I was even warned not to go see this movie. My brother said when he went to see it everyone clapped at the end. Unfortunately, he didn't leave this part out. When I left everyone was talking about how much the movie sucked. I didn't actually think the movie was that bad. I can definitely see everyone's point.
This movie just ran. It was suppposed to be like a home video, and it was amazing that the crappy camera cut in scenes that it was supposed to be taping over, but had such high definition as far as the picture goes.
The real problem is that every question a movie goer would like to get an answer, ther isn't one. There is no real story behind the events. You leave thinking there should have been something more. I'd also, like to know why New York City is always getting a beating in movies. Film makers must really hate New York.
Another problem is that the jobs the characters supposedly possesed were kind of unreasonable. Well my advice on this one is skip it unless you are a really really big Blair Witch Project Fan.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Cloverfield Movie Review
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This crap movie pisses me off. No substance, and it is some stupid story with no solid points and what's with the monsters eating people and ruining the world? why can't they give us something to talk about like the blue ox with Paul Bunion trampling Manhattan.
>>Unfortunately, he didn't leave this part out.
I'm not sure what you mean by that statement.
However, when I left I said the same thing. They didn't take time to talk about what these creatrues were, where they came from, etc. They were just there all of the sudden, and they were running around trying not to die.
Hollywood keeps missing the mark. Well, I got news for them, you can't make a great movie without having a great story. All the other shit you do doesn't matter.
How could they? It was supposed to be in the moment (home video); explanations would seem contrived and unrealistic to the style of the film.
I thought the movie was great, a perfect post 9/11 type film. On the one hand you have the idyllic pre-devastation calm before the storm Coney Island excerpts contrasted with the gritty reality of a monster/terrorist attack. They connect the events of 9/11 via the falling buildings and dust like rubble thrust at the beginning and then make reference to the after effects in the form of lost liberty (beheaded statue), ineffective militarization and the destruction of all concerned. The monster of terrorism lumbers forward, dropping it’s entrails which take on a life of their own and infiltrate the structures of our spaces causing death and destruction in their insect like progress. It ends with the uncertainty of today; the sounds of foot falls from the monster that should have been eliminated by the bomb but lingers on for who knows how long (as terrorism is still a veiled threat today after 9/11). Of course it’s a movie so the message is exaggerated almost beyond recognition.
This wasn't a monster movie, it was post 9/11 allegory.
Well, for you miss informed people... Cloverfield WILL have a second film to follow upthe first.. not sure weather it will be camera documentary but rumors about following the military are leaked. So, for all those questions, the second film will shed light on where, what and why all this is. CANT WAIT!!!
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