Cloverfield (2008)

January 26th, 2008

John and I just got back from seeing this movie. My eyes and head hurt. Don’t worry, I’m not going to give anything away There was only one thing that bothered me about the movie. I’ll save that for the end.

Camera shaking (that’s shaking with a capitol “holy crap will the camera ever stand still?!”) aside, I really enjoyed the flow of this movie. It delivers just what you expect it to, and no more. I was, of course, hoping that X or Y would be addressed, but I never expected that they would be.

T.J. Miller is in the movie… and I am not a fan of his. In fact, when I first saw him in this movie my initial thought was, “I hope he dies first.” [shrug] what can I say… I just find the man very annoying.

After seeing this movie I had an interesting idea: Release two movies at the same time! This one, which is at the micro level, following this small group of people who run around with their video camera… then another movie, filmed at the same time, at the macro level.. a traditional Hollywood monster movie. I think it would be kind of cool.. and in the traditional movie you see the people from the other one where the stories intersect… like at the mini military base, where that thing happened to that girl with the bloody tears… yeah.. you know what I’m talking about

Anyway…. over all I liked it. Except for that one thing….
Here’s that one thing.. it’s not really a spoiler, but I’m warning you just the same.

I really would love to have the camcorder that they had in the movie. I mean, seriously.. using night vision and the built in light, and the battery STILL managed to last over 7 hours? Shessh.

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