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I just got done seeing the movie and it was AMAZING. It had me on the edge of my seat the whole time with suspenseful feelings of wonder in my spine. (Hey that rhymed)



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Nighteyes_1981 said:
I liked it for the most part. The end was a bit dissapointing. As in, it just stops, no resolution. I hate that in movies. Overall the film is very reminiscent of The Blair Witch project. If you liked Blair Witch you'll like this. That being said, while I like movies of this type, they're only enteraining the first time I see them. If they make a sequel I'd like to see it take the same path as Blair Witch 2. Meaning a more traditional style movie, only hopefully better done. Of course, at that point, I'd rather watch a Godzilla movie. Speaking of which, there are numerous Godzilla references if you pay attention.

 I felt the same way! I think making the sequel in a different style would work better than it did with Blair Witch.



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I love the movie it did everything it was suppose to also I like however is saying it wasn't believable like most people have be put into a similar situation.




Posted this somewhere else talking about Cloverfield but it will work here too, just ignore the names.

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I liked the movie but I didn't think it was really anything amazing and probably a movie I'll never watch again.

First off, I was all hyped about the mystery aspect of it. I keep seeing threads like this one with spoiler warnings or what is Cloverfield all over the place. I've been avoiding these threads hoping to not ruin anything but there's nothing to ruin. There are no spoilers because common sense will tell you the characters are going to die and you find nothing out about Cloverfield. This entire thread and ever Cloverfield spoiler thread tells you just as much as the movie and the movie tells you nothing.

Now, as for the telling me nothing, I'm not so worried about that. It's kind of cool that the movie focused on the survivors but I still would have liked to know something. Why did the girl randomly explode? Why did it matter that she got bit but not the other people traveling with her? Why didn't anyone notice a monster eating the Ferris Wheel at the end of the movie? I like some mystery in movies, especially ones like this, but I also like having some answers.

After that, I hated the characters in the movie. Actually, I really didn't hate them I just felt nothing for them and didn't really care when they died (except the boring chick that exploded but that's only because I wanted to know why she exploded). The first 20-30 minutes of the movie were a complete waste other than saving me from listening to people eat and drink during the good parts (saw it Studio Movie Grill).

Once the movie got going it wasn't terrible, though Ryan is right-- I thought I was watching Half-Life 2 and totally expected the Combine to come out and start beating on the characters. I did hate how this group of people managed to beat off the ant lion creatures with no weapons and then a second time with an ax and the military couldn't do it with freaking missiles, but I guess that's movies for you.

And actually thinking of video games, did anyone else think that they made this movie just to make a game spinoff? I don't know if it was because of the Half-Life 2 similarities but I could see a game where people are trying to get off the island and leaping from broken building to broken building. I'm not saying it would be a good game, just saying that's what the movie made me think.

The final part of the movie after the helicopter crash I wasn't a fan of, it really felt like they could have shaved some time off the movie so easy but they wanted a way just to show off the monster. Other than the part where the monster randomly decides to take a break from its night long rampage to stop and look at the twit with the camera so you could actually see it there was no other purpose.

The final thing that really bothered me about the movie was the part after the ending credits. We were all ready to get up and leave but one of the ushers told us to stay because there's something at the end of the credits. So we sit back down, wait through the insanely long credits (or maybe they just felt long because I had to go to the bathroom), and finally get to the end part where the someone says "It's still alive". And apparently they even said it backwards according to the usher because none of us could understand it since it was the only thing in the movie that was insanely loud.

Why even bother putting something stupid like that in the movie if it still doesn't answer anything and you can't even understand it? Oh, that's right, because apparently they want to make a sequel where they hopefully answer most of the things that should have even been hinted about in the first movie.

/end rant.

--Oh, and I want whatever video camera they taped the movie with. That thing had insane resolution and can apparently survive anything.



twesterm said:
PWhy didn't anyone notice a monster eating the Ferris Wheel at the end of the movie? --Oh, and I want whatever video camera they taped the movie with. That thing had insane resolution and can apparently survive anything.

 What are you talking about with the ferris wheel? The camera had insane resolution, can survive anything, but doesn't have even the simplest image stabilization???



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i saw it yesterday and i must say its the best movie i have seen in at least a half a year!



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I didn't like the movie. I got extreme motion sickness from the confusing camera (I know it was on purpose..but damn that thing was all over the place) and I just thought the movie was pretty cheesy.

They escape all these insane scenarios where they should have died..and then die in stupid ways at the end. Eh.