Comments on: Cloverfield rant

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:05:25 +0000

why does every monster/disaster movie always have a shot of the statue of liberty trashed? its the ultimate cliche

By: ricky

ricky — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:55:47 +0000

To your #2 point….it never had to be this jerky as a way to emphasize the that the point was to show a “monster invasion seen from the perspective of those people who are affected by the catastrophe”. Blair Witch did that, and you’d think Reeves would’ve anticipated that. Remember, this was produced by JJ but directed by Reeves. This doesn’t qualify it as a JJ Abrams piece in my opinion.

By: JB

JB — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:16:07 +0000

I’m going to buck the trend and say I liked it. I think they accomplished exactly what they set out to do. The problem is that most people don’t like what that is and don’t know how to articulate it.

By: mahes

mahes — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:49:13 +0000

I was in a stadium theatre in the second row of the second section (the section that has the guad rail) I experienced a moment of disorientation during the first few seconds, but after that everything was fine. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. I’m not much of a JJ Abrams fan (I don’t like “Lost” much and I haven’t seen anything else he’s done), but I think he did a really good job. I agreed with his assessment that America needed its own monster and that’s initially what drew my attention to it. I’m not trying to be insensitive, but every movie involving a city being destroyed in this decade is not necessarily a reference to 9-11. It was a horrible event, but applying it to every single disaster isn’t healthy. Sure if there was a plane being thrown into a building, I probably would’ve seen a similarity (and probably bashed the movie for attempting to evoke emotion using such an inappropriate reference), but all I saw was monster destruction from the point of view of the little people you’d pick up and eat in Rampage.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:02:14 +0000

I thought the movie was a great idea, but when you have to look away from the movie screen for 10 minutes because the camera is so shaky and is causing you to get dizzy (I was sitting on the back row), that tends to produce bad feelings about the movie.
People said that if you play video games you should do fine with the shaking, but in video games I get to control the shake.

By: Brian Dusablon

Brian Dusablon — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:03:14 +0000

I too was disappointed. Not so much that I would say don't go see it, but for all the hype, it was a little underwhelming. Also, as I mention in my review, Hud really gets annoying.

By: Mayhem

Mayhem — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:52:35 +0000

Just wait until you see the movie Mel. You’ll see what everyone is talking about. I was pretty disappointed.

By: Mr Butterscotch

Mr Butterscotch — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:40:04 +0000

I must confess that I was expecting Godzilla. Mind you, I never really enjoy monster movies anyway…