Cloverfield
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Movie Reviews of Cloverfield
Movie Review: The Poster is better than the Movie!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
What others have said is true: this is a clumsy hybrid of Blair Witch and the most recent Godzilla film with Matthew Broderick, right down to the baby monsters popping up all over. There is nothing original here at all, actually. (Orson Welles used the same techniques on radio nearly 70 years ago - but his "War of the Worlds" was ground-breakingly brilliant!) This flick's poster is more rivetting than the actual film - yet even the poster is derivative of the closing shots of the original 'Planet of the Apes.' I also never knew any camcorder battery to last as long as Hud's does in this movie. The monster also looks totally fake and stupid. Anyway - a far better film in this same genre is "The Host" out of South Korea a few years ago. Now there was a well-made big monster movie with big human themes! Terrific special effects and music score, too. Lousy dubbing...but still a thousand times better than "Cloverfield." Movie Review: One Helluva Movie...
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was great in theaters and I love it a whole lot more in my house on the blu-ray playerMovie Review: Great
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed this flick. A great original take on the classic monster/disaster movie. Well done end to end.
It left me wondering if the sequel(there will be one) will be like this one with a hand-held camera or a traditional movie or a combination.
The Bluray picture quality was very nice considering it was a camcorder perspective. It also made seeing that curious "event" at the end in Coney island easier to see ;-)
Movie Review: The Ultimate Godzilla Genre Film
Summary: 5 Stars
Feel good films are about feeling good, and feel bad films are about feeling bad. Cloverfield's nausea inducing amateur camera perspective succeeds brilliantly both as a Shakespearean mood device and Hitchcockian suspense device that sets the viewer quite ill at ease, complementing and heightening the horror of the circumstances, and making the viewer feel badly. The shaking, slanted, scrambling kinematics create a sense of motion sickness, panic, and dissorientation, while the subject of the horror, the monster, is captured only fleetingly, a "less is more" tuanting that has the viewer stretching his neck to get a good look, masterfully Hitchcockian.
With so many predecessor monster flicks having desensitized movie goers for several generations, this film was quite risky. It could have been a routine flop had it taken the safe, but incongruous approach of allowing us to witness this order of death and mayhem with the greater sense of ease and comfort rendered with traditional cinematography. Incorporating the amateur camera prepective ensured that the monster absolutely made the viewer feel as sick as possible.
At 45, I thought I was too old and jaded to get enthused about yet another monster flick, but Cloverfield is a worthy refresher of the Godzilla genre, a truly slick film.
Movie Review: Guilty Pleasure & it's Multi-Regional
Summary: 4 Stars
I was initially put off by this film, as the critics compared it to Blair Witch, which I hated. Anyhow when it appeared on DVD / Blu-Ray I read further reviews stating "If you enjoy films such as Godzilla, then you'll love this". Having recently purchased a PS3 I bought this on Blu-Ray American, as it isn't yet available in the UK.
I loved every minute of it, if anything I just wish it was longer. Some people didn't like the Shaky cam effect, but this didn't bother me at all, if anything I was even more absorbed by the film. Great film that definately required repeat viewings.