Re: Cloverfield

What I'd like to know is, why are monsters always attacking New York? Shouldn't they be attacking France?



- Josh

What I can't understand is why it always has to be a big major city? Why not a random attack on Phoenix -- something nobody would expect.

Speaking of which, I finally saw the movie "The Kingdom" and was very surprised to see 3/4 of the movie was shot 12-miles from my house. Most of the major scenes in the film were all shot on a movie set they built by William Field Air Park durning the summer of 2006. It is fun to see a movie filmmed in your local area -- kind of makes the film that much more fun.

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Why not a random attack on Phoenix -- something nobody would expect.

Maybe cuz no one would care?

Look at Aliens vs. Predator. The entire movie happens in backwoods state and it turned into crap. Now have those same creatures in New York. Instantly more engrossing.

Jason

Phoenix has some great scenery

It's more like this:



5th Largest in the US and still growing. Plus we also have SMOG!!!!

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Look at Aliens vs. Predator. The entire movie happens in backwoods state and it turned into crap. Now have those same creatures in New York. Instantly more engrossing.

How so? It depends how you look at it. Anytime I see something devestating that focuses around New York, I think 'been there, done that!' I really don't see how it makes it more "Instantly engrossing".

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How so? It depends how you look at it. Anytime I see something devestating that focuses around New York, I think 'been there, done that!' I really don't see how it makes it more "Instantly engrossing".

Somehow I knew you would ask that.

See, if something happens in the middle of nowhere, the casualties are limited. If it happens in a big city, there can be bigger numbers of people dying. (Which is, after all, the idea of these types of movies.) For instance, if the plan is to nuke the city, doing away with the monster, there is theoretically more ethical debate about nuking NY or LA or Houston than small dumpy Colorado town.

Seeing a creature run around between buildings is more involving than having it obscured in darkness in a sewer. To me, anyway.

Jason

Or like the Hulk running around in some desert jumping off mountains.

Tim I'm teasin you about Phoenix

[Post edited by Falcon01 on Jan 15, 2008]

I think Tim's cactus is giving us the finger.

The whole "critters in the city" has already been done. Remember Predator 2? That was done in LA, and yes it was very interesting, and a drastically different take from the Jungles in the first Predator. Now if they were to have done AVP2 in the city again, that's all it would have been... a remake of Predator 2. You have to think context. Its only scary or interesting once. Wide open spaces is one thing that the Aliens/Predator series had not done yet.

Back on topic, if Cloverfield is just "Godzilla 2", as Tim says, I'll be pretty bored. I wasn't very impressed with the 1999 version. They're going to have to kick it up a bunch of notches to make it interesting for me. PJ's King Kong did a pretty good job of impressing me. There were a lot of things I didn't expect in Jackson's King Kong.



- Josh

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What I can't understand is why it always has to be a big major city?

Tim you are so right, please give NY a break. First Godzilla now Godzilla with a cloaking device.