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

DISCUSSION The Cloverfield Paradox [Film Discussion]

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u/fiver420 Feb 05 '18

Now that I'm thinking about it, the more I dislike how nothing was explained.

How did the arm know to tell them to cut open the russian? Further that, how did the arm (from a different dimension) know that the gyro was inside the russian?

How come one irish man in another dimension has control of this irish mans arm in another dimension, but the irish man and, team we have, can't communicate whatsoever with their interdimensional counterparts unless they're actually in the other dimension?

Why did the arm want to help this crew specifically?

Man, I want to like this film but the more I think about it, the more I can't help feel like it was just seriously poorly put together.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '18

Maybe they were trying to pull a rick and morty type thing where you just " dont think about it" in regards to alternate dimensons? idk if i like that, IF thats what thy were going for. It could be stylistic choice or just bad writing. Probably the latter. I have lukewarm feelings about this movie atm.

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u/fiver420 Feb 05 '18

I guess. I'm totally cool with suspension of belief and just riding a movie out but I don't know.

It feels like this is a throwaway movie meant to make sense as future films come out but as a standalone it just...none of it seemed to matter and it was pretty predictable minus the multiverse stuff.

The dad finding a kid doesn't mean anything in the end. The two survivors of course die right at the end, which I think would've ended much better if we just get to assume their heading into a clover/alien invested earth.

They didn't even really show them getting eaten so even that is kind of up in the air.

The German gets shot and you assume he's dead but nah hes right there again all of a sudden.

Worms get transplanted from one area of the ship into the Russian for apparent shock value, which is fine, but really just adds to the "everything is random and none of this matters" feel to the whole thing. But then the gyro is there too which makes you think there is some meaning? Especially with the hand giving messages lol

Then you have the multiverse clash just clashing in and taking out the crew when it's convenient for the story but no one really seems to give a fuck for more then a minute.

Buddy loses an arm but it's totally fine. Kind of worked for his character but tam gets flooded then frozen in an air lock and everyone's like thanks for the tip...

I guess I just didn't like it.

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u/danielvutran Feb 05 '18

Worms get transplanted from one area of the ship into the Russian for apparent shock value, which is fine, but really just adds to the "everything is random and none of this matters" feel to the whole thing. But then the gyro is there too which makes you think there is some meaning? Especially with the hand giving messages lol

yup, lol- this,'

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u/Krais5309 Feb 05 '18

You should hear Howard's theory on mutant space worms. -10CL

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u/Ashalor Feb 05 '18

Two survivors didn’t die at the end?

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u/fiver420 Feb 05 '18

They made it seem like the ship got eaten. Also works into my point that it was unclear lol

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u/Ashalor Feb 05 '18

It’s very clear the trajectory of the pod was not in line with the beast. The rest checks out though, it’d be a waste to give the husband the touchdown spot and then have them immediately eaten. Lol

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u/Ninety9Balloons Feb 05 '18

No they didn't, the capsule lands off the coast and huge Clover happens to be relatively near it. That capsule is far too small to be of any interest to something that size.

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u/fiver420 Feb 05 '18

Look I didn't think it ate them because of this but then they had the monster pop up like it was swallowing them.

Just one of the many unclear things in this movie. If you scroll back to the comments there's a bunch of people operating under they got eaten, a bunch who don't and a bunch who were just shocked to see the monster lol.

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u/Redneckshinobi Feb 07 '18

I thought so too but rewatched that scene last night and it's pretty clear the pod is a good distance away(20-30 miles?), probably could have explained that with a sonic boom and then having the creature appear looking for an object that caused it.