We finally saw it this weekend. I personally liked it. The moving camera didn't bother me or my husband at all. However, the character that runs the camera for the majority of the film has got to be the most annoying thing in the whole movie. I kept asking my husband when the monster was going to eat him.....
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We finally saw it this weekend. I personally liked it. The moving camera didn't bother me or my husband at all. However, the character that runs the camera for the majority of the film has got to be the most annoying thing in the whole movie. I kept asking my husband when the monster was going to eat him.....
saw CLOVERFIELD this weekend with the kids..they were scared, and that takes DOING when your kids are 16 and 24...some folks around us didn't dig the ending..nobody was sick and I wasn't SURE a monster as big as THAT could SNEAK UP ON YOU in Central park...but hey, as a GODZILLA -style flick it was a lot of fun...
Dropped out the top 10 and may not make $80MM domestically.
I think it had one of the worst first weekend-to-after descents in history. I guess it still made money. About $25MM to make it, and they spent $25-40MM marketing it.
I'd love to see this type of movie again, just ditch the handi-cam, or mix it up a little.
Meanwhile, Hannah Montana will surpass this in 3 weeks on about 1/7 the screens. Ouch.
Meanwhile, Hannah Montana will surpass this in 3 weeks on about 1/7 the screens. Ouch.
Apples and Oranges. Its like saying U2 sold more music then Beethoven therefore U2 has better music.
Seems people love or hate this movie and people really like crapping on this. I think its great that I get to watch something with a little imagination and tension. As far as being a monster/horror movie buff, what else is there? I like zombie movies just as much as the next corpse, but we've been inundated. Likewise with the Japanese horror movie remakes. The Saw series have been great, but when is the last time there was a monster movie with a budget of more then $1,000,000? Godzilla about 10 years ago?
Seems people love or hate this movie and people really like crapping on this.
We liked the movie, or should I say the conceit and the fx. We didn't like the execution. As was said by others, once you "get" the idea, direction could use the hand held (or as a producer friend calls it, "vomit-cam", judiciously to carry the idea without alienating the audience...which apparently it did.
One other major point of contention. In the Blair Witch Project, the fact that the story came up with little fanfair and dealt with an obscure little legend in western Maryland gave it a shred of believability, hence additional suspense, not unlike "Ghost Hunters". OTOH, it would be kind of hard to not have known about a gigantic creature trashing the Big Apple...
i saw the movie last night. there were only 5 of us there. looked like two around 20's and two around 11's, and me. i liked the movie, but in a lot of ways it was like watching war of the worlds, only with a monster instead of an alien, and a hand held camera. i liked the movie, and the movement of the camera didn't bother me. my 11 year old grandson and his friend got out of their movie 20 min. early so joined me. they really enjoyed what little they saw. i do agree with a comment above-how could a creature that big creep up on you, and when you were aware of its presence, it was none to quiet.
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? coulrophobia ?
don't laugh, this fear is contagious
I liked "Blair Witch" way more than Cloverfield. Made me sleep with the lights on for a while!
And the fact that Hannah Montana passes for entertainment and talent makes me cry. She will, however, soon go the way of other lipsynching cute girls as her target audience outgrows her. Look what happened to Brittney, although I don't wish that insanity upon anyone. Parents who put their kids in the spotlight too young really need to consider the consequences. Brittney couldn't handle the fact that her "music" was no longer charting, tried to reinvent herself and became the burned-out mess we have now. Those poor little boys.
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