Cloverfield Page #5

Synopsis: Cloverfield follows five New Yorkers from the perspective of a hand-held video camera. The movie is exactly the length of a DV Tape and a sub-plot is established by showing bits and pieces of video previously recorded on the tape that is being recorded over. The movie starts as a monster of unknown origin destroys a building. As they go to investigate, parts of the building and the head of the Statue of Liberty come raining down. The movie follows their adventure trying to escape and save a friend, a love interest of the main character.
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Matt Reeves
Production: Paramount
  5 wins & 27 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
PG-13
Year:
2008
85 min
$79,952,254
Website
1,991 Views


Hud! Hud!

Are you okay, man? You all right?

-Yeah. Yeah, I'm all right.

-Come on.

-Okay. Okay. Oh, God damn.

-Oh, sh*t.

What the hell was that?

-Oh, sh*t. Oh, sh*t.

-Did you see that?

-Oh, my God. Oh, God.

-Did you see that?

Okay.

Hey, look. We can just cross...

We can just cross to the other platform,

then go up the stairs and see

if the other side of the street...

Rob, the other side of the street

looks the same as this side!

We can wait for there to be a lull,

and then make a break for it!

Rob, the air caught on fire!

Okay? There's not gonna be a lull!

But if we wait on the other...

Listen to me, man,

I am with you, okay? I really, really am.

I'm just saying, you gotta listen

to what's going on up there.

-We can't...

-Rob, he's right, okay?

We have to wait. We have to wait.

This is insane.

Sh*t!

-Oh, God.

-What? Rob, what?

Hey, Mom.

Yeah, no. I'm okay. Okay, yeah, we are.

We're being evacuated right now.

The army's here.

We're being evacuated, so don't worry.

Okay, but Mom... Mom, listen.

We tried to get out of the city,

and we took the Brooklyn Bridge,

and we were right there when it hit.

Jason's dead. Jason's dead, Mom.

I don't know what to say to him.

You know?

Like, I feel like I should say something,

but I don't know what to say.

I'm not even supposed to be here.

You didn't have to be. I mean,

you had your chance in the alley.

You could've left us.

Yeah, you were supposed to meet up

with some friends or something, right?

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

-This isn't a bad idea.

-Just walk.

-Wait, so then...

-What's going on?

I don't know.

-...just go across here.

-That's good.

Yeah. This is the six.

Rob, I don't think the trains

are running right now, man.

-No, we can just walk the track, see?

-Yeah.

Look. Beth lives here, Columbus Circle.

We can just walk down the six

to Lexington and then walk down

-Central Park South.

-You want us to walk in the tunnels?

It's either that or stay here.

I'll walk the tunnels.

I can't see.

-It's kind of freaking me out, you know?

-I think there's a light on the camera.

-Let me see.

-There is?

Yeah, right here. See?

Okay.

Ocean is big, dude.

All I'm saying is a couple of years ago,

they found a fish in Madagascar

that they thought

-had been extinct for centuries.

-So what?

It's been down there this whole time,

and nobody noticed?

Sure. Maybe it erupted

from an ocean trench, you know?

Or a crevasse. Crevice.

It's just a theory.

I mean, for all we know,

it's from another planet and it flew here.

-Like Superman?

-Yeah, exactly like...

Wait. You know who Superman is?

Oh, my God.

You know who Superman is?

-Okay, I'm not...

-I'm, like, feeling something.

-Are you aware of Garfield?

-A lot of people think

he's from a planet

that he's not actually from.

I just can't stop thinking about how

the last thing I said to her was,

"Good luck tonight, Travis."

She knows you didn't mean that.

When I think of some of the things

I said to Jason...

-No, that's different.

-Why?

Jason knew you loved him.

Hey, do you guys remember

a couple of years ago, when that guy

was lighting homeless people

on fire in the subways?

-Jesus, Hud.

-What?

It's maybe not the best topic

for conversation down here.

Right.

I just can't stop thinking how scary

it would be if a flaming homeless guy

-came out of the dark right now.

-Hud, seriously.

-Seriously.

-I'm just saying. Sorry.

-What was that?

-Let's just keep moving.

Holy sh*t! Oh, God, this is nasty.

This is disgusting.

They're all running

in the same direction.

-Yeah, like they're running away.

-From what?

Hey, how much farther?

I don't know.

Let's get out at the next station.

-Okay?

-Yeah.

Did you guys hear that?

-What is that?

-Just listen.

I don't see anything. Do you guys?

-Oh, man, this is the worst.

-Will you be quiet for five seconds?

-Oh, turn on the night vision.

-What?

-What do you mean?

-It's right here.

I got it. It's right here. There.

Is it on?

-Oh, sh*t.

-What? What?

-Run. Okay, run. Okay, run.

-What?

Hey, let's start running! Just run!

Just run! Just start running right now!

Start running now! Run, run, run!

Run! Just run!

-Lily!

-You guys!

Wait.

Oh, God! Help!

Please help! You guys, help!

Marlena! Here!

Come on. Let's go!

Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!

Hud!

-...there you go.

-Totally not what I was thinking...

How are you doing over there, Marlena?

You okay?

You tell me.

How does it look?

Looks like it hurts.

What do you mean? You're saying

this isn't attractive, like, at all?

A little bit.

-Here. Here, here. You can wash it off.

-Thanks.

Here. Did it get you, Hud?

Did it bite you, man?

No, it didn't get me.

Okay. Okay.

Hey. Hey.

So those things

came out of nowhere, right?

-Yeah.

-Oh, man.

That one that grabbed me,

it was trying to drag me away.

What's up with that?

-Maybe it liked you, Hud.

-Yeah.

Maybe it was trying

to make me its queen.

Hey, thanks for coming back

and helping me out, you know?

What? You think that I'm the kind

of person that wouldn't do that?

No. No. I know you aren't.

I was just saying, like, I'm glad you did.

Otherwise,

I would have been totally dead.

Right?

It's okay. You just got bit.

Hey.

Marlena's hurt pretty bad, you know?

Well, we could wait here

for a little bit, I guess,

and just hope those things

don't make it through the door.

-Yeah, okay. What's the next option?

-Well.

Okay, we could see

what's out through this way.

-Maybe find another tunnel.

-No, no more tunnels.

Then, I don't know.

We try our luck up top.

Okay, just to be clear,

so our options are

die here, die in the tunnels,

or die in the streets. Is that...

-Yeah, pretty much.

-...pretty much the summing up of it?

But wait, we don't even know

where we are, right?

So, let's just go up and look around.

See if we recognize anything.

Do you think you'll be okay to walk?

-No, I'm fine. I'm fine.

-Here, I'll help you.

-We're at 59th.

-We're at 59th.

-Yeah.

-We're at 59th.

That's weird.

What?

Yeah.

Hello!

Marlena?

-What's wrong?

-Are you okay?

I'm really... I'm dizzy.

Yeah. Do you wanna

sit down for a second?

-No, I'm fine.

-She needs a doctor.

-You sure?

-I'm totally fine.

You know, 'cause we could

sit down if you want to.

No, I'm fine, I'm fine.

We've got civilians!

Are there any more of you?

-No, just us four.

-It's just us.

We got four civilians here.

-Okay, bring them in.

-Roger.

-Let's go, move. Move it.

-Okay, okay.

-Let's go!

-Okay, okay.

Excuse me, sir? Sir? Excuse me.

Listen, we need your help.

Our friend, she's hurt. She's trapped

in her building right by here,

at Columbus Circle.

That is not

where you wanna be right now.

Do you guys know what it is? Out there?

Do you know what that thing is?

If they know, they ain't telling me.

Whatever it is, it's winning.

-What's up?

-We got another bite here.

Don't look at that. Gross.

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Drew Goddard

Andrew Brion Hogan Goddard (born February 26, 1975) is an American film and television screenwriter, director, and producer. He began his career as a writer on numerous acclaimed television series, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Alias, and Lost. Goddard received further recognition for writing the successful monster horror film Cloverfield (2008) and the action horror film World War Z (2013). Goddard made his directorial feature film debut with the horror-comedy film The Cabin in the Woods (2012). In 2015, Goddard wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed science fiction film The Martian, for which he won the National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He then directed the mystery thriller film Bad Times at the El Royale (2018). more…

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