Looks decent I'll give it a watch. Never saw any of the Cloverfield films.
The 'first' Cloverfield was pretty decent. The other films with "Cloverfield" in the name, like 10 Cloverfield Lane and The Cloverfield Paradox, were decent movies on their own. However, those films didn't have much directly related to Cloverfield until the last 10 minutes.
While they are decent movies on their own, it seemed like they just tacked on something related to Cloverfield in the last couple minutes so they could use the name for marketing. As those two films are very different movies from Cloverfield, they likely would not have brought in the larger audiences to see them if they were just released on their own as they were. Tweaking the endings in the last few minutes just to get the tie-in so they could use the Cloverfield name allowed for them to hit a larger audience and also furthered the story of Cloverfield slightly to keep interest in that story in case they were to release a real sequel to it.
The reviews on the 3rd aren't so great either.
Yeah, most probably would say it sucked. I say 'decent' for it simply because I've seen a whole lot of horrible science fiction, so it was 'decent' by comparison. I consider that movie at about a 4 on a 10 scale. A 4 for most people probably equates to 'it sucks', but I consider a 4 for a scifi as being 'decent' considering most scifi I have seen barely gets to a 3. I've only seen a couple of scifi movies that I thought were good, let alone good enough to watch multiple times. I've also never rated any movie above 8 and even then I've only given that to maybe 2 or 3 films total across all genres.
In The Cloverfield Paradox, several things in it not only didn't make sense, there was no logical reason for them to occur as they did and sometimes occurred opposite to what would be logical. It was likely an unfunded B scifi script that was dusted off and just had its ending changed for the Cloverfield tie-in to try to help pay for it even being made.
It's a shame too as it could have been one of those rare scifi movies that are good if the writing were cleaned up with the intention of it being a Cloverfield movie from the beginning instead of being tacked on at the end and if things that happened made more sense instead of a mashup of weird, illogical things happening simply for the sake of being weird or for shock value.
I wouldn't watch it again, but I don't think the ~1.5 hours or whatever I spent watching it that one time was a waste even with its issues. I won't watch 10 Cloverfield Lane again also, but it was a decent movie and I don't feel like that was a waste of ~1.5 hours or so either.
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