Cloverfield (2008)

Posted : 3 months ago at Aug 16 18:49

What's wrong with everybody?
This movie was crap! I'm glad I didn't watch it on the theatre otherwise I'd have lost money in addition to time.

Pure crap.

Rating : 2/10

Posted : 11 months ago at Dec 24 10:29

"Oh My God, you know Superman too? Geez I'm feeling a connection... have you heard of Garfield?". In New York a story that is centered on a Hand Held Video camera/DV type filming. A Group of people we see their lives until a mysterious creature attacks the city throwing everything into chaos... Lizzy Caplan: Marlena Diamond Well I was opened minded about this and in actual fact, it blew me away! Artistic license why a monstrous creature would specifically tear off the head of the Statue Of Liberty? yet if you go with the flow it's pretty damn realistic. The realism is it's strong point. The whole film due to it's different style is like going from the shallow end of a swimming pool, thus representing your normal everyday films then plunging into the deep end with this un...Read more

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 11 months, 2 weeks ago at Dec 11 9:47

A very good job was done (at least to my knowlege for the city of New York) at covering up exactly what this movie was about. Nobody knew what it was about; yet most the people I talked to wanted to see it. Something, could have been biological and/or supernatural, was destroying New York City in glimpses of clips in the commercials and advertisements. I remeber goign on a double date to see this on opening night, with a packed theatre and no choice but to sit in the second row of a stadium mind you. I would have sat there anyways, because that's the type of movie I knew this was going to be. Starting the movie was a going away party for Rob Hawkins, a buddy Hud filming on a video camera. Just enough drama and usual party antics to keep your attention on it then BAM! Just like that, the gr...Read more

Rating : 7/10

Posted : 11 months, 2 weeks ago at Dec 5 16:49

i have to admit that I have never really seen the Blare Witch Project, and this is the first movie I have seen shot with this particular point of view and style. I really like it, it was a darn good movie, with a decent plot, relatable characters, and some awesome monster action to back it all up. I can't say how many times I was bet that this would turn out to be a new Godzilla movie, but it wasn't. In the end, I can see this becoming a classic monster/horror film, fit for any shelf that appreciates a unique experience in a movie.

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 4 months ago at Jul 10 6:41

I was really young when I first watched Godzilla and fell in love with the monster and when I heard this was suppose to be the American version of a Godzilla monster so I got excited. Then I heard it was going to be filmed with just hand held camera ala Blair Witch and that excitement faded. But after seeing the movie the camera wasn't the issue, it was the monster. The movie really starts with a farewell party in a New York apartment when a blackout hit and building shakes the partygoers head outside and notice a giant explosion on the other side of the city. As debris falls near them, including the head of the Statue of Liberty, the camera man captures a glimpse of a giant monster. The rest of the movie follows the 6 people trying to both find out what's going on and to escape the ci...Read more

Rating : 6/10

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at May 2 17:03

Cloverfield. New name for Central Park after some weird disaster happens. Not well explained in the film. That said, the actors were lame. Lamer than I've ever seen in any movies - and I've watched a whole lot of them. They were lousier than B-movie actors, if that is possible. The direction... was pathetic. Lousy. The camera was going all over the place, making it impossible to understand or figure out anything. When you do get to see the "beast", you can tell it's very (emphasis here!) badly done. Not credible. The dialog between the characters is unbelievably childish. No, let me correct this. Not even children would speak that way. I felt as if the script had been written by morons. To avoid at all cost. (Just because there was a huge promotional campaign about the mo...Read more

Rating : 1/10

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago at Mar 5 16:59

When I first heard of this movie I was really intrigued. The smart marketing campaign really got to me and I just had to see it. I caught it in a theater, which is really the only option to give the fantastic audio justice. A lot of people complain about the shaky camera style used in this movie, but I just love it. Evern since Firefly, Battlestar Galactica and especially Friday Night Lights, I have been in love with more realistic handheld camera work. I'm almost disappointed every time I see a shot from a crane or a standard stable shot. How we follow a group of regular people trying to escape this horror is just refreshing and fantastic. The slow buildup in the beginning is also great. The ending was quite sudden, and I'm ok with that. The only real problems I had with the movie was tha...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago at Feb 13 10:09

Filmed from the point of view of a handheld camera, this film charts the progress of a group of friends trying to make their way across Manhatten to save Beth, the girlfriend of one of the group, in the wake of an attack. I don't really like these 'camcorder-style' films, they generally just annoy me and tend to look amateurish. I hated the Blair Witch Project, for example. But I was willing to give Cloverfield a go - and boy was I pleased I did. For once the style worked. Seeing the film through the lens of one man's camcorder gave it a sense of claustrophobia and of having no idea what was going on that really upped the fear level. The scene in the underground tunnels was particularly scary. Seeing only glimpses of the monster was another masterstroke, spoiled only by seeing t...Read more

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago at Feb 3 23:30

This is certainly a challenging movie to review for several reasons. First of all, it’s going to contain spoilers though I don’t think they should be considered “spoilers”. They’re more like logical steps in the story, but people may not be aware of a logical step in a story and be put off by me simply mentioning said events, so for the record: spoilers will be made. Secondly, it has an extreme amount of hype that comes with it, and a lot of times that causes some very decided, and passionate opinions about trivial things. It’s hard to look at these kinds of movies without falling into the nonsense, but I feel like I’ve done a pretty good job of doing this. I will say that I went into it thinking it was going to be horrible. From start to finish, the idea seemed very ridiculo...Read more

Rating : 7/10

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago at Jan 30 9:53

I barely can find anything positive in this film and I am trying hard - VERY HARD, in fact. The choice of home video style shooting was rather annoying than interesting - it was sooo overdone, 'artificially home video' with plenty of non-home-video errors that it certainly didn't strike me as authentic, never, not even for a single second,... and the introduction at the beginning - prior to catastrophic events - was not only VERY LONG but also BOOOOOORING! Yes, I understand these are average, clueless American hipsters, fine let's get over it in 5 moinutes instead of 15-20 - ahh, you're right, that would make the movie just 1 hour long... ummm wait, what's wrong with that if there's nothing more in it...? On the other hand I think animation and visual effects were actually fine (I work...Read more

Rating : 1/10

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago at Jan 29 18:05

Cloverfield was an exceptional movie. The acting was well done, the graphics were amazing, and the overall tone to the movie scared the h*** out of everyone in the theater. Those that didn't like the movie obviously didn't understand it at all. Those left with questions just had to do a quick 5 minute search on the movie to find the answers. It was enjoyable, and quite possibly will be one of the best horror/thrillers of 2008.

Rating : 9/10