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

[dgm6780]

The movie is HORRIBLE. There is no story. No character development. They are all motivated because they are "friends". One of the main characters isnt even a friend, she didnt even recognize/know Hud the camera man. The shaky camera and abrubt ending are gimics. There is absolutely no story telling here. The action is horrible. (survived a helicopter crash?? and a bridge collapse??) but yeah the monster looked cool.

People praising the camera work and story telling, while calling this a brilliant monster movie remind of the art critics you praise a piece of art and come to find out the art is elephant dung and some paint the artists threw at it. This movie is the brainfart of a first year film student. barely over an hour, but without a story how are you supposed to fill up all that time??

the movie was 1 hour 20 minutes long and without the party scene it would have been under a hour. well what did that party scene add? that they were friends? how long? where/how did they meet? what made their bond so strong? none of those are answered.

what we do learn is that one of the characters slept with this other girl and they have to find her later as the movie goes along. when this guy's "friend" finds out about the secret love making what does he do? tells everyone at the party!!
So yeah a real tight group of friends. Someone in this thread called it a love story?? He had sex with her 1 time 2 weeks ago, she has a boyfriend, and he was 1 day from moving to other side of the world - quite a stretch from what we were shown in the movie to call that love.

but everything in this movie is a stretch? 7 hours of record time on that camera?? the military let them keep recording? when he turned around in the subway, why wasnt the light still on on his camera?? they accidentally waltz into the military compound without any detection till they are 50 feet away?? they find the girl, she has a piece of metal sticking through her chest - they pull her up- then she walks with them - doing an outdoor building to collapsed building transfer?? where was everyone else in her building? dead people? the monster never moved from 1 borough of NYC while being bombed, shot, shelled, rocketed, napalmed, and trapped in/around huge buildings??????? why is it called Cloverfield?? what exactly did the shaky cam bring to the table? please dont say realism....



Anyone praising this movie is braindead and will say anything is great when exposed to the right marketing.