Cloverfield

[Strangler Lewis]

Watched it last night on Itunes rental. Good, unremarkable monster movie. I'd say the six principals were marginally more likeable than those in Open Water 2.

Replays definitely show a splash at the end. But so what. Either the monster comes to us or we create it. Until I confirmed the splash, I had been fond of thinking that, like the underground river of slime in Ghostbusters 2, the monster was the product of all the negative energy produced by unhappy, obligatory parties and bad relationships. Oh well.

I assume that if one went frame by frame, there would be many other secrets.

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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

Watched it last night on Itunes rental. Good, unremarkable monster movie. I'd say the six principals were marginally more likeable than those in Open Water 2.

I thought it was quite a bit more then unremarkable. I was scared! And that doesn't happen much with me at the movies anymore. But I didn't like the camera work -- I thought it was annoying and harmed the film. Add a Kubrick-style steady cam to Cloverfield and you have one of the best horror movies of the last few years.

[MouseWife]

My son had me watch that recently. I told him I don't like movies like that, too real. Made to feel real, not a fantasy movie. I thought the story was so sad. I liked the characters and I was sad how it turned out.

I thanked him afterwards for making me feel creepy about going to any big city and worrying about a giant monster attacking it.