I saw the movie Cloverfield last night (opening night) with a few of my friends at their suggestion. I walked into the theatre knowing almost nothing about the actual story, just that the "Lost guy" (Mister 'figure it out for yourself', J.J. Abrams) had produced it, so I knew generally that whatever it was, it was going to be fairly outlandish. Once the motion sickness wore off and we had some dicussion about it, we came to the conclusion that this is actually a very good movie!
I had no idea that the whole movie was going to be the 'camcorder tape' style, and after about 10 minutes I was like, Oh, no... but I gave it a chance, and was entertained. I don't think people who say this movie was acted poorly aren't putting themselves into it enough. Think about it: if Armageddon started falling all around you, do you know how you would react? No one knows and that's an aspect of this film I like a lot. People with their camera phone's; some running just like in Godzilla; some paralized in shock or fear; miliary flyin' in everywhere. That's exactly what would go down if that happened in NYC.
A good movie by no traditional standard whatsoever, but it was an extremely intriguing concept executed brilliantly. Excellent special effects, , keeping the audience guessing, some humor breaking it up, lulls where you stop and feel the true terror, characters dying off one-by one; all the perfect ingredients for a great horror movie. Why not?!?!?!
So all you haters that went into the movie with great expectations: Sorry, but you did it to yourself. Try and look at this movie, or anything created by Bad Robot or J.J. Abrams, for what it is... Also, for what it's worth, Lizzy Caplan (Mean Girls) gets my vote for "Best exploding abdomen after beating an alien creature to death while it was attacking a guy who had a camcorder that somehow magically survived the event and never ran out of battery" award when the MTV Movie Awards rolls around.
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I saw the movie Cloverfield last night (opening night) with a few of my friends at their suggestion. I walked into the theatre knowing almost nothing about the actual story, just that the "Lost guy" (Mister 'figure it out for yourself', J.J. Abrams) had produced it, so I knew generally that whatever it was, it was going to be fairly outlandish. Once the motion sickness wore off and we had some dicussion about it, we came to the conclusion that this is actually a very good movie!
I had no idea that the whole movie was going to be the 'camcorder tape' style, and after about 10 minutes I was like, Oh, no... but I gave it a chance, and was entertained. I don't think people who say this movie was acted poorly aren't putting themselves into it enough. Think about it: if Armageddon started falling all around you, do you know how you would react? No one knows and that's an aspect of this film I like a lot. People with their camera phone's; some running just like in Godzilla; some paralized in shock or fear; miliary flyin' in everywhere. That's exactly what would go down if that happened in NYC.
A good movie by no traditional standard whatsoever, but it was an extremely intriguing concept executed brilliantly. Excellent special effects, , keeping the audience guessing, some humor breaking it up, lulls where you stop and feel the true terror, characters dying off one-by one; all the perfect ingredients for a great horror movie. Why not?!?!?!
So all you haters that went into the movie with great expectations: Sorry, but you did it to yourself. Try and look at this movie, or anything created by Bad Robot or J.J. Abrams, for what it is... Also, for what it's worth, Lizzy Caplan (Mean Girls) gets my vote for "Best exploding abdomen after beating an alien creature to death while it was attacking a guy who had a camcorder that somehow magically survived the event and never ran out of battery" award when the MTV Movie Awards rolls around.