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Summoner Yuna ---[[ Sephiroth's Eternal Love ]]---
18 April 2008 @ 06:27 pm
Yes!!! It came today.

I HAVE THE CLOVERFIELD DVD AND IT ISN'T MEANT TO BE OUT UNTIL APRIL 22!!!

OMG. IT IS SO AWESOME!!! I'm going to be watching it all night!!!

Watched deleted scenes and alternate endings already though. There wasn't meant to be any flaming homeless guys originally. Nooooo!!! Alt endings are kind of meh though, I expected too much from them me thinks.

Anyways, more later with review and crap. I just am so Clover-hyped right now I could jump a mile and still keep going!!!

CLOVERFIELD!!!

CLOVERFIELD!!!

CLOVERFIELD!!!
 
 
[To Zanarkand] : Watching Cloverfield
[Real Emotion] : ecstatic
  [1000 Words] : "Roar!" (Cloverfield Overture)
 
 
Summoner Yuna ---[[ Sephiroth's Eternal Love ]]---
Something has found me...

And taken my life away. Seriously.

I so might be getting the Cloverfield DVD tomorrow!!! I'm getting all excited hoping like crazy. It'll be my luck it doesn't come until Monday, but I got an email today confirming it had been shipped by express post from Sydney. Express post is supposed to be guaranteed next day delivery between capital cities. OMG! Please arrive!!! My brother told me that him and dad are going to go to China for 2 months because they won't be able to take my Cloverfield mood. Hahahaha. Wait until the cinema screening next week, that will be worse.

I've been trying to avoid spoilers of the alternate endings and extra scenes and that. I haven't gone near Cloverfield Movie Forums for like nearly two weeks now [since the DVD was leaked then ... as I've been watching shiny dodgy version of the movie only since then XD]. I've only gone on the official Facebook group, as that doesn't have any stuff like that [the unofficial one does as I glanced quickly and was out of there]. I've resisted watching any of the videos posted on Cloverfield Clues or anything like that. I just don't want to have to watch them all in crappy quality first time. I want to watch them in DVD glory. Even though I don't have a HD TV or anything.

I have NO IDEA what the alternate endings are. I know there are two. That's IT.

I must hold out one more day ... hopefully.

Then I'm going to post whore at Cloverfield Movie Forum again!!! Hahaha.

Oh, and they started the ARG up again. Teddy went missing and his sister wants to find him. Yeah, you all have no idea what I am saying. XD

I haven't really delved into it much yet. But these sword logos are like popping up on all the sites and stuff. I'm so behind on the ARG. I have so much stuff I need to write up and that.

And there's been like two more manga installments and they're CONFUSING as fuck! Ugh. I get a headache trying to think about them. I need good translations. They're just freakazoid. There's no translation of vol 3 yet, but Clover attacks some other place and there's parasites. I wonder if it takes place after the movie though, cause if it were before, well wouldn't it have been on the news like the oil rig thing? And there's some freaky cult [something to do with TIDO maybe?] that does something to Kishin...

AND AT THE END KISHIN IS LIKE STANDING ON CLOVER'S HEAD. WTF?!?!?

Hell, it's worse than Lost. Damn you J.J. Abrams!!! *shaketh my fist*

Don't get me started on ARG theories!!! XD

I'm still going broke buying Cloverfield stuff too. I worked out I'm going to need to get about 6 versions of the DVD.

1. US version
2. US version 2 [to keep sealed due to it's shiny stickers]
3. Steelbook
4. AU tin
5. AU double DVD [yes, they're splitting the DVD up over here separate to the tin version]
6. Some fancy cover from another US retailer, although that one's not until June

There's also some promo DVD featuring Hud through another retailer again. I'm hoping it turns up on eBay separately, otherwise it'll be 3 US standard versions I'll need to get. Then IF there is a Blu-Ray, may as well add that one too. Seeing that it apparently was scheduled for HD-DVD as Paramount was going down that path, but now that HD-DVD is dead, that isn't happening.

I'm also getting some promo DVD stuff. A Cloverfield disposable camera and a special DVD case that was sent out to the media. Yay! I damn well missed out on that cellphone charger that time cause I didn't realize it was official, so I didn't want to pass these up.
 
 
[To Zanarkand] : Wherever Cloverfield is...
[Real Emotion] : CLOVER-HYPED
  [1000 Words] : "Roar!" (Cloverfield Overture)
 
 
Summoner Yuna ---[[ Sephiroth's Eternal Love ]]---
16 April 2008 @ 12:28 pm
OMG! Cloverfield!!! Under a week to go! I can't wait!!!

 
 
Summoner Yuna ---[[ Sephiroth's Eternal Love ]]---
02 April 2008 @ 02:46 am
Because it's that awesome it gets an entry all on it's own.

April 26th is when Cloverfield is going to be shown in the cinema again!!!

Yep. There's another one-off screening at the Astor Theatre where I saw it a few weeks ago. They released their next quarter schedule and it's on again April 26th. Although it's doesn't appear to be on anymore after that which is kind of strange seeing they've only shown it once. Hopefully they do schedule it again though.

So now I have the DVD to look forward to on April 22 and a cinema screening on April 26th. Although seeing that I have to wait for my DVD to come from the US, I'll probably see the cinema screening first.

I just realized while typing this that it will be my 26th time seeing it on the 26th. XD

Oh, and speaking of the DVD, there's going to be a steelbook edition too ... and it's going to have dents in it. Haha. How cool is that!
 
 
[Real Emotion] : looking forward to Cloverfield
  [1000 Words] : "Roar!" (Cloverfield Overture)
 
 
Summoner Yuna ---[[ Sephiroth's Eternal Love ]]---
Ironically seeing there's no Cloverfield to go and see, I write less on here. XD My life is boring mostly anyways.

The weekend though I did go to the Supernova Convention. A pop culture convention with all things anime, movies, sci-fi, comics, wrestling and any other things you probably could fit into that category. Although the weirdest thing about this convention is that I didn't cosplay. Yes, shock of shocks! I just really didn't feel like it TBH. And because it was a pop culture convention and not an anime one, I really wanted a chance to be able to walk around as a Cloverfield fan! So I ended up just wearing my Cloverfield T-shirt and cap for the three days of the convention [although Friday wasn't a proper day, more on that one later].

As far as conventions go, it was quite fun. There were a lot of the usual cosplayers in attendance. A few people who know me asked me why I wasn't in costume this time around. XD Although these pop culture conventions tend to be more of a chance for people to sell their goodies than anything else. Although they do have celebrity guests, the guests in attendance kind of played more secondary roles in their retrospective TV shows. Like the guy who plays Ando from Heroes, whereas when Sydney get their convention, they'll be getting the girl who plays Claire, one of the main characters. And don't ask me who the actors are, I suck at actor names unless they're from Cloverfield. Haha.

Although I was wondering if Sephirayne's brother who does Johnny Depp was there, as the guy who won the cosplay comp on the Saturday was someone who was Sweeny Todd and apparently done a very good job of playing in character [I haven't seen the movie, so I'm basing on that he seemed like he was really in character]. Although unless he came to Australia, it probably was just another guy like your brother Sephirayne. :)

My fangirlish moment of the weekend came when I happened to notice the only Cloverfield reference at the entire place. Which was really kind of small and irrelivant. But was at the IGN/Rotten Tomatoes booth where they had a poster which was cross promoting the Cloverfield DVD. I was like 'I see Cloverfield..." when I walked up to the booth and talked to the girls there. Haha. Not sure if they were booth babes or not, but they were pretty nice and talked to me again the next day and even let me have a poster.

I also got up the courage to have a go at the Singstar game they have there. Now I really don't think I can sing for crap and never usually go near such things. But of all amazement for the first time ever playing that game, I scored really well. My brother did too. So well that we got applauses from people around us! Although that game is more about being able to sing at the right time I guess rather than what you sound like. XD

Although the highlight of the whole thing for me had to be the preview screening of the Stargate Ark of Truth movie. It doesn't come out in Australia until a few days time [DVD only release though like Advent Children]. So this was kind of a chance to see it before it came out here and probably the nearest to a cinema screening there would be. I must say that I really enjoyed the movie a lot. It tied up the storyline from season 10 really well. Of course it's not in the same league as Cloverfield as far as movies impressing me go, but as a Stargate fan, I really enjoyed it. I'll probably end up picking the DVD up sometime or another once it comes out though. It was quite fun also to see the movie with other Stargate fans, as there were a lot of people there, and there's just that little bit extra atmosphere when you are watching a movie with other fans. It would have been cool to see Cloverfield with other fans rather than just random people.

There I go again ... randomly going on in a tangent about Cloverfield. Shut me up someone! XD

And on a non-related note I have a rotten cold. I feel like crap. It sucks.
 
 
[Real Emotion] : sick
  [1000 Words] : "Roar!" (Cloverfield Overture)
 
 
Summoner Yuna ---[[ Sephiroth's Eternal Love ]]---
20 March 2008 @ 11:50 am
Here we go again! XD

The official US release date has been announced for the Cloverfield DVD. April 22 ... that's only a month away. So in a month's time [give or take because I'll have to wait for it to arrive here, as Australia's date is still listed as May 22], I'll be able to continue to [officially] get my Cloverfield fix again!  XD There had been rumors and the like around for the past few days, but the official site finally updated yesterday [figures that yesterday was the only day I didn't check for Cloverfield info].

I love the new image they are using to promote the DVD! Apparently it's supposed to be the back cover image as well.



Here's the detailed list of special features which I found on the web for anyone that's interested [probably no one XD].

• Commentary: Commentary by Director Matt Reeves
• Featurette: The Making of Cloverfield
• Featurette: Cloverfield Visual Effects
• Featurette: I Saw It! It's Alive! It's Huge
• Featurette: Clover Fun
• 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
• Easter Eggs: Slusho!
• Easter Eggs: Person of Interest - JLVD Video 2
• Easter Eggs: Person of Interest - JLVD Video 5
• Easter Eggs: Person of Interest - JLVD Video 9
• Easter Eggs: Person of Interest - JLVD Video 11
• Easter Eggs: Rack 'Em & Pack 'Em
• Easter Eggs: Fighting the X

Most definately looking forward to the TWO alternate endings. The Australian site had only listed one, but apparently there's two. I also am curious about 'Clover Fun'. That makes me giggle. It sounds like something for us obsessive fans.

... Let the countdown begin. 33 DAYS!!!
 
 
[Real Emotion] : giddy
  [1000 Words] : "Roar!" [Cloverfield Overture]
 
 
Summoner Yuna ---[[ Sephiroth's Eternal Love ]]---
18 March 2008 @ 05:49 am
Cloverfield screening number 1,359. Haha. Not really, but sometimes it might seem that way. It was the 25th time of seeing the movie, which for most people must seem like I'm out of my mind. XD. This was kind of a 'bonus' screening because [unfortunately] it has finished it's regular cinema screening, so this screening was a one-off screening at a cinema which shows both old and new films. Was a couple of days ago now, but really wanted to write an entry on it.

Before I post about why this screening impressed me so much ... here is a photo of ALL of my Cloverfield movie tickets. The only ticket that isn't mine is the one with the Cloverfield image on it, as that one there is a Hollywood Premiere ticket which I got off eBay. That ticket is teh awesomeness ... as that's the screening where all the stars go to. But the ticket looks awesome, so I figured I'd put it in the photo, as movie tickets are kind of boring in themselves.



Where I saw it was a cinema called The Astor Theatre. A small, old-fashioned cinema. When you go there, one would think that you were at a cinema from the 1930s or something with it's art-deco decor and old style cinema seats. But the look and feel of the cinema are so deceiving when it comes to watching a movie. Even though the style may have been old fashioned, there was nothing old fashioned about the screen and sound system. The screen was a little bigger than the standard cinema screen here, and the sound system ... well let's just say that was mind blowing. The sounds and explosions that you could hear were the best I've heard so far during any of the Cloverfield screenings. On top of that, the cinema is two-leveled, of which the bottom level was closed when I went. At first I thought that was annoying as I like to sit near the front for Cloverfield, but when I talked to the usher, he told me that the cinema is designed to be viewed on the top level, so I should just sit in the front row. Of which, I'm glad that I did. Although it wasn't quite the same as sitting right near the front, it did give an impressive view of the movie, seeing the screen was dead to the level of the front row without having to look up or anything.

Even better news was that the guy at the ticket counter told me they'd be showing Cloverfield again in the future, so to keep an eye on their programme. This was awesome news for me to hear, as it means a high possibility of seeing Cloverfield again in the cinema. Apparently this cinema schedules their movies a quarter in advance, so I should be able to find out next month if and when it will be showing. *crosses fingers* They also have double-features, so even if Cloverfield is the second movie, I won't complain. The screening I went to was a double feature with the movie 'Stardust' as the second feature [I stayed to see it and it was a really good movie, just didn't compare to Cloverfield for me XD]. There were a lot of people there, so if they base repeat screenings on attendance, there will be a good chance of it being shown again.

Seeing Cloverfield again in the cinema really got me way over-hyped. I think I was way too excitable for half the day and then when I came home my dad thought that I was drunk or something as he said I was slurring my words. XD I think it was probably because of my throat being sore from either a) yelling Cloverfield related things randomly; or b) cracking up for 15 mins straight earlier that day when my brother made a flaming homeless guy joke. I know I now have that erm, dodgy copy to tide me over, but really it so isn't the same. That's why I'll continue to go to it if it is shown again and probably why I got so excited over seeing it that day. Although I did read that the US DVD release date is a month earlier than the Australian one, so I'm going to import if that's the case, as I want a real copy as soon as I can. Although the Australian date is so much more cooler as it relates to the movie.

Now it's just a matter of waiting until another screening [I still check other small cinemas just in case something pops up] or the DVD. Hopefully more screeings. ;-)
 
 
[Real Emotion] : cheerful
  [1000 Words] : "Roar!" [Cloverfield Overture]
 
 
Summoner Yuna ---[[ Sephiroth's Eternal Love ]]---
Actually not really ... I just wanted to add something to do with Cloverfield in the title. Although you do get stuck with 'some' Cloverfield. =P

Only two more days until I get to see it in the cinema again! *jumps for joy* Haven't been able to find another screening after that though yet ... so hopefully something else will turn up. It's a pity it's only a one-night screening. But better than nothing. At this time I'm going to take all the Cloverfield I can get.

Although I did give into the temptation and download a dodgy version of it. Because damn, I was going into withdrawl like two days later, so I downloaded it before leaving for Tasmania and ended up watching it half the time when I was in the hotel. It's not the same. It really isn't. And the only version I could find was one of those video camera jobs. But hell, it's better than nothing, because I really doubt I could wait until May without seeing it. Although the really good thing about it, is that I can just watch it whenever I want to. So I usually end up putting it on when I go to sleep and then it loops all night and I wake up to it again. XD I really don't agree with movie piracy, but the only time I do is in a situation like mine. Where a person has seen a movie in the cinemas [although generally not as many times as me haha] and want to watch the movie again before the DVD comes out. I think seeing it 24 times [all paid, no sneaking in] and then FULLY intending to buy the DVD [and most likely more than one copy] when it comes out is a fair enough excuse. Not to mention the addiction I have to it.

I also got my Cloverfield banner hung up in the hallway. It looks totally awesome. I know it's not quite the standee that I know I'll never get now, but it's the next best thing to it. Every time I walk into my room now, I can't help but look over at it, as it's next to my door. Although our hallway is kind of the 'land of oversized things'. Seriously. I've so many things that are oversized out there, I've built up a bit of a collection over the years with my different obsessions. There is a 10 foot magpie which came off a banner from a game years ago, which we saved from being thrown out and I cleaned up and stuck on the wall. There's a couple of Metallica street posters, along with a large Metallica polystyrene sign of which there were only 5 in Melbourne that I managed to get a hold of somehow. There's an actual billboard [although in two halves] from the game Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. Stored behind that, although in pieces, is my Final Fantasy: Spirits Within cinema display as I've no where else to store it. I used to also have a Guns N' Roses standee, but I gave that to my brother Matt, who has it at his house as he's more of a Gunners fan than I am now days. Also my FFX standee is inside my door, although that one isn't quite as large as everything else. So now the latest part of that oversized collection is my Cloverfield banner. I'm lucky that my dad lets me put stuff like that up in the hallway, otherwise I'd have no where for it all.

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Okay, no more Cloverfield. I promise. :P

Actually been somewhat sick since came back from Tasmania. Nothing serious, just a bit of a mild flu, probably caused by all of the weather changes that we have been having here. That and I'm also having a few problems with my knee, which is really aching and is particularly worse after I have been sitting/lying down for a while or if I walk for too long. I had to go to the doctor's about it today, and I have to get it X-rayed. The doctor said I might have arthritis, and I'm thinking that I'm not that old. It's been bugging me for a while and I did go to see about it a few weeks back and the doctor gave me some medication for it. But once that was finished, the pain came back again, so I'm guessing there was a bit more too it, so I thought it best to go back to see about it again.

Actually, I lie. I did think of something else Cloverfield related. When I was in the doctor's waiting room today, I picked up a magazine [which I don't usually do as they're all boring gossip ones] and noticed in the contents that it had a movies section. Looking at the date, it was the week that Cloverfield came out. As that magazine didn't have a review of that movie, I went hunting the pile until I found the one with the Cloverfield review in it. Haha. If you think that's obsessive, I took the page out that had the Cloverfield review in it. Yep. Obsessed. LMAO

Anyways. So I haven't really done much since my return. Today was the first time I really got online, probably need to head back to the forums and Facebook and that today or tomorrow. Probably tomorrow now as it is late here. I figured here would be a good place to start as I had a couple of updates to do. Other than that, just working on the Ultimania Website project offline, as I have a copy of the site on my laptop, which has been coming a long really well. I really wish I had wireless internet. It would make things so much easier for me, as I wouldn't be restricted to only being able to go online in my room. I guess that's on the 'need to be able to afford' list.

Alright, there was more Cloverfield in that entry than I thought there would be. Sue me! XD
 
 
[Real Emotion] : tired
  [1000 Words] : "Roar!" [Cloverfield Overture]
 
 
Summoner Yuna ---[[ Sephiroth's Eternal Love ]]---
14 March 2008 @ 03:20 am
Doing two entries, so this one will just be about the convention, so my general stuff [and more Cloverfield stuff haha] won't get mixed up in there. So general update on me in next entry.

As mentioned in an entry last week, the first convention for me to go to was on last weekend. It was an anime convention in Tasmania called Ai-con. It's always a nice, fun convention. Small, but just really friendly. I just went as White Mage Yuna again. That was all good on the Saturday, as the weather was cool, but on the Sunday it was quite hot, and I ended up taking a change of clothes with me and having to change in the afternoon as that costume is REALLY warm.

There were A LOT of Final Fantasy cosplayers there this year, although a lot of them just had costumes purchased from eBay, so weren't in the competition or anything. But it was good to have a lot of Final Fantasy fans around. The funniest part of the weekend though had to be during the competition on the first day. The host was dressed as Sephiroth. Yes, you can see where this is going. Well of course my registered entrant name was Mrs. Sephiroth. So when he read my name out I just had to run with it and I ran onto the stage and glomped him. Hahaha. I don't usually do things like that because ... well because my feelings for the 'real' Sephiroth are more serious rather than fan-girly, but the situation just begged it. I even heard someone in the audience say that it was really cute. XD

So there was my random moment of the convention.

I also made a really good friend. A girl dressed as Yuna on the first day and Lucrecia on the second day. We just seemed to hit it off from when I first arrived there, and we became friends. Hopefully she will be coming to Manifest this year, as I offered that she could stay with us. Hope Collingwood doesn't make the Grand Final. LOL I usually have a lot of problems making friends even at things like this. I make a lot of aquaintances, but not really friends. So I'm happy that I made a friend with similar interests to me. And she doesn't like Sephiroth in the way I do, so no fighting. XD

The rest of the convention was fun too. A lot of events and stuff like that. Didn't go to any screenings or anything, as they always have a lot of funny stuff to see at this convention. During one event which was called Cosplay Mystery Date [like a send up of those corny old 80's dating shows], someone was dressed up as a character from Witch Hunter Robin. I haven't seen that anime yet, but it's on my to watch list. Well anyways, she was asking questions to the contestants and one of the questions was 'Are you flammable?'. Of course that just had me in fits of hysterics because of the Flaming Homeless Guy joke ... although everyone else laughed too, but likely for other reasons as they knew the reference to the anime, so I didn't seem so out of place with my fits of laughter.

I didn't spend too much money luckily [refer my Cloverfield obsession making me broke]. I just bought the Cloud art book, which I had been meaning to buy online, but hadn't got around to it and a FF Mini Trading Arts figure ... of which I got Yuna. Yay! Oh and some coconut Pocky. I <3 coconut Pocky. XD I was lucky to get the Cloud art book though, as they only had the one copy, so I snapped it up straight away. With all of the FF fans there, I am sure that it would have got bought quickly if I didn't see it so soon. Another stall had FF Creatures figures for only $10 each. I have that set already, and actually got them for a really good price, but $10 is a bargain. Although it would have been a pain to bring them back on the plane with me, so maybe it was just as well that I already had them.

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The only other thing that we did on the trip, as we really were only there for the convention, was to go on a tour of Belrieve Oval, which is a Cricket stadium there. I like doing tours of stadiums and the like, it's something that I've been interested in way back since my teenage years when I was a football fanatic. The tour was really good. They took you to a lot of different places such as the commentator's boxes, umpire's rooms, member's rooms, dressing rooms, etc. They even took you under the stands where the curator stores all of his extra grass and that. Haha. I just really enjoyed the tour. Even though the stadium was a lot smaller than the MCG, it just was a good tour and the guide was really nice and interesting to listen to. Even though I'm not really into cricket at all though.
 
 
[Real Emotion] : hot
  [1000 Words] : "Roar!" [Cloverfield Overture]
 
 
Summoner Yuna ---[[ Sephiroth's Eternal Love ]]---
06 March 2008 @ 04:45 am
They say "all good things must come to an end". Today was the final regular screening in Melbourne of Cloverfield, and most likely the final in Australia unless it's still on in Sydney or something. As I mentioned in yesterday's entry, there is a small independent cinema doing a screening next weekend, but I kind of count any of those screenings as extras rather than part of the cinema season of the film.

So seven weeks, 24 screenings and over $200 in movie tickets later it comes to an end.

I've honestly enjoyed these last seven weeks [probably more 6 weeks though, as after the second screening of it, my obsession was re-enforced as initially it was more of a movie I loved and wanted to see again]. I've been happier than I have been for a long time. I've been able to forget about problems and just live the moment, enjoy the hype, let myself go, or just plain out be the me which died a long time ago. It has been fun and refreshing. There's been more to it than just being into a movie. It's hard to explain, but I guess it's kind of like I've been able to bring back part of myself which disappeared a long time ago.

I way over-hyped myself today though. I knew that it was the last time and I wanted to enjoy it. I went in with the sole intention of just enjoying everything there is about Cloverfield. And that's exactly what happened. In a way it was like the very first time I saw it. I just seemed to sit mesmorized to the screen. That's what happened the first time I saw it. I was glad that was able to happen again. But as the movie began to draw to a close, I began to feel a little sad that everything was ending. I guess going to see Cloverfield became so much a part of my life. I never intended to see it this many times, it just happened the more I saw it, the more I wanted to go back. You'd think after all of this time things would not impress me as much. But they did. Everything remained so realistic and amazing. I even still kept laughing at the flaming homeless guy joke. I recite parts of the dialog during the movie sometimes, just because I want to. There is just so much about it that I find impressive. I should write to Bad Robot and thank them for this movie. Even if no one important ever gets to see my message, I just would like to tell them how much of an amazing movie they have produced.

When the movie finished, I gave one final cheer for it. There were a few people there, but I really didn't care what they thought. Then for the final time, I watched the credits and listened to my favorite song, the Cloverfield Overture. And as I heard the 'mystery' voice at the end I knew it was over for now. It really kind of hit me more when I got back to the car though, as I kind of just sat there for a while before leaving and thinking about how it was all over.

Although I kind of didn't get much of a chance to get hit with that before then, as a couple of the people who worked at the cinema ended up talking to me about the movie and that. First the person who did the cleaning, was also the person who checked my ticket on the way in, and I had mentioned to her about seeing the movie so many times, so we got talking afterwards. Then another guy who also checked my ticket when I came back from going to the Candy Bar for a Coke before the movie started, who had asked me if I was a Cloverfield fan [guessing because of my T-shirt and the movie I was seeing XD], I bumped into him on the way out, and he talked to me for a while too. Then just as I was about to leave I got talking to a guy who was changing the movie posters [I was asking him about Cloverfield posters]. Although the conversation with him kind of bought out something I didn't want to hear, although it does make sense. He was telling me that the cinemas have to destroy all of the standees and that [including the Cloverfield one] due to copyrights [guessing because the movie companies don't want people profiting by selling them on eBay and that, although I guess the US and UK don't care]. To think that those wonderful Cloverfield standees I wanted so much had to be destroyed like that. It's enough to make an obsessive person like me weep. That would explain why there are next to zero movie standees of any kind on eBay. I joked to him about that I would have paid a few hundred dollars for something like that, and he said I'm not the only one, as Star Wars fans have told him they'd pay over $1000 for stuff like that. He said that a few years back it was different and they could give stuff like that away [which would explain why I managed to score that Spirits Within standee], but not now. Even stuff like trailers and that get destroyed too. I guess the trailer I got must have got *snuck* out of a cinema somewhere. So I'm lucky to have that.

I'm kind of deviating, but that did kind of suck to find that out. To think of something amazing like that being destroyed is horrible. Maybe I'll get my own made up one day, as I have the hi-res artwork on the press kit I've got. At least I have photos of it.

So what now. I don't know to be honest. It's ages until the DVD comes out, and even then it really won't be the same. Part of the attraction of Cloverfield for me was the whole cinema experience ... the big screen, the effect of sitting near the front and feeling like I was part of it, the sound. Of course those weren't the main reason, but they did play a part in wanting to keep going back so many times. I guess I just keep looking for small cinemas that might have screenings of it. Or there is the um, dodgy option. It's not like I haven't exactly paid my share of money towards the box office. It is tempting, at least to tide me over until the DVD comes out. Otherwise I'll just have to wait. Keep on with the obsession, buy more merchandise, etc ... until the day comes again. Hell I sound like I'm waiting for a long-lost friend to return or something. LMAO

And that there is the final day of Cloverfield. I just realized the title I gave this entry is like Final Fantasy and Cloverfield. XD I didn't intend that at all. Maybe now I will get around to actually writing up the Cloverfield ARG stuff that I have been meaning to do for the past few weeks. There's so much more interesting stuff I want to write about in that area. Either that or I'll stop boring you all with Cloverfield stuff [although if you read this far, you probably don't mind XD].

So now I'll end this entry with one thing...

C L O V E R F I E L D
B E S T . M O V I E . E V E R !

... it's been one hell of an awesome time!
 
 
[Real Emotion] : teh Clover-Obsessed
  [1000 Words] : "Roar!" [Cloverfield Overture]
 
 
 
 

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