Cloverfield

[Evil Elvis]

What move was ID4? Too many freakin' acronyms...

Independence Day.  Also known as SHIT!:The Movie

[schild]

It's only known as "SHIT!" to people who can't shut their brain off before they walk into a theatre.

Hancock is going to fucking rule.

[Ironwood]

Who's Hancock ?

[schild]

Will Smith's character in his new movie.

Also, the title of the movie.

[Ironwood]

Ah.  So we've to 'Fucking Be There' ?

I ask merely for information.

[schild]

Ah.  So we've to 'Fucking Be There' ?

I ask merely for information.

He plays a superhero. That drinks. And sleeps on benches. And might be homeless. And causes more damage when he saves someone than the situation would have caused if it worked itself out.

[Evil Elvis]

"I make this cape look good".

I can hardly wait.

[schild]

"I make this cape look good".

I can hardly wait.

You're asking too much.

And somehow, with that avatar, I don't know how that could be.

[Ironwood]

Ah.  So we've to 'Fucking Be There' ?

I ask merely for information.

He plays a superhero. That drinks. And sleeps on benches. And might be homeless. And causes more damage when he saves someone than the situation would have caused if it worked itself out.

That sounds interesting.  Note the lack of green.

[Trippy]

Independence Day.

Edit: Weird I missed a page.

[sidereal]

[Surlyboi]

I liked it. Best. Movie. Evar? Hell no, but I did like it. And many douchebags with popped collars died.

Though, seeing my neighborhood get trashed sucked. Aaaand, unless Beth lived in the Mandarin Oriental hotel, her apartment was in the wrong tower on that building.

Hancock? Yeah, I'm seeing that.

[Moosehands]

There were two times when I had to actively bite my hand to keep from being the only guy laughing in the theater.  One of them was, "let's go inside and see how high we can get."  I wish I could remember the other, but it was probably just as juvenile.   

[LanTheWarder]

I went in with very low expectations and I walked out quite happy. The movie was very entertaining and my only real complaint was with the amount of running they  did the shaking camera got annoying on roughly two occasions.

Now I just hope they don't ruin it by attempting to do a sequel.

[Mazakiel]

I liked it, except for the fact that the shaky camera made me horrendously motion sick, more than anything I've ever seen.  Bourne movies, etc.  Nothing that bad.  So I may have left the theater feeling pretty awful, but I had been entertained.  As long as you shut your brain off, it's good. 

[MaceVanHoffen]

I liked Cloverfield a lot, without qualification.  The shaky camera in this instance was a plus.  It definitely captured that whole Blair Witch 'oh my god I'm in the movie' vibe.

I do wish they'd resolved more loose ends, though.  Maybe that's a telltale sign of a sequel.

[Rendakor]

Girl lays in her apartment dying for hours, then is sprinting for her life a scene later. How'd they survive the helicopter crash? Anyone bitching about not seeing the monster didn't watch the whole movie. Right before camera-douche gets eaten you get a pretty good look at it. Also, no closure at all. A text only screen with some military document detailing what happened, etc, would've been nice. I mean, you have to assume it was killed somehow, otherwise the tape would never have been found. Shaky cam never bothers me, don't get motion sick and I loved the Bourne movies. All in all, decent flick. Though, most of my theater was bitching that it sucked.

[Mazakiel]

Apparently, after the credits are done rolling, there's a radio broadcast that says it's still alive.  But it's played in reverse or something?  Dunno.  I smell a sequel or something either way, but who knows. 

[Rendakor]

Apparently, after the credits are done rolling, there's a radio broadcast that says it's still alive.  But it's played in reverse or something?  Dunno.  I smell a sequel or something either way, but who knows. 

When you're dying I'll be still alive. And when you're dead I will be still alive.

[MaceVanHoffen]

Yeah, it's pretty creepy at the end of the credits with that voice.  But it didn't really belong in the movie.  It was The Ring creepy, not Blair Witch creepy.  It was actually the only thing I didn't like.

I was disappointed, though.  I stayed until the credits were done hoping to see more monster goodness.

[Strazos]

I'll admit to liking it a lot as well, though with a few annoyances.

First, why do we have to be subjected to narration by the WORST character in the movie? I was hoping one of the chicks would pick up the camara and leave the fuck for dead.

Also, he didn't point to the monster enough....sure, there were some nice shots, but geez. Look at your feet, or film awesome monster?

Characters sucked. Premise and such Rocked.

Spoiler: I know I am not the only person who cheered inside a bit when the B2 Spirit bombed the shit out of the thing...only to have it leap back up alive.

[Kitsune]

Even going in with lowered expectations, I couldn't give it a better comment than 'it was entertaining'.  It's not a bold new landmark in the field of cinema by any measure, but stuff blew up and people died, so it satisfied my desire to see a monster beat the crap out of New York.

At least it was better than Godzilla and Transformers, to the extent that I didn't walk out of the theater unhappy about having spent money on it.

[Comstar]

The main character I think was called a "douchbag" at some point. Quite accurate. He's never played Half Life or he would have kept the crowbar.

Seems more like its a setup for a TV series, "Earth vs the Indestructible Monster".

[Simond]

It's only known as "SHIT!" to people who can't shut their brain off before they walk into a theatre.

So basically Cloverfield is like Independance Day in that it's essentially a B-Movie with a huge budget?
I have no issues with that.

[Rendakor]

Lots of ID4 hate in this thread. I didn't think it was that bad. But then, I saw it when I was 12...

[Strazos]

Heh, same.

[sidereal]

I saw The Abyss when I was 12.   That was a good movie.  Ooh, also Young Guns and Willow.

[Surlyboi]

I'll admit to liking it a lot as well, though with a few annoyances.

First, why do we have to be subjected to narration by the WORST character in the movie? I was hoping one of the chicks would pick up the camara and leave the fuck for dead.

Also, he didn't point to the monster enough....sure, there were some nice shots, but geez. Look at your feet, or film awesome monster?

Meh, if film awesome monster means getting munched on, I'm shooting my goddamn feet as I run like a little bitch.

Characters sucked. Premise and such Rocked.

Spoiler: I know I am not the only person who cheered inside a bit when the B2 Spirit bombed the shit out of the thing...only to have it leap back up alive.

Nah, I actually wanted the fucker to go down, that's my home town.

[Strazos]

But sometimes he wasn't running, just crouching while crying he's scared. Or filming his friends instead, while they point for him to film the monster.

[JWIV]

Saw it this afternoon.  Shit that was a fun movie.  It's not a cinematic masterpiece, but damn I enjoyed myself.   Definitely holes all over the film that are a bit of a distraction, but overall I really enjoyed it.   The shaky cam works and works well I thought. 

[Paelos]

Isn't shakeycam one of those things that makes Haemish's head explode into a barrage of shit-kicking attack ferrets?

If so, I'd like to hear a review out of him.

[Venkman]

What move was ID4? Too many freakin' acronyms...

Independence Day.  Also known as SHIT!:The Movie

Oh, yea, duh. I enjoyed it at the time. Hard to watch nowadays though. A bit to ra ra candycorn.

I was even more entertained by the arguments after the movies among the geekset.

[MaceVanHoffen]

I have the exact same view of ID4:  I enjoyed it at the time, but now I can't stand it.  Glad I didn't shell out for any DVD version of it 

Cloverfield is nothing like ID4, though.  I'm not sure why they'd even be mentioned together at all.

[sigil]

I went in with the "this is probably going to suck" mindset.

Was blown away. I was very happy with this whole thing.

I only really had a problem  with the one scene that everyone points out.

The helicopter thing? Since it landed where it landed, I would be possible to survive that if it landed a certain way The autorotation of the chopper gave it a more sustained descent than just falling out of the sky. At the least, it was more believable than the other scene.

Saw it  in a DLP cinema. As a side note I fucking love that.  To the point I'll skip the neighborhood cinema because it's the older, suckier technology.

[HaemishM]

Isn't shakeycam one of those things that makes Haemish's head explode into a barrage of shit-kicking attack ferrets?

If so, I'd like to hear a review out of him.

Sometimes. Shakycam is mostly a shitty tactic thrown into good films, and can really screw up an otherwise good film. Bourne Supremacy was REALLY REALLY BAD about it.

My review of Cloverfield is on my blog. If you don't want to read the whole thing, just know that I fucking loved it.