“It’s about that kind of feeling, like ‘oh my god, I can’t wait to do that!’ I won’t be walking away from Trek in any way in the next film. I feel too lucky to be a part of this thing to say goodbye to it,” Abrams said while on the red carpet at the Saturn Awards.

Flash lens.

No official word on whether the Cloverfield director will return to the Enterprise either in the director’s chair or purely in a producing role.

While plot details are obviously unknown, the Fanboy Nation has sounded off on their desire for a return of Trek’s favorite baddie: Kahn. Star Trek writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orcimay have openly speculated that they may go a different route where “…the unknown and nature itself is somehow the adversary or the villain model.”

The duo, who also penned the critical dirge Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, hinted on creating a loose trilogy much like Wrath of Kahn, Search for Spock and The Voyage Home.

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Below are some screens from the upcoming Rogue Pictures thriller staring the ever-beautiful Odette Yustman of Cloverfield fame.

Check out the below photos and let me know what you think. I am not big into thrillers like this, but it seems to be a pretty freaky concept if you ask me.

The Unborn will hit theaters this coming Friday, January 9th, and we may have a review for you – so stay tuned.

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Now before we get any ideas, do we want a sequel or let it continue on in our minds for what it was? Cloverfield was a great film and had an ending that, in my opinion, was well done and left you thinking about it for a few days after we left the theater.

With that said, I am sure someone will want to make a little extra cash off of this movie and create a sequel. I am sure it will be solid, but nothing like the original.

More can be found at the link above. What do you honestly think about this news? I think they should leave well enough alone. But they wont…

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Here are just a few things from the DVD extras:

• Additional Scenes: Congrats Rob
• Additional Scenes: When You’re in Japan
• Additional Scenes: I Call That a Date
• Additional Scenes: It’s Going to Hurt
• Additional Scenes: Alt Ending #1
• Additional Scenes: Alt Ending #2

Nothing earth shattering in my eyes but this announcement makes me want to purchase the DVD even more. Now if only Paramount would get off of their arse and release it on Blu-Ray it would make my decision a whole lot easier.

So what do you think the alternate endings will show? Anything juicy? Talk amongst yourselves!

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Between a gigantic monster and heavy artillery, one place you do not want to be.

What happens when a catastrophe of Godzilla proportions hits a “real world” New York city? Director Matt Reeves takes us on a shoddy runaway mine-cart of a ride and tries to show us. What we get for our money is real destruction, real violence and real victims. There are no buildings blowing up with a zero casualty rate. We feel very clearly that people are dying, left and right, and there is nothing anyone can do about it – but run. I made a note to myself before going in not to dwell on the camera work, well that is impossible. The whole story is told through the camera work, moreso I think than the actors. Reeves clearly wanted this to be an intimate experience so he went the “Blair Witch” meets “Godzilla” route. I think it was a great idea and it paid off. We get the experience of a monster movie, not a big flashy F/X extravaganza that feels like a bunch of people running from a tennis ball on a stick. That’s not to say we don’t get special effects, we do, and plenty of them. The monster makes plenty of appearances, and he gets his close-ups in. But more importantly we get to see what it would look like and feel like if we were the hopeless souls stuck in this nightmare. A word of caution however, if you have any issues with motion sickness you might want to sit this one out, or hit the Dramamine. I was getting a little queasy a few times and I have a stomach of steel. This style did enable them to get some crazy, original and effective camera angles and techniques though. The night vision scene was one of my favorite parts of the film.

Rob (Michael Stahl-David) is moving to Japan. His friends throw him a going away party and wouldn’t you know it, it’s the same night this Beasty Behemoth decides to make his presence known. Since Rob’s best friend, Hud (T.J. Miller), was video taping the party he decides to bring the camera with him and document the event as they try to escape from New York. (Snake Plissken wouldn’t have ran from that thing.) Throw in an odd love story between Rob and his friend Beth (Odette Yustman). Basically, they’ve known each other forever, they eventually have sex, Rob is a prick and doesn’t call her for a month because he is moving to Japan. After the attack Rob gets a call from her on his cell phone that she is trapped in her apartment and seriously hurt. So now, rather than getting the hell off the island Rob has Hud and a couple of ladies trekking across Manhattan with him to find Beth. Also, the videotape that they are filming the carnage on was the one that Rob and Beth recorded their perfect “day after” date on, so those images keep cutting in and out through the film. Really, I could have done without the love story. Rob acted like an ass to her so I didn’t care about them as a couple. It did give the characters a good reason to traverse the city under the insanity of this attack, but that was it. I just never felt it from them. Of all the actors in the film the only one that really stood out at all for me was T.J. Miller. Since he is the one filming we hardly ever even see him, but his commentary kept things moving along and gave us laughs at just the right moments. Even without seeing his face he felt more human and real than anyone else to me.

We’ve been going about this all wrong. This Cloverfield monster is okay. He’s a sailor, he’s in New York, we get this guy laid we won’t have any trouble.

So we’ve got our crew going all over Manhattan, from the subway tunnels to skyscraper rooftops in one harrowing ordeal after the other. But what about the monster? Does he deliver? I certainly thought so. Don’t expect a ton of grand shots of a towering beast trampling triumphantly through the city. This is not that kind of movie. He seems more out of place than evil. He clearly doesn’t belong here, and he really isn’t too crazy about all these things blowing up on him. And can you blame him? We see him (or maybe her, but for our purposes here him) plenty, but it’s not shot like a typical monster movie. I’m not going to go into great detail here about how he looks. See it for yourself. I liked it, it was somehow both unique and familiar. He also has some pets (well, probably parasites, but who are we to speculate on their relationship?) in the form of some wicked-ass demon-crab-scarab-dog things that are pretty scary themselves. The whole film is done strictly from the perspective of the people we are following. We know only what they know, and they don’t know shit. We never learn where the monster came from, what it is or… well, you’ll just have to see it.

It’s not a perfect movie, the characters didn’t do much for me. The thought of a guy being able to film all of this while surely losing control of his bodily functions was a bit of a stretch for me. One character in particular suffers a near fatal injury and yet makes what can only be described as a miraculous recovery in no time. I thought it started rather slow. We get it, people love him, it’s a party, gimme some chaos already! The camera work is tough to stomach at times. But the Big Ol’ Monster made up for all of that, and the action scenes were quick, intense and came at a steady pace throughout. I really enjoyed the lack of explanation as well. Most movies over explain things these days, taking all of the fun and fantasy out of it. Cloverfield just lets us enjoy the mayhem without having to analyze it. All in all, worth the price of admission for anyone looking for an exciting way to spend the evening.

RATING: 7.5/10

I told her to take the Dramamine.

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I guess I kind of dig it. At least he looks mean and agile, unlike the whale monster that was all over the net. But at the same time he looks a little too “Godzilla ‘98″ for me. At least there is no way in hell this movie could ever be nearly as bad as that foul, foul atrocity (or anything else written and directed by Roland Emmerich). It definitely has an “other-worldly” feel to it, lending credence to the tag line “Something has found us.” Could this be an alien? Could there be more of them coming our way? Shit, that would suck.

What say y’all? Leave some comments. We’ll forward them to the producers. I promise.

***UPDATE***

According to Dark Horizons (who are way sexier and I like better than MovieWeb) this image is NOT the monster. Sonofabitch!

I’m disappointed that we still don’t know, yet I am hopeful that it will be better than that thing. On the other hand maybe it IS the monster and they (the movie people) are straight up lying to us yo! I guess we’ll know in ten days.

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The movie can be found here on this page I have created due to the auto play function in flash being hard coded.
Commercial can be found here.

So what does the Monkey have to do with things at the end? Is this a look into the movie?? Could the Cloverfield movie monster be a monkey?

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