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To each his own, but I thought it was fucking awesome. I'm glad there wasn't some asshole in a lab coat spouting technobabble as an explanation for what the creature was. That would have ruined it. I liked how the viewer was just as clueless about what was going on as the characters.
 
I hated the movie. The only things it did right were the concept, the fact that they don't explain anything and that it only was an hour and 10 minutes long. The focus was on the characters, which is fine, but I wanted them all to die horribly they were so fucking annoying and stupid. Isn't the point of a monster movie to get AWAY from the monster? They seem to have the worst luck ever in that they CONSTANTLY run into the monster. I thought New York was pretty big? Also hated that part
where the head of the Statue of Liberty falls PERFECTLY into frame as if it was planned all along......wait.
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I really wanted to love the movie, but as I watched the first 15 minutes I already realised I was not getting a good movie at all.
 
Watched this flick again last night on Blu-Ray. I actually think it plays better on a smaller screen as opposed to the theatre. The shaky-came isn't as bad (though it didn't bother me in the theatre either). Clover and his little zerglings look great in HD. I'll probably watch it with the Special Investigation mode turned on later this week.
 
Nameless said:
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.
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I agree about the beginning. I had heard this was crap, and after 15 mins of the party scene I just about flipped it off. In retrospect, I don't think the movie would have been enjoyable without it. It really was a character driven film.

Predictable as hell and a cop-out would have been the main characters finding a secret weakness in the monster and helping to bring it down.

I had been told this was awful, but I came away from watching it quite entertained.
 
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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:lol

Anyway, I enjoyed the movie. I treated it as one of those Disneyworld theater thrill rides and came away satisfied. The movie wasn't about the Jeff Goldblums or the Will Smiths or the Tom Cruises or the Bruce Willises. It was about the poor saps that get killed off camera.

Hud NOOOOO!!!!
 
I loved the movie. I thought it was a great idea for a godzilla type movie. It was totally intense and had a fusion of seriousness and realism to it. The shaky cam was unbearable for the first 10-15 min though. After that it was all good.

I can understand this movie isn't for everyone, but if you like Godzilla and you want to see a unique and less goofy take on the concept, I'd say give this a rent definately.

KevinCow said:
To each his own, but I thought it was fucking awesome. I'm glad there wasn't some asshole in a lab coat spouting technobabble as an explanation for what the creature was. That would have ruined it. I liked how the viewer was just as clueless about what was going on as the characters.
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Absolutely. I agree totoally. Part of the awesome was that everyone had no idea wtf was going on. It was pure hysteria. That was really cool IMO.
 
Leatherface said:
I loved the movie. I thought it was a great idea for a godzilla type movie. It was totally intense and had a fusion of seriousness and realism to it. The shaky cam was unbearable for the first 10-15 min though. After that it was all good.

I can understand this movie isn't for everyone, but if you like Godzilla and you want to see a unique and less goofy take on the concept, I'd say give this a rent definately.
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I think a lot of people miss the Godzilla:Nuclear Weapons::Cloverfield:9/11 analogy. I don't know how you could though. It smacked me right in the face. They said they were out to make "America's Godzilla" from the start of the picture, and that's exactly what we got .
 
Gig said:
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.
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That is the point of a shaky cam movie. For you to live the experience as one of the characters. You don't know everything going on, you know what a person in a movie would know. That is what I liked about the movie. It was something different.
 
dskillzhtown said:
That is the point of a shaky cam movie. For you to live the experience as one of the characters. You don't know everything going on, you know what a person in a movie would know. That is what I liked about the movie. It was something different.
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Dude, when their in the that's woman's apartment building towards the end it's very dark and the camera is shaking all over the place, and I had no idea what was going on. This is a movie we are talking about here, being able to understand what your seeing on screen is pretty important.
 
I don't think its the best movie I saw this year or will be in my top 5 come December, but damn if it wasn't a really fun flick. I've yet to watch it at home but I think it would suffer if not paired with a good sound system. I think the most important part of the movie was how powerful the sound was. This movie needs good speakers. If people want to over-analyze the movie and find reasons not to like it then go ahead. Those complaining about there not being enough explanation are looking for the wrong things. Tell me the zerg rush in the subway was not intense.

If any of you want a more "realistic" monster movie that is really awesome then you should check out "The Host".
 
I thought it was a highly entertaining movie for what it was. I learned a long time ago not to take movies seriously and to just go along for the ride.

If you do the same with this movie and just watch things as they play out on screen, it's a pretty exhilirating experience.
 
Gig said:
Dude, when their in the that's woman's apartment building towards the end it's very dark and the camera is shaking all over the place, and I had no idea what was going on. This is a movie we are talking about here, being able to understand what your seeing on screen is pretty important.
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Not sure how you didn't know what was going on. It wasn't dark and it was pretty easy to figure out what was going on in that scene. If you don't like First-Person Perspective/Shky Cam movies, then you wouldn't like this movie. I thought it was a fun ride.
 
Bursh said:
If any of you want a more "realistic" monster movie that is really awesome then you should check out "The Host".
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I checked that movie out because a lot of people were saying Cloverfield sucked and The Host was a million times better. And, honestly, I thought it was fucking horrible. The first scene with the monster was kinda cool, but after that it just turned to crap.
 
I enjoyed it, once they got past those godawful 20 minutes of boring party drama.

And why is it so hard to make people in horror movies believable at all?
"Okay, guys, I'm a prick but lets go after my not-even-girlfriend because she needs to know I love her, even though she might already be dead." I realize there wouldn't have been a "story" so much without this device, but I would have preferred if it was just the tale of them trying to get out of the city as opposed to further in.

What's her face explodes and we're still all about the Not-Girlfriend. Sorry, but after seeing something like that, I'd take my chances sticking with the military dudes.

Speaking of which, when that one soldier let them back out of the store, he didn't give them any weapons. They didn't even look/ask for one. WTF?

But I loved that one scene in the subway. Shit scared me. :lol
 
KevinCow said:
I checked that movie out because a lot of people were saying Cloverfield sucked and The Host was a million times better. And, honestly, I thought it was fucking horrible. The first scene with the monster was kinda cool, but after that it just turned to crap.
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Sorry you feel that way, dude. When people talk about how Cloverfield was about the characters and not the monster I feel like the Host is way more like that. The monster isn't that interesting in the Host but the characters make it into a really good movie for me. They're certainly better than fucking HUD. Lizzy Caplan is hot though.
 
KevinCow said:
I checked that movie out because a lot of people were saying Cloverfield sucked and The Host was a million times better. And, honestly, I thought it was fucking horrible. The first scene with the monster was kinda cool, but after that it just turned to crap.
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The Host's attraction was the style more than anything. It was a movie that I had no idea what it was about when I bought it. I didn't know if it was supposed to be a comedy, a drama, or what. I ended up really liking the movie, though I thought some scenes could have been cut short or completely removed from the movie all together.
 
AtomskEater said:
I enjoyed it, once they got past those godawful 20 minutes of boring party drama.

And why is it so hard to make people in horror movies believable at all?
"Okay, guys, I'm a prick but lets go after my not-even-girlfriend because she needs to know I love her, even though she might already be dead." I realize there wouldn't have been a "story" so much without this device, but I would have preferred if it was just the tale of them trying to get out of the city as opposed to further in.

What's her face explodes and we're still all about the Not-Girlfriend. Sorry, but after seeing something like that, I'd take my chances sticking with the military dudes.

Speaking of which, when that one soldier let them back out of the store, he didn't give them any weapons. They didn't even look/ask for one. WTF?

But I loved that one scene in the subway. Shit scared me. :lol
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You're bitching that the characters weren't believable, but then you complain that a soldier didn't give away weapons to civilians? Wtf? :lol
 
I liked it. Saw it in theaters, picked it up on bluray. For the equipment nerds, 61" Samsung 1080p DLP + surround system. The movie looks and sounds fucking amazing.

When I first saw it I liked how different it was from the crap that was out at the time. Good perspective, while avoiding the whole "we never see fucking ANYthing" that happened during War of the Worlds. At least here you get some payoff.

A lot of people were like "why's this so fucking important the DOD has it?". I figure:

If you watch juuuuuuust before the end credits, when there's the last scene of Rob and Beth at Coney Island. When the camera's pointed out at the ocean, watch on the right side of the screen, you'll see something fall from the sky and impact the water. I figure the reason that was at all important to the military was to actually see when and where the thing came from.

Just my thoughts. :)
 
the movie is shit. I wouldn't hate it so bad if it wasn't for the fact that all the characters were so douchey. You know it's a bad sign when you start to cheer for the alien monsters, and against the characters themselves.
 
Blader5489 said:
You're bitching that the characters weren't believable, but then you complain that a soldier didn't give away weapons to civilians? Wtf? :lol
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There's damn monsters everywhere, and he just sends them out there with NOTHING. I'd at least ask for a machete or something on the grounds of there's parasitic lobster monsters out there that might try to eat us.
 
AtomskEater said:
There's damn monsters everywhere, and he just sends them out there with NOTHING. I'd at least ask for a machete or something on the grounds of there's parasitic lobster monsters out there that might try to eat us.
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First of all, the entire plot isn't plausible, so let's not nitpick a detail like that. Secondly, I took it that he was just trying to get them out of the way of their work and didn't care if they lived or died.
 
dskillzhtown said:
First of all, the entire plot isn't plausible, so let's not nitpick a detail like that. Secondly, I took it that he was just trying to get them out of the way of their work and didn't care if they lived or died.
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Most movie plots aren't plausible, but it's still fun to pick out character oddities. Don't you ever think "why did/didn't they do this...?"
Second point I can agree with. Fine, point dropped.
 
Only 2 people are for sure dead.

Hud got bitten in two, and Marlena 'sploded. Jason could have survived, Lily probably survived, and Rob and Beth might have survived.
 
Thank god I didn't pay to watch this movie. I rented Cloverfield through Blockbuster.com and I thought the movie was ok. The ending pissed me off. I didn't like it.
 
One of the best movies I've seen last year.

Can't believe people who want everything forcefed to them, like they need someone else to tell them constantly what's going on etc..

Can't think for yourself much?
 
bud said:
hud is a fucking retard

worst character of 2008
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This movie was fucking awesome. Very original, the sound was brilliant, the monsters looked amazing, the camera work and the way it was integrated was very well done....

And one of the best things about it was that you don't know what happened, just like the characters of the film. It leaves you to make your own mind up about it. All you haters would complain just as much if it was explained, I don't think it could have been done in a non-cheezy way.

Did anyone else notice that right at the end when Beth and Rob are on the ferris wheel something falls from the sky? Look again :)
 
AtomskEater said:
There's damn monsters everywhere, and he just sends them out there with NOTHING. I'd at least ask for a machete or something on the grounds of there's parasitic lobster monsters out there that might try to eat us.
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Even in the catastrophical scenario like that, I very much doubt Army would instruct their solders to give out weapons to civilians. Weapons in hands of scared running mob = no chance of anything good happening there.
 
AWESOME sound effects. I envy those with a kick ass home theathre system. The design of the monster was excellent in my opinion, I loved it. It was just an awesome film, I don't want a sequel,
the creatures dead anyway
and I agree a guy in a lab coat explaining what it was would ruin the whole appeal of it being an enigma.
 
Winterblink said:
I liked it. Saw it in theaters, picked it up on bluray. For the equipment nerds, 61" Samsung 1080p DLP + surround system. The movie looks and sounds fucking amazing.

When I first saw it I liked how different it was from the crap that was out at the time. Good perspective, while avoiding the whole "we never see fucking ANYthing" that happened during War of the Worlds. At least here you get some payoff.

A lot of people were like "why's this so fucking important the DOD has it?". I figure:

If you watch juuuuuuust before the end credits, when there's the last scene of Rob and Beth at Coney Island. When the camera's pointed out at the ocean, watch on the right side of the screen, you'll see something fall from the sky and impact the water. I figure the reason that was at all important to the military was to actually see when and where the thing came from.

Just my thoughts. :)
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Bzzt. Try again.
That's not Clover, it's a satellite
. Watch again with investigation mode on.
 
The movie should had ended in the helicopter crash. There was no reason to drag it like 5 more minutes after that
 
Funny that this thread popped up again. I actually bought Cloverfield on Wednesday, and saw it for the first time that night. I liked it...didn't love it, but there were some tense moments that paid off. My girlfriend absolutely loved it, and was on edge the entire time. After the movie was done, she wanted to know more about the monsters, history, etc. I also had a guest over and she was the unlucky one. She was motion sick through the entire movie. :(

I feel bad for the folks that got motion sick, I could see how that would absolutely ruin the entire experience.

Oh, and Marlena was the best character in the movie, easily. There is no debate on that.
 
Sorry, after seeing all the hate in this thread, I have to speak up. I thought it was going to be a Godzilla type movie disaster. But I loved it, yeah some of the characters are dicks, but so are most people, you feel really caught up in the situation as opposed to a cinematic event. I prefer to think of it as a "mockumentary" as opposed to a film and what it set out to do, I think it did quite well.

Also people moaning about not being spoon fed information about the thing, use your imagination.
 
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