Cloverfield

[Elf Witch]

I was really hoping that this was not going to be filmed completely in shaky cam. I love monster movies even the Godzilla movie that everyone else panned that took place in New York.

But I can't take shaky cam it makes me sick to my stomach and gives me a raging headache.I might try and rent it when it comes out on DVD and watch it on my bedroon small screen TV. I have found that the smaller screen sometimes helps it is how I finally got through BWP. But even then I had to keep stopping and taking a break from it.

 

[JorrJorr]

There is... something at the end of the credits, a short bit of staticy voice-over but the sound of people talking in the theater was too loud for me to make it out.

Spoiler area for those that don't want to know
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Spoiler

It's a faint cry for help.

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[Jubilee]

But I can't take shaky cam it makes me sick to my stomach and gives me a raging headache.I might try and rent it when it comes out on DVD and watch it on my bedroon small screen TV. I have found that the smaller screen sometimes helps it is how I finally got through BWP. But even then I had to keep stopping and taking a break from it.

Ooh, good idea. Maybe i will see this eventually, too, then..

/ali

 

[Darkwolf71]

Great movie.

The shaky-cam was very bad in spots. That was frustrating. But for the most part it works really well. This film manages to quickly draw you into the action. Almost as if you are Hud.

Note that this is not Blair Witch. It is a big budget film. BW didn't show any ghosties for dramatic and expense purposes. This film does. You see the monster several times. More as the film goes along. Including one close-up that is very impressive. I wish you saw the 'parasites' a bit more, but they are in several scenes as well.

The acting is actually great. I mean if you think about it, they aren't supposed to feel like actors. They are just regular people who happen to have a camera. Regular people often feel awkward around cameras. Nobody does this better than Hud. You quickly 'get' that he's the socially awkward type. His interactions with Marlayna(sp?) and other people at the party show this very well. The rest of the main characters 'feel' like people I know. They aren't larger than life action heroes with snappy one-liners. They're scared and they want to get out of the city.

Again, great movie. I can't wait to own this on disc so I can pause it and get a better look at the beasties.

 

[Captain Tagon]

Hud's inclusion as the everyman type of character was awesome. And his funny lines broke up the tension of the film that could have made it harder to watch.

"What's that?"
"Something terrible."

and later

"And what was that?"
"Something else. Also terrible."

 

[Grog]

So the movie is fun early Summer fair _if_ you can handle the the shakiness.

January is early summer?

 

[JorrJorr]

January is early summer?

Sure . I meant it as that it's the type of movie I would of expected for a summer type release.

 

[Tetsubo]

January is early summer?

For sufficiently broad definitions of the word "summer"...

 

[Grog]

Sure . I meant it as that it's the type of movie I would of expected for a summer type release.

Ah, I see. It didn't seem that way to me, but that's a matter of opinion I guess.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Sure . I meant it as that it's the type of movie I would of expected for a summer type release.

Heh, I read it that way - early "summer movie" as opposed to "early summer" movie.