Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[innerSpaceman]

Cloverfield is brilliant.



On a hunch, i decided to listen to the commentary track first, which I only do if I expect a story of quite unusual movie making ... and I was not disappointed.

Getting the verisimilitude of the hand-held disaster film was tricky business, and fascinating. The film was shot in something like 36 nights. How they achieved all they did on the rush, on the cheap, is a great story of a most uniquely made studio movie.




Watch it twice, 'cause the commentary track is almost as interesting as the film. Which, by the way, is a surprisingly terrific monster movie.