The Cloverfield Paradox - Coming "very soon" to Netflix

[aufheben]

Gonna check out this tonight! Getting ripped by critics!

Good.

 

[TomPlex]

Certainly a fun flick. The Cloverfield saga is ever changing and all encompassing. People were just expecting something similar to the last one which I think it a weird expectation considering how different the first two were. Yeah, it didn't have that psychological thriller aspect to it, but who's to say that's a flaw? I like how this series has had three completely different types of storytelling that all tie into the same plot.

 

[Nizdizzle]

Certainly a fun flick. The Cloverfield saga is ever changing and all encompassing. People were just expecting something similar to the last one which I think it a weird expectation considering how different the first two were. Yeah, it didn't have that psychological thriller aspect to it, but who's to say that's a flaw? I like how this series has had three completely different types of storytelling that all tie into the same plot.

The movie itself was incredibly flawed. Take away the Cloverfield name-tag and its a made for TV flop. I'm not usually a movie snob or anything like that, but I've tried to find redeeming qualities for the movie and can't come up with many.

Not stellar acting, questionable choices made by characters, tons of wtf-moments that aren't explained other than by

Spoiler

dimension paradox! By that last part I'm refering to walls that swallow arms, arms that for some reason have a mind of their own to help the main characters, a gyro and hundreds of worms for some reason being inside of a crew member that feels almost no ill effects until he spontaneously dies, a ship intent on killing its crew (see: locking the Asian girl in a room and drowning her). Lastly, doesn't explain at all where the monsters come from, as they were at best a minor side plot of this movie.

I don't mind Cloverfield going in all sorts of directions, but this was just a bad movie IMO.

I feel with the last two, they have just taken random movies and reshot the ending to include them in the universe. 10 Cloverfield lane got a pass from me because it was a great movie on its own merits, coupled with some amazing acting. Don't see any of that with Paradox.

 

[De Montreal]

Best part was O'Dowd character. I kinda like the parts on Earth without knowing if it was chaos created by the aliens from Lane, Clover from the original, or some other stuff.

Worse movie out of the three but I thought it was a good try anyway

 

[karnige]

The movie itself was incredibly flawed. Take away the Cloverfield name-tag and its a made for TV flop. I'm not usually a movie snob or anything like that, but I've tried to find redeeming qualities for the movie and can't come up with many.

Not stellar acting, questionable choices made by characters, tons of wtf-moments that aren't explained other than by

Spoiler

dimension paradox! By that last part I'm refering to walls that swallow arms, arms that for some reason have a mind of their own to help the main characters, a gyro and hundreds of worms for some reason being inside of a crew member that feels almost no ill effects until he spontaneously dies, a ship intent on killing its crew (see: locking the Asian girl in a room and drowning her). Lastly, doesn't explain at all where the monsters come from, as they were at best a minor side plot of this movie.

I don't mind Cloverfield going in all sorts of directions, but this was just a bad movie IMO.

I feel with the last two, they have just taken random movies and reshot the ending to include them in the universe. 10 Cloverfield lane got a pass from me because it was a great movie on its own merits, coupled with some amazing acting. Don't see any of that with Paradox.

Agreed. it had a sliver of reasoning to why its tied into the universe. call it another movie and you would have no idea. the plot was boring and the moments that happen make no sense and I guess its because its a different dimension? I see 100% why Paramount made the movie, panicked because it got poor reviews in screenings and sold it to netflix. it was pretty poor. 4/10

 

[Supermassive]

Certainly a fun flick. The Cloverfield saga is ever changing and all encompassing. People were just expecting something similar to the last one which I think it a weird expectation considering how different the first two were. Yeah, it didn't have that psychological thriller aspect to it, but who's to say that's a flaw? I like how this series has had three completely different types of storytelling that all tie into the same plot.

Good enough for me. I'll be watching this tonight with an open mind and no expectations.

 

[aufheben]

One of the strongest aspects of the original, (which I still think is a brilliant movie), is that there wasn't any explanation for anything. It was just terror. Will never forget that feeling of the movie ending and then walking out of a 23rd street theater into downtown Manhattan.

Certainly a fun flick. The Cloverfield saga is ever changing and all encompassing. People were just expecting something similar to the last one which I think it a weird expectation considering how different the first two were. Yeah, it didn't have that psychological thriller aspect to it, but who's to say that's a flaw? I like how this series has had three completely different types of storytelling that all tie into the same plot.

I wasn't expecting anything. I didn't even know about this movie until I saw the trailer on Netflix while I was going to watch a show. Just gave it a shot because it had Cloverfield in the title. Kind of felt...deceived, watching it.

 

[chicagoskycam]

I really don't understand or probably care but the multi universe explanation did not tell me why there was all this strange stuff going on in the ship. I was casually paying attention at times.

 

[RobBrown4PM]

It's like it wanted to be like event horizon, but was never able to come close to it.

It's ok, but there ARE much better sci-fi options on Netflix than this.

 

[RobBrown4PM]

They really just need to do a Cloverfield 2, a direct sequel to the original.

 

[BonMorrison]

I enjoyed it. Although I thought the on earth stuff was horrible as was the very Sunshine-esque 3rd act.

 

[MAHJ71]

The mixed bag of reviews are only making me want to give it a shot even more, LOL

 

[Hivemind]

Haven't watched it yet. Does it jive with the ARG for Cloverfield that happened before the original movie released?

 

[izzy]

Haven't watched it yet. Does it jive with the ARG for Cloverfield that happened before the original movie released?

i dont know 100%, but i checked the subreddit for cloververse and they all seemed overly pumped with everything connecting (and talk of arg) so my assumption would be that it does

 

[EON]

This movie is laughably bad, it's like a SciFi channel film. And the pathetic attempt to shoehorn it into the Cloverfield universe in the last 30 seconds was the cherry on top.

 

[beowulf]

Was amazing and not bad. I liked that it answered questions about the first two movies and really linked the three together. Also opens up so many more potential movies as the disruptions seem to be throughout the multiverse. That arm giving them the answer was nice!

 

[Hypernova]

Was amazing and not bad. I liked that it answered questions about the first two movies and really linked the three together. Also opens up so many more potential movies as the disruptions seem to be throughout the multiverse. That arm giving them the answer was nice!

What exactly did it answer about the first two movies? I must have missed that.

 

[CaptainCrunch67]

I was going to ask this, because in the first Cloverfield movie there was no energy crisis mentioned, yet in this movie it was like they'd never seen the cloverfield monster before.

The only guess that I can make is somehow when there is some time paradox where the capsule goes back in time or into another dimension and that's what splashed down at the end of the first movie and woke up the baby monster.

But it didn't make sense except to say that the Cloverfield monsters are pan dimensional, but they still would have known about those things as there had been one there before.

I can but that the second movie takes place in the future after the events of Paradox.

but it really didn't make sense.

 

[beowulf]

What exactly did it answer about the first two movies? I must have missed that.

Spoiler

Where the monsters/demons/aliens "came" from is the big one. Not exactly what planet or dimension but that they were given access to Earth in the various dimensions we have seen by the Shepard.

 

[beowulf]

I was going to ask this, because in the first Cloverfield movie there was no energy crisis mentioned, yet in this movie it was like they'd never seen the cloverfield monster before.

The only guess that I can make is somehow when there is some time paradox where the capsule goes back in time or into another dimension and that's what splashed down at the end of the first movie and woke up the baby monster.

But it didn't make sense except to say that the Cloverfield monsters are pan dimensional, but they still would have known about those things as there had been one there before.

I can but that the second movie takes place in the future after the events of Paradox.

but it really didn't make sense.

It created an opening both in time and space allowing the creatures access to various dimensions at various times.

The Earth's are subtly different and we see some of the links between the movies.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

What exactly did it answer about the first two movies? I must have missed that.

How/why the monsters showed up....how did you miss that?

 

[Hypernova]

How/why the monsters showed up....how did you miss that?

Yea I know they said weird stuff could happen with the Cloverfield Paradox but nothing that happened really explains anything. So the accelerator runs and fails and that leads to aliens on earth on Cloverfield 2 and the one monster that fell from the sky in Cloverfield 1? That is a pretty crappy explanation if that's what their intention was. Why only 1 monster in Cloverfield 1 yet in this movie, there are many? Why do aliens in the second movie have to be related to the paradox? Why can't they just be there. Why does an arm help further along the plot? This movie if anything just raised more questions with the series.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Yea I know they said weird stuff could happen with the Cloverfield Paradox but nothing that happened really explains anything. So the accelerator runs and fails and that leads to aliens on earth on Cloverfield 2 and the one monster that fell from the sky in Cloverfield 1? That is a pretty crappy explanation if that's what their intention was. Why only 1 monster in Cloverfield 1 yet in this movie, there are many? Why do aliens in the second movie have to be related to the paradox? Why can't they just be there. Why does an arm help further along the plot? This movie if anything just raised more questions with the series.

You are way overthinking it.

 

[Hypernova]

You are way overthinking it.

Because they explained nothing.

Spoiler

They took some unrelated movie and added the Cloverfield monster at the end.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Because they explained nothing.

Spoiler

They took some unrelated movie and added the Cloverfield monster at the end.

I mean, most people understood it. So i don't know what to tell you.