JJ Abrams Movie, Cloverfield Monster

[Chrysalis]

Going to see this on Tuesday - I'd never even heard of it until yesterday. I'm trying not to raise my expectations as its been a while since I have seen a good monster film done well!

[sgt.null]

i thought it was agreat movie. (not a great film.) i thought it presented very well. i enjoyed the monster, the parasites. i enjoyed seeing a lot of NYC that i recognized. i loved the fact that not everything was explained. i loved the military being shown ina very positive light. the army guys are attacking this things with laws and machine guns? incredibly brave of them. i loved that it didn't turn out to be easily defeated.

[Cail]

F*cking brilliant! Cailette and I loved it. It was even more fun making fun of the knuckleheads in the theater walking out halfway through, and the ones bitching about the "lame" ending.

Absolutely excellent.

[balon!]

F*cking brilliant! Cailette and I loved it. It was even more fun making fun of the knuckleheads in the theater walking out halfway through, and the ones bitching about the "lame" ending.

Absolutely excellent.

Haha. I loved that too! Same thing in No Country. The people walking out are priceless.

[Montresor]

I saw an Austrian film called The Hotel one night at a film festival. Really good horror movie, which deliberately never explained itself, and ended very ambiguously. Loved it. I think I was the only one in the whole audience who did. On the way out, I overhead a million: "huh? I don't get it...that sucked," comments. I walked home feeling very smug and superior, contented in my film snobbishness, that night let me tell you.

[ItisWritten]

F*cking brilliant! Cailette and I loved it. It was even more fun making fun of the knuckleheads in the theater walking out halfway through, and the ones bitching about the "lame" ending.

Absolutely excellent.

I was warned that there would not be a traditional ending, and my wife, knowing I'm kind of traditional, worried that I might not like it. But this was so well done, I couldn't do anything but love it.

The ending fit with the motif. I mean, they presented the movie as a recovered recording. How else was it supposed to end? To do anything outside of the recording would have destroyed the film's premise.

[sgt.null]

i am sure a sequel will destroy the brilliant ending.

[balon!]

i am sure a sequel will destroy the brilliant ending.

I pray to the Movie Gods that they don't make a sequel, even IF there IS talk about it.

[Kil Tyme]

I did hear some talk. At the scene on the bridge there is a moment when the cameraman captures another guy with a camera and thay stay on eachother for a second before moving on. If there is a sequel, then it would be a movie from the second cameraman's viewpoint.

[sgt.null]

Spoiler

the bridge scene i could not make out. do we see the brother die? i will have to rent this one when it comes out.

Mod edit-For the love of God, if you're going to spoil the film, use spoiler tags!

[Loredoctor]

Spoilers, people. The ending has been revealed for me.

[Zarathustra]

I walked home feeling very smug and superior, contented in my film snobbishness, that night let me tell you.

Why does that not surprise me?

F*cking brilliant! Cailette and I loved it. It was even more fun making fun of the knuckleheads in the theater walking out halfway through, and the ones bitching about the "lame" ending.

Absolutely excellent.

Haha. I loved that too! Same thing in No Country. The people walking out are priceless.

I like to walk out of a movie making fun of the people who are making fun of the other people walking out, thinking they are priceless . . .

With so many opportunities for smug superiority, sometimes I can't decide who to make fun of next. Sometimes I even make fun of myself. That's the ultimate superiority high, when you're to cool for yourself.

[Cail]

I think that makes you the smuggest bastard ever, when you can look down at your own smugness.

[sgt.null]

Spoiler

sorry for the spoilers have never used tags. trying now.

[balon!]

F*cking brilliant! Cailette and I loved it. It was even more fun making fun of the knuckleheads in the theater walking out halfway through, and the ones bitching about the "lame" ending.

Absolutely excellent.

Haha. I loved that too! Same thing in No Country. The people walking out are priceless.

I like to walk out of a movie making fun of the people who are making fun of the other people walking out, thinking they are priceless . . .

With so many opportunities for smug superiority, sometimes I can't decide who to make fun of next. Sometimes I even make fun of myself. That's the ultimate superiority high, when you're to cool for yourself.

I bow to your reposte, mighty one.

[Montresor]

I walked home feeling very smug and superior, contented in my film snobbishness, that night let me tell you.

Why does that not surprise me?

I hope you felt some smug satisfaction with that.

[dANdeLION]

i thought it was agreat movie. (not a great film.)

Okay, I let this go for 4 days now, hoping someone would come along and explain this. So, I'm asking you, in this context, what's the difference between a folm and a movie?

[Cail]

Folm?

[Cameraman Jenn]

I've seen the previews and I don't think I can stomach the shakiness of the film. I hated the Blair Witch Project for the same reason. There is no excuse for anyone to film that shaky.

So sayeth the Camera Wielding Jenn!

[Cail]

I think the "shakyness" thing is part of the film's marketing. It looks exactly like it should look (like a half-drunk halfwit is holding a cheap camcorder as he is running through NYC while a giant monster destroys the city).