Review :: Cloverfield

[will101]

flea = flee
peaked = piqued
Not ex-girlfriend - long time friend he had feelings for
clambering = clamouring

Apart from that not a bad write up =)

[Byatt]

What, so this isn't the film version of Deus Ex? ffs...

[DevilMayCry42]

Woweee... Watched it last night and LOOOOVED it. I thought it was really good, the handycam point of view really immersed me - I half belived it was real!

[Dorza]

Woweee... Watched it last night and LOOOOVED it. I thought it was really good, the handycam point of view really immersed me - I half belived it was real!

Yeah man, I came out of it knowing I enjoyed it, but I just couldn't explain what I had just witnessed; I was shocked, dazed, confused, saddened etc, etc. I just didn't know what the hell to think tbh.

[BEANFro Elite]

I watched this with the missus the other day.

I must say its an interesting perspective to view a monster flick, as in you don't see any heroes, see the government formulating plans or any of the usual nonsense.

In respect of this, I like it as you see the result of the government's plans which were obviously, evacuation, sending in the National Guard and eventually carpet bombing the monster.

Information about whats going is eaked out from likely sources such as televisions or the millitary personnel who don't actually know themselves but know that "whatever it is, it's winning".

Its a very well played out movie let down by a lack of depth or meaning and somewhat wafer thin characters and acting.

[DevilMayCry42]

Everyone in college absolutely HATES it!!
I'm the only one who actually liked it. Any of you finding it like that?

[mfcjim]

To be honest and brief (hard to be anything else with a movie of this length) this was a big dissapointment (for me anyway), although the special effects were excellent and clearly this film had a big budget measures could have been taken to hire half decent writers, for me it seemed to start off badly and slowly and then followed a basic, uniform pattern and far be it from me to question the writing capabilities and dedication of the hired writing but it was as if they had either ran out of time or simply got bored of writers when they wrapped it up. Too many loose ends (obviously to leave rtoom for the in progress sequal) such as we do not actually find out what the strange creatures were we can just assume that they are a cross between dinosaur and squid. Also, where did they come from i mean it is not as if they could have just put on a raincoat, hat and glasses and strolled into the middle of Manhattan again we just assume that they were there and we do not question it. The camcorder based filming was basic and somewhat nausiating (like an over budgeted blair witch project) in my opinion 4/10