Just got back from the midnight advanced screening of Cloverfield.
Oh my god, what an AWFUL movie! (See, Uncle Gary, I don't love everything.) And in fact, I'm going to do something that I rarely do. I am going to tell you the entire movie so that you don't have to waste your time or money seeing it. However, if you still want to see it, then stop reading here.
(Below are spoilers.)
Boring intro. Ten minutes later, monster invades New York. Seventy-five minutes after that, everyone is dead. Movie ends.
Okay, so you want more specifics? Gotten used to my long, drawn out writings? Here ya go:
Movie opens up and you have about 10 minutes of boring character introduction - if you could call it that. (Boring it definitely was.) Then there's a loud boom and you see stuff flying thru the air but you have no idea what it is. Lots of scurrying about and you're basically the cameraman pov and quite a bit is fuzzy as the camera is being toted around while you're running from place to place. There are a few funny lines. One of which is where there is a small group of them in the subway terminal trying to determine where they should go when one person suggests the tunnels and one guy says (and I'm paraphrasing here) "So let me get this straight. We can either die where we are, die in the tunnels, or die out on the streets, right? Those are our options?" Second guy says "Yeah. Pretty much." So the monster finally shows itself and I guess it's kinda cool looking but nothing can kill it as it's knocking over high rise buildings and making shrill noises. The whole time you're getting dizzy as everything you're seeing is shaky and out of focus. I read that it's supposed to be to let you know what it might have been like for those who witnessed the 9/11 attacks and that this would be a similar type of situation...and a "what would you do" type of feel.
There was one really cool thing about the movie. (Sorry, but just one.) The movie theater showing Cloverfield was the digital one, so every boom I could feel surge thru my body. That was cool! But you can get that same effect when you see I Am Legend and it's a HELLUVA lot better story.
Can't recommend this one. Although, it might be good for a Mystery Science Theater 3000 flick someday.
Off to bed now. Gotta get up and go to work in two hours.
Vixy :]
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Or maybe my taste in movies sucks...I really liked One Missed Call but that doesn't mean that everyone who reads my review of it will agree with me...
We'll see what the rest of America says about it. Apparently there was some huge thing going on with their website...a teaser kind of thing? I wasn't too interested in seeing it to begin with, so I have no idea what all it entailed, but as I was walking out of theater pretty much everyone around me was talking about how it was the lamest movie out there.
But if you want to go see it and like it, feel free to defend it. Feel free to tell me how much I suck.
Vixy ;]
Just got back from seeing Cloverfield.
I think you are absolutely right, Vixie. It was a big mess.
Nice review.
Thanks, Nony!
And it's such a shame, too, because there was so much potential with the idea that they had making it from the cameraman's point of view a la Blair Witch Project. (I haven't seen that one yet, btw.)
Hopefully at least you got to see it in a digital theater where every boom sent shock waves thru your body. You have to admit, THAT part was pretty cool!
Vixy :]
I was curious to see how this movie did on imdb and to my surprise, it has an average of 8 out of 10 stars! And SEVERAL comments gave it a 10! WTF? Did I not see the same movie these people saw? I mean, I am VERY easily amused and constantly ridiculed by my friends over some movies that I have loved that they thought were stupid, but this movie was just horrible! And something else...I was reading about how there was apparently some huge secret tidbit of info that was played at the end of the credits. Well, ya know what? I didn't STAY til the end of the credits. I was just anxious to get the hell out of there. I will say that 9 times out of 10, I DO stay til the end of the credits, but didn't see the point with this one. So does that mean I have to go watch it again just to find out what this secret saying was? Nope. Imdb posts have the link in the message and I clicked on each one and even after hearing this, it still didn't improve my take on the film.
Yeah, the monster was cool. And the digital sound was neat, but I cannot condone shelling out almost 10 bucks for three fun booms and a 10-second here-comes-the-monster spot at the end. (Hell, it may have only even been 5 seconds...it was pretty quick.) Either way, that's just dumb. My money would have been better spent on pretty much any other movie that was playing that night. AND the fact that I saw it at midnight after having worked a 17-hour day with no nap before the film...that just pissed me off even more knowing that I could have been using that two hours to be SLEEPING instead of wasting it at the movie theater.
So because there were SOOOO many out there posting on imdb about how WONDERFUL this movie was. Someone, anyone, please ... if you saw this movie and loved it, PLEASE come defend it.
Vixy :]
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