The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) SPOILER THREAD

It was...a movie.

I enjoyed the movie. Not as strong as Cloverfield but definitely stronger than !0 Cloverfield Lane. Still wish they went with the original idea that was rumored for the sequels all being different perspectives of the original event.

Hmmmm. Will watch this tonight when I get home...

Just watched all 3 for the first time and thought the new one sucked. 10 Cloverfield Lane was probably the best out the lot.

Just watched it. I liked it. At least the first half, 2nd half kind of lulled on and got boring, but I liked the guessing game and kind of Cronenberg style body horror.

It got me to immediately watch 10 Cloverfield, which I missed the first time.

Interested to see how this series develops and if we'll ever see a direct sequel or tie in to a previous installment. I kind of like the idea of these being a Twilight Zone style series where the Shepard stuff opens the door for events in other timelines and realities.

Unless I'd done extra reading afterward, I wouldn't have realized that Leslie from 10 and Paradox were the same actress or that Howard and Donal Logue's characters shared a last name.

I followed the Cloverfield campaign from day one, and was completely enamored with the whole thing. It heightened my love for the film itself that much more when I saw it for the first time, and I still love it to this day. When people see the movie years later and like it, but don't understand why I love it so much, it makes me sad that they couldn't experience everything that went along with it.

10 Cloverfield Lane is an excellent film, but it's not a Cloverfield movie, and I've opted just to not look at it that way. Even still, I don't think it did anything to directly impact the story or the legacy of the original movie.

I can't say the same about Paradox. Not only is it not a very good film, but I hate that it tries to explain the monster and, in a roundabout way, undo the official story of Cloverfield (even if the monster's origins are never specifically referenced in the first film.) If you followed the Cloverfield campaign at all, or even looked back on it years later, you know that the monster is an infantile alien creature that was (probably) awoken or hatched from the ocean when a satellite crashed down and disturbed it. That's the story, that's all we need to know. The multiple dimension stuff is totally unnecessary. Cloverfield already had an origin story.

The Paranormal Activity franchise did the same thing, and I hated that too. The original film scared the living hell out of me, and a lot of that was because there were so many unknowns. By the time the franchise wrapped up, those questions had all been answered and then reanswered a hundred times and there was no mystery anymore. The curtain had been pulled all the way back. Sometimes, a good haunt should just a good haunt. And, as it pertains to Cloverfield, a good monster movie should just be a good monster movie.