Has anyone seen Cloverfield? If so, what did you think of it?

[thetonestarr]

Darc Requiem said:
I liked the idea of the movies but i didn't like the execution. Cloverfield is not a monster movie. Its a love story with a monster attack as the back drop. I left the theatre knowing pretty the same amount of info that I did going in. Plus a couple of things about the movie really bothered me, especially the ridiculous initial evacuation plan.

You're a fool. The plotline - "love story" - was largely a gimmick, playing into many stereotypical elements of the over-sized monster flick. The plotline was a mere vehicle by which to carry across a mood of pandemonium, suspense, confusion and adrenaline; it was a vehicle to carry across the cinematic/cinematographic creativity of Abrams and his talented counterparts.

Every bit of the movie was about the monsters and the devastation they wrought.

 

On another topic, I saw an artist's rendition of the lice the other day, but for the life of me, I can't locate it anymore. Has anybody else happened on it, by chance? And I'm not talking about the louse pictured with the Cthulhu-esque (whalelike) monster, either.