CLOVERFIELD

i might actually have to go see this in a theater...

The reviews are generally good -- like you either love it or hate it. I think there appears to be some tongue-in-cheek satire and humor in the film like "Alligator" and "Piranha" (the classic line at the resort at the edge of the river in that film by the activities director to the manager, "Sir, the piranha are eating the guests!"

They never completely show the monster but it's little offspring sound like they are really wicked little creatures. If it's also genuinely scary, I want to see it. Beside, it will shock my friends and family that I'm not into only films of high artistic goals.

Ok, it's playing now!!

I don't know yet if I like it, cause I haven't seen it. But it seems worthy of a "date night" .

And the reviews have been fun to read. I'm just glad I missed all the marketing that supposedly went into it. Hadn't heard of this movie until 2 days ago when reading a review in my paper.

Just booked for Saturday 2nd at 6:40pm.

WOW! I have never seen a film like this! It's a dazzling experiment in film that pays off in spades.Shown from a first-person perspective on a very shaky camera,you always feel part of the action.The monster is a mean soab (and looks nothing like the picture I posted earlier) and his "little helpers" may not have his size but they make up for that in temperament.SFX are top notch,and the sound is the best I've heard in a long,long time (every speaker in the cinema,especially the subs,gets a very thorough workout).My neighbours hate me already and I just know that they're gonna lynch me when I get this on DVD!
I've heard talk of a follow-up,so stay seated until all the credits have rolled,listen carefully,and make your own mind up.And it isn't until the credits roll that you realise that there wasn't any film music,apart from the stuff played at the party and heard in the background etc.This film doesn't need it.The action and visuals are more than enough.
I'm going back for more.......much more!

I just got back from seeing it too. I liked it, and it does show the monster quite a few times.

Lol! I went off and saw it by myself, because my friends all sneered at it...and me for going!


The reviews I read really panned it, but I am also a monster fan from way back, and I really enjoyed it. Kind of guiltily, but I did.


The li'l buggers really are a bit scary....

I am really a monster film fan too (I recently saw some of the old Harryhausen stop-motion flicks on YouTube and loved it) so I can't wait for this to reach the local cinema.

This is the first monster film to be made this way and that's the twist.You either latch onto it or not.Most times,you don't see "all" the action on screen (that's where the cracking soundtrack takes over).If presented in the usual way,it would have been accused of being just another "Godzilla" movie.

I'm tired of Americans making themselves out to be the targets of all sorts of evil from the rest of the universe. They always think the universe is out to get them, because of what they stand for blah blah blah fishcake.
It's rubbish.

I liked the whole "Blair Witch Project" camera treatment. esp. when the Monster Parasites attack in an underground tunnel.

Great!

Went to see it Saturday night. Loved it, although I could feel my eyeballs drying out with all the shaky camera work they were having to follow!

Excellent big monster! Excellent little monsters! (Spider-like creatures always **** me up).

The person I was with thought I was a dick for liking it but I don't give a **** 'cos he ain't really got a clue about films. He he.

One question though, you know the girl who gets injured in the tunnel by one of the spider things? Margot I think she's called. What happened to her in the make-shift hospital? It wasn't clear. Did one burst out of her or something?

Nothing is clear in this film.That's what makes it so good.It looked like she exploded behind the screen! And seeing as the "little guys" come out of the "big guy",it's more than possible that she was "seeded",similar to Alien :wink:

Another possibility is that since the creatures came from the deep sea, they are full of stuff that helps them to resist the pressure. Most deep sea creatures swell up or explode when they are brought to the surface where the pressure is much lower. The creatures could have injected the girl with something that caused just that effect.
It is part of the fun, not having all the answers. It also fuels the online publicity for the film, as in this thread :wink:

Ew!

Fabulous.

I love monster movies, but I didn't like Cloverfield. I understand that the camera technique was unusual, and tried to give a new viewpoint to the story, but I didn't like it at all.

The quality of the film was bad (because it was supposed to represent a handycam), and it jumped around a lot (because it was supposed to represent a handycam) which I found extremely annoying.

But there was a deeper problem; one of the main things I like about monster movies is getting to know the monster. Where did it come from, why has it never been seen before, what does it look like, what was it, how do we stop it, why is it doing what it's doing, are there more of them, etc etc. None of this was explored in Cloverfield. Cloverfield wasn't about a monster, it was about people with a camera enduring a disaster. You could have replaced the monster with a tornado or a giant wave or an earthquake and the movie would have been just about the same.

Yes, I know there were mini-monsters in the subway, and that was a cool idea, but again, it wasn't explored because that wasn't what this movie was about.

For me, the only way they can redeem Cloverfield is to release Cloverfield2, as told from the army's point of view and interweave the first movie characters into it.

I guess it all depends on what you want to see when you go to a monster movie. Just my opinion.

Yeah I get your point. I would've like to have had more monster info. too.

I like films that make me wonder for more and keep me in dark.... just like my school homework...

Was it good or really good?