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14. The Sync Up - The Cloverfield Paradox

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The Cloverfield Paradox was notable more for the genius way it was marketed rather than for its own quality. Dropped immediately after the Super Bowl following a big game spot revealing what it actually was, it picked up a cleverly manipulated hype boost that a conventional marketing campaign simply wouldn't have done.

That was particularly useful to Netflix, because The Cloverfield Paradox was not very good. It was derivative, messy and just a little too boring for its own good. It also appeared to have been shoe-horned into the Cloverfield universe for the sake of another cynical marketing push.

But actually, the links between The Cloverfield Paradox and JJ Abrams' Cloverfield went deeper than the title, as spotted after its release. It turns out that if you play both films simultaneously, the precise moment that the Particle Accelerator fires in Paradox matches up with the monster's arrival in Cloverfield...

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