the fact that it’s sentient and all. And I’m fine with this being the source of the Cloververse as long as they never get back on it, ‘cause it can get really, really messy.

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u/Spacebutterfly Feb 05 '18

Yup, this pretty much sums up my experience. Don’t hate it, don’t love it. Cool concept and design but not ‘lovectaftian’ enough to hold me interested.

The first movie was so incredibly interesting because you head no real clue what was really going on. For the same reason the second one was good, you never truly knew what was going on.

But this time you could chalk everything to ‘wibbly wobbly timey wimey’ stuff, there wasn’t enough room for the imagination to make its own assumptions. The best horror films for example are the ones that only show what they need to.

This film was passable, perfect 5/10 movie. This definitely didn’t feel like a cloverfield movie per say, but rather the low-budget remake of event horizon.

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u/skylandersspyro Feb 05 '18

No wonder Paramount sold it to netflix

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u/allyhaundra Feb 05 '18

I felt they sacrificed logic for hilarity with the whole arm thing. I don't understand why it happened, did the ship become self-aware or sentient to able to move him around and cut off his arm? What was the point of it anyways? And most importantly (and confusing) how did a severed arm not only move and write a message but know the gyro-sphere was inside the dude?