You have to be Kidding Me - Monster (2008) Discussion

[–] broca22 16 years ago

lol..this sucks

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[–] punkdudedanny 16 years ago

Is a ripoff of the movie Cloverfield. Its a monster invasion movie, but they've done it so much like Cloverfield.

The thing is, I could have brushed it off, but the trailer is done 110% like the Cloverfield teaser/main trailer.. Watch both of these, then monsters trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL9izUhdjtg
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYF0f-zMgY

This is Monster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSxMYkXq67A

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[–] dgotzh 16 years ago

All the more reason to enter the Asylum scriptwriting contest and make your own mockbuster, but better.

Matt/David

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[–] TitusYorick 12 years ago

Well, look at it this way. According to the IMDb, both this and Cloverfield came out at the same time. Personally, I thought Cloverfield was at least endureable if not enjoyable at a certain degree, but this movie . . . it would've been better if it was the point of view of a Godzilla survivor.

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[–] girlisfit 12 years ago

it was a D movie, and those 2 annoying women needed to die the first 10 minutes

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[–] deadrabbitrecords 16 years ago

They also just released "I Am Omega" and "AVH: Alien Vs. Hunter"

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[–] black_wolf_1970 16 years ago

Omega was some what good but AVH was oh hum boring and you realy felt sorry for william Katt. Then again I am legened whic was ripped of by I am Omega is it self a rip off of the Omega Man with C. Heston. A new movies idea has not been invented in years.

"NOTHING IS FORGOTTEN, NOTHING IS EVER FORGOTTEN" ROBIN (ROBIN HOOD) OF LOXLEY
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[–] kromag-1 16 years ago

Then again I am legened whic was ripped of by I am Omega is it self a rip off of the Omega Man with C. Heston.

I am Legend isn't a ripoff of anything at all. Yes Omega Man came before it, but Omega Man, The Last Man On Earth, and I am Legend are all based off the short story titled "I Am Legend". So all three are remakes and not ripoffs. Else you'd have to say Omega Man is a ripoff of Last Man On Earth since it came out first.

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[–] black_wolf_1970 16 years ago

Cutting hairs but OK, as it is it is very clear that writers have run out of new ideas and are reusing and reusing and reusing the same stories over and over changing a little bit hear and there but for the most part are just reamakes of other movies based on old stories or books but nothing new or original.
"NOTHING IS FORGOTTEN, NOTHING IS EVER FORGOTTEN" ROBIN (ROBIN HOOD) OF LOXLEY
The wolf

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[–] themole-3 12 years ago

The field of innovation is FORM, not CONTENT.

By nature, a ripoff does not add anything new.
Most remakes today don't manage it either...

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[–] Jonas190 16 years ago

So we got this movie in at the Blockbuster I work at, it comes out on Tuesday January 15th. I rented it already (because we get to rent movies early to let customers know if they are good or not) and have to say it is quite possibly the worst move I have seen... and I have seen the mess known as Gigli. Not only is it incredibly boring with the picture cutting in and out all the time, but the characters constantly bring up You Tube. Since this movie takes place in January of 03 they couldn't possibly have known about You Tube since it was not launched until DECEMBER 05!!!

So yeah, if you waste your time on this movie and do not heed my warning to stay away from it, you deserve the lost hour and a half of your life.

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[–] Sword30 16 years ago

Thank You Jonas190!
I always heed the advise of the people that work at my video store.
BUT! My husband went alone and rented it, after I told him last week that I thought it looked like a bad movie.
Not a B-movie, they can be campy and funny {like 'Arachnid' which was hilarious!}. This was really Bad.
We watched about a half hour of it, when the 'monster' came up from the
ground and they went into the hole that it came out of, we stopped the movie.
How can these producers and directors be proud of what they did?
They ripped off the public, and they KNOW they did.
My four year old nephew has a better video camera then they had.
I know the effect was for show, but that was just way too much.
And where the camera was aimed at when it was working...
this wasn't a monster movie, it was a horror show!
I'm not one to say something bad about movies that I didn't enjoy,
but I don't think I've ever seen one this bad.
I'm not putting down people who like the movie, to each his own.

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[–] diamond_starlet 16 years ago

THANK YOU!!! The youtube reference was terribel and so was the constant "WE'RE AMERICANS!!!" I thoguht I was gonna shoot myself. Oh and did you notice the typo on the case? The back of the box said it happened in 2005 and was found on 2007, yet movie obviously takes lpace in 2003. That was pretty funny too. Oh and did you love the way it kept saying it was a true story and it was an actual documentary, as if the human race is really so stupid as to beleive that poorly written and shot film was actually ral footage?? Classic.

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[–] locoowl 16 years ago

My wife and I made it through about 20 minutes of this stinker before we gave up.

Dumb, dumb, dumb!

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[–] drixorial-1 16 years ago

Well I got this idea for a movie about a guy that gets bit by a radio active spider and it gives him these superpowers. It's called Tarantula Dude. Or how about the one about the treasure hunter and archaeologist called Pennsylvania Smith?? Gotta love the Asylum haha

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[–] dave1033a 16 years ago

Yeah, i had a few ideas for a movie, 1st was about a baby sent to earth from a dying planet by his parents and as he grows up he finds he has superpowers, i thought i'd call it Superguy or something.

The other was about about a captain in the US Army in the vietnam war who is sent up river to assasinate a colonel who has gone insane. Apocalypse soon.

He he he

"Every day above ground is a good day!"

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[–] bkotherstuff 16 years ago

wouldnt be so bad if it didnt cut out all the time and they shot more of surrounding etc..... and how big was the monster it seemed to be every where

also ....a city of 12 million and yet half the time theres no one around

best part of the movie was the clevage shots haha

and when she gets wooped round the head by it near the end

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[–] clamman27 16 years ago

That's all The Asylum does. If you don't want/like their knock offs, don't watch them. No one's tying you to a chair and forcing you to watch them (that I know of, because then they must have untied you to type your post).

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[–] tho-3 16 years ago

i didn't mind it was a ripoff/knockoff film...

i even expected to maybe find out Monster was the Japanese original and Cloverfield was the American rip-off -- kinda like The Ring and Ringu

side note: personally i preferred The Ring to Ringu, even found it scarier... usually it's the other way around, the American version is usually a pale copycat of the original...

but, since it comes from The Asylum, i see Monster has to be the copycat

but damn... i expected at least a good knockoff... this thing sucks

i'm thinkin, ok, maybe Monster really was the original and somebody slapped their forehead and said "damn, what a piece of *beep* me and my 3-year-old cousin could do better than that"... and that's how we got Cloverfield

just speculating here...

sorry, my thoughts here are all jumbled, pointless movies do that to me... i stopped the movie in the middle and had to jump online to ask the question "which came first, Monster or Cloverfield?"

now i realize from this thread and the other questions it don't matter... it don't matter which came first, 'cause one is superior and the other is inferiocity squared

please, someone... give me a handheld, a million bucks, and two hot babes... and access to some kickass cgi... i'll make you a hot-damn Blair Monster Project... complete with net buzz

now i gotta go back and finish watching the damn movie *sigh*

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