I saw it lastnight -- it was good.. I'm not a big fan of monster movies for reasons that they people in them are always stupid, but regardlless -- i enjoyed it.
I sat pretty close (not by choice at all) and i kinda got sick at times from the camerawork, but it was good
A big unexplained monster rampages through New York. Smaller unexplained monsters drop of the big unexplained monster. If you get bit by the small monsters something bad (unexplained) happens to you (I assume you die). The big unexplained monster tears up alot of stuff and the military launches lots of bullets, rockets and bombs at the big monster that have (inexplicably) no effect. The government decides to nuke the area to solve the problem. The film ends at the moment of the explosion leaving no reason for anything and no resolution.
IMHO the movie sucked (and that's being kind). No plot with lousy camera work. Essentially, it's Godzilla meets Abercrombie and Fitch filmed by the cameraman from The Blair Witch Project
Word must be getting out because the movie theatre was half full at a primetime showing on Saturday and a good dozen people got up and left 30 minutes into the movie (I assume to go watch "I am Legend" which started 35 minutes after Cloverfield).
At the conclusion of the movie, "That's it????" was repeated throughout the theatre and then some not so nice unprintable commentary followed. I've never seen such a vocal negative reaction to a movie within the theatre before.
IMHO the movie sucked (and that's being kind). No plot with lousy camera work. Essentially, it's Godzilla meets Abercrombie and Fitch filmed by the cameraman from The Blair Witch Project
Word must be getting out because the movie theatre was half full at a primetime showing on Saturday and a good dozen people got up and left 30 minutes into the movie (I assume to go watch "I am Legend" which started 35 minutes after Cloverfield).
At the conclusion of the movie, "That's it????" was repeated throughout the theatre and then some not so nice unprintable commentary followed. I've never seen such a vocal negative reaction to a movie within the theatre before.
First off, it's getting like a 76% on Rotten, so it's not an overwhemlming majority who don't like it.
Secondly, I knew people would get annoyed over it just ending like it did.
It's a movie based off a fictional home movie...how could it end any different?
It sucks to me that some people get so upset over things not being answered in full. It was a monster movie, it was awesome and it was worth seeing on the big screen.
LOL, "lousy camera work"
It's like you didn't even get what the movie was supposed to be about.
Cloverfield Destroying January Records Source: Box Office Mojo
January 19, 2008
Paramount Pictures' highly-anticipated Cloverfield dominated the box office its first day in theaters with an estimated $16.8 million from 3,411 theaters. Made for just $25 million (plus marketing costs), the J.J. Abrams-produced movie will easily beat the all-time 3-day January weekend record held by "Star Wars: Special Edition" ($35.9 million) and the 4-day Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend record held by Black Hawk Down ($33.6 million). Cloverfield's three-day total should come close to $50 million, and the four-day should surpass the $50 million mark.
Cloverfield Destroying January Records Source: Box Office Mojo
January 19, 2008
Paramount Pictures' highly-anticipated Cloverfield dominated the box office its first day in theaters with an estimated $16.8 million from 3,411 theaters. Made for just $25 million (plus marketing costs), the J.J. Abrams-produced movie will easily beat the all-time 3-day January weekend record held by "Star Wars: Special Edition" ($35.9 million) and the 4-day Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend record held by Black Hawk Down ($33.6 million). Cloverfield's three-day total should come close to $50 million, and the four-day should surpass the $50 million mark.
A big unexplained monster rampages through New York. Smaller unexplained monsters drop of the big unexplained monster. If you get bit by the small monsters something bad (unexplained) happens to you (I assume you die). The big unexplained monster tears up alot of stuff and the military launches lots of bullets, rockets and bombs at the big monster that have (inexplicably) no effect. The government decides to nuke the area to solve the problem. The film ends at the moment of the explosion leaving no reason for anything and no resolution.
IMHO the movie sucked (and that's being kind). No plot with lousy camera work. Essentially, it's Godzilla meets Abercrombie and Fitch filmed by the cameraman from The Blair Witch Project
Word must be getting out because the movie theatre was half full at a primetime showing on Saturday and a good dozen people got up and left 30 minutes into the movie (I assume to go watch "I am Legend" which started 35 minutes after Cloverfield).
At the conclusion of the movie, "That's it????" was repeated throughout the theatre and then some not so nice unprintable commentary followed. I've never seen such a vocal negative reaction to a movie within the theatre before.
Glad your post was edited. Nice, mature, move there ruining it for people. To be honest, I would have removed your post entirely since 90% of people can't contain themselves when it comes to pressing the "spoiler" button anyways.
So you don't like it? That's fine. But why be an ass and ruin it for everyone? This seems to be the type of movie that you either hate or love. A good portion of my theater, for example, was clapping after it ended and everyone was saying how awesome it was.
Everyone has there opinion and my is the exact opposite of yours. Blair Witch was horrible in my eyes. Going into Cloverfield it was pretty easy for me to just pretend I was DoD investigator and this was one file I was to use in my investigation.
If you thought you were going to get answers about the monster well then you don't know how JJ Abrams works.
Glad your post was edited. Nice, mature, move there ruining it for people. To be honest, I would have removed your post entirely since 90% of people can't contain themselves when it comes to pressing the "spoiler" button anyways.
So you don't like it? That's fine. But why be an ass and ruin it for everyone? This seems to be the type of movie that you either hate or love. A good portion of my theater, for example, was clapping after it ended and everyone was saying how awesome it was.
Movie was terrible. Glad you outed it Fiasco. You will save several couples the 20 bucks. The things that pass for entertainment today are troubleing. My 2 cents.....I left half way thru and went and caught Charlie Wilsons War. Much better IMO
Movie was terrible. Glad you outed it Fiasco. You will save several couples the 20 bucks. The things that pass for entertainment today are troubleing. My 2 cents.....I left half way thru and went and caught Charlie Wilsons War. Much better IMO
I personally liked the movie, didn't think it was great.....but thought it was visually impressive. What I don't get though is the people here that are intentionally ruining the movie or saying that is ok because they didn't like it. If you don't like the movie thats fine, but there are more than enough people that have liked it that you don't need to go ruin it for others. It was a movie shot from a handheld camera, how did you expect it to end?
I personally liked the movie, didn't think it was great.....but thought it was visually impressive. What I don't get though is the people here that are intentionally ruining the movie or saying that is ok because they didn't like it. If you don't like the movie thats fine, but there are more than enough people that have liked it that you don't need to go ruin it for others. It was a movie shot from a handheld camera, how did you expect it to end?
Exactly. People that intentionally ruin movies are, well, ********. There's a TON of people pumped for this movie (me included - ever since seeing the teaser on opening night of Transformers), so ruining it is just ********. I would have been furious if I accidentally read Fiasco's post before it was edited.
