Cloverfield

So many of may or may not know J.J. Abrahms released a new monster flick set in the eyes of twentysomethings and their video camera. Set as a documentary to chronicle the destruction of New York City the night thier friend is moving to Japan to take on a VP job at Slusho. Anyway, an hour later boom Monster come out of nowhere and proceeds to attack the city, and while doing so drops parasites that are the size of small dogs, which proceed to attack the humans and the military.

Personally, Having seen the very first preview of this movie in Transformers, I was immediately drawn to the movie, not knowing whether it was a new Godzilla, a Voltron, or even something else entirely, I just knew i had to see it.

Well, Abrahms delivered, in what he calls Godzilla meet Blair Witch done right, his monster movie proves to have a new iconic monster on its way.

Well, any way, as I saw it yesterday night, many people where gasping and jumping and flat out crying, the movie made you feel for the characters, it showed exactly how they were feeling and it made them *the moviegoers* just feel for them. But anyway, after a black out, I heard someone proceed to clap, which was a good sign, but the final shot came on a 30 second clip that made the audience feel one more time for the tragedy that had happened. And when the credits came on, i revled in the fact I saw something so brilliant, so innovated, but the audienece had other feelings... The were in shock and disgust to how the movie ended. Honestly I dont blamed them, but you have to focus on the plot underneath rather than how it showcased it.

The camera is the POV from the camera man, there is no back angles to see what was on the other side. Just looking at it as if you were, which made you feel like you were there.

The only down side is that there is no soundtrack to it, only the songs you hear during the going away party. But there is a Cloverfield Overture titled Roar! that plays as the credits start to roll.

And also make sure to pay extra attention in the very last shot, to see the monster its kind of difficult. And Stay after the credits to view something thats just spinechilling.

Well thats my two cents

And by the way

You either loved it or hated it, with this movie, there is no middle ground.

Dude, thanks for the review! I've been interested in this movie many months ago since I saw the teaser on apple.com/trailers. Unfortunately, I have no been able to see it, I was this close from seeing it today! I will be seeing it soon and I do have high expectations, but with me, having high expectations makes a bad movie good, not a good movie bad. So if it is decent like you say it was, I am sure I will enjoy it. I love movies about human survival and whatnot. I will post here once again after I see it to tell you how I enjoyed it.

I just saw it tonight, and had a similar experience with the crowd at the end. I liked it, but I wanted something more revealing at the end. Guess we can't get everything we want :-/

I watched this, to be honest I think it was a huge let-down, but I didn't enjoy the blair witch project that much either, maybe it's just the camera work when working with hand-helf camcorders, but I just thought it was a let down. I'd rather much just watch the film Godzilla.

Personally i Loved the movie... I watched it by myself and i turned up the sound blacked out the room and i got the full effect. I loved it.
Though the camera movements were nauseating i still felt like the presentation was amazing.
Also the propaganda they used, the whole "You have no idea what this movie is going to be about except death" was great, it made me so curious i did all the research i could before watching it. The movie was great and as for the rest of the world... meh, they just got an eye full

If you liked Cloverfield you should also check out Quarantine. It's similar since it was filmed using a video camera. I liked Cloverfield but I LOVED Quarantine!

I watched and luved it! The whole thing felt liek it was real... Nice review!

I liked the concept of the movie. Really... the idea was awesome. I love monster movies, I love chaos and killing watching the characters drop down dead one by one. Hell I'm even a fan of movies that get a less then happy ending, which this one did.

I hated this movie though... mostly because really... I couldn't stand and didn't give a rats ass about the characters. I didn't want to see whiny bitch #1 go and search for whiny bitch #2... really... and the party... ugg... took forever... and really we got the whole conversion with the first person they interviewed, why we had to hear the same god damn 'she slept with him!!!!!!!!!OMFG 1111!!!!111!!' story from EVERY SINGLE GUEST I don't know. Why they had nothing more interesting to talk about, why they never were diverted to another topic that was slightly related and go on about that until a another topic slightly related to the next one came up like you would in a normal party conversation I DON'T KNOW! Apparently, two people that knew each other, and happened to sleep with each other, was way more interesting then everything else that could have possibly ever happened in their lives... even though really... IT HAPPENS ALL THE F*ING TIME! What's more, all of this was IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO RECORD and send to the poor sucker that would be taking the video with him to Japan. F*** I would kill my friends if they gave me a tape of "memories to take with me" if it was filled with that crap. That's worse then giving the camera to my uncle, who thinks it's the funniest thing in the world to film everything spinning with his commentaries of "OH NO!!! The world is spinning! We're all going to get dizzy!!"

But yeah... when I heard about it, I really liked the idea and thought that I would like it, but I didn't... and the group that I went to see it well, half of them walked out in the middle of it... my boyfriend got camera sickness, a few more fell asleep, and over all everyone hated it, and it wasn't the ending, it was the entire thing. So yeah... not only did I not enjoy the movie, but the entire going to a movie experience was really... the WORST I have ever been through. I've NEVER had people walk out in the middle of a movie I have taken them too. I've even had old lady Christians sit through Austen Powers, sure they complained and were embarrassed that they saw the movie, but they didn't walk out!

Saw it for not so many weeks ago, i have to say, i was surprised. I really like the movie, most because it handheld camera all the way through, it's really gives that chillin feeling down the spine, because it could have happened in one the major cities around the world..

5/6 from me..