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Cloverfield Discussion
I don't get to see many movies with a 4 month old in the house, but I managed to escape to see Cloverfield. Stop reading immediately if you don't want spoilers. It's Blair Witch's first person camera work, applied to a small (for the genre) budget monster movie. The monster is cool. The little monsters are cool. The acting is sometimes good, sometimes awkward. The action is often great and very intense. And it will undoubtedly be the most hyped movie of 2008 until the spring blockbusters arrive. I really enjoyed the movie, but I'm posting this so you guys can have a place to talk amongst yourselves about this movie. Groundbreaking movie-making or just hype-making? I'm not sure. I'm also not sure my skull can handle watching it again- that jerky camera action gave me a headache. (Also, there was a Star Trek teaser trailer attached, and I'm almost ashamed to admit that I want it so badly it made me hurt. Please Abrams, don't screw it up)
Why do people treat shit camera work as though it's something raw and edgy?
I witness the same thing happening in home construction. "Upscale" builders are charging more for cabinetry made out of old rotten pine and people love it. They also paint furniture three times (and charge three times as much) in order to make the furniture look "old fashioned". Then on the patios and sidewalks, they purposely do a bad job of screeding such that the walks have pockmarks in it. And the rich eat it up. It would be far cheaper just to get a cheap contractor to do a regular bad job of concrete and millwork, the result would be the same. But then they couldn't brag about how much money they paid for the crappy work.
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