Cloverfield
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Movie Reviews of Cloverfield
Movie Review: I wanted to hate Cloverfield, but ended up loving it.
Summary: 5 Stars
I was first exposed to Cloverfield at the theater previews, where my first reaction was, "Looks like a Blair Witch rip-off where people run around scared for two hours screaming with a hand held camera, only to be disappointed when the monster is not even revealed or shown." Because of my mistaken first impression, and because I didn't want to throw up, I refused to see the movie at the theatres and wanted to hate it. So when I finally did see it on pay per view, I was expecting a retarded movie. But I was pleasently suprised. The first hour of suspensful buildup never became boring (to me anyways), and when the creature was finally revealed, it was intenese and well worth the wait. The huge creature destroying New York was shown enough to be interesting , but not overdone to where it lost it's intensity or power. During the beginning I was thinking if I saw the movie in the theaters, I'd hate the motion of the camera, but by the end of the movie, I was thinking it may have been worth throwing up just to see the monster's destruction and massiveness on a larger then life big screen.
Earlier, I compared it to Blair Witch Project, which I despised. But who knows, if Blair Witch had a budget and effects and well designed creatures like Cloverfield, it may have had an enjoyable climax like Cloverfield. This critic will buy the DVD.
Movie Review: Godzilla was a metaphor for Hiroshima/ Cloverfield is a metaphor for September 11th
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is absolutely brilliant. The fast paced movement of this film and the pure sense of claustrophobia it creates amazes me. There are so many good things to say about this that I dont know where to begin. I can only mention a few because my review would take too long. I really feel that "Cloverfield" is destined to become a classic giant monster movie. Up there with the ranks of "Godzilla", and "The Host". I was on the edge of my seat the whole time due to the non-stop action and pure tension. The special effects are outstanding and the editing is fantastic. People have complained about the movement of the camera creating a nauseating feeling. I say .. Cool. That is what "Cloverfield" is about. It's about 4 people who happen to have a camera looking for a way to get out of harms way. Yes, at times it's nauseating to watch because of the movement but that only adds to what the film is. Trust me, this movie is Awesome. Believe all the good reviews that it has received. I only hope that this can be the start of a "New wave" of horror films featuring giant monsters. "The Host" Kicked butt and "Cloverfield" rocked. Let's do away with the current wave of sadistic torture horror movies and replace it with Kaigu - Giant monsters. I promise you will like this movie. Enjoy!
Movie Review: The new Pompeii
Summary: 5 Stars
In "Cloverfield" Director Matt Reeves takes a page from Tom Stoppard's "Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead": the familiar plot-points and characters of an epic tale are shifted to the background to tell the story of two ordinary people.
The movie presents as a standard (albeit with a second person-voice twist) SciFi Horror film with the (now) usual scenes: half-glimpses of a truly hideous creature, CGI destruction of expensive real estate, "alien" larval stages scurrying after the heroes in confined darkness (contact with whom leads to a messy end). But we quickly realize something is off: a tiny love story, an asterisk really, begins to unfold. In 3-second cuts, the playback from a damaged video-camera interleaves snippets of old footage with the main action of the film, recorded over it. Gradually we begin to care more about Beth and Rob's doomed relationship, forever frozen in time by the camera, than NYC's horrific demise.
We, the audience, are like archaeologists, who excavating Pompeii 1500 years after Vesuvius erupted, discovered cavities in the lava which entombed the village. When injected with plaster, these cavities revealed a couple locked in a final embrace seconds before they are overcome by the cloud volcanic ash and gases.
Movie Review: Can US culture maintain its own Godzilla?
Summary: 5 Stars
First, the movie is fantastic for what it is. I'm 52-years-old and was a bit bored by the party scenes that open the movie but once things start to happen with Clover then...well, things really start to happen! I've lived in Japan for twenty years, though, and can see how a culture like this one that so values its traditions can maintain an interest in and affection for its Godzilla, a manifestation of technology gone wrong, modernization gone wrong, weaponry and war gone wrong and so forth. But I don't think Abrams' will reach his goal of creating an American Godzilla because Americans just don't relish seeing their cities destroyed, their subways gnawed on, their military shown up to be powerless and impotent. (Keep in mind that Japan doesn't officially have an "army", and isn't officially allowed one, so here it's OK to make them look powerless -- as they don't officially exist!) This is a fantastic movie, though. I just hope Abrams doesn't try to build on this particular monster, Clover, in the same way in the sequel. I can't see how it could ever work. Many people in Japan and around the world are quite fond of Godzilla. I can't see this happening, and wouldn't care to see it attempted, with Clover. Ah! And the DVD special features are among the best I've seen.Movie Review: FOR ALL THE HATERS... Next time a monster attacks, you will be left behind to be eaten alive
Summary: 5 Stars
If you didn't like this movie, which it looks like a lot of people didn't, then I can pretty much guarantee that you probably liked Godzilla, ID4, Starship Troopers, War of the Worlds, Jackass, Superbad, Knocked Up and other MIND-NUMBINGLY stupid movies like those!!! Every character in Cloverfield represents someone YOU know...The hero who won't let the love of his life die alone, the best friend who copes by cracking jokes, the girl who is paralyzed with fear and her friend who doesn't want to be left alone (and ends up surviving)... Each of these characters do EXACTLY what REAL people would do when the most horrifying disaster we've ever seen starts to unfold.... Why does everything have to be explained to you people??? Oh, that's why, because you don't understand anything that isn't spelled out for you and force-fed down your throats... Everything is there on film even the hope filled ending... The tape WAS FOUND, WASN'T IT? The most honest, real, & emotional horror movie since 1979's Alien!! AND Give it a rest with the way it was filmed with the camera all over the place.... yeah it was obnoxious for the first 15 minutes while you got used to it. For a movie we have all seen a thousand times before, Cloverfield "roars" its way along side some of the greats!!!