Cloverfield
February 01, 2008
I got to see Cloverfield twice, and I must that that it was a pretty awesome experience. I say experience mainly because you felt the plight of the main characters. Minute by minute you are glued to your chair wondering what will happen next and will our characters live happily ever after.
We start off at a going away party for the main character’s going-away-to-Japan-cause-you-are-a-wealthy-young-vice-president-of-a-big-company. Then everyone is having a good time, you have everyone dancing, drinking, and mingling which means the party was pretty nifty. Then explosions! Vibrations! Screaming! Loud noises!
The characters are swell. You have the lovable cameraman, Hud, who makes the movie more fun with hilarious dialogue. I would mention things he said, but that would ruin the laughs you may get out of him. You just can’t help but think that Hud is a cool dude. The other characters are attractive New York females who have money, because if you see where they live, you would understand. Actually, I think all the characters have decent money and careers that allow them to pay the rent for their one bedroom lofts overlooking Central Park.
The monster, which was the most intriguing point to me, was not a disappointing creation at all, when you see this creature you can’t help but think, “What the f*ck!?” It is massive; it is an ugly color and an ugly looking thing. You never really get to see a full view of the creature, but you see enough of it to draw up what it looks like in your head. I would say the monster is a cross between a squid, an ant lion, an alien (from the movie Aliens) and a cat. Okay, not a cat, but that should draw up something in your head. To top this creature off, you have these little scabies that fall of the monster and run rampant through the city. If you have played Half Life 2, you might recognize these ugly little bastards as the ant lions that popped out of the sand. Then at one point you get to control those ant lions which were awesome because it was pretty sweet to make the ant lions attack the combines. Then when you part ways with these creatures, you feel a bit lost…but back to Cloverfield. The parasites that fall off the monster remind me of the ant lions in Half Life.
What gets me is that this dude apparently has a “super camera” that has no image stabilization of any kind, or Hud really enjoys to hold the camera sideways. Then again, I guess when you are running for your life you aren’t thinking of the perfect shot. All I know is that this camera has an amazing battery life and is made of titanium. Of course many people didn’t enjoy the movie as much as I did. Many were getting all nauseus and had to leave the theater. It’s totally justified, I myself got a bit dizzy, but I got over it. The best responses to the movie were from the people behind us. They went as following:
“Awwww hell naw.”
“They hyped it all up for this? This is stupid!”
“No, that’s it?”
Point of my story is, go check it out. I can go in depth and stuff, but really…what is there really to talk about. It’s a movie about some guy saving his true love while this monster rampages through Manhattan killing and destroying everything.
It’s really awesome though.
