Cloverfield

[Mixmasterreece]

Has anyone been to an advanced screening or preview of Cloverfield yet ? If so I'd be interested on your thoughts...

Looks awesome. Trailer and official site can be found here

I hope the movie lives up to the hype.

 

[Eskimo Sharkie]

Looks good doesn't it. From the snippets I've seen, they've tried to rely on the "less is more" principle and the dodgey hand-held camera work to make it look like a doco (a al "The Blair Witch Project"). A mate in the US told me that it doesn't match the hype but enjoyed it nonetheless.

 

[Caged Panther]

Saw a preview for it when I went to see I am legend over the weekend looked pretty good. Although they've gone the shaky cam style ah la blair which it's obviously got some pretty high quality production values.

 

[Mixmasterreece]

the 'fake news report' video from the link i posted above is fairly impressive.

alot of work has gone into this one.

 

[alien]

looks good from the trailer. ill see it soon

 

[Misanthrope]

I love the premise behind it. J.J Abrams decided that Hollywood didn't have any big, bad monsters of its own - and went from there. So simple.

 

[Eskimo Sharkie]

Saw it last night. Didn't live up to the hype. The jerky camera work was more annoying than anything and the movie just cut off at the end. A lot of stuff wasn't explained either and I expected a bit more given the success of "Lost".

 

[Eelectrica]

Thanks for that ES. Was thinking of seeing it.
I can't handle jerky camera work at all so I'll give it a miss.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

previews look sh*t. will be giving it a miss

 

[CC_Eagle]

Fairly awesome.

Made for a "Cloverfield 2" and possibly 3, but still quite a decent movie for it's genre.

 

[MC DUI]

Saw it last night. Didn't live up to the hype. The jerky camera work was more annoying than anything and the movie just cut off at the end. A lot of stuff wasn't explained either and I expected a bit more given the success of "Lost".

:lol: Have you ever watched Lost, that show never explains anything! :crazy:

There was no way this movie was ever going to answer all the questions relating to the monster.

Personally I thought it was a great movie, showed a monster flick from a perspective we have never seen before. Kinda like how Signs showed us an alien invasion from another point of view.

 

[Caged Panther]

:lol: Have you ever watched Lost, that show never explains anything! :crazy:

There was no way this movie was ever going to answer all the questions relating to the monster.

Personally I thought it was a great movie, showed a monster flick from a perspective we have never seen before. Kinda like how Signs showed us an alien invasion from another point of view.

Yeah having seen it I basically look at it as a different take on the whole disaster/monster movie genre and a good one at that too. It was a little short but had it been longer I think they would have just been padding it out.

Then again I guess it depends what you were expecting. Personally I didn't have any notion of what it was about other than the fact there was going to be something it that went around destroying alot of stuff.

 

[Munky]

Is it typical JJ Abrams?

In that nothing happens for 80% of the time yet it can be streteched on and on.

 

[McLovin]

Seeing this tonight...Looks impressive in the previews...

 

[roopy]

How fit were those seemingly slothful yuppies in their highheals etc.
Ran all over town for 4 hours and then decided to jog up 30 flights of stairs - impressive.

 

[AILD]

went and seen it today. when i first saw the previews i was "meh", not really a fan of monster movies...but holy sh*t this movie was really good IMO. If you dont like shaky hand held camera type movies then you will hate this. (i aint a fan of it really...dont bother me ethier way really) but the effects are awesome, acting is pretty good and the story is good too...

 

[McLovin]

This movie was effing awesome. The effects where second to none imo. The part where the soldiers start firing at it just made me want to pick up a weapon and start as well. Loved it...

 

[Caged Panther]

How fit were those seemingly slothful yuppies in their highheals etc.
Ran all over town for 4 hours and then decided to jog up 30 flights of stairs - impressive.

Not to mention the chick who was impailed with a steel rod but once she had it removed she was up and running as though nothing was wrong. As I said I liked this movie but that part just annoyed me.

 

[roopy]

Not to mention the chick who was impailed with a steel rod but once she had it removed she was up and running as though nothing was wrong. As I said I liked this movie but that part just annoyed me.

Yes - the impaled woman going in and out of a coma who got up and ran a half marathon must have taken some impressive drugs.

 

[McLovin]

Just found out the chick who gets bitten by one of the little farkers plays the role of the buff lesbian in Mean Girls. Big transformation...