Rate Cloverfield

[Acid_crash]

I voted 8, I thought it was well done... and did any of you see the falling object in the last scene when they were viewing the water with the camera before the last close up of them before the credits rolled? That is what bumped it up from a 7 for me.

 

[Felon]

I used to put just 1-10, until someone requested for a 0. Must have been a really bad movie that started it.

The way I figure it, if you're going to cave in to a request to put a zero on the scale for those irrational, dysfunctional persons who have to express their negative opinion in such over-the-top terms, might as well put an eleven for those who take on the mantle of fawning zealot fanboy.

I thought the characters were a little too old to be considered "frat boys" by about a decade, and the ladies they were into certainly weren't "girls-gone-wild" sorority sisters. Yuppies, sure, but not frat boys.

I found the movie sufficiently entertaining to rate a seven. It lived up to expectations, but didn't really exceed them. The monster reminded me of nothing so much as a

Spoiler

thawed-out butterball turkey crawling around on its wings like a spider

. I watched it at the the theater outside Universal Studios in Orlando with an overwhelmingly teenage crowed. They hated the ending, and there were many cries of "I want my money back", and the friend who went with me missed most of it due to getting motion sickness from the constant jerky motion of the handheld camera. Suffice to say, he did not score it as generously.

 

[Felon]

I voted 8, I thought it was well done... and did any of you see the falling object in the last scene when they were viewing the water with the camera before the last close up of them before the credits rolled? That is what bumped it up from a 7 for me.

Must've missed that. Care to spoiler it?

 

[Krug]

The way I figure it, if you're going to cave in to a request to put a zero on the scale for those irrational, dysfunctional persons who have to express their negative opinion in such over-the-top terms, might as well put an eleven for those who take on the mantle of fawning zealot fanboy.

Films score 0 all the time. Go see that last Lindsay Lohan movie and you'll have an idea of the depths that movies can plunge to.

 

[Felon]

Films score 0 all the time. Go see that last Lindsay Lohan movie and you'll have an idea of the depths that movies can plunge to.

I've sen half stars, but never zero stars. Not from a professional reviewer. If a reviewer can't stay within the framework of a rating system, then you might as well just go to the binary thumbs-up/thumbs-down system--which has a merit all its own, since in the final analysis a movie's either worth recommending or it's not.

Notie that as of writing this post, there are three ratings of 0 and no ratings of 1. Suffice to say, those three rabid Cloverfield haters would have voted -100 if it were an available option. They could just as soon vote a 1.

 

[Krug]

I've sen half stars, but never zero stars. Not from a professional reviewer. If a reviewer can't stay within the framework of a rating system, then you might as well just go to the binary thumbs-up/thumbs-down system--which has a merit all its own, since in the final analysis a movie's either worth recommending or it's not.

Here: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051222/REVIEWS/51220004/1023

and Here:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/50725001

and Here:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070823/REVIEWS/70823001

That's just the tip of the iceberg. Google Ebert Zero Stars and you should turn up about a few pagefuls.


And I liked the first movie Ebert's talking about.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

But assuming he meant the other main char, Rob, that is way off base. I don't think a VP of a company who is moving to Japan for his job is anywhere near what a 'frat boy' is...

ENWorld needs to get over the collective terror/hatred of frat boys. My brother was a Delta Tau Delta and is today a VP for JP Morgan Chase.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

ENWorld needs to get over the collective terror/hatred of frat boys. My brother was a Delta Tau Delta and is today a VP for JP Morgan Chase.

That's it. I'm never speaking to you again, frat boy brother!

(I kid, of course. My brother and dad are both frat boys, as are some of my close friends. I, myself, was almost a frat boy.)

 

[Donovan Morningfire]

Had to give this movie a 5, largely because the shaky-cam left me with a splitting headache early in the film, which doubtless ruined my enjoyment of it. Maybe a re-watch on DVD when I can pause it, down some aspirin, wait a bit, and pick the movie back up.

I understand why it was down shaky-cam style, and it certainly fit the movie... but hard to enjoy a flick when your brain feels like it wants to erupt out of your skull.

Beyond that, it was a pretty good monster film. The creature looked suitably "alien," and there were a couple of scenes that almost made me jump in my seat, and one that actually did in spite of the fact I knew it was coming by way of recognizing the trope.

Were it not for said shaky-cam induced headache, I'd rate this a 7. Overall I was entertained, and for the first time in a really long time a horror/monster flick got my heart racing, which is always a plus in my book.

Depending on how it's done (namely whose POV we'd be following), I might be interested in seeing a sequel to this.

 

[frankthedm]

Had to give this movie a 5, largely because the shaky-cam left me with a splitting headache early in the film, which doubtless ruined my enjoyment of it. Maybe a re-watch on DVD when I can pause it, down some aspirin, wait a bit, and pick the movie back up.

I understand why it was down shaky-cam style, and it certainly fit the movie... but hard to enjoy a flick when your brain feels like it wants to erupt out of your skull.

I am in the same boat. Half a tablet of this worked well for me. [actually it was the wal mart knock off]

[the 'non drowsy' version is just a half strenght dose, so i cut a regular tablet in half]