DazeyDiver wrote:well i'll say that i enjoyed the shit out of this movie. the n00b acting didn't even bother me (and they did a pretty damn good job, all things considered.)

well worth seeing on the big screen. wasn't bothered by the handheld gimmick.

there are some things to nitpick at, but altogether well-executed.

Saw it last night and I agree with all of the above statement. I went in with low expectations from all I'd heard about it and was very surprised. I even hate LOST so I wasn't expecting to like anything J.J. Abrams was involved with.

I'm split about this movie. It was very well made, even including the acting-- they pulled off 'bunch of douchebags' perfectly-- but the 'everyone dies' thing pissed me off to no end. Especially how they always seemed to be RIGHT WHERE THE DAMN MONSTER IS.

I'll vote CRAP, but with a waffle factor of 7.

The trick is to see this film baked. I made sure I was and had a great time watching it. Top deaths and killings! Arsehole with curtains on the bridge? SPLAT! Stupid moody goth girl? POP! Great stuff.

Yeah, the acting was terrible the people looked sickly like models and it had every monster movie cliché shown through a handycam, with the most meatheaded literal verite style slapped on top (thank you ILM), but was done a lot better than any other monster movie I’ve seen for a long time now- The Host? Fucking awful. King fucking Kong? Give me those three hours back you Kiwi cunt.

It was almost worth watching just to see how they sidetracked the terrorist issue- I think I heard someone muttering something about an attack at the part, and that was about it. ITS EXPLOSIONS IN NEW YORK FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!!

My housemate pointed out something quite funny- “it was like all the popular, pretty kids at school had all stayed together and moved to New York. Well fuck you! I’m glad you got killed by a monster”.

The best thing about this film though was that it was set on my birthday- here’s a rough approximation of a conversation I had on my birthday last year.

God: T-Dog!

Me: G-D! Hows it going?

God: Oh, not bad man, not bad. Oh yeah happy fucking birthday bro!

Me: Cheers!

God: Now look I got ya something. Don’t put the word out cos I don’t do this for everyone, but as you’ve reached the quarter C and you look so much like my son and all, I’m gonna grant you one wish.

Me: No way!!! Really? Anything?

God: Anything… Shoot.

Me: OK, OK… OK

God: Anything, just go for it

Me: OK, I got one. You know back in 2001, when you left Jerry Bruckheimer in charge for a day, and all that shit happened in New York?

God: Oh yeah, that was awesome. What was I thinking?

Me: yeah, yeah. Well. I want that to happen again, but like 10,000 time as big, and send the army in and shit. But this time, do it with MONSTERS.

God: Uh… really? I mean, you can have anything you want here. Rockstar. President of the universe… I’ll even let you do wishes for more wishes…

Me: Monsters, dude. Monsters.

I saw this on Sunday night with low expectations, and thus enjoyed it. I had a mild headache twenty minutes in which passed quickly. The handycam gimmick worked well for me - a bizarre collision of cheap and expensive.

I also liked the fact that it was short.

The friend who I saw it with remarked that he wants to know where one can buy the camera - it has night-vision, a torch, is near-indestructible, and apparently has a very good battery life. The product placement was obviously not made strongly enough for our eyes.

sparky wrote:The friend who I saw it with remarked that he wants to know where one can buy the camera - it has night-vision, a torch, is near-indestructible, and apparently has a very good battery life. The product placement was obviously not made strongly enough for our eyes.

Good point. I too would like to know the make and model of this camera.

somehow my band has one of our posters in the party scene of this movie. i've not seen anything but that one scene so I can't really comment on the movie itself, but I'm jumping on my chance to brag on a PRF.

Hey! I saw this on Friday!

I'm sort of wondering where all y'all who didn't like it are coming from. I went in knowing precious little about the film, just knowing that it was a monster movie. As soon as i realized, "oh, ok, it's a cheesy-as-hell monster-destroys-New-York movie with a gimmick," i sat back and enjoyed the ride.

I laughed my ass off when the main characters turned a corner and BOOM! Hi, we're right between a huge fucking monster and the US Army shooting big fucking guns at it! Whoopsie!

I laughed my ass off when they were in the subway tunnel and were discussing turning on the night vision. "Oh, dudes. Come on, don't you know what happens when you turn on the lights in a horror movie? You get all layers of dead."

Laughed a shit-ton at "Ohmigod! You know about Superman too? Are...are you aware of Garfield?"

Seriously, gang...cheesy fun. Not even in a so-bad-it's-good way...just in a "hey, let's make a goofy monster movie and blow New York the fuck up" way. Yay fun! NOT CRAP.

DrAwkward wrote:Seriously, gang...cheesy fun. Not even in a so-bad-it's-good way...just in a "hey, let's make a goofy monster movie and blow New York the fuck up" way. Yay fun! NOT CRAP.

Then that would make “Independence Day” and the “Godzilla” with Mathew Broderick good movies, which they were not. They sucked. And they didn’t have whiny indie kids in it.

Can people stop using the term “enjoy the ride” when talking about movies? Don’t we, as U.S. Americans, do enough shutting off of the brains watching TV, driving, going to work, shitting? We’re supposed to play dumb at movies, too?

Fuck you. Make a better movie, Abrams and company.

stephensolo wrote:Then that would make “Independence Day” and the “Godzilla” with Mathew Broderick good movies, which they were not. They sucked. And they didn’t have whiny indie kids in it.

Wrong. This was way better. Better dialogue (stunningly enough...fuck you, i thought "Are you aware of Garfield?" was hilarious), and the big difference, in my mind, was that movies like Independence Day and the American Godzilla were trying to pass themselves off as something better than schlocky b-movie goofiness, whereas i didn't get that impression from Cloverfield. I felt that it knew exactly what it was and didn't put on airs (no bothering to explain the monster or where it came from, just...hey! Monster!), thus making it inherently better due to a lack of "blockbuster" pretension.

stephensolo wrote:Can people stop using the term “enjoy the ride” when talking about movies? Don’t we, as U.S. Americans, do enough shutting off of the brains watching TV, driving, going to work, shitting? We’re supposed to play dumb at movies, too?

Here's a shocker for you: "Enjoy the ride" and "use your brain" aren't mutually exclusive.

I pulled these from the quotes sites, meaning this is the good stuff:

Rob: Still filming?
Hud: Yeah, people are gonna want to know... how it all went down.

Rob Hawkins: I keep thinking that the last thing I said to her was, 'Good luck tonight, Travis'.
Lily Ford: I know I keep thinking about the last thing I said to Jason.
Rob Hawkins: That was different.
Lily Ford: Why?
Rob Hawkins: Because, Jason knew that you loved him.

Clark: How are you going to survive without Rob? He's like your main dude.
Hud: I don't know.
[sees Rob passing by]
Hud: Hey Rob, how am I gonna survive without you?
Rob Hawkins: I don't know. I'm like your main dude.

Hud: Beth lives in Midtown. Midtown is that way. You know what else is that way? Some horrific shit!

Hud: Nobody ever listens to me, then when they do... we're gonna die...

Hud: [during a very stressful run up stairs] How could they not know anything about it? Unless... maybe they're like, in on it, you know? Like maybe the government created it or something.
Rob Hawkins: Do we have to talk about this now Hud?
Hud: Well, I need to talk about something, because if I don't I'm going to actually shit my pants in this stairwell.

Rob Hawkins: [as arch is collapsing] Look at me! Look at me! Look at me. I love you!
Beth McIntyre: I love you!
[bomb strikes arch]

Now, granted, a movie like this isn’t really meant to stand on its written lines, but please, tell me how this dialogue is better than anything ever put on a movie screen. This is some of the most horseshit dialogue I’ve ever heard.