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Emmerich, known for such big-budget disaster movies as "Independence Day" and "Godzilla," is directing the project from a script he worked on with his "10,000 BC" co-writer Harald Kloser. "2012" was the first big spec script to hit the market after the 100-day Hollywood writers strike ended in February. (Reuters)
Cannes Festival Notebook: Cannes: Where reality intrudes, like a goat, on fantasy May 20, 2008
Each year a Big Hollywood movie clomps into the Cannes Film Festival like Godzilla, stirring up an orchestrated panic among media members frantic to get a piece of the action for the folks (and editors) back home. Two years ago the beastie was called "The Da Vinci Code," which withstood mass attacks to conquer the world box office. (International Herald Tribune)
Arlo Guthrie fishes for Dylan May 20, 2008
When they arrived in Sydney in 2005, a crowd stampeded past them when they wandered into a "Godzilla" film shoot. Australian cities are so far apart, they had to fly from stop to stop within the country. (Dowagiac News, MI)
'The Real World: Brooklyn'? My Dreams Are Finally Coming True, In Bigger Than The Sound May 14, 2008
Or, as a MySpace commenter astutely puts it, "It's like a Godzilla movie, except instead of destroying the city, you just rock." Totally. 2. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Reno: Movin' On Up May 4, 2008
A featured item in the long pastry counter is the Godzilla eclair, a chocolate monster the size of a meat loaf. I dodged Godzilla and opted for gelato to take back to the room. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Cloverfield’ hype drew attention from film May 2, 2008
Cloverfield, you see, is a completely typical monster movie along the lines of Godzilla or King Kong or even 2006 s The Host that had a very atypical protagonist. This is actually an entire movie about cannon fodder. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
DVD reviews: Cloverfield, Charlie Wilson May 2, 2008
Using a cast of unknowns to accentuate authenticity, Cloverfield is told entirely from the perspective of a hand-held camera that had been recording a farewell party among friends, the lens turned on the chaos that results as the Godzilla wannabe tears up the town ... The disc also has detailed making-of segments featuring the cast and crew including producer J.J. Abrams, whose trip to Japan with his son made him lament that America did not have a resident movie monster such as... (MSNBC -- Movies)
Lizzy Caplan and Jessica Lucas in 'Cloverfield' Apr 22, 2008
As a monster, Clover (the designers' name for it) never has quite the personality of a Godzilla or King Kong. More, the film was hindered by overblown comparisons to "The Blair Witch Project," specifically regarding the shaky visuals' effects on intestinal fortitude. (Zap2it.com)
How 'Godzilla' led to one of year's biggest hits Apr 22, 2008
How 'Godzilla' led to 'Cloverfield' - CNN.com ... Visiting Tokyo with his son a few years ago, producer J.J. Abrams was struck by the omnipresence of Godzilla in toy stores half a century after the giant reptile first terrorized Japan ... "I thought it would be so great if we had our own monster movie, not just 'Godzilla,' not just 'King Kong,' " said Abrams, creator of TV's "Lost" whose big-screen credits include directing "Mission: Impossible III" and the upcoming "Star Trek.". (CNN -- Showbiz)
Subway Chain Sued by Toho Over the Unauthorized Use of Godzilla in TV Ads Apr 17, 2008
Subway Sued by Toho Over Unauthorized Godzilla Advertisements ... April 16 (Bloomberg) -- Subway, the largest U.S. restaurant chain, was sued by , the Japanese maker of the Godzilla movies, which said the prehistoric monster was used without permission in Subway's television advertisements ... Subway ``not only intentionally created a character that closely resembles Godzilla in its physical appearance, but placed the character in a setting, a Japanese city under attack, that is widely... (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Oscar-winner, monster and witty ditties Apr 11, 2008
The baby behemoth, named Crusoe, is mostly gentle and comically clumsy, at least until the second hour of the movie, when Crusoe turns into Scotland's answer to Godzilla. Expertly acted, technically impressive and guaranteed to scare the pants off of most grade-schoolers, ``Horse'' is, as they say in the United Kingdom, neither fish nor fowl. (Kalamazoo Gazette, MI)
8 Charged As Adults In Beating Case Apr 11, 2008
Posted by ( godzilla ) on April 11, 2008 at 1:03 a.m. ( ). A civil suit would do more harm than good. (Tampa Tribune)
Screen on the Green lineup announced Apr 10, 2008
That s like saying if they show Roots, more people will be black or a Godzilla move will bring more Asians ... That s like saying if they show Roots, more people will be black or a Godzilla move will bring more Asians. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Charlton Heston Apr 8, 2008
Moses (in The Ten Commandments), Michelangelo (The Agony and the Ecstasy), Rodrigo Diaz (El Cid), Judah Ben-Hur in the Godzilla of Biblical epics: he slipped into these outsize figures as if into a second skin, stamped his strong visage on theirs. He also, actually, did play God once in the 1990 Paul Hogan comedy Almost an Angel but he had revealed his movie divinity long before that. (Time.com)
Fox + 'Idol' = odd winning formula Apr 2, 2008
Fairly assessing progress will thus have to wait until January, when "Idol" -- which CBS Corp. chief Leslie Moonves rightly labeled a "monster" -- again starts its Godzilla routine, laying waste to the TV landscape. On the plus side for Fox, "Idol's" warming glow exhibits no immediate signs of fading, and the strike has rendered this a throwaway season for everyone. (Variety)
Disney Calling All Robots Mar 27, 2008
There's not much known about the flick but, according to , Dougherty wants to "tell a story that's a throwback to old Godzilla movies. I grew up watching Godzilla movies. This film is very much rooted in those movies.". "It's a film we just could not make in live action or traditional animation," Dougherty said about making the film using motion-capture. (Suite101.com)
Michael Dougherty calls 'All Robots' Mar 27, 2008
Details of the project are being kept under wraps, but it uses performance capture to "tell a story that's a throwback to old Godzilla movies," Dougherty said. "I grew up watching Godzilla movies. This film is very much rooted in those movies.". (Variety)
Brittany Snow, Bradley Cooper feel the horror Mar 26, 2008
referred to director Kitamura (Godzilla: Final Wars) as potentially Japans Quentin Tarantino, a young director with a flare for action and fast paced films. Coming: May 16Web site. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Reporter's notebook: Octopus consumes Hong Kong Mar 26, 2008
It sounds like an old Godzilla movie, but it's actually an interesting wireless factoid from a weekend in Hong Kong. I was taking the #6 bus from Central to Stanley, a ride known by locals for its similarity to a roller coaster as it whips around a narrow road cut into the south island hills. (EETimes)
Taking on the Godzilla of video-sharing sites Mar 24, 2008 When poetry is not prettyDoes firm play on vanity? Mar 15, 2008 10,000 B.C. leads weekend box office Mar 10, 2008 '10000 BC' quest for early flair is just too Neanderthal Mar 8, 2008 Director Has His Day With '10,000 BC' Mar 7, 2008 Lewis: The ACTION 5! Mar 6, 2008 For an icy 10000 BC look, try NZ Mar 3, 2008 Land before time: 11 great prehistoric flicks Mar 1, 2008 Farewell to Ferreira Mar 1, 2008 Downtown gets boost from Facebook influx Feb 28, 2008 Can you write a Wacky caption? Feb 24, 2008 Beowulf, we hardly knew you Feb 24, 2008 David Mamet: The heady task of chronicling an unruly life Feb 22, 2008 Emmerich's 2012 Feb 21, 2008 The Cougar Lounge - A Brief Period Of Lunacy Feb 18, 2008 Antiques & Collecting: There's no need to fear, Ultraman is here Feb 16, 2008 The Spiderwick Chronicles Feb 15, 2008 What the hell?| Feb 14, 2008 Win a 'Cloverfield' DVD camera! Feb 14, 2008 Omar seeks to settle Feb 12, 2008 Cloverfield UK Review Feb 8, 2008 Conspiracy Theories Behind Those Cut Undersea Cables Feb 7, 2008 Giant flaw in Pats' perfection: New York reigns in Super Bowl Feb 4, 2008 Monstrous fun ... JJ Abrams' Cloverfield Feb 1, 2008 ‘Cloverfield’: A monster is loose in Manhattan Jan 31, 2008 Asian ghosts stories are getting the Hollywood makeover Jan 31, 2008 Arts and Entertainment Jan 29, 2008 Film: J. J. Abrams' Cloverfield Jan 28, 2008 Krewe Of Gladiators Returns Jan 27, 2008 A 'Godzilla' For Modern Times Jan 25, 2008 MEDIA-MEMORY MISTAKE Jan 24, 2008 Monster Madness Jan 24, 2008 Cloverfield's a Monster Jan 23, 2008 Beyond the motion sickness, 'Cloverfield' is monstrous fun Jan 23, 2008 "Survivor" All-Stars Ready for Battle Jan 22, 2008 Cloverfield --- reviewed by Craig the Movie Geek! Jan 22, 2008 Scenes of havoc Jan 20, 2008 SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE LIFESTYLE BUDGET Jan 20, 2008 "Cloverfield" (106) Jan 20, 2008 Oh, the horror! Hollywood makes a cheap flick Jan 19, 2008 Monsters, updated Jan 19, 2008 'Cloverfield': Trampled Underfoot, By Kurt Loder Jan 19, 2008 What's Hot This Weekend Jan 19, 2008 Cloverfield a hit on YouTube Jan 19, 2008 Spoiler alert: 'Cloverfield' lives up to the hype Jan 18, 2008 'Cloverfield' delivers monster thrills, chills Jan 18, 2008 Hollywood loves to destroy NYC Jan 18, 2008 Chicago actor scares up starring role in `Cloverfield' Jan 18, 2008 Review: 'Cloverfield' a shaky look at monster attacking New York Jan 18, 2008 'Cloverfield' leaves the audience wanting more Jan 18, 2008 Cloverfield: Cover your eyes, hold your stomach Jan 18, 2008 Monster thrills Jan 18, 2008 Apocalypse New Jan 18, 2008 Is JJ Abrams' 'Cloverfield' the next monster hit? Jan 17, 2008 'Cloverfield' Jan 17, 2008 See Cloverfield now before the secrets out Jan 17, 2008 GRIDSCHLOCK ALERT Jan 17, 2008 'Cloverfield's' battle Jan 17, 2008 Cloverfield: Godzilla Goes 9/11 Jan 17, 2008 Abrams on Cloverfield Jan 17, 2008 'Cloverfield's' monster concept Jan 16, 2008 When monsters attack! Best cinema beasts Jan 15, 2008 SEVEN DEADLY SIGNS Jan 13, 2008 More of this story Jan 12, 2008 Tempe entrepreneur brings Japan to the States Jan 10, 2008
But worldwide, YouTube remains the Godzilla of video-sharing sites, with 258 million unique visitors in January, compared with 32 million for Dailymotion, according to ComScore. Today in Business with Reuters. (International Herald Tribune)
Time stands still| Mar 20, 2008
It certainly doesn't bother director Roland Emmerich ('Independence Day', 'Godzilla', 'Day After Tomorrow') who apparently didn't feel the need to learn a thing about the year 10000 BC before he made a movie with that very name. He also decided it wasnt necessary to know anything about natural history, evolution, pre-historic man, the pyramids, the Nile or basic ecology. (iAfrica.com)
One writers group calls the company the "Godzilla of the vanity publishing world." ... Godzilla of vanity publishing ... The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Inc., called the company the "Godzilla of the vanity publishing world" on its Web site. (Owings Mills Times, MD)
His previous hits have included Independence Day and Godzilla, with his best debut coming four years ago with The Day After Tomorrow, which hauled in $68. 7-million in its opening weekend. (Globe and Mail)
Anyone who thinks they don't make 'em like they used to will be glad to discover "10,000 B.C." The movie, from director Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day," "Godzilla," "The Day After Tomorrow"), isn't trying for the realism of "Quest for Fire," the 1981 drama that's still the Cro-Magnon opus to beat. Emmerich just wants to make a simple, old-style adventure about the power of myth and pelt-wearing homo sapiens in love. (New York Daily News)
While he wowed audiences with the visual effects in the modern day settings in the blockbusters "Independence Day," "Godzilla" and "The Day After Tomorrow," director Roland Emmerich faced a stark irony in getting his latest epic, "10,000 BC" to come to life on the big screen. Essentially, the writer-director-producer was stuck in the middle of a back to the future catch-22: To bring to life a film set in pre-historic times, Emmerich had to wait for technology to catch up. (Click2Houston, TX)
Your Connection to the. Web Search powered by YAHOO. (Athens Banner-Herald)
The German-born director of special effects-filled blockbusters, Independence Day, Godzilla and The Day After Tomorrow, was searching for a mountainous, snow-covered location for one key scene in his new epic, 10,000 BC.. The movie was scheduled to be shot in South Africa and Namibia in eight weeks' time. (Ninemsn)
It probably wont be a paragon of scientific accuracy, judging by Emmerichs previous track record on Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and Godzilla. But Hollywood has a history of mining prehistory for entertainment value over archaeological exactness or, as legendary animator Ray Harryhausen once put it, professors probably dont go to the cinema anyway. (MSNBC -- News)
EF: I love science fiction movies like Godzilla. I love thing like the God Father, American Gangster, Saving Private Ryan. (Gobulldogs.com)
The August article, "Facebook takes over Palo Alto," features an illustration of Godzilla destroying buildings. It got people gossiping but doesn't ring true, Carnevale said, noting it wasn't tough to find the downtown apartment she's moving to in April. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
A man sleeps under a Godzilla statue near a bar in downtown Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008. The sleeping man appeared to be the victim of too much Chinese New Year celebrations. (Montana Standard, MT)
This makes the film more like Beowulf & American Oil Companies Versus King Kong & Godzilla. Zemeckis won an Oscar for Forrest Gump, a heartwarming film about a loveable man who's not very smart. (Globe and Mail)
He has written 11 nonfiction books ventilating on everything from the movie business ("Bambi vs. Godzilla") to anti-Semitism and Jewish self-hatred ("The Wicked Son"). He has written three novels and directed commercials for Ford. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
IGN FilmForce profiles the director of ID4, The Patriot, and Godzilla. Connections for 2012. (IGN FilmForce)
We got a large dictatorial country hosting the planet's premier sporting event [check] and we got a large greedy corporate company broadcasting said event [check] all we need now is either a giant, marauding, robotic Easter Bunny to wade over from Monster Island [a la Godzilla] bringing his friends Rodan and Mothra or assurances that we all think nice and happy thoughts about China for three weeks out of the year. It appears to be the latter as British athletes are being forced to sign... (Washington State Sports -- Rivals.com)
30-day news archives. " The bottom is inverted about 2 inches into itself, so it held less liquid than a bottle with a flat bottom. What could it have held?A: In 1933, Prohibition was repealed and it was legal to sell bottled alcoholic beverages. The law also required wording prohibiting reuse of the bottle to be sure only the original, approved contents were inside. This protected the health of users and also made sure all required taxes were paid. The indent in the bottom of the bottle is... (Florida Today)
For example, Cloverfield is Godzilla meets The Blair Witch Project and Fool's Gold is How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days meets National Treasure. By that same token, The Spiderwick Chronicles is a sanitized version of Evil Dead 2 meets Gremlins -- a scrappy and sometimes scary supernatural tale that features a dangerous book and some even more dangerous critters who will stop at nothing to get it. (IGN FilmForce)
Cloverfield' is the 'Godzilla' for the YouTube generation, where everybody has a camera phone; where shaky, grainy footage of Saddam's execution appears online within minutes; where over 37 million people have watched a home movie clip of a baby laughing. One of those people might very well have been Hudd, an average 20-something New Yorker tasked with filming his best friend Rob's farewell party. (iAfrica.com)
It's 'Godzilla' meets 'The Blair Witch Project. It's 'Cloverfield. (iAfrica.com)
It was funny when Omar came out blazing on Marlowe s crew and how people were running and screaming It s Omar Omar s coming It was like Godzilla attacking Tokoyo. Also, McNulty is a hoot, kidnapping the homeless guy, this was so funny. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
This faux-amateur approach really does work unbelievably effectively, to the point where you wonder, "Why aren't all disaster movies filmed like this?" Cloverfield makes movies like Godzilla and Spielberg's War of the Worlds seem incredibly staged and predictable, and that's one hell of an achievement. The movie gives the impression that Reeves and Abrams ; great buddies since college ; discussed the simple but brilliant concept behind the film and said "wouldn't this be cool? Let's try it and... (IGN FilmForce)
Seriously, everyone knows it was Godzilla. Comment by bb - February 6, 2008 at. (Wall Street Journal)
"There was no Godzilla factor. We played them like they were another team, like it was any other Sunday.". There'd been a month of Sundays like this. (USA Today -- Sports)
Here is a monster movie with monster special effects and monster shouty acting, which recalls the Godzilla phenomenon in more ways than its producer-creator JJ Abrams perhaps realises ... As it happens, Rob's party was a leaving do; he was about to go away for a job in Japan: a cute reference, surely, to Godzilla ... The Japanese Godzilla of 1954 showed the monster being awakened by a nuclear blast; the creature rampaged around laying waste to Japanese cities in ways that explicitly recalled the... (Guardian Unlimited)
Writer Drew Goddard constructs an updated and glossy version of Godzilla conquering the streets of Manhattan. The monster in this case being a far distant cousin of Godzilla, but nonetheless arising from the depths of the ocean with a grudge and an obvious hunger for human flesh. (Lompoc Record, CA)
Say what you will about remakes, they seem, all in all, a better option than Raymond Burr in "Godzilla.". Multimedia. (International Herald Tribune)
Also common to disaster movies is preaching; from the atomic parables of 1950's Godzilla to the glory days of disaster flicks: the Vietnam-torn 1970's, screenwriters have a nasty habit of bombarding the audience with obvious metaphors. By Stephanie Soleta. (The Current Online, MO)
In fact, the only thing likely to be shocking was that someone had the guts to show the monster in the movie at all; sacrificing the appeal of the unknown for more gore and girly gasps at the gargantuan beast was gutsy, but ultimately backfired, almost turning Cloverfield into a bad episode of Godzilla meets GI JOE.. While the acting was not to die for, in a film this bad, it may be only fair to give the cast an A for effort. (Suite101.com)
Krewe members tossed beads from floats featuring the papier-mache likenesses of Superman, Wonder Woman and Godzilla. The words "We're Back," painted on one float, were the most obvious nod to Katrina. (NBC 11, CA)
Id come home from school and ruin my eyes watching Godzilla, Mothra, Monster Zero and that flying turtle Gamera fight for truth, justice and the Japanese way ... As many have noted, its sort of The Blair Witch Project meets Godzilla ... A bunch of vacuous twenty-something hipster doofuses are at a party in Lower Manhattan when a critter that looks like a cross between Godzilla and a praying mantis attacks the city. (Townhall.com)
To pretend Cloverfield is anything more insults 9/11 as well as Godzilla. Ultimately, our culture is thoroughly indicted when the media accepts Cloverfield s essential silliness after scoffing at the depth, beauty, terror and humanity of Spielberg s War of the Worlds. (New York Press)
No, I'm not overanalyzing here -- just take a look at the mother of all monster films, the original Godzilla. Godzilla the monster was a product of atomic radiation, and the film served as an analogy for the Japanese community's fear of the effects of atomic warfare (it came out a mere nine years following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
Godzilla has met its match ... 1 million in 2005), 's Jurassic Park ($47 million in 1993) and Hollywood's Godzilla ($44 million in 1998). (E! Online)
As in "Godzilla," "King Kong" and the host of imitations that have followed, the skyline of New York gives the monster a place to hide - even better, it gives a 40-story monster a place to sneak up on the characters ... Beyond that, it has some interesting commentary on how people handle a disaster, and it pays a nice homage to "Godzilla" and H.P. Lovecraft. (The Daily Lobo, NM)
Godzilla has met its match. Cloverfield, the J.J. Abrams-produced monster. (Yahoo News -- Survivor)
Turns out it's sort of a cross between Godzilla and The Blair Witch Project --- with imagery that really bring back to mind the September 11th attack footage that is ingrained in our minds. It's all shot from the POV of of the people that are right in the thick of it. (650 CKOM News Talk Radio)
Godzilla (1998) Victim: New York City Modus operandi: Giant mutant radioactive monitor lizard with a gigantic appetite. A giant lizard attacks New York City in Godzilla ... Universally disliked by critics, Godzilla is considered a huge disappointment. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
CLOVERFIELD-FILM (Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) -- The movie labeled "Blair Witch Project" meets "Godzilla" -- by its makers and anyone who's tracked the buzz since a mysterious preview debuted in July -- has arrived, and "Cloverfield" is a monster movie for our time. 600. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
When you were watching Godzilla tear through Tokeyo when you were a kid, did you get into a tizzy wondering whether Hiroshima was turned into an amusement park ride ... As a matter of fact, Godzilla really was "about" nuclear Japan, just as, say, The Seven Samurai was "about" post-War Japan's interrogation of its militaristic past. (Salon)
An American Godzilla"Cloverfield" is clearly an homage to the cheesy look of the Godzilla films ... Abrams figured what America needed was its own Godzilla, he says. (MSNBC -- Business)
If only Rob had escaped to Japan, where all he would have to cope with would be the occasional menace of Godzilla. The conceit of Cloverfield is that Hud's camera has been found long after the invasion and we are watching the unedited, disjointed events he recorded. (The Palm Beach Post)
Godzilla does New York ... That it's also more disturbingly subversive than such primordial sci-fi predecessors as "Them!" and "It Came from Beneath the Sea" and especially the 1956 "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" is a credit to the pulp expertise of the filmmakers. (VHI.com -- Music News)
No, an American Godzilla with Alien teeth and a cranky disposition. The creature, glimpsed too furtively till the end, is skinny and reptilian. (Time.com)
Michael Stahl-David stars as Rob, who's about to move to Japan for work (in a nice little homage to Godzilla) and whose going-away party is interrupted by the arrival of a very large, angry reptile. Mike Vogel plays his brother, Jason, and the two are obviously close. (India Times, India)
It's also to New York City and the American psyche what "Godzilla" was to Tokyo: a cinematic fantasy response to unimaginable events ... The math is preposterously easy, actually: "Cloverfield" equals "Godzilla" divided by "The Blair Witch Project." (And if you want to know nothing more before buying a ticket, stop reading right now. (Boston Globe)
Think Godzilla meets The Blair Witch Project, with a Gen Y Big Chill element thrown in. Then add homages to Alien, Independence Day and War of the Worlds. (USA Today -- Life)
He compares the film to the original "Godzilla," which embodied Japanese trauma from the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... Trailing cities included Los Angeles (11 percent), London (15 percent) and Godzilla's traditional stomping ground, Tokyo (12 percent) ... That year "Armageddon" tore into the city with meteors, a comet strike sank it under a tsunami in "Deep Impact" and a big lizard trashed it in "Godzilla.". (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
"The film -- destined to evoke memories of Sept. 11 -- owe debts to "The Blair Witch Project," the "Godzilla" franchise and savvy marketing. "Lost" creator-turned-producer J.J. Abrams hitched a grainy trailer to "Transformers" last year that show Lady Liberty's head rolling down a street. A cyber-campaign followed.The monster -- which is "big, terrifying and fast" -- was added digitally to fleeing-mob scenes. For the infamous trailer, the F/X team fired "a tiny little rocket on a string" down... (Munster Times, IN)
But even though "Cloverfield" isn't the Godzilla-for-the-YouTube-generation picture that everyone may have been hoping for, it's still a terrific movie, filled with spectacle and a surprising amount of humor, which makes up for its lack of terror or emotional impact ... If you've watched "Starship Troopers," that bad Matthew Broderick "Godzilla" movie and any episode of "Dawson's Creek," you won't be surprised by the plot developments or creature design in this movie ... Unlike that atrocious... (San Francisco Chronicle)
It initially unfolds as a Manhattan yuppie drama, populated by sensitive dudes and spunky babes, but quickly becomes wrapped sushi-style in the FX-driven nori of a Godzilla flick. The party takes place in an enormous downtown loft, organized by Lily (Jessica Lucas), abetted (or more accurately, hindered) by her somber boyfriend, Jason (Mike Vogel), and the hapless comic relief of Hud (T.J. Miller). (Los Angeles Times)
I say monsters plural because the main creature like a more nimble Godzilla has things that fall from it. Spider-like beasties akin to those things in The Mist. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Cloverfield' scare factor tops that of 'Godzilla ... Yes, it's scary, yes it's weird looking, and no, it's not Godzilla ... In the theater all these people were like, this is a Godzilla movie, if this monster is Godzilla, then the weather at Syracuse is similar to Acapulco. (Daily Orange, NY)
" Of course, Eliot was writing metaphorically about a culture that he felt was exhausted and dying, but with the advent of the atom bomb, the end of the world got a lot more literal. (Eliot later confessed that he wouldn't have written the same lines after the coming of the H-bomb.) One of the cultural aftershocks of the bombing of Hiroshima was the awakening of Godzilla and the Japanese monster movie as a way of reckoning with the nightmare of U.S. atomic weapons. "Stories in which the... (Time.com)
Aimed at a YouTube audience and taking its cues from Blair Witch, Godzilla and 9/11 footage, Cloverfield is shot entirely with digital handheld cameras ... "Godzilla was a statement about the atom bomb, the terror of that time," Reeves says. (USA Today)
Cloverfield owes an obvious debt to both Godzilla and The Blair Witch Project ... Although Godzilla was a Cold War nightmare come to life, Cloverfield is at times a real-life nightmare relived. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
While the advance hype about Cloverfields handheld-camera monster-movie shtick made it sound like it was going to be The Godzilla Witch Project, the resultant film very cleverly transcends its gimmick ... (The makers of the dreadful American Godzilla tried hiding their beastie in the fog, which wasnt nearly as effective. (MSNBC -- Movies)
As The Blair Witch Project" meets Godzilla" meets the Banana Republic catalog, I'm not sure who suffered more: the characters or me. They: are being terrorized by a giant monster roaring through Manhattan who's destroying buildings, knocking down bridges and playing shot put with the Statue of Liberty's head. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
When "Lost" producer Abrams pitched the idea to Paramount production chief Brad Weston, the idea was to bring a "Blair Witch" sensibility to a Hollywood staple that includes "The Blob," "The War of the Worlds" and the Japanese "Godzilla" series ... And unlike how Sony handled its giant lizard in its "Godzilla" remake and Universal its oversized simian in its "King Kong" update, Paramount has kept its movie monster in the shadows of pre-release advertising. (Los Angeles Times)
monster, an American Godzilla ... (Godzilla's rampage across Japan, you'll recall, was the spawn of atomic bombs dropped there ... The movie is basically the 1954 Godzilla (itself a gloss on Ray Harryhausen's 1953 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, in which a prehistoric beast is roused by atomic tests to terrorize New York City) told in the style of, and with the characters from, The Blair Witch Project (but with a lot less internal cohesion; this could be called "The Blair Witch Reject"). (Time.com)
When Godzilla came out, the idea of doing a movie about the destruction of a city because of a radioactive manmade thing it must have had a similar feeling. It was very much a way to deal, in a social, communal way, with everyone's common fears. (Time.com)
The original Japanese version of "Godzilla," arguably the precursor of the modern, urban monster movie, has always been seen as a direct extension of the Atomic Age anxiety over the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Among the imagery used in "Cloverfield" are collapsing skyscrapers, great clouds of dust and swirling drifts of paper that directly reference the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (Los Angeles Times)
Godzilla (1954)Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) In many ways the definitive giant monster, Godzilla has been smashing up Tokyo for more than 50 years, but only recently have American audiences been able to see his debut film as it should be seen without the needless re-editing that toned down the Japanese version and without the subplot featuring Raymond Burr, which just slowed down the action ... But the series took on a darker, more... (MSNBC -- News)
It's been washed out by a tidal wave in The Day After Tomorrow," stomped by Godzilla" and overrun by vampire mutants in I Am Legend. " And on Friday, the island is set to be flattened again by a giant monster of mysterious origins in Cloverfield.". (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Juanito wrote on Jan 11, 2008 6:58 PM:" What next... Godzilla? ". Submit a Comment. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
It's the same rush she felt as a Godzilla fan moving to Tokyo and being able to see campy monster movies on the big screen every day. "It's exciting to find a treasure you can't find on American Web sites," Russell said. (AZCentral -- Business)
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