Cloverfield

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

I don't think I am a stupid movie watcher for wanting to know more.

Monster attack! Blow stuff up! Find tape.

Perhaps it's better left for a sequel. It didn't belong in the beginning of the film, but I am not a stupid movie watcher for wanting to know more, or not liking the pure ambiguity of the movie.

I went into the movie hoping for a monster blowing up NY. I got more. It left me wanting more. Doesn't make me less intelligent then you or make my movie viewing skills less educated then any of you who liked it how it was. I really resent the implications that those who wanted more are stupid.

There's a difference between wanting to know more (or thinking that the movie didn't work on its own terms... but hell, EVERYONE wanted to figure out what was going on, everyone had questions at the end of the movie that they wanted to figure out, everyone wanted to know where the monster came from, etc.) and needing the man in the white lab coat to spell it out in detail in the movie itself to make the film a good movie.

I think people who needed the man in the white lab coat were completely missing the point of the film.

I didn't say "if you didn't like the movie you are a stupid person", because that would be a ridiculous thing for me to say. Sorry if that was the way you took it.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Chernabog

I didn't say "if you didn't like the movie you are a stupid person", because that would be a ridiculous thing for me to say. Sorry if that was the way you took it.

I read what you said as "if you needed/wanted to know more that was given to you, you were a stupid movie watcher for not appreciating the ambiguity of the movie".

I liked the movie. I won't buy it because I don't think I could watch it again. But I liked it. I want to know more. What happened to Lily's helicopter? What is the monster and what are the lice that came off of it? (they had one in containment). Where did it come from? How did the military obtain in possession of the tape (did the monster die? did it go somewhere else?)?. I didn't like the ambiguity of it. But that doesn't mean I didn't like the movie and it doesn't make me a less sophisticated movie viewer than you.

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

I liked the movie. I won't buy it because I don't think I could watch it again. But I liked it. I want to know more. What happened to Lily's helicopter? What is the monster and what are the lice that came off of it? (they had one in containment). Where did it come from? How did the military obtain in possession of the tape (did the monster die? did it go somewhere else?)?. I didn't like the ambiguity of it. But that doesn't mean I didn't like the movie and it doesn't make me a less sophisticated movie viewer than you.

I wanted to know all of those things too. Honestly BTD I think we're having a communication error here.

What I was initially responding to were the people who disliked/were angry at/recommended against seeing the movie for the sole reason that it didn't spell all of that out. Maybe the movie could have included a little more information, but it would have killed the movie to have an conventional explanation.