I finally got around to seeing the Cloverfield films this week and while I'm quite excited about the franchise and its future, I gotta rant about the dumpster fire that is The Cloverfield Paradox.If you don't know, the Cloverfield films are a series of sci-fi films that started with 2006's Cloverfield directed by Matt Reeves. This was followed by two "spiritual sequels" that were picked by JJ Abrams and Bad Robot from two spec scripts that originally weren't meant to be Cloverfield sequels but had enough of the Cloverfield DNA to be retrofitted into the franchise.Cloverfield is a well told, found footage movie that uses powerful post-9/11 paranoia and imagery to tell the story of a group of friends surviving an alien attack. The sequel is a tightly paced claustrophobia thriller about 3 people surviving in a bunker but there's a similarly powerful air of doubt and confusion and paranoia in the air that causes certain events to unfold and secrets to unravel.Then comes The Cloverfield Paradox which goes wholly against the grounded themes of the other two films and is about a crew of scientists on a particle accelerator in space! I get that these movies aren't the most well thought out sequels but this was particularly atrocious! While the other two movies are quite realistic and grim, The Cloverfield Paradox is a weirdly funny, almost nonsensical shitty sci-fi horror that throws around absolutely nonsensical sci-fi sounding tosh around. Maybe if it hadn't been a Cloverfield sequel it would have been a decent film but with so many conflicting tones, themes and characters it feels like such a strange choice for a Cloverfield sequel. The fact that the films already include an alien invasion, introducing parallel dimensions and multiple earths just makes this film so convoluted and dumb. While I might not particularly like JJ Abrams as a director, I do feel he has a keen eye for other interesting storytellers. I mean he picked Matt Reeves and Dan Trachtenberg for the other two movies and brought on Brad Bird and Christopher McQuarrie to the MI sequels so I'm just kinda struck that he made such a mistake with this one. Thoughts? via /r/movies https://ift.tt/33rCumQ
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