Cloverfield

With the likes of Atonement and There Will Be Blood still in theaters, I think I'm gonna just nab this one on DVD.

Umm this movie is probably bad in tickets. The trailer was horrible and you couldn't tell what the movie is about a terrorist attack, a bombing or something. The trailer was just pretty boring to watch and JJ Abrams made some pretty bad movies anyway.

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Originally Posted by Ashley Schovitz

Umm this movie is probably bad in tickets. The trailer was horrible and you couldn't tell what the movie is about a terrorist attack, a bombing or something. The trailer was just pretty boring to watch and JJ Abrams made some pretty bad movies anyway.

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Terrorists use giant monsters now?

That's it. We're smurfed.

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Originally Posted by Ashley Schovitz

Umm this movie is probably bad in tickets. The trailer was horrible and you couldn't tell what the movie is about a terrorist attack, a bombing or something. The trailer was just pretty boring to watch and JJ Abrams made some pretty bad movies anyway.

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You're so far off the main plot, that it's not funny.

I hear bad things about this movie, I don't think I would want to see it after reading reviews online. Haha... (like how it ends).

I plan to see it, but I have a feeling it's going to be a retarded flurry of special effects and eyecandy rather than a good movie.

I saw the trailer when I went to see another movie a few weeks ago. It looks interesting, but I doubt I will go and see it unless a friend asks me to.

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Originally Posted by Ashley Schovitz

The trailer was horrible and you couldn't tell what the movie is about a terrorist attack, a bombing or something. The trailer was just pretty boring to watch and JJ Abrams made some pretty bad movies anyway.

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During the first explosion you heard Cloverfield (the name I'm not officially dubbing the monster as every giant monster needs a name) did it's creepy roar. I thought by then it was obvious it was a monster movie. >.>

And I thought the trailer was really good and effective. Just a bunch of normal people partying, then suddenly an earthquake, look outside and see an explosion and then monster. Pretty well sums up the movie.

just got back from the movie. It was alright... pretty much a better Blair Witch, with a giant monster instead

THE JACKEL

Apparently,a t the end of the credits, there is a whisper or the like whichs ays the monster survived... xD

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Originally Posted by The Shoeless Hobo

Apparently,a t the end of the credits, there is a whisper or the like whichs ays the monster survived... xD

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Yeah I dunno why they couldn't put that IN the movie as that's what I wanted to know. Seriously all that putting extra stuff after the movie is crap anymore, people just do it cause the cools kids do.

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Originally Posted by Bahamut2000X

Saw it last night. I thought over all it was a pretty decent movie. I mean you go in wanting to see a monster rip apart New York City, and that's what you ultimately get. I thought the acting was great too, some of the best actors I've seen in ages, they didn't go melodramatic and hokey every 3 seconds.

The only problems I really had with the movie was that the monster never took damage despite the whole movie the military pounding away at it with the highest level of weaponry they have. The monster also seemed to get around very fast and unnoticeably, you'd think that a monster the size of a sky scraper would be a little bit easier to spot sometimes in wide open areas? And I disliked how as the movie went on it kind of got a little more and more phoney, I mean a lot of the times early on it seemed quite realistic in "Here's a monster ripping through the city" and how everyone would react, but as the movie got closer to the end it just seemed to get more and more fake at so many parts which kind of bugs me since this isn't supposed to be a 'movie' but more of a documentation of real events, just loses points in my eye when the 'real events' end up looking too much like a movie or FPS (I swear this movie has FPS material written all over it). But ultimately I could ignore all that if not just for *ending spoilers* (SPOILER)If they effing told us at the end if we won or not. It's annoying not knowing if they killed the monster or if their last resort did squat and it survived. I can stand not knowing what the monster is and where it came from so long as if I at least know how everything ended.

All in all I'd say it is worth seeing, just go in with low expectations like I did and you shouldn't be terribly disappointed.

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I'm not a big movies fan and never liked monster movies, but whatever chance of me wanting to see the movie what was pretty much eradicated by this review. Thanks (and I don't mean that sarcastically). It was a very good review which, without giving too much away, did exactly what it was supposed to do: help me decide whether or not I wanted to experience it. Ultimately I find that so rare among reviews these days - they often spoil the experience, and, while detailing the plot way too much, mostly lose the chance to actually say something solid and final as to whether it was good or not. You could be a good movie reviewer for a magazine or something, better than most out there right now IMHO.

I wanna watch this just so I can boo at the ending :bigsmile:

Was a very good idea for a film. I had motion sickness but was still glued to my seat.

(SPOILER)
Notice at the end something falls into the ocean when they pan the coast (on the right hand side)

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Originally Posted by Vincent, Thunder God

You could be a good movie reviewer for a magazine or something, better than most out there right now IMHO.

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Yeah but I didn't make 90 parallels to Cloverfield = 9/11 cause ya know a giant monster is about the same as a terrorist, so I doubt they'd publish me. :cry:

EDIT: Though I thought I was talking too long in my mini review. XD, maybe I should just start posting random reviews for the front site. I like that idea of going professional reviewer though. If not just for the novelty of getting asked "So what do you do for a living?" "Oh I'm a professional movie reviewer." :D