No CLOVERFIELD Sequel Anytime Soon?

a good idea this time... right JJ?

What's Cloverfield?

I thought the headline red No Britt anytime for How I met Your Mother!

No sequel is a good thing.

Well I liked Cloverfield so I was hoping for a sequel but with the bad publicity the film received I won't be surprised either way. Too bad he's being so tight lipped about this new story idea,then again that's he's m.o.

Great news! I didn't really like Cloverfield, anyway. I wanted to know more about the monster. Where it came from, why is it here? Did the monster die at the end? The lead characters go through all that fuss to save the one girl, only for everyone (except the black chick. Go figure)to die in the end. What was the point? It's a monster movie, I want the monster to get his come up pence.

Finally, I hate that shaky camera work stuff. I want to see the action, not be part of it. I think it's lazy directing to to do that. I love seeing a well thought out and choreographed action scene. Just grabbing the camera and tossing it back and forth screams, "I can't actually film an action scene, so I'll get by with this!" It's like auto-tune for action directors.

That blows! I wanted to find out more about that monster, like samson7842 said. I thought a sequel would b great as long as they didn't use the shaky camera trick again. Maybe we're better off...

I want more Cloverfield!

They want to do something completely different... it's about an earthquake that awakens this mutated creature inside a volcano, which then takes revenge on the nearby city of San Francisco. These kids are throwing a graduation party for their friend as the creature attacks. Some of the kids capture the events with cell phones, and the whole movie will be a slideshow of the photos.

All kidding aside, I liked Cloverfield (and other Abrams stuff).

I thought Cloverfield was pretty decent, but I hated the shakey-cam. What I wanted to see in the sequel was the same events told in the standard format, i.e. regular camera work showing the government, police and military reacting to the threat.

Let me get this straight. A somewhat renown Hollywood type is going to opt for something that might (it probably won't but we'll at least acknowledge the possiblity) be original and engaging instead of making a sequel that will rehash first movie's plot and add nothing more than bigger, better special effects wizardy? That's a miracle in and of itself! Not surprisingly, however, there are some people who don't like it and think they should do a sequel. They're probably the same people who bitch incesantly about Hollywood churning out more and more unoriginal crap.

Cloverfield was an interesting take on the genre, but ultimately amounts to nothing but a rehash of the same tiresome formula. At best you could (I emphasize could) end up with one passable sequel before the whole franchise turns to screen feces. Let this sleeping dog lie, and Kudos to JJ Abrahms for saying he'd rather work on something different.