Cloverfield

[Sweno]

Brain dump follows:
minor almost spoilers follow. It's a monster movie, your not seeing it for the stunning plot reversals.
good bits:
Great monster design and FX.
Some very humorous lines about people coping with massive destruction.
A semi-realistic ending for the main characters (what happens when you don't leave the first chance you get).
Bad bits:
I understand that it is supposed to be from a handheld camera the whole time but:
A) there where whole stretches of the movie that are nothing but blurs as the characters run, and not seeing what is going on the screen very quickly kills the immersive experience.
B) and other sections where a (if a real person was filming) the camera would point in an entirely different direction.
Also SHORT (80 min)
I give it 3/5, The Host is a much better monster movie.-Terry
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[VladimirTherin]

Yeah,
The camera direction was stupid at times, but I kind of marked that up to "Hud"? being a retard.
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Also, Rob was an asshole of the first magnitude.
I can understand him having to go back, but letting his friends come along was wrong on so many levels.
He should have either turned back or asked Hud to make them go back.
That would have made it a much shorter movie, though :-)

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[Angryoptimist]

I didn't really find the camera to be frustrating, myself. I rather considered it as close to 'realistic' as possible without being irritating. In some places, it even seem to create a bit of suspense.
I liked it, but I wouldn't say I liked it for the same reasons I'd like a good monster movie. It was interesting to see characters who were regular folks put into an absolutely ridiculous situation. It was a juxtaposition of the real and the surreal--this is nothing new, granted, but I've always liked that sort of stuff.
Also:
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The monster is definitely a weapon, and probably alien. What, on Earth, would possibly support the damn thing? Or anywhere? Whether it be from the stars, or a trench (as Hud suggested), why is it so well adapted to (ruining) human cities and the surface of the Earth? What about those servitor creatures? And how they infect. Do they make more of themselves that way (as it seemed to suggest), too? If so, runaway growth. They didn't seem to eat humans, per se, but did target them specifically (mop-up weapons system). For that matter, the whole assemblage was mighty attentive to humans, and seemed to go for maximum damage. An animal wouldn't be so damned hell-bent and thorough--I'm thinking 'it was engineered to be that way' is a good explanation. There are other things that could be rambled about, but I think I've shown that 'the thing is a weapon' fits quite well.
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