the movie did not look fake the efects were very well done.
it had a little bit of everything romance,comdey,and horror also= sci-fi i was a contuious exciment i would give this movie an A+

1) The acting was sub-par. I typically watch (and enjoy) movies that display actors at the top of their craft. The Deer Hunter is one of my favorites for this reason.

2) There was zero character development. I neither liked nor disliked the characters. The manner in which they were presented elicited as much of a response from me as cardboard cutouts marched around the set would have done.

3) The story (if one can call it that) is devoid of any of the elements that make a good story. There’s nothing to be learned here. There’s nothing to take away from this story that leads one to think about questions that were raised. It’s akin to setting a camera up outside of a restaurant where you know a natural gas pipe is going to blow up and then filming a group of people who had volunteered to be filmed in the midst of a natural gas explosion.

4) The camera shake is vomit inducing and brings absolutely nothing to the movie (this most certainly is *not* a film) except a strong urge to flee from it.

5) Believability. Others have commented that we are to suspend disbelief when watching something of this genre and therefore any criticism about this movie’s believability is unwarranted. But here’s where that reasoning is flawed: the movie, by its shooting style and the ‘acting’ sets itself up as documenting what ‘real people’ would do in such a fantastic situation, therefore, they don’t get a free pass in the believability arena. Others have pointed out the glaring flaws already, so I will just say this: the flaws and gaps in the believability of the characters are so enormous as to be laughable, and are not so only because one is stifling the urge to vomit from the camera shake induced vertigo.

Run, don’t walk away from Cloverfield.

Went out today with my girlfriend who also wanted to see Cloverfield. Missing our opportunity back in January, our local 1.50 theatre still had it paying so we decided to take a chance.

Ahhh Cloverfield, how I hate thee…let me count the ways!

1) Boring….Ok, so we were a little late for the 3:15 showing, we were (ahem) busy..showed up at 3:40pm. Granted, trailers take anywhere from 5 to 10minutes but that still leaves 20minutes of nothing. Neither of us had ever seen a movie where we missed the first 20min of it and concluded that we “didn’t miss anything”.

2) Character Development or lack thereof. At no time during the movie did we ever feel “connected” or “attached” to the characters. Just not convincing, especially with Rob running all over the place doing things and not telling his friends what he is thinking. He just starts to take off and they follow aimlessly. At any given time they all could of been wiped out and we wouldn’t of noticed nor cared.

3) The cameraman! Now, unlike everyone else my we didn’t all that much mind the First Person Perspective technique. Nor did we get motion sick, annoyed yes, sick no. We understood what they were doing and why they were doing it, but felt that somehow they failed. Felt unconvincing, why…we have no idea…it just didn’t. The other thing we noticed and drove us crazy was….

“WHEN A MONSTER COMES YOUR WAY, WHY ARE YOU NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO THE FREAKIN MONSTER?!”

Referring to what an earlier user wrote about the one building leaning against the other, they can see the monster closing in and Hudson only glances breifly. But that isn’t the only time, several times he choses to look at his friends and NOT watch where the monster is. In a survival situation, you can bet your ass I’ll be watching my enemy so I can react accordingly. The monster & mini me monsters seem like an afterthought to them? After being attacked in the subway by those mini-me’s you would of thought they would be more meticulous about how to proceed forward and defend themselves.

4) The Ending….all we could say was….WTF? Rachel and I just sat there and looked at each other with the most dumbfounded expressions. So for a minute or 2 we sat to see if there was going to be anything after the credits..some films do that. Then we thought about it and decided that we didn’t give a shit about the characters anyway so we left.

You hear bombs go off, you see fire from the explosion, they get crushed by the bridge they were under, and it goes black. Thats it. Straight to credits!

We both were mezmerized by the trailers but just didn’t get the chance to see it when it came out. We’re glad we only wasted $3…at least the additional 10 i spent on our snacks wasn’t a disappointment. Hmmm..movie popcorn.

We gave it a 3 out of 10…. This movie is just sad.

PS… if the people on Youtube make up the majority of america its no wonder why we elected Bush as president for 2 terms. Are these people serious? They loved this movie? *Lowers and shakes head….

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9uqNvfBTWHk

Okay, so maybe the content of the film COULD happen. Which it could, I believe in aliens and all that crap, even if you don’t. But if it did, don’t you find it ironic that a little ‘baby’ creature like that would find itself destroying a main city?

Oh, and if I hear the word ‘Rob’ being repeated more than 6 times in one go again, I’m going to severely slap someone >:L

Movies can choose not to do certain things, but I think there is an implication that they should try to do something. This movie was boring. It was ENTIRELY predictable. The “characters” were not sympathetic or interesting, they were stupid, spoiled metrosexual children and as the film went on I only wanted them to die so that the film would be over. There was no plot and no subtext. There was nothing in the movie at all, except an ultimately pointless series of uninteresting scenes stitched together by the steady cam vehicle. Occasionally, things would explode and stuff, which was a welcome escape from the dialogue.

So bad was this movie, so vacant of thought, so lacking of depth or wit, that you could not possibly understand how bad it is until you see it. This isn’t one of those bad movies that you see as guilty pleasure either. It’s worse than that. After it’s done, you just wish you had gone bowling or something. Anything else really.

P.S. Thank you for complimenting me on my vocabulary. You also have a good vocabulary yourself, and you are good at writing these things. It’s getting harder and harder to make a rebuttal. I have a feeling this may go on for a while.

P.S. Don’t insult Morgan Freeman by mentioning him and Cloverfield in the same paragraph. He deserves better than that.