The Cloverfield Paradox ok---as I mentioned in the Cloverfield thread, I had no interest in the Super Bowl yesterday, so as I was randomly watching things on Netflix and saw this drop seemingly out of nowhere, I figured, what the heck, I'll give it a watch. But since its been out for less than 24 hours, I'll try to not post any plot details, but it will be difficult, because I as only a nominal Cloverfield fan have a lot of questions...
As a self-contained story, I believe the idea is interesting, fairly well conceived, how well its was executed though, I believe only time will tell. It was a bit more graphic than I was expecting, and I'm not sure what little humor the film had was executed so well. I have a lot of questions about the time line especially. Initially I believed the events of this film were occurring simultaneously with that of the first film, as we see the POV of the Space Station crew, and the character Michael staying on Earth, seemingly witnessing the events of the first film. However the film *sort of* establishes itself set in the future, and while no direct time was ever stated in the first film, the political tensions, and lack of natural resources causing this mission are not hinted at in the first film, which has a more "current day" feel. We are lead to believe that what occurs at the station is the cause of the first films events, but the films ending raises more questions than it answers (maybe that's it's intent?)...anyway, I haven't seen any of the viral marketing, or know much of the backstory of this universe, so if someone wants to explain it to me, it would be appreciated.
. The film I see isn't doing to well critically, but since I don't pay attention to critics, I have no idea how they score things. For a film that seemingly dropped out of nowhere, and cost me little more than one hour and 45 minuets of my time it was fine. It's sad to say that I've actually paid money at the theater for other films in the past, and got much less entertainment value.
There are no more good TV Shows, only ones that haven't disappointed me yet.