Why the hell not, all these rapper/actors, and what not. Does Will Smith count as a rapper/actor? How about Ice Cube? This is a guy who use to be in NWA. ANd he never tried to do that thing where they try to start using the name their momma gave em.

MOS DEF is the worst rapper/actor ever! He looks like he's always acting, and he sounds like he's always trying to act... black. Saw him on Bill Maher, and his performance as Mos Def was terrible.

and then you get to see the camera really shake and a sliver of a monster. repeat x4. 80 mins later, credits roll.

but that doesn't change the disposable characters in a thin story with the backdrop of BWP meets Godzilla.

A Coen brothers script it aint.

yeah, jj creates straightforward projects for uncomplicated people.

but there are people that consider michael bay a genius. i don't worry about the world's windmills. each to their own.

I always have to throw one in the talkbacks, Latauro. thanks for the only really good Cloverfield review I've read, I agree 100% so much time and effort on the marketing and FX, you can't get ONE decent screenwriter for the dialogue? "you came back for me!" "yes, I did come back for you." "it is true, that is what you did" "indeed, you can see right now, that it has happened" vomit...

and perhaps you can explain to me why geeks love James Marsden? he played Cyclops, but in my opinion, pretty woodenly, and that gets him a free pass?

Maybe there's some truth to the notion that the characters in this film are the type of people geeks on this site hate...not because they're successful but because they're the type of people they cast in Dockers commercials, go to business school and trade tapes of each other dating raping girls at the frat house. But I actually think that's what the filmmakers were going for.

I wanted to see more of the "Zombies"

Whatever.

Its a good thing Harry's wheelchairs e-brake was engaged when he was watching this.

And you're wrong about Han, EG. But that's exactly why Han is so damn cool.

Surely the fact that they are (from all accounts) vapid, 2 dimensional cardboard cut out characters is more relevant.

And Laturo, that stallone question you submitted is fucking shameful and a complete waste of one of our precious chances to ask something good.

May I refer you back to the Stallone TB.

Yuppies

Comparison to 9-11 by oversensitive pieces of unartistic shit.

Attempting to compare this to other monster movies.

You will fail everytime when you try to slam this movie without throwing some really great logic behind it. Sure, everyone is entitled to their opinion but everything that Rutgers is responding too was pretty assinine to begin with.

The record setting numbers at the box office show that this movie had enough pep to draw a crowd. People who bash this really have no intellect in the world of high concept. Sure, a monster movie isn't very high concept, but the way in which it was executed was. Anyone who works on a lot, even the janitors, will tell you that high concept is the only thing that someone can truly bank on these days. Try writing a spec, or producing anything with a low end concept and watch the script get trashed, or you funds dry up like Bea Arthur's snatch.

It's time to wake and smell the crab-cakes, fellas. Cloverfield is money, and anyone who says otherwise is "dictating"* themselves.

*Exerpt from Goonies...couldn't help it.

Here is the audio, slowed and filtered to prove he says ALIVE: http://tinyurl.com/dnm7v

Goonies sequel was shitcanned, or at least put on hold for now. The story idea was weak, and thought through even less. Last I heard...dead.

The fact remains that while a lot of the movies that come out are weak and lame, the ones that thrive, create buzz and get people juiced are all high-concept. Plain and simple. Anyone who doubts that is one of the many Hollywood Inepts who squander their days bashing movies that are better than anything they could create, and people far mor talented than they will ever be. I pity you, but not long enough to waste any time.