Cloverfield

[Sephex]

I enjoyed the movie a lot. I wouldn't say it's the film of the year or whatever, but I thought the movie did what it was supposed to do. The camera work didn't bother me since I don't get motion sickness. I found it frustrating at some points, but in a good way.

[spoilers]Yeah, at the end there you see something fall into the right side of the screen in the ocean. I swear to god I was the only person in my theater to notice this. Since it fell from the sky, I am going to assume whatever the hell the monster was came from space, and it can grow to it's state we saw in the movie in little less than a month. Scary.[/spoilers]

[Necronopticous]

(SPOILER)The first half of the film (after the attack started) was great; undoubtedly the best part. The best, most realistic, and intense scene was the bridge collapse. In my opinion the movie goes downhill a bit after they go into the subway tunnels because it becomes increasingly concerned with showing CG and effects action. At the end it just goes totally over the top.

Yeah, the monster looks cool, but do we really need it to look the cameraman in the eye for a few seconds and take a lunging bite at him? Give me a break.

Overall I had fun, I was really anticipating this but I think it was a bit soiled due to pressure on the director to really let us get good looks at the CG work, which I don't think should have priority over maintaining the edge-of-your-seat realism the film strives for.

Worth seeing for everything up to the tunnels, alone, though. The first few minutes of the attack are really intense.

[Fuzakeru]

I loved the movie so much!

[Ouch!]

(SPOILER)For the most part, I agree with Necronopticous; the beginning of the movie was fantastically well done. Until the subway, the movie does a very good job of maintaining some sense of plausibility (as long as one is willing to accept the improbability of a monster attacking New York as plausible). However, in the subway scene, it abandons the realm of reality in too many ways to count, and I'm not going to bother listing them all.

Normally characters surviving in such a manner doesn't bother me. It is, after all, a movie, and if the characters die left and right like they would in real life, it doesn't make for much of a good movie. However, everything else in the movie--the way its filmed in particular--attempt to create some sort of pseudo-realism, and the direction the movie takes after the collapse of the bridge completely undermine that.

I was severely disappointed.

[Seraphic]

For the static whisper that happens after the movie, supposedly it says its still alive, but it says it backwards, according to some people I know and wikipedia.
I work at a movie theater so I usually get to it right when its after the credits, but it doesnt sound like anything,lol.
Lots of static, maybe one word,but nothing to coherently say that the monster is still alive.

[*ETERNAL FANTASY*]

The trailer was just pretty boring to watch and JJ Abrams made some pretty bad movies anyway.

LOL the only other movie he made was mission impossible (the next one is star trek)! he didnt even make this one..the rest is all tv shows (lost, alias and Felicity)

[Vincent, Thunder God]

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

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.

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."

Heh.

[Ouch!]

The trailer was just pretty boring to watch and JJ Abrams made some pretty bad movies anyway.

LOL the only other movie he made was mission impossible (the next one is star trek)! he didnt even make this one..the rest is all tv shows (lost, alias and Felicity)

See number six.
Produced it. There's also a fair bit more there than just TV shows. =D

[Peegee]

(SPOILER)Viral marketing tie-ins indicate that the Japanese company Rob was going to work for dropped a satellite into the ocean and were looking for it.

Also Abrams indicated the monster comes from the ocean. Anyway, the working theory is that they pissed off the monster when they were either drilling or trying to get the satellite back

[McLovin']

I liked it.

Didn't get the bits about Rob and Beth at their vacation somwhere. Think I figured it now that it was supposed show the monster thing falling.

[Peegee]

I liked it. :)

Didn't get the bits about Rob and Beth at their vacation somwhere. Think I figured it now that it was supposed show the monster thing falling.

That, and it highlighted some backstory of what led to the huge drama at the party in the beginning.

[McLovin']

Cloverfield Ending Credits - Cloverfield Spoilers, Monster

Very nice. (the info is taken from the viral websites that have been around)

[Breine]

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

Yeah, my thoughts too. It does look quite good, though.

[Ouch!]

(SPOILER)Viral marketing tie-ins indicate that the Japanese company Rob was going to work for dropped a satellite into the ocean and were looking for it.

Also Abrams indicated the monster comes from the ocean. Anyway, the working theory is that they pissed off the monster when they were either drilling or trying to get the satellite back

(SPOILER)Apparently he's also confirmed that it was a satellite that fell into the ocean, and he's made mentions of a possible Cloverfield 2. He's been quoted as saying the monster that attacked was a lost and confused baby.

[Tifa's Real Lover(really]

i loved this movie so much, im already saying its movie of the year, i love everything about it, the first person camera, the great acting, huge monster destroying nyc, everything!!

my favorite scene was the tunnels and the helicopter bits

definitly getting the dvd when it hits shelves

what pissed me off was the ending, i mean it needed another 10-20 minutes or show, or atleast showed, rob and beth get killed, not the ferris wheel thing (that actually made me get sad btw, anyone else get the same feeling?)

i loved the movie, 5/5

i need to get the "Roar (Cloverfield overture)" score from the movie, anyone has it yet?