Cloverfield goodness

drunk_medic

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Saavedro88;891297 said:
Any one else see the Star Trek trailer that J.J. is directing????

I have never been a fan of ST, but the trailer made it look halfway interesting - basically it looks like they are showing the very beginning of it all.
I think one thing about ST that never appealed to me is their way of life. It is basically the perfect working model of a small communist society, if the "perfect" theory of communism could ever become a reality.
 

Saavedro88

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I agree with you on the "perfect society" but not on the Communism thing. It's always seemed a little corny to me, but heck, it's still a sweet show about outer space!!!
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Now that I've started to think about it... I guess your theory kinda makes sense... but I still dont like it... and therefore will not continue to think about it! ;)
 

Element256

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AWESOME movie !! I avoided all trailers and posts about it just because I knew JJ wouldn't disappoint. Everything in it was new and fresh since I didn't watch any previews and it was quite the suspensful masterpiece.
When they were in the subway it was OMGWTFBBQ !!
 

Johnny Dangerously

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Element256;891861 said:
AWESOME movie !! I avoided all trailers and posts about it just because I knew JJ wouldn't disappoint. Everything in it was new and fresh since I didn't watch any previews and it was quite the suspensful masterpiece.
When they were in the subway it was OMGWTFBBQ !!

yeah, saw it..fuckin loved it. The more i think about it, the more i liked it.

I actually enjoyed the shakey cam, it made the film feel more "real". I felt like I was there, running with them, making stupid decisions like going to the opposite end of town to save a chick, the subway scene...all that. Fuckin awesome.

subway scene, that got me right there!
 

Jaguar_5

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Decent movie, too short, left too much in the dark, not worth my money.

The more i think about it, the more disappointed I am
 

Johnny Dangerously

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Jaguar_5;891960 said:
Decent movie, too short, left too much in the dark, not worth my money.

The more i think about it, the more disappointed I am

i think of it this way....if youre seeing the point of view of abercrombie and fitch rich kids who are having a great time at a party....how much should you really have to know??
 

Jervis Mcstabby

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It's not like you had no idea of what happened by the end. It filmed in a "real life" context, and as such some things were left in the dark, unresolved (like real life!). I guess my advice is: If you need a movie to beat you over the head with an ending full of conflict resolutions, go watch a romantic comedy. If like a genuinely entertaining movie, go see this movie!
 

Nomad707

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me and my wife saw it today... it was pretty damn crazy... i loved it all the way through,,,, but the ending was a pile of steamy horseshit... everyone sat in the theatre and was like dude wtf thats it??? other then that its really fresh... cool style of filming.. once you get past the sausage party in the begining (damn preppies) it got pretty good... needed more guns though
 

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Caution... this post contains spoilers. If you're really worried about that, you should have seen the damn film already.

Decent film. The camera work was fucking annoying. The extra bits of love story cuts in the middle were a big wtf - camcorders don't operate that way, dumbass. The starting 'credits' said it was retrieved from a memory card - I'd like to know where the hell you can buy a memory card that gives you 80 minutes of video footage. Plus the guys in the movie were referring to the tape - maybe they were just ignorant, who knows. Oh, and that has got to be the toughest god damn video camera ever built, it took some serious beating and keep on running fine.

The helicopter pilot was an idiot. Darwin was right on the money with him.

The thing that I liked about it was the way it leaves you with enough evidence to figure out a whole lot more than what was directly shown. Like for instance... they cannot have nuked it, because the EMP would have wiped the camcorder. They must have pushed it back, or beaten it, because otherwise the army wouldn't have been searching in the rubble for video cameras. The phrase 'formerly known as Central Park' leads you to believe that it's not there anymore, at least not in any way that you would refer to as a park. They already bombed the shit out of it, with zero effect, so wtf was next - what would the president consider an 'intermediate' step between carpet bombing and going nuclear? Vx gas?

Oh, and the Iron man trailer rocked. :D
 

Jervis Mcstabby

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GrimJack;892263 said:
The helicopter pilot was an idiot. Darwin was right on the money with him.
Aforementioned movie cheese

Saavedro88 said:
Meh... It'll probably suck... I've been so upset with the recent marvel movies...
Spiderman was kind of a whiny bitch in number three, and not sure what anyone expected out of the Fantastic Four sequel. Anyway, Iron Man has Robert Downey Jr., it can't fail!
 

cuel

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Kinda??

Anyway, I saw Cloverfield Sat., and liked it. It wasn't as bloody as I thought it would be, but it was still good. I really liked the close up of the monster in the end. Evil looking, like a monster should be. The end was good, non-typical. I already expected them to die, as the camera was found... Ether the army figured out a way to kill the monster and its little friends, or they (monsters) moved on to the rest of the country(kind of the way I took it from the beginning was that the people were still at war with it).
 

JASONA70

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the constant shaking of the camera made my eyes hurt X_X. The plot wasn't written very well, but graphics and action was ok.