OT: "Cloverfield" - the movie

[TRAGChick]

Hey, all....

We rented it last night....has anyone seen it?

Oh my God....SCARY AS HELL!

It's done a-la the "Blair Witch shaky-cam-first-person" perspective: crazy zoom-ins/outs; blurry pans of the room; people out of frame, but talking....and it's SO well done, that you really forget that it is a movie, with a huge Production Team behind it - you feel like you found a friend's DVD of a "bon voyage" party they documented....which is how it starts out.

SEE THIS MOVIE - YOU WON'T BE SORRY - You'll be VERY SCARED lol

Cheers! \~/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvNkGm8mxiM

[RossValoryRocks]

Great movie...but made me sick to my stomach watching it with all that shaky camera work!

[TRAGChick]

Great movie...but made me sick to my stomach watching it with all that shaky camera work!

Yeah....I could see how that could happen on a movie screen....ack!

But on TV, like I said....it gives it a whole new "viewing perspective".

[verslibre]

It was interesting, though the notion of a monster that size confining itself to Manhattan doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Don't bother watching it a second time, though. The effect is lost after the initial viewing...

[scarygirl]

Hey, all....

We rented it last night....has anyone seen it?

Oh my God....SCARY AS HELL!

It's done a-la the "Blair Witch shaky-cam-first-person" perspective: crazy zoom-ins/outs; blurry pans of the room; people out of frame, but talking....and it's SO well done, that you really forget that it is a movie, with a huge Production Team behind it - you feel like you found a friend's DVD of a "bon voyage" party they documented....which is how it starts out.

SEE THIS MOVIE - YOU WON'T BE SORRY - You'll be VERY SCARED lol

Cheers! \~/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvNkGm8mxiM

And very SICK. I saw this at the theater. I was this close to walking out my head hurt so bad. Word of warning. Take dramine, lots of it.

[Don]

It was interesting, though the notion of a monster that size confining itself to Manhattan doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Don't bother watching it a second time, though. The effect is lost after the initial viewing...

Actually after seeing Blair Witch Project, this movie lost it's appeal as soon as the trailer came out. It looked like a reject episode from an MTV reality show. Some gimicks only work the first time, in this case the handcam perspective had already been done and to better effect with BWP.

[Loneman1]

It was a decent movie, but honestly I liked "The Mist" better.

[scarygirl]

It was a decent movie, but honestly I liked "The Mist" better.

I LOVED The Mist!!! Was that movie last summer because this one sucked! I'm a big sucker for a good horror/sci fi summer movie.

[bluejeangirl76]

It's done a-la the "Blair Witch shaky-cam-first-person" perspective:

Bleh! I'd love to see it but just the youtubes on that gave me a headache.

This link is enough to do it and it's not even 5 minutes long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOnoTb_RTbs&NR=1

If the whole flick is like that... ugh! I'll rent it and watch it on a tiny TV.

[TRAGChick]

It's done a-la the "Blair Witch shaky-cam-first-person" perspective:

Bleh! I'd love to see it but just the youtubes on that gave me a headache.

This link is enough to do it and it's not even 5 minutes long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOnoTb_RTbs&NR=1

If the whole flick is like that... ugh! I'll rent it and watch it on a tiny TV.

That's what I'm saying!

Watch it on a "regular" TV, preferably with a "surround sound" setup, which is what we did....TOTALLY cool.

[Loneman1]

It was a decent movie, but honestly I liked "The Mist" better.

I LOVED The Mist!!! Was that movie last summer because this one sucked! I'm a big sucker for a good horror/sci fi summer movie.

I know it didn't come out this summer (I just barely saw it last week on DVD w/surround sound...good stuff!), but I'm not sure when it hit the theaters. IMO it definitely had much more depth than "Cloverfield."

[texafana]

"Oh my God....SCARY AS HELL!"

You've GOT to be kidding me....

[finalfight]

Loved The Mist. Cloverfield - not at all. Nice idea but the characters were just downright unlikable. I actually ended up routing for the monster which we saw for all of about 30 seconds in total. I wasn't scared at all but it definitely made me feel queasy - damn shaky cam!

[journeypower]

enough with the handheld camera movie concept. I cannot focus watching the entire movie as I am distracted with all the camera movements, not to mention that such concept misses out some of the important part of the scene/frame. besides, it doesn't work that way. who in the right mind would still be holding up a video camera when a giant alien is already infront of you and waited for him to eat you? not to mention that the second guy had the time to pickup up the camera and videotaped how his friend(dead friend) got eaten instead of running away and look for some place to hide immediately. I know it's a movie and all, but the concept or real life, first person point of view narration turned silly because the writer decided to show certain scenes which were inappropriate for a real-life concept of filming. they should had just stuck to the old mainstream filming if that was their objective.

[RedWingFan]

My wife and I rented it. Meh..... We were both like, what, that's it?
For a minute we were discussing if they lived, died or what. We came to the conclusion that we didn't care.

[Rick]

I got Cloverfield today, and will give it a watch tonight or tomorrow night. After this thread, I'm not getting my hopes up too high though.

[StoneCold]

I got Cloverfield today, and will give it a watch tonight or tomorrow night. After this thread, I'm not getting my hopes up too high though.

Thanks for the rec Nora. Watched it while doing some computer setup and it was cool.

SPOILER ALERT! That's for you Rick.
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As mentioned above, I didn't like that they didn't show much of the monster. Interesting looking but what was it? Alien, sea monster. A little more info please.

Also didn't explain what was droppin' off the monster to go after them in the tunnels. Parasites?

Why didn't the dude run through the legs of said monster while it wasn't looking? That was lame, he just stood there until the thing looked down at him. But yet the others in front got away? Dud.

Still it went by pretty quick and kept me interested for the most part. The Marlena chick was cute. The Beth chick's acting pretty bad. Shakycam didn't bother me, I knew they were trying to emulate 9/11 disaster footage so whatever.

Glad I didn't pay theater prices for it though. Netflix FTW!

[Rick]

I got Cloverfield today, and will give it a watch tonight or tomorrow night. After this thread, I'm not getting my hopes up too high though.

Thanks for the rec Nora. Watched it while doing some computer setup and it was cool.

SPOILER ALERT! That's for you Rick.
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As mentioned above, I didn't like that they didn't show much of the monster. Interesting looking but what was it? Alien, sea monster. A little more info please.

Also didn't explain what was droppin' off the monster to go after them in the tunnels. Parasites?

Why didn't the dude run through the legs of said monster while it wasn't looking? That was lame, he just stood there until the thing looked down at him. But yet the others in front got away? Dud.

Still it went by pretty quick and kept me interested for the most part. The Marlena chick was cute. The Beth chick's acting pretty bad. Shakycam didn't bother me, I knew they were trying to emulate 9/11 disaster footage so whatever.

Glad I didn't pay theater prices for it though. Netflix FTW!

After watching The Mist, Cloverfield was just ok. The Mist was damn good.

[artist4perry]

It was a decent movie, but honestly I liked "The Mist" better.

Yeah, it kind of "bugged" me though. Sorry, I am in a weird mood tonight. Great movie!

[walkslikealady]

I liked "The Mist" 'cause I didn't see it coming at the end. Didn't care for "Blair Witch" 'cause I didn't think it was that scary. Probably won't buy "Cloverfield"...rent it maybe.

[Don]

For you people that enjoyed the Mist, if your in to downer endings you have to see the remake of "On the beach" with Armand Assante and Rachel Ward. That has one of the most intensely depressing scenes i have seen towards the end of the movie involving an Australian Navy Officer and his family. The whole last act is very powerful.

[alesson]

bad bad headache...

[journeypower]

I got Cloverfield today, and will give it a watch tonight or tomorrow night. After this thread, I'm not getting my hopes up too high though.

Thanks for the rec Nora. Watched it while doing some computer setup and it was cool.

SPOILER ALERT! That's for you Rick.
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As mentioned above, I didn't like that they didn't show much of the monster. Interesting looking but what was it? Alien, sea monster. A little more info please.

Also didn't explain what was droppin' off the monster to go after them in the tunnels. Parasites?

Why didn't the dude run through the legs of said monster while it wasn't looking? That was lame, he just stood there until the thing looked down at him. But yet the others in front got away? Dud.

Still it went by pretty quick and kept me interested for the most part. The Marlena chick was cute. The Beth chick's acting pretty bad. Shakycam didn't bother me, I knew they were trying to emulate 9/11 disaster footage so whatever.

Glad I didn't pay theater prices for it though. Netflix FTW!

After watching The Mist, Cloverfield was just ok. The Mist was damn good.

I think THE MIST is one underrated movie. dunno why a lot critiques hated that film. while those critiques praised CLOVERFIELD for it's innovativeness? WTF?

speaking of THE MIST, it kinda reminded me of that zombie movie where the 2 protagonists went blind in the end. the zombies were dead alright, but not at the cost of losing their vision. any of you remember that film? quite old.

[S2M]

Stephen King is perhaps the worst offender of 'lifting' ideas from other stories....that guy has stole more plot lines than Lucas.

[SteveForever]

this movie made me physically ill

[scarygirl]

I got Cloverfield today, and will give it a watch tonight or tomorrow night. After this thread, I'm not getting my hopes up too high though.

Thanks for the rec Nora. Watched it while doing some computer setup and it was cool.

SPOILER ALERT! That's for you Rick.
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As mentioned above, I didn't like that they didn't show much of the monster. Interesting looking but what was it? Alien, sea monster. A little more info please.

Also didn't explain what was droppin' off the monster to go after them in the tunnels. Parasites?

Why didn't the dude run through the legs of said monster while it wasn't looking? That was lame, he just stood there until the thing looked down at him. But yet the others in front got away? Dud.

Still it went by pretty quick and kept me interested for the most part. The Marlena chick was cute. The Beth chick's acting pretty bad. Shakycam didn't bother me, I knew they were trying to emulate 9/11 disaster footage so whatever.

Glad I didn't pay theater prices for it though. Netflix FTW!

After watching The Mist, Cloverfield was just ok. The Mist was damn good.

The ending was disturbing as hell. That's the hallmark of a job well done.

[scarygirl]

For you people that enjoyed the Mist, if your in to downer endings you have to see the remake of "On the beach" with Armand Assante and Rachel Ward. That has one of the most intensely depressing scenes i have seen towards the end of the movie involving an Australian Navy Officer and his family. The whole last act is very powerful.

I absolutely adore that movie. Sadder than hell. They show it quite a bit on Ion Television. Have you seen the original with a young Anthony Perkins? What an actor.

[scarygirl]

Stephen King is perhaps the worst offender of 'lifting' ideas from other stories....that guy has stole more plot lines than Lucas.

That's funny because when I watched The Happening this summer I thought it was a rip off of Stephen King's The CELL. If you haven't read that one, read it. I literally couldn't put it down.

[S2M]

Stephen King is perhaps the worst offender of 'lifting' ideas from other stories....that guy has stole more plot lines than Lucas.

That's funny because when I watched The Happening this summer I thought it was a rip off of Stephen King's The CELL. If you haven't read that one, read it. I literally couldn't put it down.

IMHO, King has run his course....mostly selling on reputation for the past 15 years.....

[jrnyman28]

I enjoyed Cloverfield when I first saw it. Shaky cam didn't bother me and I liked that you hardly saw the monster.

I really like The Mist.

I am a HUGE Stephen King fan, but I agree that so much of his work is repetitive. He has struggled for originality for the past few years. I love that Frank Darabont did The Mist and gave it an ending. Frank has done SUPERB work with King material (Shawshank Redemprion, Green Mile) and this one was an experiment of very quick filming. He said it was like working on a TV show. He got the idea of the fast shoot while working on The Shield. And it worked!