Cloverfield
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Title: Cloverfield
Rated: PG13
Summary:
"MULTIPLE SIGHTINGS OF CASE DESIGNATE 'CLOVERFIELD'"
"CAMERA RETRIEVED AT SITE 'US 447'
AREA FORMERLY KNOWN AS 'CENTRAL PARK'"
Movie opens: Rob with a camera, some time in April. Rob walks around an apartment building, revealed to be his girlfriend's place. She's naked in bed. Rob wakes her up, and they talk about random stuff for a while.
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Camera cuts to New York street, cameraman revealed to be Jason Hawkins, Rob's brother. His girlfriend, Lily, tells him about a surprise party for Rob that she's planning, as Rob is going to Japan to become vice president of Slusho. She tells Jason to document the evening and retrieve goodbyes from all of the partygoers. He begrudgingly accepts.
Camera cuts to inside the party, where people are setting up. Jason walks up to Hudson Platt (Hud) and tells him to take over the camera. At first Hud is reluctant, but then learns that his crush, Marlena, is coming to say goodbye. He accepts, and Jason then give his speech to the camera.
Cut to party, everyone's setting up, Hud's collecting several more speeches. Lily discovers that Jason gave the camera to Hud, but then Rob walks in.
"SURPRISE!"
Hud interviews Rob, blah blah blah. 11 Dollar Guy does not say "You owe me 11 dollars." Hud walks over to Marlena, who obviously does not want to be there. She says a quick goodbye, but Hud persists on filming her. Beth walks in with a new boyfriend, and Rob is totally like "OMG WHAT THE HECK!". He fights with Beth, and asks Lily what's going on. When pestered by Jason as well, we learn that Beth and Rob, erm, "had certain relations", and have not spoken since. Jason and Hud drag Rob into a room where they confront him about Beth. Rob states that it was too awkward to talk to her.
Loud roar.
Everything shakes.
Everyone runs to the TV, and the news reports that an oil tanker has capsized near the Statue of Liberty. No duh, this is a Tagruato boat. Everyone realizes that they might be able to see the tanker from the roof, and head up. Large explosion. Everyone runs down to the street. "I saw it it's alive it's huge!" was not in the movie. Statue's head flies down the street, and people are actually taken pictures of it with their cellphones instead of screaming and running. Hud turns around, and catches the monster crashing through some buildings. Marlena stumbles from the smoke and says that "It was eating it.". A building crumbles to the ground, and everyone hides in a convenience store. Huge cloud of smoke, rubble, and dust flies through the air. The windows to the store explode. Jason walks out, and everyone follows. People are all like "What was that?!". Hud realizes he filmed it, so they rewind the tape and watch.
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Camera cuts to Rob and Beth on their way to Coney Island.
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Back to the present, they all decide to head for the Brooklyn Bridge and escape Manhattan. At the bridge, Rob gets a call from Beth, who is trapped in her apartment. He tries to calm her down, but his cellphone dies. Most of the group stop to stay with Rob, but Jason is swept up with the crowd. He climbs a lamppost to get a better view of everyone else, and starts shouting to Rob. Suddenly, there is a roar. Everyone screams, Rob and Lily are shouting to Jason. He looks up, and sees a giant whip-like monster tail crash down on him, taking out the bridge. The rest of the group manages to run off the bridge, but Jason is dead.
Lily is having a mental breakdown, and Rob is silent. Hud tries to comfort him, and fails. Rob then spies an electronics store, where several people are looting. Rob run into it, trying to find a cellphone charger. Hud films the local news on a TV in the store. The monster is visible hitting itself against buildings. Several crab-like creatures fall off the large monster and begin attacking civilians. Hud turns away. The group decides to get to Beth in her apartment, but encounter a military strike against the monster. They run into the subway and decide to walk to Beth's underground. About halfway into the tunnel, Hud realizes there's a light on the camera. He flicks it on, but can't see anything in the dark. Marlena looks down, and shrieks. Hundreds of rats are running away from behind the group. Rob turns on the camera's night-vision, and looks at the ceiling.
"Rob..."
"What?"
"Run."
"What?"
"Run now!"
"What?!"
"RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN!"
Several crab monsters drop down and attack, wounding everyone and biting Marlena. They all run into a room and look the door. They all decide to try to head above ground. Rob opens a door, and the group finds themselves in a mall complex. They're suddenly ambushed by the military, who bring them to a sort of first-aid center. A dead man with no stomach (i.e. he was just a top half and a bottom half with blood in between) is wheeled by on a stretcher. A glass case with e dead crab monster is also carried past them. Marlena begins to bleed from her eyes, saying: "I don't fell very well, guys...".
The army screams: "BITE! WE HAVE A BITE!"
Two men in biohazard suits grab Marlena and drag her behind a curtain. Her silhouette begins to expand and expand until it explodes. Blood splatters the wall. Lily screams. Marlena is dead. Rob runs to a soldier and explains that they need to go find Beth. He tells Rob that at 6:00 AM, Manhattan will be destroyed in an attempt to kill the monster. They leave, and Hud is extremely shaken by Marlena death. They calm him down, only to get all worked up again when they see that Beth's building is slanting diagonally. The climb the building next to it and cross at the rooftops. The monster is visible being bombed by jets. Making their way to Beth's room, they find her impales by a metal rod. They pull it out and leave with Beth along their shoulders. She is still alive. In the hall, they encounter another small monster. ROb stabs it with a sharp chunk of metal. It dies.
Crossing back and climbing down, they arrive at a helicopter pad, which promises them that they will be taken safely out of Manhattan. Lily is in one copter, Rob, Beth, and Hud in the other. While ascending, a flaming pile of rubble crashes to the ground. That was possibly Lily's copter. In which case, she is dead.
Hud looks out the window and sees the monster being bombarded with missiles. It collapses into a building. Hud cheers, but the monster leaps up and swipes the copter out of the sky. They crash in Central Park.
Several hours later, Hud wakes up. It's now daylight, and Rob is crushed under part of the helicopter. Hud and Beth help him out, but Hud forgets the camera. He runs back to get it, and looks up. The monster is directly above him. It stares at him for several seconds. Large orange sacks inflate and deflate on the sides of its head. Hud stands perfectly still. The monster then lunges, and eats Hud. After several seconds of chewing, the monster drops Hud from its mouth. Rob runs over to check on him, but it's too late. Hud is dead. Rob picks up the camera and runs with Beth under a small bridge in Central Park. Rob looks at the camera, and says:
"My name is Robert Hawkins. Approximately 7 hours ago, some thing attacked the city. If you found this, I mean, if you're watching this now, then you know more about it than I do."
He then goes on to name all who died.
Jason Hawkins.
Marlena Diamond.
Hudson Platt.
(Presumably Lily Ford, although not confirmed).
Sirens sound in the distance, and Beth gives her testimonial to the camera.
"My name is Beth McIntyre, etc..."
Several explosions sound in the distance, the camera is dropped, and several chunks of the bridge fall on top of it. The only thing heard is Rob telling bet that he loves her, and her him. There are then huge explosions, and the camera stops.
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April, the camera cuts to Rob and Beth at Coney Island. Rob tells her that the camera is almost out of film, and asks her to say how she thought the day went. She smiles.
"I had a good day."
NP's Rating: 100%
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