My husband rented "Cloverfield" and it is nauseating -- even the soundtrack sucks!

[Radio_Lady]

What a loser!

Oh, well -- I'm here with you tonight!

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

1. I liked it.

Very fun monster movie.

[AlCzervik]

3. i liked it as well and i get sick watching video games, i had no problem with the camera

work in that movie and there wasn't as much of it as so many reviews claimed. I thougt i was a good popcorn movie.

[Enthusiast]

7. I also liked it. nt

[fortyfeetunder]

2. It was a so-so movie

Glad you just rented it!!!!

[Radio_Lady]

4. He's B=A=C=K!

"Did you see that?"

"What was that?"

He said the effects were pretty good, in a certain respect. You have to accept the premise of the movie that this is all being recorded by people with a simple-minded camera. The effects were pretty frightening.

Audio Al's Entertainment Number = 6/10

[Bicoastal]

5. "For God sakes, drop that camera and get the hell out of Manhattan!"

The only thing bad about the movie was the characters in it.

[JCMach1]

6. I agree, it was a LOAD of ________

After 15 min. of the nauseating camerawork, I pulled the plug.

[Bragi]

8. Not great, but good fun /nt

[Carnea]

9. I Liked it and my girl who hates both monster and shakey cam loved it as well. nt

[LanternWaste]

10. Really?...

I was planning on picking up the DVD when time, money and convenience converged. Is it really that bad?

Maybe I'll watch the first ten or fifteen minutes online and make a choice from there. If it really is bad, thanks RL! You just saved me $20.00! :)

[nuxvomica]

11. I think a certain sector of the audience just got nauseated

Thankfully I didn't and I pretty much enjoyed the movie but I can understand that some people had a physical reaction to the camera work and were going to hate it because I can't watch movies with a lot of strobing myself. If you want to see a better monster-attacks-city movie, see the Korean film, "The Host". That had one broad-daylight scene that was so disturbing it was as though it came from a nightmare.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. It was alright.

I don't get people who say they are actually nauseated when watching camcorder footage, but I guess such a condition exists. :shrug:

[Dogtown]

13. "Cloverfield" is to

"Giant Clumsy Monster" films, AKA "'Zillar Flicks"

as "Blair Witch Project" is to horror.

Interesting treatment, but it sure ain't art.




(anybody know why a non-word merits an apostrophe? How can a nonword have a missing letter?)

[sammythecat]

27. Good question.

I can picture George Carlin wondering about that.

[one mean sheath]

14. i liked it

but only because it was in a theater. i don't think i'd ever watch it on a not enormous screen.

[Fran Kubelik]

15. I enjoyed it.

:shrug:

I didn't expect art, and I sure didn't get it. But I was entertained.

[Sheets of Easter]

16. I thought it was a great film.

If you're the kind of film viewer that needs your action and suspense spoon-fed to you, then I can see why you might not like it. The fact that the monster remains unseen through most of the film was great, IMO.

[NJmaverick]

17. I watched the first 20 minutes

Couldn't stand anyone at the house party. I figured, "oh well, at least I should enjoy seeing them eaten by the monster". The problem is you really can't even enjoy that, thanks to their Blair Witch first person camera trick.

[El Fuego]

20. The first 20 minutes is like the long line at the thrill ride

It's boring, but it's worth the wait to get on the roller coaster. Once the action starts, it doesn't stop!

[Mad_Dem_X]

18. I liked it

The dinner-party scene went on a little too long, but after that, it was pretty cool.

**SPOILER**

However, I thought the part where they went back to save the one girl, and she just happened to still be alive, was kind of sily.

[bikebloke]

21. **Continued Spoiler**

She was impaled by a re-bar. They pulled her off. Yet she's up and running through the streets right afterwards. But then I guess if you're suspending disbelief in giant monsters, you can let that one slip by.

[PeaceNikki]

19. Awesome, thanks. I will be sure to check it out!

[Radio_Lady]

28. --deleted-- wrong place...

[terrya]

22. I haven't seen it, but I should definitely see it this weekend! Thanks a lot!

[redqueen]

23. I liked it.

:shrug:

[RaVeN_MeaD]

24. It had a Cthulhu feel to it.

Maybe it was because i was reading Shadow Over Innsmouth earlier that day

[ghostsofgiants]

25. A lot of people expected it to be a Cthulu film when the viral promotion started.

[MrScorpio]

26. I thought it was stupid

If a big ass monster attacks Downtown, why in Allah's name do you try to cross the Brooklyn Bridge?

Why is it too hard to head Uptown? Ooo, ooo too many scary black people?

The people in that movie were idiots.

[Orrex]

29. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it

Prior to watching it, I complained in this very Lounge that the POV-camera gimmick has never been used effectively for more than, say, 24 minutes of screentime.

Having seen the film, I now amend that view.

I have two complaints:

1. The build-up prior to the monster's arrival is too long. Everything that it accomplishes could have been accomplished in less than five minutes

2. The woman in the apartment who was impaled on rebar seemed remarkably unhurt by this debilitating injury. In a film that was aiming for reality-plus-monster, this was jarringly unrealistic.


I saw it on DVD, and I sympathize with those who couldn't stomach the POV-cam on the big screen.