Today’s film is a monster movie with scenes that happen on
May 23. I hope you will enjoy this motion picture and watch it tonight.
CLOVERFIELD
The movie begins with an
indication that it was taken from a camera found in an area formerly called
“Central Park”. The first segment shows Rob waking up Beth after they have
spent the night together and they go to Coney Island. Then we see the farewell party
Rob’s brother Jason and his girlfriend Lily give for Rob, who is moving to
Japan. Their friend Hud does the filming.
Beth leaves the party. Shortly after midnight on May 23, 2009 [15:31 to
1:13:07] an apparent earthquake hits New York, causing a brief power outage. TV
reports an oil tanker has capsized in the harbor. The partygoers climb to the roof to try and find out what
is going on, but there is a distant explosion that sends shrapnel flying their
way. Rob, Jason, Hud, Lilly and Marlena leave the building and see the severed
head of the Statute of Liberty lying in the street. Hud films what looks like a
monstrous arm several blocks away and the Woolworth Building collapses. The
group heads towards the Brooklyn Bridge to get off of Manhattan, but a creature
with tentacles attacks the bridge, and they barely escape with their lives,
except for Jason, who is killed. TV shows the army attacking the creature,
which sheds smaller beasts that attack people. Rob finds a working phone and
listens to his messages. One is from Beth telling him she is trapped in her
wrecked apartment building. The group travels to rescue her, going down into
the subway where the smaller creatures attack them and Marlena is bitten. They
leave the subway and find an army command center/hospital where Marlena dies.
They learn the last helicopter will leave the island at 6 am, before action is
taken to destroy the creature. They rescue Beth. At the evacuation center Lilly
is put on one helicopter and Rob, Hud and Beth are placed on another one. They
witness a B-2 bomber attack the creature, which lashes out, causing their
helicopter to crash in Central Park.
They get out of the wreckage, but the monster kills Hud. Beth and Rob
hide underneath a bridge. Then bombing starts and the camera (and presumably
Rob and Beth) is buried. We then switch back to a brief segment of the Coney
Island trip.
An unusual docudrama style monster movie. The film starts out
like a young adult drama. Suddenly, it morphs into a terrifying monster flick.
Date given in film at 1:11:41-42. At 15:34 a clock shows
it’s about 12:10 a.m.
Producer - J. J. Abrams and Bryan Burk
Director - Matt Reeves
Screenplay - Drew Goddard
Released – January 18, 2008
Runtime - 1 hour 25
minutes
Starring –
Jessica Lucas as Lily Ford
Michael Stahl-David as Robert "Rob" Hawkins
T. J. Miller as Hudson "Hud" Platt
Odette Yustman as Elizabeth "Beth" MacIntyre
Lizzy Caplan as Marlena Diamond
Mike Vogel as Jason Hawkins
Ben Feldman as Travis
Billy Brown as Staff Sgt. Pryce
Copyright by Ivan Walters 2014.
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