Cloverfield 2 Is Something ‘You Are Going To See,’ Says Matt Reeves

Was not impressed by the first one, and glad I saw it on tv then paying to see it in theaters. Won’t bother to see the sequel.

I still haven’t seen the first one… So I’m not going to see this one.

“Or maybe just skip the idea entirely and deliver a more traditional format for the sequel?”

That didn’t help Blair Witch 2, did it?

I think Blair Witch 2′s problems were a lot greater than the lack of the found footage gimmick. The biggest problem with found footage movies — which so far, only the Paranormal Activity series has successfully overcome — is that at a certain point it strains credulity to think that these people would continue filming under these circumstances. Why on earth would someone running for his life down a city street with a monster on his tail do so with a camera over his face, obscuring his vision and increasing the likelihood that he will trip and fall? And how the hell does that camera survive dropping fifty feet out of Clover’s mouth after it eats Hud? I still remember the scene in which Blair Witch lost me: Heather opens the bound handkerchief or whatever it was to reveal the bloody organs within and she runs away screaming … and then, she comes back to get a better shot of what just scared her!

PA and PA2 overcame this with the conceit of yuppies wiring their houses with webcams, which is something that people can easily do. In PA2 especially, the family’s initial reason for putting up the cameras was imminently sensible, and once they were in place, you have a detached neutral observer watching everything so you don’t have the problem of a complete moron who insists on filming his best friends getting eaten.

What I think might work is if you staged Cloverfield 2 as a mock-umentary, with found footage from several difference sources being compiled to tell a narrative, broken up by interviews with “survivors.” Or maybe not, I don’t know. I still think you could ditch the found footage angle in Cloverfield’s case and just go with basically a Godzilla movie from the vantage point of the human survivors. Sort of like what the Devlin-Emmerich Godzilla could have been if Devlin-Emmerich weren’t incompetent hacks.

I like the Cloverfield but I do remember that awful, dizzying feeling after leaving the cinema. I felt like throwing up as soon as I opened the door of the theater.

stick a camera on the helmet of a soldier and have him be the POV character…

Dear Matt Reeves, I didn’t see the first Cloverfield so you’re already starting off on the wrong foot with your headline-grabbing quote. Sincerely, Cloverfailed.

I like this idea, I think it would work. There’s enough off-camera (no pun intended) material for a whole movie there. Plus it would incite fans to watch the first *again* to see how well they match.

Why make a comment if you didn’t see it…..what a looser to critique something you didnt watch…..Lame!

That is a good idea, but the POV being directly from military personnel would angel the movie towards an all action flick….not, I believe what they were going for.

That I would love to see….an attack on the US from New Yorks’ remains, launched by beasties that have grown up in the years we humans could not enter due to radiation…oh yeah, terror and mayhem, great things for big monster movies.

Ok……why are you here? Why are you posting? What is your issue? I don’t want to see your negativity…..but you are forcing me to, for no reason. Don’t post just to be obscenely ridiculous, and also make sure not to go to theaters when the movie finally…hopefully comes out. I’d hate for your sensitivities to be hurt whiny.

We need to see a more “monster-centric” film. Not enough of the creature in the first one, good as it was. And I feel it should be a cinematic version. Scrap the “found-footage” gimmick. It worked extremely well for the original, but it COULD be the insistance to use that angle again that could be holding back the creativity and desire needed to do a sequel. Show us what happened that we didn’t see when we were following the original group. Have them appear in spots where we originally saw them in the first film as we follow the monster on his rampage through New York.