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got to be the worst movie i have seen in the last few years.

Anyone else agrees?

A) Horrible poll...come on...really 3 options, I thought it was a great film, not quite amazing but much better than either of your two other options.

B) I really enjoyed the movie and the style...I thought it was cool how they get you learning about the people's lives ( I almost forgot that this movie had a monster in it) and then boom, throw everything into disarray.  The take on the monster was okay, I would have prefered actually that they never showed the full thing just glimpses of what it might be and the scale.  I also enjoyed the Blair Witch Project and saw it before the hype and this was obviously reimincient of that.

I thought that it was a very well thought out film.  I left the theater thinking.. man.. what the hell happened? What was that thing, where did it come from.. .so many questions that just never got answered.

But it wasn't about that so much as it was about the story.. and the story was told incredibly well. 

Unfortunately my girlfriend couldn't watch it, it made her sick with the camera being all jumpy.  She said it sounded like a good movie though from what she heard :o

I thought the movie was awful. Shakey camera work; I know it was intentional, but it was sickening. Made me think of the Blair Witch Project. The concept was ok, but who's actually going to run around with this stupid camera when something like that is going on? And...when you pause a video cam, you don't get flashbacks of what was recorded before, it just stops until you record again.  If my brother had just been killed by a giant monster and you came up to me and stuck a video camera in my face I'd shove it so far up your ass that you'd be involuntarily filming a documentary about the inner workings of the upper digestive tract.

Good concept....poorly executed.

hmm thats actually a very good point about stopping the camera, I mean I've done that before and although sometimes it doesn't pick it up right where I left off, it doesn't show like 2 minutes of video before it picks back up.

Altogether the camera work was kinda what I expected. I think overall the movie was fantastic for what it was. 

Originally posted by xaldraxius

I thought the movie was awful. Shakey camera work; I know it was intentional, but it was sickening. Made me think of the Blair Witch Project. The concept was ok, but who's actually going to run around with this stupid camera when something like that is going on? And...when you pause a video cam, you don't get flashbacks of what was recorded before, it just stops until you record again.  If my brother had just been killed by a giant monster and you came up to me and stuck a video camera in my face I'd shove it so far up your ass that you'd be involuntarily filming a documentary about the inner workings of the upper digestive tract.

 

Good concept....poorly executed.

As for the flash backs...I saw them a movie devices...a) let your eyes rest a little because there was a lot less motion to those sense, also to keep your feelings of loss and hope going.  There is no sound in space either but starwars and startrek get passes on that, why because it is a movie device.  Just watch and try to enjoy

Also...that would have been one impressive shove to get the camera up that far...probably would have got a lot of hits on youtube.  I took it for shock and found that it was not all that wierd...however, I was expecting a slap of the camera away from him as well....OP should put a SPOILERS Alert on this.

I loved the movie. I went to see it only because a friend wanted to go, and while everyone was having orgasms about the trailer I thought it looked like 100 other movies I had seen before. However, I really loved the style of the movie and the way it really re-defines "Monster Movies".  I enjoyed Signs for the same reason. I am tired of watching the reaction of the President, the Mayor, a Scientist, or a soldier to Alien/Creature Attacks, or incoming meteors. I want to view it from the eyes of the average person with a tiny bit of media and a lot of confusion. Yes the characters' reactions seemed a bit lame, but the acting was very "real" to me, and I think it is highly likely that in a situation where you and everyone else can die at any moment, the loss of a loved one may be treated with more numbness than wailing.

i found it annoying looking at a shakey cam the whole time so i just ended up fingering my g/f in the cinema

Alright, so saying that I thought it was awful was taking it a bit too far. I kinda liked it, but I felt it had a lot of plot holes in it.  Like: How'd they get down to the 34th floor on that one building from the roof? They didn't show it, and you know the stairway would have had to have collapsed, but yes, it's a movie and you give them a break here and there, so I didn't list it as a major detraction. Do video camera's come with night vision standard now? You know the military wouldn't have let them go after the girl. Why did the dude just stand there and let himself be eaten? And what the heck does the name Cloverfield have to do with anything? I know that was the government's name for the thing, but why? Of course that may be info that they will cover in the next movie. Too many unanswered questions makes me think they are at least thinking about a sequel.

See thats the thing, I had no clue what cloverfield had to do with ANYTHING.  I mean there were tons of unanswered questions, but I've got to say that a sequel would be kinda tough to make.  On the one hand you can look at it from a scientists point of view, on trying to find out what the creature was and where it came from, but overall I think it would be just a tough act to follow and still keep the movie fresh and exciting.  Unless of course they didn't end up killing the monster and this is a documentary of what steps they've taken to combat it.

So on the one hand I really want to know what the hell the thing was and whether or not they killed it, and why everything happened the way it did but on the other hand if they do a sequel and try to mimick the style but end up screwing up the story it's really going to piss me off.