Cloverfield doesn't live up to the hype. They clearly had a sequel in mind when they made this movie. At the end of the movie, I went "That's it?".
It's a love story with the monster as a sideshow. Yes you get to see the monster, but it doesn't even touch on what the monster is, where did it come from, why is it attacking Manhattan, etc. I didn't go to see the movie just to see a monster being hit by missiles, but that's what the movie really is. Who gives a shit about the love story, I want the monster to be the star of the movie, not a bunch of yuppies with relationship problems. I have nothing against sequels but at least make the first movie a complete movie, and not just a jumping point for the real movie. And the camcorder style thing, was okay, it didn't bother me that much, but I prefer normal traditional camera style.
A real disappointment. Not worth my 10 bucks. I hope the movie doesn't do well, so they won't have to make a lame sequel.
It's a love story with the monster as a sideshow. Yes you get to see the monster, but it doesn't even touch on what the monster is, where did it come from, why is it attacking Manhattan, etc. I didn't go to see the movie just to see a monster being hit by missiles, but that's what the movie really is. Who gives a shit about the love story, I want the monster to be the star of the movie, not a bunch of yuppies with relationship problems. I have nothing against sequels but at least make the first movie a complete movie, and not just a jumping point for the real movie. And the camcorder style thing, was okay, it didn't bother me that much, but I prefer normal traditional camera style.
A real disappointment. Not worth my 10 bucks. I hope the movie doesn't do well, so they won't have to make a lame sequel.
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100% CORRECT. I walked out after the ridiculous subway scene and got my money back. What a rip off. The shaky handheld camera made me sick and nauseous. NOBODY in the entire movie ever utters the words "monster" or "creature". It's as if in this reality, monster movies never existed and nobody knew how to describe it. The sound the creatures made in the subway was a sound I know I've heard in other movies and the references to Superman and Garfield were just plain STUPID. Who does J. J. Abrahms think he is? Screw going to see the Start Trek movie he's directed. Save your money.
My thoughts exactly eslabs! Clearly, J.J. Abrams was using his usual mystery/cryptic theme for this film, however Mr. Abrams and co. went too far and I left the theatre feeling what everyone does about the girl that plays TOO hard to get: cute at first but after a while she's tiresome & not worth it with all the other fish in the sea.. All in all, I too was annoyed by the Monster chaos being second to the yuppie love story and felt the lack of information about the monster- and the aftermath of the attacks- was like a bad break up: there was no closure. Sorry J.J., I guess long gone are the days of Alias... I can only hope Star Trek is not a total disappointment.
Underdeveloped. What about the offspring that fell off of the monster? As I remember there was only three parts of the movie that they were seen, and two of those sceens were to make boring parts less boring. They seemed to be after thoughts to make this short movie longer. And did anyone noticed that they looked like they came straight from Starship Trooper? JJ wanted a monster movie? Then focus on the monster! The best part of this movie was that it's over! At one point in the movie I snickered and the whole theater laughed because they were all thinking the same thing.
I to will have to agree on saving ones hard earned money. Save 5 buck and by the boot leg, trust, it will look the same. The only thing I found remotly clever, was at the very end, when the date started playing, if your watching the ocean, he actually captured the monster falling from space and splashing. Aside from that. Not a fan.
The worst movie I have seen in a long time. The cinematics were ok, but there was literally no part in the movie that I liked. I thought the whole home video thing was going to be over in maybe the first ten minutes but it lasted through the whole movie! The camera was shaking around so much you couldnt see what was going on. On top of that the plot sucked as it was even if it was filmed normal it still would have sucked, the home video thing was just the icing on the cake. Please dont see this horrible movie.
It was so bad that I flushed my ticket stub down the toilet, after urinating on it (the ticket).
Think it is more likely that this will become a low budge tv series following up on the whole japanese phony corporation/energy drink thing.
They could probably use the scenes of the monster not included in the theatrical release for the series.
Ed in Sacramento
I was looking forward to Star Trek, but Abrams has angered me so much by this movie, I'm not seeing it until it's on free cable. Not spending money on that movie may help to get my 7.75 back, unfortunately, i'll never get my 1.5 hours back. Curse you Abrams from making this. If you do Lost this way, I'll personally do what I can to call for a boycott of all future work you or Bad Robot are involved in. No film goer should be subjected to such crap.
Come on, give the movie a break. I am not bashing anyone, you are entitled to your opinion, but the movie met my expectations. It its not centered around the monster, and that is why so many people were mad or "wanted their money back" Punk Drunk Love, now that is a movie to get your money back on. It was a good spend and really an eye opener.
Absolute crap! The Blair Witch project worked because the creators had no money and the whole documentery approach was creative, for a big budget film it was lame. An hour and a half of shaky camera work just made me sick and every time you thought you were going to see the monster the camera moved! This movie had no purpose. HATED IT!
THIS MOVIE SUCKED!! I went to see it with a group of friends expecting it to be the highlight of our night. Instead I spent half of the movie with my eyes closed because I thought I was going to be sick from the camera. Save your money and just take your own video camera, spin around in circles panting: "what the hell was that" and replay it and you have seen the whole thing. At one point I got so nausious that I actually left the theatre for about 10 minutes. The only thing that kept me from leaving entirely was the girl sitting next to me. WASTE OF MONEY!!
To start, the graphics sucked, and the story line was cheap! J.J. Abrams should be ashamed of himself for calling himself a Godzilla fan. Thank God this was not another remake of Godzilla or another Japanese film. Fact: Americans don't do well with remakes of Japanese Anime or Live Action films. The commercials don't hold up to ones expectations. The commercials make it seem that this is going to be about a giant monster and J.J. Abrams even has said this on TV short interviews. Fact is this is not about a giant monster at all; it is about a guy trying to save his girlfriend from the havoc situation-taking place. Holding the camcorder thing does not work well here; it only worked in Blair Witch. Save your money and wait until it comes out on DVD, and even then wait until it goes off the "New Release" section to save even more money. The acting was poor to boot.
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what is the deal with all these crap endings in movies lately? war of the worlds is another one that sucked donkey dongs. anyway, to address this stupid movie "cloverfield", i echo what many people have said. i just about got sick from the shaky camera crap (and it took me over an hour to get over it even after the movie was done). also, what the hell was the point? zero explanation of any kind about anything that was going on. and enough already with this early 20 somethings mellowdrama diarreaha. trite doesn't even begin to describe the characters and their predictable been done 8 million times over kind of lives. gees, i wish i could go back and prevent that stupid 90210 from being created. what a horrible influence it has been on society. as for this movie, nobody is going to a movie like this for the stupid characters. this is an epic movie and should be treated as such. this is not an intellectual movie. take the transformers movie for instance. nobody is going for the damn acting. they're going to see it for explosions and things and epic battles and such. with that said, i do think it is possible to have a movie that has it all......... great story line, great acting, great action sequences, etc.........(i.e. spiderman) but, in a movie like cloverfield if you are only going to focus on one thing, at least focus on the one thing that makes the most common sense in focusing on. no one wants to see chaotic mellowdramatic dawson's creek B.S. with a side order of giant monsters and military explosions. this has got to be the most disappointing sci-fi movie i have seen in a really really long time. total garbage.
Cloverfield kicks ass??? Seriously??? You're standing by that statement??? You must love Dawsons Creek, or Smallville, or 90210, or gossip girl etc... I could go on all day. This movie is terrible with cliche' characters, bad plot, stupid love story focus, and all and all just boring. I almost fell asleep cause it was so boring. Its just running around, stupid terrible joke line from hud, run some more, hud joke and flirt and then run some more...repeat. The only people who will like this movie are those that were born 1993 or later. Anyone over the age of 12 knows better
the movie was terible itd wasnt scary not a monster flick it was a crapy ass love story the monster is like a jiant blimp he has like 4rth main charecter and if you have a weak stumick dont watch this movie cause they used a shaky home camera and you could bairley see a thing its all shaky DONT WATCH AT ALL!!!!!
here is how it goes run crapy joke hit on the girl run some one gets killed crapy joke cryung girl run deth run some more deth dont see this it as crapy like star treck yes star terck
OMFG - I would've rather played monopoly with my 2 y.o. sister~thanx Abrams, I now have shitty movie induced epilepsy!
Cloverfield does suck worse movie in movie history. Worse than the blair witch project. thought i would never see a worse movie. I want my money back plus 1,000,000 for having to watch this junk
I couldn't even get through 10 minutes of it.. How horrible.. I'm glad I got it from the Library and didn't pay to see it.. Or not see it I should say...
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