The Cloverfield Paradox - Netflix Surprises Us, So We Surprise You - Ep 37 - a podcast by MMO

***This Episode Has a Spoiler Section***

For the first part of the episode, we review the Super Bowl trailers (with trailer spoilers FYI, if that’s a thing. I think it is.), and then we review The Cloverfield Paradox with our usual non-spoiler then spoiler review sections.

Super Bowl Trailer Reviews - 4:24
(Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Skyscraper, Mission Impossible 6: Fall-Out, Avengers: Infinity War, A Quiet Place, Red Sparrow, Solo: A Star Wars Story, & The Cloverfield Paradox)

The Cloverfield Paradox: A Surprise Netflix Movie Event

Non-Spoiler Review
The Cloverfield Paradox Preview and Review Official Start - 20:38
New Age Movie Marketing Reception - 22:56
Cast and Crew - 26:28
Specs - 30:20

Expectations - 32:04
Plot Synopsis - 33:50
Production Values - 37:21

Spoiler Music - 40:39

Spoiler-Filled Review:
Also Mike’s Epic Plot Problems Rant - 41:40
Time Travel Questions/Issues - 46:56
More Also Mike Plot Problems - 49:16
Mike1’s Lone Complaint (Which Also Mike Graciously Allows) - 54:05
More Also Mike Issues (Sense a Theme Yet?) - 55:29
Finale Analysis - 58:59
Mike1’s Defense of the Good of the Film - 1:01:35
Grades - 1:05:06
The Biggest Question of All - 1:06:04
Final Thoughts - 1:08:36




Surprise!!! Netflix ran a Super Bowl trailer for the new Cloverfield movie and then dropped it like a Beyonce record onto their streaming service that very night after the game. It’s a landmark moment in movie marketing, and we talk about the seismic shift in salesmanship throughout the episode.

We open with a lightning round of Super Bowl trailer reactions. Jurassic World has dinosaurs almost biting us, Skyscraper drops the pretense at the movie pitch, Mission Impossible 6 reminds us just how caucasian we are, the Avengers beg many questions about lizard people and shades of purple villainy, A Quiet Place tells kids not to play with ANYTHING, Red Sparrow elicits primitive grunts from one of us, and Solo is great for wigs, but might be bad for Star Wars (?). Phew, that sentence was a whopper, but the point is we had fun talking about the upcoming slate of Super Bowl marketed films.

Our featured review covers The Cloverfield Paradox. Gu-gu Mbatha-Raw, Daniel Bruhl, Daniel Oyelowo, Chris O’Dowd, and random sci-fi monstrosities try to elevate the material, and we wonder whether or not we care. For the questions of the episode - is this movie awesomely bad? Is this an artful disaster? Do we love to hate this film? - stirs up enough banter, outrage, and awe for multiple episodes. You’re just lucky enough to get it all smushed into one.

In a unique twist of our podcast, Also Mike actually suggests you listen to the spoiler section regardless of whether you’ve seen the film. We both give this movie a Watch, but you also don’t wanna miss out on our full plot breakdown of this flick. It’s a laundry list of the mind boggling, it’s a celebration of the absurd, it might be one of the better bad movies in awhile, and us talking about it has been one of the funner moments of our show. We might actually make this movie better, if that’s even possible.

This episode drops at a transitional moment for our podcast as we’ve just finished reviewing all of the Oscar Nominated films from the acting categories, Best Original Screenplay, Director, and Picture. Next we’ll have an episode on each of those categories, and this big little movie event is a fun way to cleanse your movie palette before we dive back into the Oscars.

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