Movie review post. Went to catch Cloverfield last night with the entourage. I at first wasn't to keen on going, after reading the reviews say the monster didn't really live up to the hype. But I came out of the cinema feeling the movie was refreshing, even though only myself and Farrish shared the same view, the rest were very disappointed.
First of all the movie is Blair Witch meets Godzilla. The whole movie was just a camcorder recording of the whole night. I was very intrigued with what camcorder they were using, since in my calculations the whole movie took space in 12 hours. Very good battery life and very durable. The cast were all unknowns to give that regular citizens feel. You can see the panic (as well as one very irritating character) just trying to survive. As for the monster, I was expecting more actually. And I still have no idea what it is. Which is meant to be the whole idea. The idea was we were never meant to understand the movie on the outside. Just what was going on through the minds of the main characters. We don't know where the monster came from or what it is. We don't know what happened at the end to Manhattan. We don't know what became of the monster. What we know is what was seen through the lens of the camcorder. You have to understand the movie from where its coming from to understand the movie.
By the way the movie was only an hour twenty minutes long.
First of all the movie is Blair Witch meets Godzilla. The whole movie was just a camcorder recording of the whole night. I was very intrigued with what camcorder they were using, since in my calculations the whole movie took space in 12 hours. Very good battery life and very durable. The cast were all unknowns to give that regular citizens feel. You can see the panic (as well as one very irritating character) just trying to survive. As for the monster, I was expecting more actually. And I still have no idea what it is. Which is meant to be the whole idea. The idea was we were never meant to understand the movie on the outside. Just what was going on through the minds of the main characters. We don't know where the monster came from or what it is. We don't know what happened at the end to Manhattan. We don't know what became of the monster. What we know is what was seen through the lens of the camcorder. You have to understand the movie from where its coming from to understand the movie.
By the way the movie was only an hour twenty minutes long.
2 comments:
I was more irritate with not knowing the origin of the creature than being disappointed by the movie.
It does bring back to mind 9/11 due to the fallen buildings and floating dust and debris. All in all, not such a bad movie.
Though, I still want my money back.
haha, no refunds dude..like i said the movie is not about the monster, anyone can make a monster movie (and we're bored of it), we might as well watch ultraman, anyways this movie has a lot of viral marketing sites, go check it out (even the characters have their on-screen myspace)
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