Comments on: Review – Cloverfield

By: mike dinjens

mike dinjens — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:41:43 +0000

cloverfield is a great adrenaline movie but the ending of the movie is not great but lizzy caplan is pretty nice in the movie.

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:02:07 +0000

Saw cloverfield finally last night. All I can say is YAWN!! Not a scary moment to be seen. It makes me wonder if JJ might be the death of Star Trek.

By: Charles Trotter

Charles Trotter — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:27:55 +0000

……..It’s still alive…………………

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzTq4bbj9V4

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:22:24 +0000

This is a great movie! IT breaks all the nicely packaged moveis that have no loose ends. This movie is nothing but loose ends. It is real life, no happily ever after. A must see film!! CAN NOT WAIT TO SEE STAR TREK!!

By: Dr. Image

Dr. Image — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:02:21 +0000

Saw it last night.
Hats off to Matt and JJ. You have created a film witch thankfully breaks with the conventions of typical Hollywood fare.
I found it utterly riveting, as did most of the audience. It captures EXACTLY the feeling of utter panic and disorientation when thrust into a horrible, unknown, out-of-control situation. How do I know?
Back in ‘02, my wife and I barely escaped alive from a flashover electrical fire in our home in the middle of the night. We ended up outside, barely dressed, burnt, shivering, and in shock, on Feb.14th. We lost everything. And as to the question of the camera surviving- two months later, while digging for salvageable items, I had found a compact flash card that had been literally melted into the bottom of what had been my computer keyboard. I pried it out, cleaned it up, and plugged it into a reader.
All the images were there, uncorrupted.
Also, back after 9/11, I had read a story about a photojournalist’s digital SLR which had survived the collapse of the towers. The photographer did not. Perhaps JJ & CO. were aware of this story.
All in all, the film worked. Even the humor was appropriate and character driven. The camerawork did not bother me at all- it became almost a moving impressionistic painting- all the information was there, you just had to pay attention. The monster? Just when you think you’ve seen every CGI creature, you find out you haven’t. It was utterly chilling.
The film serves to remind us that sometimes things just happen, and there are no happy endings or explanations. Thankfully though, the film strikes a perfect balance, offering enough to make it one hell of a rollercoaster ride, and a groundbreaking one at that.
-Donn

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:43:39 +0000

I dug it. Not your usual GIANT MONSTER flick! Yeah the characters for the most part may of been a bit shallow. But that worked for me as I felt like I was going through some of that hell in NYC that night with them! Some of their decisions might seem stupid, but I have read or have heard of some people running into danger to find someone they really care about. Especially if they know they are alive in whatever mess they might be in. Of course we all don’t react the same in crazy situations, but humans are unpredicable. But anyways cool flick, and the subway tunnel scene…man it was… Along with THE MIST what a fun time for horror/creature films!Also fun trailers HELLBOY II, IRONMAN, and some film about some giant ship being built with space travel implied.;)

BAD ROBOT is starting out strong. Sure they will have some films and shows with some flaws, but so far I am liking what I am seeing.

By: steve adams

steve adams — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:25:17 +0000

Cloverfeild kicks ass!

By: James Heaney - Wowbagger

James Heaney - Wowbagger — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:10:01 +0000

No trailer.

I went to see Cloverfield, and no Trek trailer. Not being much of one for monster movies, I am deeply, deeply bummed.

Did anyone else have this happen to them, or did I just get unlucky?

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:03:46 +0000

Taken in the movie twice already. Very smart movie. *claps* Can’t wait to see the Trek movie in Dec. *smile*

By: Mike T.

Mike T. — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:31:13 +0000

Saw Cloverfield Friday night. All I can say is WOW! I’d like to know what make the camcorder is, to survive all of that and a nuke going off and still providing useable video is amazing.

Liked the Trek teaser but would of liked more, can’t wait for the movie. Maybe Tom Cruise is going to play April? It wouldn’t take long to shoot a scene with him in the Captain’s chair and he was at the Enterprise sets a few days ago….