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

[Avinash_Tyagi]

Darc Requiem said:

thetonestarr said:

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. 

Plotline. It doesn't have one. Not only do you learn practically nothing. The movie just plain ridiculous at points.

 

SPOILER!!!

 

 

There is large creature attacking a city with a expansive subway system and they evacuate everyone over the Brooklyn Bridge which is plain view of the creature. As Dgm6780 said, one of the main characters isn't their friend. Yet she follows them instead of evacuating. She is going to follow them towards the creature instead taking the more responsible secondary evacuation plan using helicopters to air lift citizens away from the creature. I understand Rob, Beth was one of his best friends. They slept together which made things awkward since he landed a job out of the country. I mean I could see Lily coing along as well after what happened to Jason, and Hud was his best friend but come on a complete stranger is going to say "Oh lets go save Beth!" When they are in the subway and all the rats are running in droves done the tunnel. They stop and try to see what the hell they rats are running from. I could see them doing this if they didn't already know their was some giant creature of unknown origin destroying the city. They do, yet stop and try to see what they are running from. Get the hell out of their you IDIOTS. Not to mention the most glaring oversight, if the something like that attacked a US city, none of their weapons were having any affect, they were taking heavy civilian casualties in addition to the military casualties, and it was causing people to explode after being bit by its little underlings they would just nuked the damn city.

 NY is arguably the most important financial center in the world, home to some of the most important companies, Nuking it would be a last ditch type of thing