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Quint has his own opinion of CLOVERFIELD!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Yes, I’ve seen the movie and yes it is good. But for the love of God I hope you guys lower your expectations.
It’s easy to get caught up in the hype of a movie, especially a film like CLOVERFIELD which has been marketed amazingly. The team at Bad Robot made this film an event and they’ll be rewarded with a huge box office tally, no doubt in my mind. The line at the theater was insane and that I’ve noticed that the movies that are that in-demand at the press/word of mouth screenings always do well that weekend.
And the movie is good, so it’s not like you’re being duped into seeing a sub-par flick.
But I’m here to tell you that talk of this being a landmark, first of its kind movie is a little wrong. You’ve seen movies about earth shattering events told from the perspective of a small group of people before. You’ve seen movies told through a video camera. You haven’t really seen them cobbled together so well, which is why I think people are jizzing all over the movie like it’s the second coming.
I’m not here to shit on the parade of those who love it. I’m actually close to being one of those people. I thought the flick was really damn fun and showed a lot of smarts in execution. It’s heaps better than Romero’s attempt at a similar style with DIARY OF THE DEAD and it’s CITIZEN KANE compared to POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES.
The real strength of this film lies in director Matt Reeve’s ability to really build suspense and a world of wonder. There’s an awe to the film, the events really do seem real-world and they do a good job of keeping the characters realistic enough that you buy the story.
But I think what’s being overlooked by a lot of people is the kind of shallow character work. Rob, the lead, is played well by Michael Stahl-David but his character is a hard one to relate to and sympathize with. I’m sure that’s the point of the character, that’s what gives him his arc when he decides to forgo safety in order to be the hero, putting someone else’s needs before his own. That’s fine, but I still found it hard to connect to him, which made it a little difficult to fully give myself over to the movie since he is the centerpiece.
The character of Hud, however, is great. The only problem is that funny, likable, smart Hud is the cameraman, so he can never be the center of attention. He’s commentator and even though Rob is the main character Hud is literally our eyes.
If you’re in it for the big creature action (like a good deal of our audience last night) you’ll get some really nice stuff, but know going in that you only get about 3 ½ minutes of the big creature and another 2 or 3 minutes of the smaller ones. The creature’s presence is felt throughout, but I know a lot of the audience last night voiced disapproval as the credits began and I bet my bottom dollar that they expected a bigger creature feature.
The creature itself is pretty badass. By keeping it hidden for most of the movie, or only half-glimpsed or seen in brief moments during heavy “oh shit!” moments, they keep it mysterious until you get your first really long, good look at the fucker. I won’t spoil the design, but I will say it’s lithe and it has not been leaked yet. The little creatures that come off the big one reminded me a whole lot of little spider versions of the bugs from STARSHIP TROOPERS or the aliens from PITCH BLACK.
One thing I must bring up is ROAR! the Michael Giacchino score that plays over the credits. I love that the film has no score, it really helps sell the gimmick of the premise, but goddamn… Once you hear Michael’s score you’ll wish to all the film score Gods you pray to that you could hear his entire score. It’s like Godzilla, but not quite, It’s huge, epic and instantly iconic.
I think I might be at a disadvantage with this movie because I recently saw [REC], the Spanish horror flick told from the perspective of a cameraman in a news crew. [REC] is the best possible way this “camera perspective” type of movie can be done. It’s incredibly smart and suspenseful. It’s not as flashy as CLOVERFIELD, but it’s certainly the better movie.
Like I said at the beginning of the review, CLOVERFIELD is good and you’ll probably dig the hell out of it. I know I dug it, but if I hadn’t been told immediately before by a few people that I’d hate the movie I think I might have been really disappointed in it. I’m hoping I can be that voice for you guys right now.
It’s a solid flick, but it doesn’t feel like a cinema revolution to me. It’s not the first time this kind of story has been told and it won’t be the last.
I'm posting this during my layover before Salt Lake City. I'll be in Sundance land shortly. Keep an eye out for my adventures in the snow and watch me OD on film.
-Quint
quint@aintitcool.com
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liked it man. thanks.
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And i feel pretty good about it too!
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so I guess it all depends upon how you feel with the small group of people that you follow throughout the movie, which is no surprise.
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At least I tried
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not that i care, i'm seeing this either way, and it's still early... i'm very excited, but i think this is a movie that giant nerds are going to go nuts for and the rest of the world will let out a meager "meh".
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when i saw that in theatres and bunch of people sitting in front of me were all like "that looks really good" and i honestly tapped them on the shoulder and said "excuse me, but are you kidding me that looks like total shit".
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I saw an advance screening last night and Q perfectly summed up my thoughts. Good movie, don't get too crazy about it though. It's all recycled stuff done well.
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a level headed review.
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^^^Sorry I had to take a shit, and the subject field looked like as good a place as any. Ok, now that that's out of the way... Good review. I'm glad to hear that Giacchino does some music for the credits... my friends are going to think I'm weird for wanting to sit through them just to hear the music.
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One was beginning to think that JJ Abrams was solely responsible.
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*waits for MNG*
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Game over.
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Did I miss the review for that one?
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Not trying to hijack a thread, but is this site going to put anything up about Brad Renfro dying?
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And POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES is complete shit. I saw a screening back in December and it was awful.
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There was a movie I saw on cable long ago that had a scene of a guy on a hospital bed in some basement, and a woman dressed as a nurse was sent in and started to have sex with him by riding him. Soon the guy starts to act as if he's waking up from something, brakes his restraints, and I think kills the woman! Some guy watching this says something like "He's ready". Anyone know what movie this is from?
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Jan 16, 2008 11:42:25 AM CST
Charlie Murphy obviously isn't watching his movies in my neighbo
by 2for2true
...because if some shitheel tapped me on the shoulder and made a snotnosed comment like that, he'd be typing his asinine garbage with a pencil stuck in his mouth.
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is that Cthulhu in Spain? (heh.)
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here's Quints review of DOTD
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Jan 16, 2008 11:48:20 AM CST
Cloverfield changed my life. It made me the man I am today
by orionsangels
It fed my family and inspired me to do better in life.
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************************DESCRIPTION SPOILERS*****************************
Slow Paramount logo.
Bad Robot logo.
Black, suddenly some sparks (very saturated [with] Michael Bay-looking cinematography).
We hear an old NASA radio countdown: “30 seconds and counting.”
Close up of a timeless guy with goggles leaning down doing some wielding and sparks flying around.
He lifts his googles. Slightly futuristic head covering. It’s not a space suit, by the way.
The dude leans down and wields some more. He’s standing on big metal.
“From director J.J. Abrams” (blue font with a nice lens flare).
Some Kennedy speech about space flight: “The eyes of the world now look to space.”
People walking around the saucer section. The wielders are everywhere – showing size.
We hear: “The eagle has landed.”
Huge overhead shot pans across [and] suddenly [shows] what looks like miles of scaffolding underneath.
Title: “The future begins”.
Really impressive shot from … people all over the ship and you can see a huge industrialized city or shipyard in the background. It’s being built on Earth [rather than] in space.
Neil Armstrong: “One small step for man…”
Camera slowly cranes up over the whole saucer section.
Then we hear Leonard Nimoy’s line: “Space. The final frontier…” and the familiar “Star Trek” theme horns.
The shot continues [and reveals] the writing on the top of the saucer – “U.S.S. Enterprise” – and these huge aircraft-like warp engines in the background. Technically, the first reveal of what we’re seeing.
Just the Starfleet logo (no title).
Title card: “Under construction”.
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I'll never understand this concept about a movie and how it affects me. I never allow others opinions to sway my own. I either like it, or hate it.
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or just your regular run of the mill #2 pencil? I would think your regular old one sharpened, but thought I would ask.Kloipy, I think MNG will only do that once a day. Don't want 'saturation' with the Cthulhu dance.
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aww.. forget it...
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I can't remember if it was a review or not, but sometime last summer, Quint expressed some pretty critical and disappointed thoughts after seeing a cut of the film. I don't recall a lot of the specifics, but Quint felt pretty bad about saying what he did - like a parent telling his kid to give up on acting after seeing the school play.
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Jan 16, 2008 11:59:58 AM CST
Maybe your neighborhood should be napalmed, 2for2w/e.
by iamjack'suserid
Sounds like there are some serious violence issues where you live.
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Thanks for the level-headed review, Quint. With that being said, I'm still very stoked to see this film. I have hope that I will be blown away.
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who are you
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what a funny way to try to intimidate someone
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The reason you haven't seen a post or talkback about Brad Renfro yet is because nobody has emailed the story to anyone on staff. Until that happens, the update wont take place.
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WTF!!! That really foesn't bode too well for the movie
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it's like an Onion headline come to life.
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... that will tell us what we really want to know... ... about the monster's balls (and I ain't talking about Halle Barry!)
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That's just how 2for2true rolls...I mean, who doesn't stab people in the mouth with pencils and whatnot when they don't agree with someone? Just the other day my boss was giving me shit so I stapled his lips together. I used the big staples, mind you.
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For Rambo
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HOLY fucking shit man, cloverfield is like a crow that shoots vaginas out of it's eyes and shits blowjobs. 2 minutes into the movie i looked at my pants and my dick had turned into a werewolf gun that shot tits filled with napalm out of it that blew up amazon women and their ashes turned into eva mendes getting donkey punched by a smurf that had nail guns for eyes and a hat made out of taint scrapings and then I came. the end
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You missed his review? Do a search. He reviewed it a few weeks ago.
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TSIA
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I'm guessing this is going to rate about the same as "The Host" to me. Not even because they are similiar movies, but the feeling I had after I watched "The Host" most closely resembles what I THINK I will have after watching cloverfield. Just a nice feeling of "Allright...nice flick.....I have homework to do." That's a good thing.
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Isnt the tag-line 'its a lion'?
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... I look foward to the shirtless dreams... (actually I already had those when I saw the TCM remake)...
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http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h145/Eroybixby/clfsketch2.jpg
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Only want to hear about the Trek teaser. Take your Blair Monster Project and turn it sideways.
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Thats why it was only half way posted. Hopefully, AICN will create a TB software that isn't older than CollecoVision.
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It's better to look them in the eye when you stab them with your Bic brite liner. No one likes to be highlighted.
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"Makes the Poughkeepsie Tapes look like Citizen Kane!" ~ Quint, Ain't it Cool News
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i would fill their eyesockets with marshmallows
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Is that a type for Huge?
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I would give them a FLAMING LEG KICK.
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I home Mr. Cumpston politely requests that you release your review to him so that he may use it instead of his own, and use the time and expense he will certainly save to spend the weekend in Puerto Vallarta sipping pina coladas on the beach. Well done sir.
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*ducks*
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Thank you for being the voice of reason.
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I would pull Warwick Davis out of my pocket and he would bite the motherfucker in the neck. He's got sharp little teeth too.
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i tried to capture his prose
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i'd put him in a sandwich and feed him to The Bates
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Wherefore art thou, Neil?
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lithe
adj.
1. Readily bent; supple: lithe birch branches.
2. Marked by effortless grace: a lithe ballet dancer.
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If the camera work in United 93 made me nautious, will Cloverfield do the same thing to me?If I'm going to pay $10 to see a movie, I'd rather not walk out after fifteen minutes because of severe motion sickness.
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if you know where to look. Tyler Durden anyone...
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is only 90 minutes long.
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It's a story told through hand-held shakycams, so prepare to have your $10 wasted on maximum popcorn spewage.
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Harry, Massa and Quint loved it - Lataouro (PEACE OUT - WTF) didn't.
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I had no idea that there were little monsters too.
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Jan 16, 2008 12:49:17 PM CST
"Nauseous" I meant. Knew I didn't spell that one right.
by 7pointedstar
Thanks, SpyGuy. So it's either motion sickness pills or DVD release for me. Damn movies trying to be artsy.
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Have you read Harry's review? Massa's? Give me a break. I'm suprised this site didn't show up in the credits.
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I didn't know this movie was about monsters attacking a city, that is shown from the people's perspective, and shot on a hand help, ala The Blair Witch Project. How could they do this to us!!!
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Is the creature really just Rob?
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A review on Cloverfield you can trust (no disrespect to the views posted prior to this one - I was waiting for Q's opinion).
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Quint is right on with this. I saw it last night, its good, but the hyperbole of how it ranks with Aliens etc is a bit much to me. I will say I think you see plenty of the monster(s). Enough that you know what it is. You can skip the first 15-20 minutes of the movie as its the party and nothing happens. That got a bit long. But once..."it" arrives the movie becomes real fun. Lower your expectations a bit, but don't expect Uwe level crap either.
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He means Harry of course. Though I must say, Harry's review IS the reason I'm going to see it.
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Jan 16, 2008 1:05:04 PM CST
Sounds like total shit. Glad I didn't buy into the hype.
by allpowerfulwizardofoz
And told you so to those who were going apeshit over the movie. 3 1/2 mins of creature huh? HAHAHAHA you guys got ass raped because your expectations were so high. This review sounds like a lot of back peddling to me. Sorry Quint. I read that as if YOU had high expectations and they got crushed along with everyone else in the theater. Count me out of this hype machine.
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Quint's good is Harry's revolution.
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Jan 16, 2008 1:07:35 PM CST
Wow I cant believe anyones shocked that theres little creature
by lovecraftfan
Did those people just completely miss the concept of the film.
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Saw a screening of this last night. I was actually expecting to be largely disappointed, so I think the lower expectations helped - it's solid, clever, and entertaining. Don't go in expecting to have your life shattered.
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What we saw was cool, but J.J.s comments about America not having it's own iconic monster like Japan had me expecting more. That ugly fucker ain't no Godzilla.
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That punched my balls was "28 Weeks Later." This honestly looks like Godzilla Eats Felicity.
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Sound like a fat, down on his luck t-shirt vendor is upset his crowd isn't featured in the movie. Good lucking people hang together at parties. Trust me, I know, I am one of them.
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Would have been better without the fake Radiohead hipster music in the intense scenes.
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I saw it too the creature is BADASSSS!!! Pay attention to the final scene of the movie and U will learn something new about the creature
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Damn you, JJ Abrams.
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But I'll wait for Moriarty's review. I <3 Moriarty
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Why is this site covering up such big news? Roger Avary was driving drunk and got into an accident and KILLED somebody! The guy is out on bail now and has been charged with manslaughter. His life as he knows it is over. Yet this site is silent on it. Why? I think it is big news.
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I have little monsters living at my house.
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Even the previews for this weren't scary enough.
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Saw it, It's a wrthless piece of shit. I want that hour of my life back. Really, If you liked this movie, you don't have very good taste... The only thing in the movie that's worth the time it's the girl, wich in any case should be silenced, all that screaming is shitty at best.
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This is huge news, he has been putting out some pretty good scripts and now he is completely fucked.
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...the emo-kid shooting this "found" video does not run out of battery time? My Canon DC20 only holds 1.45GB discs that last maybe 40 minutes at most, and the battery is only good for an hour. "Cloverfield" itself is only 80 minutes, so Hud or someone must have had a camera with a hard drive, or an extra disc / miniDV. But can the battery be explained? Does he have two? For a lame emo birthday party, I wouldn't be bringing all my video gear.
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As a frequent poster on this site you should know better. This site doesn't exist to gossip about the lives of celebrities but to report on tidbits and rumors and other cool news regarding movies. The site isn't "hiding" anything, it's just not relevant news for the purposes of AICN.
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...during the gripping "battery life exposition" scene! Once, I slugged my best friend during a theater showing of T2 because he wouldn't shut up about the fact that "liquid metal can't think!" Don't be that guy.
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I think the Renfro/Avary stuff is better left to TMZ than AICN. Now if Forry Ackerman was whacked on dope and jumped a curb and wiped out a girl scout troop, I bet they'd run something, but other than that it seems like just another bad day in Tinseltown.
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"But for the love of God I hope you guys lower your expectations."
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I'm going to check it out for sure.
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I posted this on another TB, figured I'd share the comment with the multiple Cloverfield threads...
After seeing Cloverfield, I thought I might throw some warnings your way. Things that may prevent someone from liking the movie. No spoilers in this comment... Take from it what you will.
Caveat 1) If you can’t handle “Shaky Cam,” this is probably not the movie for you.
Caveat 2) If you don’t like movies that have vague, open endings, where everything is not wrapped up in a tidy little package at the end of the day, this is probably not the movie for you.
Caveat 3) If you are incensed by the idea of any movie having footage and situations that are reminiscent of 9/11, this is probably not the movie for you.
Caveat 4) If you don’t like movies that kick ass, defy Hollywood conventions, reinvigorate genres, this is probably not the movie for you.
Caveat 5) If you don’t like movies that deliver true suspense, not edge of the seat suspense, I mean the kind of suspense that keeps you literally pushing away from the screen, trying to bury yourself into your seat because the suspense was so taut and ruthless, ala Alien, Jaws, etc, this may not be the movie for you.
This WAS the movie for me. I flat out Loved it.
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I added the S for anyone after me who posts the same stupid comment. Since when is the drunk driving homocide legal perils of a hollywood actor considered 'Cool News'?
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...that are complaining about there being only six minutes of creature are the same ones that bitch about creature effects being too explicit and obvious nowadays. Fuck, by most accounts this is a very good movie. Just deal with the fact the there might NOT BE ANYTHING TO BITCH ABOUT WITH THIS ONE.
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Signs was not a first person camera thing but it was all about suspense and mood. You saw the alien for maybe 10 seconds all together until the last few minutes at the end. And that was awesome. Cloverfield looks great. I have high expectations but I know what I want to see...or not see. Monster Smash movies like Godzilla suck balls. Give me something that has suspense and is well thought out. Make it feel real.
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Like a few of the smarter people on this site have said, if you saw the trailer and somehow expected to see a big monster flick, you have no brains. Get with the program. This is not a monster movie. It's a movie with a monster in it.
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go to my page at www.1337news.com to get the link. no bullshit. it's a link to drawings from people who've seen it. and they're good drawings too!
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When the whole Cloverfield Blitzkreig has been exploding since the fall of the Roman empire.
With a trailer that makes you think that it may be that the biggest satan monster in the history of 9 dimensions would appear! The trailer lead us to believe it was going to turn into a massive monster mash! Not more of what we saw in trailer.
The Host is the best monster movie so far. I'm dissapointed that its turned into BlairClover.
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There are going to be a lot of disappointed people out there. I prefer Signs and War of The Worlds and I Am Legend to this any day of the week.
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the internets is like, dying.
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First of all, hat's off to Quint for giving an honest review. Also thank you for saving me a few dollars because I was damn near ready to go to the movies to see this. Yes, this is cloverdud. The most anticipated movie on the net.
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And to think....they could have made a Lovecraftian horror masterpiece.
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Jan 16, 2008 3:56:24 PM CST
As a geek society. We've grown too cynical to fall for hype
by orionsangels
We've seen too much at this point. Hype was fun 10 years ago. When blockbuster movies were making leaps and strides with computer technology. Now we're bored. With the exception of the new Indiana Jones movie. That's all I care about this year. I WANT A FREAKIN TRAILER NOW!
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rating was the red flag. Still you want to believe this was going to be the bomb of all monster movies and now we know the truth. Of all the things I find disappointing about a movie I haven't seen is...my rants are nearly over.....sniff sniff....searching for fresh meat.
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what happened to that then?
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Jan 16, 2008 4:09:44 PM CST
"people are jizzing all over the movie like it’s the second comi
by edward_nygma
Is that what would happen if Jesus showed up again? We'd all jack off onto him?
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Jan 16, 2008 4:12:51 PM CST
If we jack of onto Jesus I expect him to instantly turn that jiz
by damien chowder
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DO YOU LOVE FILMS OR WHAT? "SMALLER CREATURES" GREAT! THANKS FOR THE SPOIL!
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was if we jacked off onto Jesus I expect him to instantly turn that jizz into babies.
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But its still a good movie. Thanks for being the sane one, Quint, and putting it into perspective.
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50% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes
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Yeah, that's true, a genre director who has made some good films and had some good genre projects in the pipeline goes and kills someone and will in all likelihood be going to jail. Yeah, that's not news anyone here would be interested in. Kind of like how they ignored Brad Renfro dying....oh wait, they did report that. AICN is friends with Avary, and THAT is why you haven't heard peep about it, cause they don't want to contribute to this guy's image being tarnished further.
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about the jizzzin on jesus comment....lol i wish all the "shaky-cam" critics would get over it....it makes a film seem more realistic, especially in action films..gives u the feeling ur in the middle of the action instead of watching it, i never got nauseous. then again it seems theres a whole younger "Detail" obsessed generation that has to seeee everything...sit further back than the front row in the theatre and u will be fine....the other thing u people gotta get over is the PG-13 rating.... every movie cannot be rated R, even horror and sci fi or action movies.....the age of DVDs does not instantly mean there is a rated R version of every movie when it comes out on DVD, unless of course ur american pie, which seems senseless cuz all their movies are direct to DVD anyways....good review of CLOVERFIELD, i cant wait to see it
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I will say this, Cloverfield will probably polarize people. It's innovative and suspenseful, but the use of the first person, shaky cam will alienate some. The fact that the movie does not have a Hollywood ending will alienate others. The fact that you don’t clearly see a whole lot of the beastie will alienate even more. The fact that there are some obvious 9/11 parallels with alienate some folks as well.
To me, Cloverfield was less of a movie and more of an experience, much like seeing Grindhouse in the theater. I think it was a bold move in terms of film making, and with a budget of (from what I understand) 30 Mil, I really think the risk will be well worth the long term pay off. I guess we'll see after this weekend is over.
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...It's true, the shakey cam is REAL shakey cam at some points... the couple sitting next to me up and left (well, the girl ran out 20mins into the film, the guy sighed and went out after her and never came back) and my mate suffered what he called "a headache" (which is a word I heard thrown around a lot afterwards as we were walking out) At least in Blair Witch the guy held the camera steady more...... The monster IS great, but all this hype about it being absolutely incredible is just not so - Yeah, it's good, when you see it you think FUCK THATS ALRIGHT but then it kinda just settles down... then we have to deal with tears and family issues and tracking down the girlfriend... At one point I sat there thinking "Yep, this is the part that will get made into "Cloverfield The Ride" or "Cloverfield The Experience" in a theme park somewhere... I was ANGRY with the main guy's absolute die-hard need to rescue his "girlfriend" who dumped him not two hours before and went home with another guy... It fucked me off she called HIM for help when she treated him like a stuck up bitch beforehand... And like I said in the Harry-Review Talkback, it fucked me off that these "hipsters" handle it all with a wide-eyed shrug instead of going completely, absolutely fucking crazy/insane over the fact that family and friends are dying around them and there's a massive fucking MONSTER tearing down their city around them... It just seems like a bad day at the office for them..... Girls exploding, people dying and the guy goes "No, Im going to get my girlfriend" after running into government forces who should perhaps quarantine the group because of their contact with the smaller critters: "Okay" says the soldier "I'll show you the way out..." riiiiiiight, I think I moaned audibly in that scene... You simply don't end up caring about these characters... and the end - The VERY end - makes you want to punch the seat in front of you... because despite the fact that we've just say through a "monster" film, we're suddenly reminded that "love is a special gift" wah wah wah... Whatever. 6.5 out of 10.
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"Love is a special gift." Holy. Fucking. Shit. They don't actually say that, do they?
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I found I liked the experience as it happened but felt shorted when it was over, sort of like when you wait for a new attraction to open at a theme park and say ... eh, could've been better. The film definitely had its moments, but ultimately left the audience STONE COLD at the end. The only time I've heard a quieter exit from a theatre was at Passion of the Christ, and they were fucking traumatized. The effects were excellent but views of the monster were fleeting. Even Rob, who is being filmed by Hud during the army attack, was yelling "POINT THE CAMERA THAT WAY!"
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He's telling Hud that they're going to run down into the Subway... He's saying "We're going to run that way..." and then the the group run down the stair-well into the underground.
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Then it was just me yelling.
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...But because the video is being taped over footage of the guy and the girls romantic day out, the Cloverfield footage ends (ultimately with their death together and "I love you..." "...I love you" BHAM, Dead) the footage then reverts back to the holiday get-away of them on a ferris wheel together and her saying something ridiculous like "It's been a great day" and them hugging and loving one-another... Gimme a break!
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I was never good at lip-reading.
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...All the comedy relief was lame... If I was in the middle of a global catastrophe and there was a loser making jokes all the time I'd want to leave him behind... It'd be like 9/11 with the loser office guy saying "Did you get a load of their turbans? Whaka Whaka Whaka..." while you were running down the stairs trying to escape...
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That does sound really corny, Fleet. I still want to see it though. I mean, it still sounds like a decent movie, just not as great as we've been led to believe. Seems THE HOST will retain the championship belt!
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I don't think Hud said a single thing he didn't mean. He was borderline retarded.
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shopping at Best Buy and Circuit City. HD-DVD or Blu-Ray? I'd have both AND a fucking 80" LCD at home by the time Mancrablizard makes his way to the Bronx.
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...and that we have movie geeks soliciting artists' renditions of the monster, like it's a purse-snatcher or something. "Oh, he's a big guy, kinda funny looking." "In what way?" "Ooooh, just in a general kind of way."
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Featured prominently in the movie
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Jan 16, 2008 6:57:32 PM CST
I Can't Wait To See VOLTRON From The POV Of The Bystanders!
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Get the ROBEAST! Save Planet Arus and save the Universe! Yay!
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I stumbled on this... If you are in anyway a Iron Man or even a Marvel Universe Fan, you owe it to yourself to watch/download/pass a long this video. After you watch it you'll wonder what this guy could do with a real studio budget! Have fun!
David Gulvant... You are 'Da Man'!!!
Invincible Iron Man (independent Short Film Project)
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THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN SHORT FILM PROJECT
When billionaire industrialist Tony Stark dons his sophisticated steel mesh armor of his own design, he becomes a living high-tech weapon, the world's greatest human fighting machine : THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN.
2D animated, fast paced action, enormous fun from director David Guivant, and a must-see for all MARVEL COMICS' die hard fans.
Download it here:
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Page were it can be found:
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Ok if you're going to put up pictures of LOWER MANHATTAN BURNING, keep the ads out of LOWER MANHATTAN SUBWAY STATIONS. Some of us live here, could give two craps whether it's about monsters or an airplane, and don't want to see the picture as we commute to work. I'm sure you ad people got your shock and awe from people who see it, scumbags.
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What about Silverhawks?
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Consider my expectations lowered. Well, they weren't that high actually considering JJ Abrams is involved in this project...
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Having seen the film myself and finding it to be pretty mediocre and disappointing, it'd be interesting to read Mori's analysis. The film's North American opening weekend will be good, but it's likely to have a minimum 50 % 2nd weekend drop off, from word of mouth. The film should've been marketed more strongly overseas, where it won't do as well, as the internet isn't enough.
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This is what I've been wondering. To comment on Massawyrm's review while keeping his date metaphor, it's clear he was hanging on every piece of info and viral marketing coming down the pipe for the last 7 months on this thing. He's been nursing this huge, throbbing, engorged boner for this movie for so long that I know it was hurting and aching for release. But me, I haven't been nursing that boner. I'm just looking for a little action on Friday night. So thanks for the info. I know now I'll come away satisfied, but won't expect it to be the lay of my life.
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and it was dope. i wanted to play Half Life 2 after. damn, it was fine.
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Mic check, testing, testing...awwwww yeah...back up in this bitch...B, b, b, b
I, i, i, i
G, g, g, g
L, l, l, l
I, i, i, i
O, o, o, o
N, n, n, n
LION!
We can dance like a lion
He is the king of beasts
And when he starts growin'
Destruction he’s sowin'
Takes down buildings like a wildebeest
Say, we can dance like a lion
We can take part in the hunt
Predatory cat will own your ass
Now everybody’s on the run
We can dance like a lion
New York City is now his jungle
Watch him eat yo’ peeps up and down the street
Kill your main dude and your uncle
Say, we can dance, we can dance
And I doth quote “[It is] huge”
We can dance, we can dance
Lookin’ for a bridge to chew
We can dance, we can dance
He’s breakin the convenience store glass
We can dance, we can dance
Blood fillin' all your safari pants
It’s the Lion Dance
The Lion Dance
The Lion
Yeah!
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Just watched one... It was a scene of them all deciding to walk down a subway tunnel and man it seemed like the most contrived and scripted faux dialog I have heard in a long while. Oh! What's that noise? Oh! Turn on the night vision! Yeah Why the hell weren't using that before? And why is it the guy filing doesn't know shit about the camera but someone else knows more and for some reason isn't filming? Oh and why the hell would he be waiting tape and ultra valuable battery life walking down an unlit tunnel. That's using the ol' noggin lovable Hud. What's that loveable hud? You're going to say somethig stupid about homeless people on fire, and we're all going to pretend that we're annoyed by you, but really we're shitty actors who don't have any onscreen camaraderie at all?
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No, I know. Please tell me they don't say that.
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...Thats a BIT harsh... If you'd seen the movie, you'd know that Hud knows nothing about how the camera works, because he's had the job of filming palmed off to him from Rob... Hence, he knows shit about the camera and Rob knows more... he's not filming because it was his party Hud was asked to film, hence why he spends all night "documenting" what's going on...
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OK I went and drank a beer and calmed down. :)
I know I'm being harsh from a 5 minute preview, but man... Couldn't they have just brainstormed in the trailer some better dialog than this?
My initial objections to the silliness of the situation can successfully be explained away in the story, but it all just seemed awkward and the silly dialog probably ended up being more pronounced in my mind because of it: "oh man.. it's dark", ( walk in darkness for a long time ) "oh turn on the light on the camera.", "why thank you"... "what's that noise!?" "Turn on night vision!"
Completely unnatural. Since I didn't get see any monster scenes I won't write this off completely, but I'm not impressed so far.
For fun, reshoot this scene in your mind with the other characters and think of how easy it would have been to write better dialog:
James Cameron's Marines from Aliens.
or Jules and Vincent from Pulp Fiction
or Walter, the Dude and Donnie from Lebowski, .. these aren't even the best examples, but there are countless other movies where the characters have excellent banter and flowing dialog.
It just could have been done so much better.
Dude: Are you sure this is the right way, man?
Walter: OK stop, give it to me.
Donnie: No, Walter.
Dude: Hey, man give him back his property.
Walter: Donnie -- the light, turn on the...
Dude: Hey what the fuck is that, man!
Walter: Those are vermin, Dude
Dude: Fucking mice?
Donnie: Rats, Dude.
Donnie: Is there night vision on this, Dude?
Walter: Just give me the fucking camera, Donnie!
I kid of course, but if the whole movie is like the scene I saw, I am going to be hoping in in a Matinee :) -
Exactly, BilboRing. And thanks for the review, Quint. Ever since the beginning of "Cloverfield"'s marketing launch and concept buzz, I've thought of "Signs" and how that one brief scene of the birthday party, when we first get to see the alien -- that's what this movie wishes it could do. I think it was brilliant how Joaquin's reaction was ours and in that brief clip, that was all the suspense rolled into one. I glimpse, a glimpse! at the unknown. That so seemed what "Cloverfield" wanted to capture, but a whole movie like that? Come on. I'm glad it's only "good" (probably even "OK," given the height of expectations). There was no way it could live up to that manufactured hype.
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You're so right with that... I completely agree with you - I completely get what you mean re: the birthday party scene and Joaquin's reaction... I think part of the problem with Cloverfield is that we never get a good reaction like that - We get a wide-eyed shoulder shrug and some screaming... But "then it's okay" and they adapt far to easily to the situation...
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really this site should be fucking ashamed of itself. I just came out of a screening and there was audible giggling thru a lot of it.
• The characters are plastic Hollywood style cyborgs..NOT particularly conducive to
'hyperreal' style psuedo doco material that clearly is attempting to tap into 9:11 fear. The female leads are particularly woeful but the guys : Mr Wonderful and his Ginger sidekick cameraman only BARELY scrape through sucessfully
• If you're gonna get real, BE REAL..electricity that stays on in slumping buildings and cameras that keep working no matter what is fucking retarded bullshit.
• Where are the fucking bodies in the street? HELLO?
• Harry is a fucking moron disgrace. That is a fact.
The film is not awful, but it's pretty darn weak - this should be (but of course won't be) the FINAL nail in the coffin of cheap ass scumbag shakey cam with CGI movies. -
I have crabs!
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It's Godzooky!
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cant help but laugh at all the people streaming in that "seen" the movie....and amazingly theyre all mostly negative..... god thats a surprise....tons of people said they "Saw" the TRANSFORMERS film before it came out and it "sucked" but I actually went to see it and it was the best movie i saw to date in my life.... easily beating both ID4 and armageddon, and they were pretty close to the top of my list...i expect this movie to break my top 10 too....go see it everyone , dont listen to these losers that cant get over "shaky cam"
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thanks you just blew your own head off with those 'top of your list' turds
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go in expecting nothing and you might be nicely surprised. and yes, the characters suck, BUT, they all die....so im not complaining.
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I dug it. I like Quint's review better than Harry's or Latauro's.
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Thanks for writing this level headed review of what seems to be this year/last years most hyped movie. Regardless of all the reviews, I would still watch a movie and have my own opinion on it, but it's really cool when someone writes a constructive review instead of vomitting words as if they had just laid a supermodel.
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It doesn't live up to the hype. They clearly had a sequel in mind when they made this movie. At the end of the movie, I went "That's it?".
It's a love story with the monster as a sideshow. Yes you get to see the monster, but it doesn't even touch on what the monster is, where did it come from, why is it attacking Manhattan, etc. I didn't go to see the movie just to see a monster being hit by missiles, but that's what the movie really is. Who gives a shit about the love story, I want the monster to be the star of the movie, not a bunch of yuppies with relationship problems. I have nothing against sequels but at least make the first movie a complete movie, and not just a jumping point for the real movie. And the camcorder style thing, was okay, it didn't bother me that much, but I prefer normal traditional camera style.
A real disappointment. Not worth my 10 bucks. I hope the movie doesn't do well, so they won't have to make a lame sequel. -
Massa went nuts in his review, compared it favourably to Alien, Jaws and Blade Runner! That's laughable. This is a well done, low budget studio flick. Nothing more. The characters are typically paper thin and I challenge you to care what happens to any of them, bar maybe the funny cameraman. I far more enjoyed waiting for them to get picked off, which ultimately makes the idea of following these characters a bit of a failing. That said the film is not a failure. I always think JJ is better at ideas than execution. Alias, Lost, Mi3 liked the idea behind all of them, but the execution ultimately failed. Thankfully Matt Reeves is really the driving force behind this and despite barely credible characters, better suited to being in Transformers 2: Electric Boogaloo, he manages to pull off a genuinely tense and exciting 70 minute film. Fun yes, great no. Lower those expectations and empty your brain and just go in for a fun brief ride and you'll be rewarded. But Massa et al don't pretend the characters and dialogue in this are better written than your average cliched Hollywood summer blockbuster, because it just isn't true.
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just a well put together thrill movie.
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DVD.
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I am eager for a good man, especial who love sports.
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I am Hannah Smith. A cute white girl with perfect sexy stature.
I am eager for a good man, especial who love sports.
All can view my crazy hot photos at multiraciallove.com by searching "Hannah2003". Whether black or white, rich or not.
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OK, let me get this straight... you loved Cloverfield, and Transformers is the best movie you've ever seen in your life? Right up there with the piles of shit that are Armageddon and Independence Day? Wow, I wanted to see the movie, until I read that. Do you think Micheal Bay is an misunderstood genius?
I'll still check out Cloverfield, and hope for the best. I've always had my expectations at a reasonable level, so thanks to Quint for verifying what I already suspected. Sounds like a good, fun popcorn flick. -
I am in agreement with you two on this. 210 seconds of monster = no $$ from me. Torrents, here I come (no pun intended).
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[http://zeitgeistmovie.com/] GO, AND WATCH IT! BE PART OF THE REVOLUTION!
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Just cause the film only has under 4 minutes of the monster in it doesn't mean it's void of any effects at all. I bet that there's effects galore in there but ones that are more in keeping with the story and drama. I say give it a chance and then, maybe, slag it of.
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Is teh best. Thanks for the first REAL review.
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I agree with you pretty much through and through. I also had problems with the main character, and everyone's oddly model-esque looks, but dug the movie overall, especially the pacing in the first 2/3s, Giacchino's awesome one-track-er, and the fun monster bits! Abrams knows how to pick 'em, fo sho.
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Who gives a crap about the exact time the monster is onscreen - Alien vs Predator had way more monster shots than the original Alien, that doesn't make it a good film. Godzilla USA had way more monster shots than Cloverfield - Cloverfield is 100x a better movie than Godzilla USA.
It's not the best film ever, it's not the new Star Wars/Aliens/Lord of the Rings - It's more on a par with War of the Worlds, but better I think, and for a low(ish) budget giant monster film I had a fucking blast, will probably buy the DVD on release day and be there for the sequel. -
I finally caught this last night and I liked it.
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to show ourselves. So what'd you think of Cloverfield?
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count me in!
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http://www.aintitcool.com/talkback_disp ... nt_2144932The era of humans almost vanished in an instant....
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and preserved for his trueness up top. A shrine should then be erected so all may worship without fear or bother by shitheels.
I have said it and it will be so... -
unless absolutely necessary.
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I'm underwhelmed.
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the awakening of a god is always worth the occasional post. Sorry I have been so slack/
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When the heavens open up and His teachings of pencil stabbings of shitheels flood the world...then...and only then...will you realize the error of your misguided ways...
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Orcus slumbers until the next server upgrade. Jeez, time to call the time cops
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More folks waking up Orcus
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You've been asleep for far too long!
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Damn snooze bar worked to damn well. Apparently there was a big to-do over at the Zone....?
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I SAW I SWEAR ROBB IT'S HUGE IT'S A LION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It would have been a much better movie. Make it a robot lion and fuck this thing would have made a billion dollars the first weekend.THEY PROMISED US A GIANT LION!!!
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damn you proof reading.
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Damn Facebook
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Going for the record
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