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I downloaded it tonight and watched it off Xbox Live video marketplace. I knew nothing about it previously, heard off-hand references in various threads on various forums about the 'Cloverfield' monster. I read the basic description of the movie so I had some idea about it, but now after seeing it...

What the fuck?

I mean... WHAT THE FUCK?

Where's the other half of the movie? Where they explain what the fuck this thing is, and where it came from. At the end I looked at my wife and was like - huh? Is that it?

And of course from the female perspective, she tries to tell me it was a love story at the heart of the movie. NO IT ISN'T. Its a monster movie that only offered fleeting glimpses of the monster and his little crab minions.
 
Oh for crying out loud...

I never understood the complaint of "well we never found out what it was!"

It's all about the thrillride, the energy, and the journey. Not so much the destination. Nothing could be more boring than to have some scientists explain a backstory on why the monster exists.

This movie was GREAT.
 
chubigans said:
Oh for crying out loud...

I never understood the complaint of "well we never found out what it was!"

It's all about the thrillride, the energy, and the journey. Not so much the destination. Nothing could be more boring than to have some scientists explain a backstory on why the monster exists.

This movie was GREAT.
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This.
although I wouldn't necessarily call the movie "great". It's an awesome ride though. Has to be seen in the theaters.
 
it was about the experience. if you didn't enjoy the ride, then you didn't enjoy the ride. But I thought it was entertaining, like a good, quick roller coaster ride.

After the party shenanigans the pace and tension went through the roof. Of course, the protagonists made stupid choices but we wouldn't have been brought close to the monster if we followed smart people with a sense of self preservation in the midst of this attack.

I really liked it what we got.
 
Everything you want explained is done so throught the internet marketing campaign. You're better off not reading any of it. The backstory plain SUCKS.
 
Spotless Mind said:
Everything you want explained is done so throught the internet marketing campaign. You're better off not reading any of it. The backstory plain SUCKS.
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It is indeed so bad that I wonder if they just cut out all the exposition on the backstory from the film at the last minute. :lol

I mean REALLY bad.
 
If you want a movie that explains everything about the monster go and watch the American version of Godzilla, I'm sure the quality of that film is about at your level, because your complaints with this film pretty much show your able to appreciate a film that doesn't pander to the moronic multitudes about as well as the characters in Cloverfield are able to make good decisions.
 
bill0527 said:
And of course from the female perspective, she tries to tell me it was a love story at the heart of the movie. NO IT ISN'T. Its a monster movie that only offered fleeting glimpses of the monster and his little crab minions.
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No, she's pretty well correct. It's a monster movie from the human perspective. No hot blond scientist chick explaining everything in some terrible pseudo-science babble. No heroic retired military dude coming in to save the day with his Vietnam war training. No epic speech from the mayor/president. Just semi-regular people doing what they might do in a crisis. I didn't think it was great or anything, but at least it was a change.
 
chubigans said:
It's all about the thrillride, the energy, and the journey. Not so much the destination. Nothing could be more boring than to have some scientists explain a backstory on why the monster exists.
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Pretty much. I enjoyed the movie as an experience, but the characters were so horribly written that i'd be hard pressed to call it anything approaching "great".
 
bill0527 said:
I'd really be pissed if I bought it on Blu-Ray.

Spend $5 on a piece of shit vs. spending $25.

I think I came out ahead.
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I've bought it twice! And I plan to get the Blu Ray, and the Special Edition which is bound to come out.

Quadruple Dipping!
 
I went into this movie expecting not to like it and was surprised to see that it was competent monster movie/ thriller, but still, the whole shaky-cam thing really brought the movie down for me. Sometimes it is almost impossible to tell what the hell is going on.
 
bill0527 said:
I feel like I do a couple of hours after eating Chinese food. I have this empty feeling inside and I'm hungry again.
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bill0527 said:
Where's the other half of the movie? Where they explain what the fuck this thing is, and where it came from. At the end I looked at my wife and was like - huh? Is that it?
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It's a narrative device to NOT explain things. Lots of novels and movies do it. Having everything explained is NOT a story requirement.

The protagonists don't know the answers, why should you? If you can't understand this basic story telling device then you missed the entire point of view of the movie... literally.
 
I thought the movie was decent. Not stellar, but a fun, brain-off, monster movie that was pretty inventive.

Still, I can't get over how dense OP is... I second the "Go watch Godzilla (1998)" comment.
 
One of my favorite movies. Loved everything about it.

The movie is about new york being attacked, it isnt about the monster and how he got there..even though its sorta explained.
its about plain generic people trying to survive
 
i watched it two times at the cinema and it's the fucking movie of the year. Of course, i bought the Blu Ray as well.

Cloverfield > all the haters!
 
Rarely am I a harsh critic, but I thought the movie was just ok. I too watched it a few days ago for the fist time and didn't come away all that impressed. It had it's moments, but I could've done without the first half hour of wonky 20-Something drama. Sure it gave the characters some context, but relative to the experience I thought it took up a bit too much time. One could easily start the movie once shit started getting real and be totally fine without the first 1/3 of the film.


Also, the ending was predictable as hell and a total cop-out.
 
Nameless said:
Also, the ending was predictable as hell and a total cop-out.
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It was? I thought it was almost the opposite. It's not often you get a movie that ends up with
almost every single main character dying and no real resolution

I came out of the theater almost hating it... a couple of days later I changed my mind completely and realised I love it
 
HATED the rescue plot, it was a horrible route to go to and totally ruined the point of the film.

Take that out and I think the movie is already 10x better.
 
The part where
that girl gets sick and explodes because she was "bitten"
is forever imprinted in my mind.
 
LOL @ the people who want everything explained.

It's supposed to give the illusion of realism in something completely fictional. Convenient exposition would completely ruin the verisimilitude they had created for the movie.

HAY GUYS! WHY DIDNT ROB AND FRIENDS RIDE THE CLOVERFIELD MONSTER AND THEN GET GRAV-LIFTED BACK INTO ITS SPACESHIP, HIDING OUT AND LEARNING THE ORIGINS OF THE MONSTER AND WHY ITS HERE?
 
the monster was the backdrop to the story...I thought the concept played out very well...the film was more about intense situations, and simple reasons for extraordinary actions
 
Do yourself a favor and never read lovecraft. Seriously, why do people need to KNOW things to be scared....
Either way.
That
Movie
Was
A
Stinker
 
My problem with the movie wasn't that you don't find anything out about the monster, it wasn't that you barely see the monster, it wasn't that they used shaky cam, or that it was primarily a love story. My problem is that they seemed to be attempting to make a 'realistic' monster story, yet the movie was for the most part completely ridiculous. They wanted to show how the ordinary person reacts, and they wanted to show what it would be like if a monster actually attacked NY, so I was really excited going in because I foolishly believed that I was actually going to see something unique and inventive. Imagine my disappointment when I saw that the movie followed pretty much every cliché in monster movies.
Yay they killed the monster! Oh no it miraculously leaps from the jaws of death to bring down our heroes helicopter! But don't worry they're all still alive and they're making an escape, but oh no the monster suddenly appears from nowhere and eats them.
The movie didn't really do anything different it resorted to the typical banality of the genre and thus the shaky cam and premise just seemed like a gimmick. People have told me that I'm stupid for expecting a monster movie to be realistic, but then they shouldn't have tried to market it as one. Either make a well done cheesy OTT monster movie, or make a realistic refreshing take on the genre. Getting stuck half way between the two just leaves you with an average product.

To conclude, interesting premise executed poorly 6/10.
 
Probably the best movie I've seen this year, and will stay so until The Dark Knight. I saw it only because my girlfriend wanted to, expected to hate it and see it full of shitty stories tying the monster into everything and having stuff shoved down my throat, and was instead treated to an exhilarating experience that embodied wholly the experience of what it's like to be a little guy during a Godzilla attack. Awesome, awesome movie.
 
bill0527 said:
I downloaded it tonight and watched it off Xbox Live video marketplace. I knew nothing about it previously, heard off-hand references in various threads on various forums about the 'Cloverfield' monster. I read the basic description of the movie so I had some idea about it, but now after seeing it...

What the fuck?

I mean... WHAT THE FUCK?

Where's the other half of the movie? Where they explain what the fuck this thing is, and where it came from. At the end I looked at my wife and was like - huh? Is that it?

And of course from the female perspective, she tries to tell me it was a love story at the heart of the movie. NO IT ISN'T. Its a monster movie that only offered fleeting glimpses of the monster and his little crab minions.
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Sounds like you missed the entire point of the movie.

Also, your wife is smarter than you.
 
My favourite bit was
when everyone died. Especially that annoying asswipe holding the camera. Some of us in the theatre actually cheered, well those who weren't getting up and leaving at the time anyway.

The film probably had a total of about 3 scenes I found genuinely entertaining. The rest of it was incredibly difficult to sit through. Hype killed this film for me.
 
Capoeira said:
My favourite bit was
when everyone died. Especially that annoying asswipe holding the camera. Some of us in the theatre actually cheered, well those who weren't getting up and leaving at the time anyway.

The film probably had a total of about 3 scenes I found genuinely entertaining. The rest of it was incredibly difficult to sit through. Hype killed this film for me.
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everyone, but ONE person.
 
bill0527 said:
I downloaded it tonight and watched it off Xbox Live video marketplace. I knew nothing about it previously, heard off-hand references in various threads on various forums about the 'Cloverfield' monster. I read the basic description of the movie so I had some idea about it, but now after seeing it...

What the fuck?

I mean... WHAT THE FUCK?

Where's the other half of the movie? Where they explain what the fuck this thing is, and where it came from. At the end I looked at my wife and was like - huh? Is that it?

And of course from the female perspective, she tries to tell me it was a love story at the heart of the movie. NO IT ISN'T. Its a monster movie that only offered fleeting glimpses of the monster and his little crab minions.
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The monster is angry at the japanese soda company

seriously, fuck the backstory...good monster movies simply don't exist anymore because of all the kids thinking they need the labcoat scientist to explain any and everything about the monster. it's pandering shit that, honestly, doesn't serve any real point.

Do I really need to know that a monster is the genetic mutation between a man and a goat caused from an experiment gone wrong? who really cares that the creature was an iguana near a nuclear blast zone when all they should really care about is the touching story of a french secret service guy helping out a worm doctor as baby raptors play with gumball machines?
 
bill0527 said:
Where's the other half of the movie? Where they explain what the fuck this thing is, and where it came from. .
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They decided to leave that stuff out until the bluray because
they were making up shit as they went along

This movie sucked.
 
Scullibundo said:
You didn't wait to see the scene after the credits. Lily steps of the chopper and slips into the rear rotor, splicing her head in half.
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What?

That never happened, and I've watched it several times, unless it's some cut out shit ?
 
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