CLOVERFEILD

indianasmith · January 21, 2008, 12:26:01 AM

GGGRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was gonna catch the late showing of this one after church tonight, and then I found out our local theater doesn't HAVE a Sunday night late show!!!

What's a Baptist supposed to do?????????

Shadow · January 21, 2008, 01:24:21 AM

I was really excited about this film, since I've always loved giant monsters. This is probably the most I have anticipated a film since Tri-Star's Godzilla ten years ago (geez, has it been that long already?). I was planning on going yesterday, but Friday I came down with a cold and have been stuck in bed ever since. Bummer. I'll have to wait til next Saturday now.

dean · January 21, 2008, 07:04:51 AM

Caught it tonight and enjoyed the hell out of it.

I wasn't actually terrified by the film, but it was sure exciting, and I bet my heart beat a bit faster in a lot of it. Personally I found a few scenes in I Am Legend to be a bit more scary.

BUT I didn't go see it to be scared, but to watch a good movie. The shaky cam was at a minimum in terms of out and out shakiness [the bits it happened on weren't such a focus, more just a blind panic]. Anyone who has handled a camera will be used to it so it wasn't nearly as bad as, say, bits of Bourne where they just zoom in too far and it's hard to focus on what is going on.

Besides, the whole point of the movie was to be hand-held-style. Sure it may be annoying for some but that's the reality of how this thing was filmed. I'm pretty sure they made sure anyone who saw a trailer knew that was how it was going to happen.

Spoilers:

Why would the guy keep the camera someone asked? Well why not? He was the 'documentation guy' and said himself 'people are going to want to know what happened'. I suppose you COULD say that in times of stress you go think of one thing and focus on that and forget the rest. As for the battery, some of them last a while nowadays, and besides, it was only used for the time you see on screen, which really wasn't alot. It's not like they recorded the whole time you know?

I know my camera can go almost 1 hour and 45 minutes on just a normal battery. But I suppose that's being too technical.

The girl who got bit was pretty intense, I really liked that scene. I'm almost disappointed there wasn't more of those little monster things running around since it seemed like the place was just raining in them. Did anyone else thing they were like mini versions of the Starship Troopers arachnids?

As for the ending and not knowing what's going on... Sure it would be nice to know more [I was sure itching to know more] but let's face it: the whole idea of the film is for a camera to film in first person from the perspective of someone who was there. They wouldn't know squat either, so we only know what they get to know. That's the reality of it. As it is I think they were pretty generous in giving us as much info as we got, from things like the news segments and whatnot.

All up I quite enjoyed it. Good to see at a cinema, but sit at the back if you get queasy from shaky-cam.

Now I'm just waiting for the sequel shot from the point of view of the monster. Now THAT would be a hell of a movie...

Mr_Vindictive · January 21, 2008, 08:50:47 AM

Quote from: dean on January 21, 2008, 07:04:51 AM
Did anyone else thing they were like mini versions of the Starship Troopers arachnids?

Slight Spoilers!

Dean,

I actually felt that they were more like the Antlions in Half Life 2. They had a similar creature design, although a bit smaller. They also made the exact same sounds as the antlions. It was certainly the first thing that sprang to mind for me.

Fishasaurus · January 21, 2008, 09:09:46 AM

I don't know what I expected from this movie -- I managed to miss all the hype except for the trailer, seen at the beginning of another movie much inferior to it *coughWILL SMITHcough* -- but it ROCKED MY FACE OFF.

KYGOTC · January 21, 2008, 11:58:28 AM

Guys, seriously, for those of you who are going to wait for the dvd, DONT! This is DEFFINATLY a movie that you need to see in theatres! If you have no intrest in seeing it, thats fine, but if you DO want to see it, the theatre is the way to go.
It makes it so much more TERRIFYING! Take my advice!

KYGOTC · January 21, 2008, 12:32:37 PM

Quote from: dean on January 21, 2008, 07:04:51 AM
Did anyone else thing they were like mini versions of the Starship Troopers arachnids?

Ya know, they kinda reminded me of those small evil robots that the decepticons made in the Transformers movie.

indianasmith · January 21, 2008, 08:27:26 PM

I just got in from seeing CLOVERFIELD. This movie rocked my socks off!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean, seriously, I had to go peel them off the back wall of the theater.

This is one of the most overwhelming movies I have ever seen. It was so open-ended, so devoid of explanation or context, so doggone RAW that it just rubbed your face in the panic and terror of the event. You were sucked in, and left gasping in places - I LOVED THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One thing I wondered about the small monsters . . . do you think they were offspring of the big beast, or parasites clinging to his hide that bailed off when the napalm started hitting him?

And the monster . . . not even the still shots earlier in this thread prepared me for the total alienness of it. It resembles no creature that has ever lived on earth. And it's freakin' HUGE!!!!!!!

Anyway, hope you loved it as much as I did. Catch it on the big screen, it's worth the six bucks. The trailers looked pretty good too . . . .

ER · January 21, 2008, 11:50:33 PM

What?!?! You mean it really IS a monster? Aww, indy, you ruined the surprise! And here I had spent weeks expecting the twist in the film would be that all the apparent destruction we saw on Cloverfield's commercials would turn out to just be Donald Trump's latest heavy-handed revitalization-via-urban-Renaissance project for central Manhattan!

Mofo Rising · January 22, 2008, 01:14:32 AM

Quote from: indianasmith on January 21, 2008, 08:27:26 PM
Anyway, hope you loved it as much as I did. Catch it on the big screen, it's worth the six bucks. The trailers looked pretty good too . . . .

You only pay six dollars to see movies these days? Here in Phoenix ticket prices are $9.50.

Well, even if you have to pay a gross amount of money to see it in the theater, I would recommend seeing Cloverfield that way to everybody; it's definitely an experience.

KYGOTC · January 22, 2008, 01:16:32 AM

attack of the SPOILER!!

Ya know, i kinda felt sorry for that one black-haired girl. Think about it. She gets all DRUNK at the party right? so then all hell starts to break loose and she has to run all over new york toatally CRAP-FACED and panicy at the same time! Then she gets bit by that parasitic spider-dog thing and later her stomach pops open with blood! All while shes drunk, mind you! Ya think maybe she would have survived if she was sober and had a clear head?

Oldskool138 · January 22, 2008, 07:19:35 AM

Quote from: KYGOTC on January 22, 2008, 01:16:32 AM
attack of the SPOILER!!

Ya know, i kinda felt sorry for that one black-haired girl. Think about it. She gets all DRUNK at the party right? so then all hell starts to break loose and she has to run all over new york toatally CRAP-FACED and panicy at the same time! Then she gets bit by that parasitic spider-dog thing and later her stomach pops open with blood! All while shes drunk, mind you! Ya think maybe she would have survived if she was sober and had a clear head?

I don't know. I've gone from drunk to relatively sober when put under stress. Fear and panic have a way of sobering you up pretty quick.

Killer Bees · January 22, 2008, 08:04:40 PM

Quote from: Mofo Rising on January 22, 2008, 01:14:32 AM
Quote from: indianasmith on January 21, 2008, 08:27:26 PM
Anyway, hope you loved it as much as I did. Catch it on the big screen, it's worth the six bucks. The trailers looked pretty good too . . . .

You only pay six dollars to see movies these days? Here in Phoenix ticket prices are $9.50.

Well, even if you have to pay a gross amount of money to see it in the theater, I would recommend seeing Cloverfield that way to everybody; it's definitely an experience.

You guys are all dead lucky. We pay $13.00 for a cinema movie, regardless!

Oldskool138 · January 22, 2008, 08:11:08 PM

Quote from: Killer Bees on January 22, 2008, 08:04:40 PMYou guys are all dead lucky. We pay $13.00 for a cinema movie, regardless!

You don't have matinées down under? That's when I catch all the movies I think are theater-worthy...even if it means dragging my (occasionally) hungover a$$ to meet my straightedge friends at the theater at 10:30 AM.

dean · January 23, 2008, 04:41:44 AM

Quote from: Skaboi on January 21, 2008, 08:50:47 AM

Slight Spoilers!

Dean,

I actually felt that they were more like the Antlions in Half Life 2. They had a similar creature design, although a bit smaller. They also made the exact same sounds as the antlions. It was certainly the first thing that sprang to mind for me.

Yeah that's a good point. It was the jaws that got me thinking of Starship Troopers, but they definitely acted and sounded like Antlions!

Oh and we don't have cheap matinee films, but we do have Tight Arse Tuesdays in which all tickets are $9.00 each. Bear in mind these are Aussie prices of course, and of course some cinemas are cheaper than others, but stock standard $12.50 is about the average.