Cloverfield

[Krug]

Well don't believe the hype. I found it disappointing, with characters thinner than cardboard. The attraction of the film seems to be finding out what the monster actually is, so it all became a matter of waiting for the money shot. It's all framed within a highly unpersuasive love story, and it reminds one of what a masterpiece the Korean monster flick The Host is.

 

[Blackrat]

But do they actually show the monster? I don't want any spoilers as to what it is, but I want to know if they really show it.

 

[Crothian]

From want a reviewer told me the monster is fully seen and its not like you have to wait to the very end to fully see it.

 

[Arnwyn]

Well don't believe the hype.

Thankfully, I haven't. It looks perfectly awful.

So, is the whole thing really in shaky-cam?

 

[Darkwolf71]

I'll be seeing it tonight.

 

[Darkwolf71]

So, is the whole thing really in shaky-cam?

Since the whole premise is that it was shot on someone's handheld, I would be suprised if it was not.

 

[Blackrat]

From want a reviewer told me the monster is fully seen and its not like you have to wait to the very end to fully see it.

Well in that case I'll actually consider seeing it. I really don't have high hopes but that was something I was waiting to hear before deciding.

 

[Krug]

From want a reviewer told me the monster is fully seen and its not like you have to wait to the very end to fully see it.

Yeah they do. But they could have shown a bunch of cardboard boxes pinned together with scotchtape and it would have made as much sense.

 

[Krug]

Thankfully, I haven't. It looks perfectly awful.

So, is the whole thing really in shaky-cam?

Mostly. I had to look away from the screen for a bit because it was too much. The setup for the whole romance angle I found quite intolerable, before things got moving.

 

[mmu1]

You really thought The Host was a masterpiece? I went to see it because of the amazing reviews it was getting everywhere, and I thought it was really bad - not just a lot worse than I expected given the critical reaction, but simply wretched.

It wasn't scary at all, it was almost never funny, the pacing and timing were way off (the attempts at humor repeatedly made what little tension there was fizzle out - even if they had been funny, they'd still have been completely out of place) and the (God help us) satire was actually offensive - not because of its target (though admittedly, I don't find mindless anti-Americanism particularly entertaining) but because it was about as subtle and intelligent as a two-by-four with a nail in it, and I felt the movie was insulting my intelligence.

And yes, I did see the subtitled version, not the dubbed one.

Anyway, I guess I'll wait for some more reviews of Cloverfield, since our tastes in movies clearly couldn't be less of a match.