If you don't like this movie, you have no idea what film making is about.
For the first time ever, I cared about what was going on. I paid more attention to my surroundings and grabbed for every little bit of information I could gather because the camera work made ME one of the characters. Abrams is a genius, and I can't wait for more.
I liked it, but I hope the next movie goes more into the japan connection, because the guy was planning to become VP at a japanese company, and guessing by the viral marketing the company he was going to join was the company that was making the slusho drinks, which probably had some link to the creature, because if you recall in the movie the camera guy states how the creature likely came from an ocean trench and the back story for Slusho is the ingredient was found in the ocean
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The Finnish premier is late February. I think I'll go see it with a bunch of male friends, since it looks different enough from most movies to be interesting, but not exactly girlfriend-friendly material. =P
I liked it, and yeah, you have to "suspend disbelief" for some aspects of it like, why does the guy keep filming when everyone is running, but then again, you are watching a movie about a giant monster in New York...
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| dgm6780 said: 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. |
I could not agree more with you!!! A good story is when we care that people die. For instance in I am Legend I cried when someone died (won't spoil it if anyone didn't see it yet. In this movie I could care less when someone died!!
The whole metal in the chest and I'm okay to walk around is stupid. The camera surviving a helicopter crash and being dropped from the monsters mouth, dumb.
And now the camera .... What to say about the camera. I loved blair witch. I loved JJ Abrahm talking about why they used this camera technique. But in the very first scene the cameraman walks to the window of his apartment to look at the sites and the camera shakes as if he parkasions. Thats when I know this movie was going to suck. Really, 2 year olds can hold a camera better then these guys can. AND everyone seemed SUPER rich so why would the video camera not have SOME sort of image stablization.
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thetonestarr said:
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.
I agree on there not being a lot of reason to like the characters that were dying. They just seemed so bland that there was little reason to get attatched to them.
I can't wait till the videogame... muahaha!!
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Just look at the big monster and all the scary scenes and enjoy them. :)
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