SPOILER ALERT!
Well, last night was our third Scene-Stealers advance screening giveaway and it went fantastic. The theater was rocking, and tons of Scene-Stealers site regulars were in attendance. The other half of lucky site-goers will get a chance tomorrow night, so if you are one of them– do not read this page. Thanks again to Paramount and Allied for hooking us up with hundreds of passes to give away.
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J.D. and I filmed our On-Camera Instant Review the moment the credits were done rolling, and J.D.’s print review is up this weekend too. But before those go up on Friday, what did you think of “Cloverfield”?
Here’s what I’m curious about:
How did the hype and your expectations play into your enjoyment of the film?
How did the monster live up ?
Was the hand-held POV camera from one character inventive or annoying?
Was there enough character development or didn’t you care?
Would you have preferred a straightforward classic Hollywood narrative?
It’s time for you to speak. As Paul Stanley would say, “Let me hear you!”
I HATED IT. THE MOVIE HAD NO PLOT, THE MONSTER ISN’T SCARY AND POOR CGI. POOR BLAIR WICTH RIP OFF.DO NOT GO SEE THIS MOVIE NO WORTH THE 6 MONTH OF HYPE. WORST MONSTER MOVIE EVER MADE
It was a fun ride. It didn’t live up to the hype, but i don’t think any movie can live up to that much publicity. The ENTIRE movie was shot with a hand held camera which was a little distracting, but the monster was pretty awesome(especially it’s parasites). If you go see this movie, be sure to sit towards the back of the theater! either that or bring a barf bag.
Well, I think the movie was pretty flat. I kept thinking to myself “Manhattan is being torn apart and this idiot is still carrying around a Handycam to ‘document’ the event?!” Not terribly plausible, as a monster movie should be (joking?). The effect of the hand-held cam, combined with the minimal sightings of the monster (and the monster’s offspring) worked pretty well in my opinion. If you ARE somehow stuck in Manhattan videotaping a monster tearing down the city, I’d say you more than likely wouldn’t be able to spend much time getting detailed shots of the monster’s good/bad side since you’d be running for your life. Overall, it’s one of those movies that I’d be happy to watch some Saturday night at 3am after getting home from the bars not yet ready to go to bed. Maybe then it would hold my interest a bit more.
I did, however, take great pleasure in seeing the pissed off fans leave the theater. Nothing like seeing angry Sci-Fi nerds trying to plead with their buddies to understand how the movie could/should/would have been better by miniscule plot twists.
(thanks for the free tickets, Eric)
From an artistic point of view, it was a good movie. From a point of view of “what is this movie about”, it lacked a lot. Where was the plot? Where did the monster come from? Is it dead or still destoying New York? It was an ok movie to see for free but to pay for a movie that was not even an hour and a half, I would have demanded my money back. The general public will not see the artistic view behind this and just say this was a bad “Blair Witch” rip-off, which was the first thing I thought after the movie. I would not recommend people pay for this film but just see it when it comes out on DVD, or download.
MAJOR SPOILER! - Click here to watch the last 5 minutes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdy0DGcgFMM
Pretty good it made me sick all the first person footage but made it easy to put yourself in the guys shoes which made it scarier and um idk as a cinematographer and working with cameras WHAT KIND OF BATTERY LASTS THAT LONG especially with the light on that kills it and the quality of footage but it was still good i think it will get bad reviews and the plot is he is trying to rescue his girlfriend duhh
All i want to know is…is the monster any of the pics that were leaked onto the internet??
Yes.
damn son u serious well, i just hope that it isn’t that sea monster type of thing one
it was good. i might pay to watch it again in theaters. handheld POV was pulled off well i think and complemented how disorienting the events were for the characters. also looked really good for being shot on digital. great sound work, good CGI (compare to the awful work in I Am Legend, which cost way more). the plot arc [or lack thereof] was refreshing. wish it were a little longer.
I thought the movie was very entertaining. After a long day of flying, I was seriously expecting to take a nap, but was pleasantly suprised at the fast paced, no nonsense action. There were quite a few moments when I wondering why in the hell someone would still be video-taping instead of focusing more on trying to save his own life, nevertheless I really liked the characters. I’m glad I got to attend the free screening because I definetely think this movie needs to be seen in the theatre. Otherwise, with the sometimes nauseating camera footage, this isn’t a movie I’d like to watch again at home. Overall, a fun thrill ride. Kind of like going to Universal Studios.
As the credits rolled tonight, people started booing. And I was thinking, “Did we just sit through the same movie?” Sure, there wasn’t much of a plot, no explanation to this monster’s origins, and the hand-held camera angles can induce some vertigo. But who cares? This was one of the most thrilling movies I’ve ever seen! I was totally sucked in to the action — thanks in large part to the hand-held POV camera. The fact that there wasn’t any editing (or it was meant to look that way), no music, and no real narrative made the whole experience feel real. I felt like I was surviving in NYC with the rest of them. Surround-sound at the local multi-plex definitely added to the thrill–I don’t think this would be the same movie at home on DVD.
Thanks much for the tickets, Eric!
I got really realed in by the hype early on, and the general consciences is that the hype is what ruined the movie. Personally, that wasn’t the case for me. I still really enjoyed the film. The cutting from the disaster back to the Coney Island trip was a beautiful idea, and well executed. The POV is a risky move in a movie, and i think all of the problems stemmed from the position of realism; the monster was seemingly all over the city so that he could be on this small hand held. One monster, combing Manhatten doesn’t show up on camera as much as it did if it was only from the perspective of one person. But of course, if the monster showed up less, the movie would have been boring. On the other end, the movie was only 75 minutes long. Well, of course it was, a hand-held camera normally doesn’t hold much more than that. Also, some people in the front row left early because of the shaky camera. I don’t know who the people where booing at in the end, but there was a show of some discontent. Then again, those are probably the same people that actually liked the 3 hour nap Peter Jackson tried to call King Kong.
Thanks for the free tickets guys.
And in case anyone wants to read my “official” review: http://mandysmusings.livejournal.com/116122.html
I watched this at a midnight showing and it was ok the bring you into the story was decent but I would have had some other footage. Since it was released by the military and was post attack I would have included like the footage from the stealth’s bomb cameras when it was carpet bombing the creature and maybe some night vision footage from one of the soldiers on the ground like they do on missions.
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ok so i saw it last night, and i remember at some point of the movie Hud said “where did these come from they could have come from the sea they could have come from space or the military” and of course, this question is never formally answered in the movie.
but if anyone remembers to look for this if they see it again or anything, i swear in the LAST couple frames of the movie, more specifically when Beth and Rob are on the ferris wheel at coney island, i swear as the camera is rolling, in the background…it shows an object shooting from the sky into the ocean…thus indirectly telling us that it came from space and that there will be a sequel. lol please anyone! help me answer this question!
If they are going to use this movie as like the audience is the government watching the evidence tape they found and use it for another movie, that would be really cool. If it was just a movie that stands by it’s self then it was lame. It would be amazing if the girl that got away in the helicopter shows up in another movie trying to figure out what the hell the monster was and tell the gov. that one of her friends was taping in the city and they find it and it helps them figure it out or something… Idk
I don’t understand how anyone could have NOT liked this film, what are you, stupid? If you had seen NOTHING but the TV trailers that were playing (which, c’mon, were only airing for three weeks before its release, you can’t say it was too heavily publicized) that’s enough to tell you what kind of movie you wanted it to be - a monster movie in downtown New York. It wasn’t, though, and any true fan of developed screenwriting, filming and producing would have told you that.
J.J., Drew and Matt did the most fantastic job of putting together a mockumentary of anyone or anything that I have ever seen! If you want to see a film that has steady shots, answers to EVERY DAMN QUESTION IMAGINABLE (which, any J.J. Abrams fan will tell you might not always happen), and a deeper storyline, then you might as well skip it, it’s not for you.
This movie is filmed as a documentary, people, like a friend’s home video of a going away party that you could not go to. It’s like you picked it up off his counter and put it in to watch it - would you have known anything more than what these people did? Of course not, you weren’t there, and this film was made to appear that way - for the viewer to know only as much as the cast did. That’s what put you into the moment, as the lights go out, as the town is destroyed, as you watch your friends die - what do you expect, to know that it’s going to happen? Do you expect everyone to live and have the camera just get up and say, “Well, that’s it, goodbye!”? It’s “found footage” people, it’s not like it could have answered everything.
Sure, there were a few cheesy yet important parts (the tape bouncing back to *just* the right spots of Rob and Beth, the indestructible lens, to name a couple) but c’mon, you can only dissect a movie until you don’t have a movie anymore! If the lens had broken 5 minuts into the film you wouldn’t have a damn movie, now would you? A lot of people bitched because of the cast - if you had seen Tom Cruise running around I’d ask how you had such famous friends, God knows I don’t know anyone that famous! The cast was meant to be unknown, the film was meant to be shaky and disturbed, it was meant to put you in this most surreal moment of your friends’ lives to watch what happened that one night you couldn’t go to their party.
And seriously, the film has nothing to do with “The Monster” as much as much as it is about your group of friends trying to get outta Dodge during a disaster. Their relationships, from Rob and Lily to Beth to Hud to Marlena, are all played out on film, and yes, they did have closure at the end. If you had been listening to what the military soldier told Rob about “Hammering Down” to the plane crash to “15 minutes to “Hammering Down” to the sirens going off as Rob is trying to say goodbye on camera - well, all I can say is that they did one a helluva job getting the point across.
I could go on about why This is That and Why That is Here, but I think I’ve gotten my point across as well - or did I not provide enough closure for you?
The movie… well big let down for me expecting an action packed giant monster movie.. It was good, pretty cute story.. pretty unreal stuff he did (why would ANYone go back).. Didn’t catch the end with the thing falling from the sky, but did find out after the credits, if you listen to the crappy audio that plays and reverse it, it says :its still alive. Cloverfield 2?
I feel that “Cloverfield” is a good start to a franchise of the Cloverfield universe. Like “Lost” (another J.J. Abrams production), it makes you want more information about the story. You desperately want closure, but on the other hand, you *want* to dream, believe, and create your own theories. You don’t want to be “told” the official answer. It’s far too much fun to go crazy with your ideas!
There are many sequel opportunities here that I think could be exploited. Maybe you have another hand-held camera movie, this time from someone who listens to the military and tries to get out of the city, leaving the girlfriend behind, and then they end up being detained by the government? Or maybe you do something where there are documentary filmmakers doing a film on something completely innocuous … until the disaster that is the monster shows up, (and I feel terrible to even suggest it) à la “9/11.” Then the filmmakers’ decision to document this historic event or run to safety becomes the focal point of the film. What if you were to show the progress of the monster using only security or surveillance footage, as “Look” did just last month, from the prospective of a government worker trying to edit footage together to try and get a timeline of events? Maybe you decide to go to a “typical” film experience, seeing the military side of the story? What about other cities? Were they affected by monsters, also? Why or why not? What does the television coverage look like? What if you were to follow a regular American citizen (some other large city, maybe Boston) in a “typical” format, then their reactions to the day’s events? What about the monster’s point of view (besides killing people)? We know the monster survived (end credits: “It’s still alive played in reverse”), so now what? We know the military said they’d let the monster be, but do you really think the monster would play nice like that? Wouldn’t it want fresh blood? Do the mini-monsters escape from New York? Then what? All of these would make interesting additions to the franchise (as I continue to assume this will become a “franchise”).
When I saw this, the people in my theater loudly groaned at the end of the film (”That’s it?!?!?”). Did people really expect closure, considering the opening segment “footage recovered at this place, blah blah blah…”?
Minor complaints of mine:
(1) The consistency of the timestamp: If you want this to seem realistic, make up your mind on whether or not the camera should have a timestamp. I think it only appeared on the original footage, but why would it not be on the monster footage?
(2) Indestructible lights and cell phone towers: a monster destroys half of the city, yet it still has power, and cellular phone reception is perfect, especially a few hundred feet down in a subway station. Can I get a cell phone like that?
(3) Product placement. I think that Cloverfield got between $3 and $5 million in product placement deals (arbitrary guess), from the food in the convenience store to the gizmos in the electronics store, to the billboards in the subway station, to the beverages found in the vending machines. To be honest, I was expecting more product placement (it’s New York, baby!), but for some reason or another, it still bothered me. Anyone else have thoughts on this?
I laughed a bunch at the dialog, especially the dorkiness of the cameraman at times, especially at the beginning. His pickup attempts at the start of the movie reminded me of a dorky movie or TV character, but I can’t remember who for the life of me.
I was really excited by the action, I laughed a good amount of times at the dialog and the predicament that the characters were in, and the movie made me think after. If this is the last we hear of “Cloverfield” and we never do find out what the hell happened (with everything, not just the characters), then I’ll be pissed with the lack of closure. Until then, I’ll just accept it as an average movie, with the possibility of becoming an excellent movie as the Cloverfield universe expands.
Ian-
Great post. All of these posts have been really interesting. As you could tell from our video review above, I liked the film quite a bit. I have to admit, I’m a little puzzled as to how people can come away with such different reactions. that in and of itself is worth talking about. I hate to say it, but some moviegoers demand to have everything spelled out for them and that is just not for me. Loose ends do not have to always be tied up.
The franchise element is something really strange to think about. They surely wouldn’t dare repeat the same POV-cam trick again?
BTW, I thought the CGI was fantastic, if mostly because you never got to good a look at it clearly; it lent credibility to what was happening.
Minor bitch: what you mentioned about the fakey dialogue. It tended to break down the “reality” of the situation sometimes when Hud the cameraman sounded like a bad stand-up comedian on Comedy Central at 2am.
First of all, don’t call me Shirley.
Second of all, I think that the next “Cloverfield” could be a movie without the handheld trick. Or it couldn’t. It could be two documentarians(?) with hi-tech fancy equipment running around the streets of Manhattan or it could be a multi-camera, third-person, Hollywood ordeal. The number of ways they can go with this is simply amazing to think about, which is why this movie is so good (I misspoke in my post earlier — it should have been “above average movie”): it makes you think about the whole experience and makes you crave more. It really is like “Lost” when you think about it: how many viewers sat at the end of last season in utter shock (me being one of them) and could only say “Wow” for a few minutes afterward. “Cloverfield” will keep me talking and thinking about it for a few weeks.
Eric, glad you liked my post. Keep up the good work — I really enjoyed your review!
I saw the movie and I thought it was way better than many of the movies I have seen in a while on screen. It is a movie where you cant ask questions, just watch…it is suppose to be from a semi-survivors point of view. I say semi because we know what happens in the end. Your not suppose to know what the hell is going on except for the fact that there is something f#cking up nyc, and you dont know anything after what happens at the end because there is no survivor to record it. In my personal opinion the videocamera should’ve been vaporized in the exprlosion, but then again we wouldn’t have a movie.
The movie is plausible and there are stupid people out there that would record the entire thing, and what they are doing, look at you tube people do stupid stuff and record it all the time, how is this not plausible….how manyu 9-11 tapes came out of people documenting that one day.
Im venting right not, all it got to say is the movie is good, and for those who applause I am Legened but boo this movie then you are too stupid to understand it is what it is, so fuck you.
I loved the movie…actually i really loved the movie. i can’t stop thinking about the many event that happpned in the movie and how realistic the movie was shot. i saw the movie saturday night(1/19) and kinda did some research on the movie(like i do everything i don’t know about, u know to go in with some prior knowledge of the the film) and i somewhat felt i had an advantage of the rest of the people in the theatre when the movie was over. I DON’T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU HEARD OF THIS BUT BEFORE THE MOVIE CAME OUT IN THE MOVIE THEATRES THERE WERE PEOPLE (LIKE ALWAYS) WHO KNOW THE MOVIE BEFORE YOU DO! BUT THEY WERE GIVING HEAD UPS BOUT THE ENDING OF THE MOVIE @ THE BEACH SCENE, THEY SAID LOOK @ THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN AND THAT WILL EXPLAIN EVERYTHING…. and i did…i saw something dropped in the water from da sky…for real for real!!! IT IS TRUE!!! well it didn’t explain everything but it made you understand the movie MORE!!! here’s my take of the scene, that drop in the water from the sky is how the THING got there, and that’s what made sense to me. the damn thing arrived a month(April) before it attacked(May) (pay attention to the dates at the bottom of the video camera like i did) the 2 characters (i forgot their names) had a romance and the movie starts with them(look at the bottom of the video camera screen again!)the romance hitted off in april). Somehow the romance broke off and that’s when the guy who’s filming starts recording over the middle of when the couple had their romance day with footage of the night of the attack and at the end of whole unfold of tragic events(the footage of the video stops b/c the camera breaks ups)the video goes and continues the couples events they had that day and that leads you to how the THING gets there!!! clever huh?? somebody else said this somewhere else where i was reading…this has to be the luckiest camera on the planet to catch the events of the attacks and also shows footage of how IT got there tooo!!!. it still freaks me out how reminiscent the film is of 9/11(people running annd covered in ash and buildings falling) in that sense. it def made my heart race to see the events unfold throughout the movie. all during the movie there are also clues given(for ex: the convo of the camera man in the subway tunnel of how the THING was thought to be it’s orgins). there’s little things that i didn’t catch that other people did out there too!! man this movie was tooo good. it keeps you thinking!!! somebody should start a website abiout the movie and all the conspiracies about the clues in the movie…u know jus to talk bout what u saw that others didn’t see and vice versa!!! i would love to be a part of that…holla me for info in that!!!
i was very pleased during the movie, but did not like the ending. hey, i majored in history in college, so i’m one of those who needs a plot to be properly developed. so, hopefully there is a sequel. but, if they leave me hanging after the sequel then i will not stick around (like loser Lost fans) for another facade. i did notice the object falling from the sky and into the water during the last scene at coney island. that is of course why the government was so interested in the video since it documents the purported arrival of the “alien” and the tactics/behavior it used. ahh, and beth and lily were totally hot!
I loved this film. I hope people know that this isn’t the last Cloverfield movie. This movie was just an introduction.
I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. The music was good. The acting was very good. Yeah the camera was a bit shaky but it was suppose to be home video like and not everyone is a trained camera man with steady hands. The monster was not that scary but it was very creepy… think about it, Godzilla wasn’t scary looking either. And that was also a great monster movie.
I can’t wait to see it again.
I Loved it. My theorie is the movie is only one of many to come. Its just the start of Post apocalyptic events to the end of the world. Kind of many like an anime I watched a few years back “evangelion” .
These “angles” come to earth or are awakened on earth to clean it up or pretty much destroy humanity Because its all just one big mess. In my opinion clover is something of this manor. Its too great to be so simple as just another monster movie.
The way the movie was introduced and the way it ended left it open for the next movie. I mean The monster did not die after it was nuked..
I am a little confused as to why people think that because the monster didn’t die at the end of the movie there will be a sequel. This movie was obviously supposed to be file footage of some sort, to show what happened, right? That means that even if they didn’t kill the monster at the very end when Rob and Beth died that they must have killed it sometime after, or no one would have lived to file the footage in the first place. It seemed more to me that it was supposed to be like Area 51, something the government may hide from the American people, maybe blame the destruction of the city on terrorists or something else, and not let the rest of the country know that New York was indeed destroyed by a Monster and the U.S. government. That’s my opinion anyway.
I was wondering if anyone noticed when they were in the Department Store they military appeared to have “Caught” one of the “Miniature” creatures in a Incubator of some sort. Secondly, how many references to lost did people catch? Do you think that Hud romantic interest inside explode or was she just a host a la alien?
I’m totally with JD on every point he made in your YouTube review. The best device in the film was the bits of footage from the past to help us get to know Rob better. Other than that, it was difficult to watch.
Some are saying Cloverfield is original. It may be somewhat original in the way it’s put together, but when you boil it all down, Cloverfield is simply Godzilla meets M. Night Shyamalan meets Blair Witch. Shyamalan in _Signs_ showed how ordinary people might react when aliens land. Blair Witch had the nerve wracking shakey cam. And of course, there’s this big ol’ lizard knocking down New York.
I could have endured the distraction of the chosen film technique if the acting and script quality had been better. Unfortunately, it was bad. I was glad when the monster got Hud, because I was already sick of him constantly yelling, “Rob, Rob, Rob, Rob…” even before the monster showed up.
I nearly laughed out loud the first time the surround sound kicked in with a rumbling effect. That moment totally ruined the whole concept of shooting it with a hand held camera for me.
Sorry Eric, but I think that’s how most people who are attuned to how films are made will react. It isn’t possible to get butt puckering bass shooting with a Sony mini-cam and definitely not in 5.1.
Sometimes you gotta let reality go, DBM, and suspend disbelief. It wouldn’t be nearly as much fun with out surround sound. It didn’t ruin a thing for me.
On a sidenote, about the shot of the “monster” falling into the ocean–
From BloodyDigusting.com-
In the FINAL, FINAL scene of the film we see Beth and Rob on a Ferris wheel at Coney Island. He pans the camera to his left to shoot the ocean and if you look to the far right of the screen you will see what appears to be the monster falling out of the sky and into the water. IN AN UPDATE: B-D reader ‘afireinside’ tells us, “JJ stated himself that the monster has been down at the bottom of the ocean for thousands of years. What fell into the ocean at the end of the movie was a satellite. If you pay attention to the viral marketing, Taragutu’s site states that one of their satellites fell out of orbit and was lost. This is what woke up the monster from its dormant state.” You be the judge….In addition, at the end of the credits an audio clip reveals that the monster is not yet dead.
I am also completely baffled and fascinated by the two extreme opinions this movie evokes. No one seems to be neutral on this, they either hated it or loved it! So far everyone I know who has seen it, including myself, can’t stop talking about how awesome it was. All the things that most people found flawed- the shaky camera, the lack of closure, the general lack of explanations- are what I found the most effective or intriguing. I think some people just wanted a typical formulaic Hollywood blockbuster film (yuck!) and they just didn’t get it.
A few notes:
*my brother thought the quest to save Beth was reminiscent of the classic theme of the knight going out to save the damsel in distress (the tower, the “dragon,” etc.)
* The scene where you see the horse and carraige. Did anyone think “Behold the pale the horse” or was that just me?
*I think this will be the definitive monster movie of our generation, with the way the characters use the technology available (the shot of everyone taking cell phone pics of the SOL’s head) and with it’s eerie reminiscence of 9-11.
*Damn it! I missed the the falling object in the last scene!
Loved it. The lack of closure, no clear explanation, and dizzying camera work created a thrilling “you were there” experience. Anyone who thinks giant monsters are stupid has no business being anywhere near the theater. As for the poor kids not acting rationally, they did act like panicked overwhelmed would act.
Absolutely amazing film!!! Saw it yesterday and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it… Fortunately I did see the object fall from the sky. For some reason I was compelled to watch for some clue and frantically searched in the last frames hoping the director wouldn’t leave me hanging. Sure enough, he gave me a glimpse of the ‘real’ story as to how the whole thing really started. It was like having my cake and eating it too… I was satisfied with just that little bit.
The movie had a little Alien in it too ( a la exploding inards ). I’ve read some comparisons, but not that one. Also, the night vision scene with the creature on the ceiling crawling towards the characters… Flash backs to Ripley’s crew running around the spaceship.
Thank you to the writer, director and producer for creating a masterpiece… a movie to be truly excited about.
I’m happy to suspend my disbelief and go with the filmmakers regarding a monster tearing up jack in New York City.
It’s another thing entirely when the movie tells me, “Everything you’re seeing was captured on a hand held video camera.” That is a rule the film makers made for themselves. The viewer shouldn’t be expected to suspend disbelief on an area they dictated earlier in the film.
It’s ironic that the fans who really like the film accuse those who don’t of wanting a Hollywood formulaic blockbuster. That isn’t the case at all for me. The concept of blending several successful techniques fairly well WAS successful. Combining point of view reactions to a cataclysmic event, consumer grade format for filming, and the monster genre is a fresh approach. I applaud their bold intentions. It was the lack of quality actors, poorly written dialog, and failure to embrace the video format that fell flat.
this movie was absolutely terrible. it was barely over an hour, it cost 8 dollars to watch and just absolutely sucked. i am a big fan of Lost and think its a great tv show and very original but the movie was so cheesy and boring. i really dont know how anyone could have liked it. i still dont believe people actually liked it- i think they are just too ashamed to admit it because they like jj abrams to much. aside from how it was a monster movie, it was not practical at all. and the impracticalities are very easy to fix. poor editing. the cameraman was not funny, just very corny questions and comments. i could’nt believe people laughed at him. also, why would he hold a camera while being chased by monsters? wouldnt his arm get tired? and why did every single character care more about Rob than they do themselves?
rumor of more of these monsters are coming…. obvious the hype got to us and we’d had to watch it. the freaken movie is flat, not suprising, no plot, and the only thing i got from it is a headache to the shakey camera. some ride… (barf). But get this, even though it sucks, a cousin of mine who knows this guy who is a co. worker of Abram’s he said he’s gonna make an another one. from an another random person in new york who found Rob’s camera. either way i can say this info is sketchy. Im not sure how its gonna happen. but the next one might come out late this year or in 2009. theres defitnitly a sequel. thats what i know for sure. GET THE DVD SKIP TO THE END AND HEAR A RADIO TRANSMISSION AFTER THE CREDITS.
One thing I couldn’t help but think about after seeing it was that they could’ve told the exact same story with the same amount of confusion and mystery without the gimmick of using a shaky hand-held video camera. Is it a cop out to use the it-seems-so-real-because-it’s-shot-on-video trick? It IS effective, but it seems lazy at this late date. That said, I thought it was really pretty good and I can’t wait for the DVD to come out so I can see more footage from other cameras in the city. I can only assume stuff like that will be added as extras.
Oh yeah, the shaking camera did make me sick. Thought I might even barf! Ugh. . .
After watching this film this evening, I truly feel stupider. Geeks will love it and ponder ways the plot could have been better. The sci-fi world will say an alien dropped from the sky. But normal, ordinary folks, like me, will say, I want a beginning, middle and end. This had a beginning throughout the movie. Yeah, I want to see the monster and the damage created by it. I want to see people getting squished between the toes of the beast. (Hence, Jurassic Park) As #18 Post, Chris, stated, I am stupid for wasting hard earned money on a flick that did’nt even tickle my senses. BOOOOOOO!!!
I luved tht film i hav to c thge sattelitte thingy
Really cool send me the website to c the image of the satellite I really want to c the 2nd one
“I don’t understand how anyone could have NOT liked this film, what are you, stupid?”
Well maybe I am but a movie involving crap dialogue, lack of acting talent, and simply trying to sell itself via the sizzle without the steak doesn’t work for me. Maybe you are too stupid to understand what makes an actual movie tick? Is that enough closure for you?
If the director of cloverfield is reading this please make another one I beg u and can i star in the next one and what the hell is the black smoke in lost. O and if there was a message tht was sent saying ur al pricks tht was my m8. Cloverfield is the best i really felt sorry for marleena who exploded she didnt diserve tht. I need to c the satellite
HELLO EVERY ONE I HATE THISMOVIE IT IS NO GOOD AND I AM GAY