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I was so tired this morning I put the coffee pot on the machine without pouring it into the brewer. Mmm, hot water.

Cloverfield had some cool previews. Iron Man looks surprisingly awesome, Hellboy 2 looks fun (though I wanna see the first one with sound and sans vomit first) and the Star Trek teaser, though it revealed very little, was pretty great as well.

Aright, it be Cloverfield spoiler time. Like I said ~~last night~~ this morning, it was an awesome, awesome movie. I might see it again. I didn't get nauseous from the camera work, but it was almost...dizzying at points. I looked at the theater and my feet periodically to ground myself and help with this. It really wasn't too bothersome.

Some thoughts.
-The trailer is actually misleading about the order in which some things happen (which I expected) and who they happen to (which I didn't). So even if you think you've got a lot figured out from watching teasers and leaked stuff, it's still really interesting.
-The whole thing felt really REAL. Afterward I kept saying how it'd happen just like in the movie. I mean, maybe not the monster, who knows, but the human responses, and all the stuff going on around them. It REALLY felt like the characters were normal people in a drama-action thriller happening to someone else, which was kinda awesome. If you like that kind of immersion you'll like this.
-We do see the monster several times, a couple times very clearly. And it was quite cool, though to me, the coolness is not so much from how it looks as it is the sheer scope and power of it. It's just breathtaking to see it stomping around the city from above at one point.
-You'll generally know when something scary is about to happen-is anyone surprised that bad things happen in a dark subway tunnel? That doesn't make it less scary. I'm really glad

lovediamond was there so we could squeeze hands and she wouldn't call me a weenie.
-The movie does not explain where the monster comes from and if you've been following along with the viral background stuff, it's not really touched upon, though one person is wearing a Slusho shirt. Hee. I don't mind this at all; it'd feel really shoehorned in if they stuck in some of that stuff. Like, why would a group of normal people trying to survive be able to figure out the secret origins of the monster? The whole point is it's not that kind of action movie. But it's still fun to know about the viral things just for your own sake.
-For a lot of the movie, the group is balanced in terms of guy to girl ratio, which I like. It's nicer than having one token chick to be the long interest or example of a demographic or what the fuck ever.
-Hud, the guy behind the camera, is funny without being gratuitous. He just seems like a somewhat dorky guy who uses humor as a defense mechanism, which is realistic and helps lighten things at times.

There aren't any extras with the credits besides music, which is of course lacking throughout the movie. The "Cloverfield overture" is titled "Roar!" Heh. But at the end, there's a brief recorded, weird whispery sound. Some people played it backwards and what does it (very clearly) say?

"It's still alive."

Awesome.

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It sounds good - except for the camera shakiness. I'm not good with that at all. Sounds like I'll have to load up on dramamine before seeing this one.

I like those shows that isolate you from knowing the whole picture, and you figure things out as the situation progresses. And who has time to run a full background investigation on the event while trying to stay alive?

It REALLY felt like the characters were normal people in a drama-action thriller

I like that, and the fact that they don't reveal everything so you're left as shell-shocked as the (surviving) characters. If there are any, lol. That whisper at the end is very cool. Ah, Hollywood... always leave room for a sequel.

I can top that. My ex's father poured the water into the coffee maker and then forgot to put the pot underneath.

So the extremely hot water poured all over the glass table the coffee maker was on. And it broke.

Oh my god that's so cool. XD (The whisper thing.) Freaky!!

Trek preview? [jealous whimper]

I hunted you down, I hope you don't mind. >.>

sache told me someone on her flist had posted about the movie when I was gushing about it last night, and I'm distressed by the lack of commentary on my own flist so I went through hers until I found you, heh. <.<

The realness of the movie was what stuck out to me the most. I loved all the little details along those lines, like people taking pictures of Liberty's head with their cell phones and stuff. People in the theater giggled at that part, but that is absolutely what would happen in real life. You could tell they put a lot of thought into what the natural reactions of humanity would be. I was really impressed by that. And amused by the looters pausing to watch the news with their arms full of stolen electronics. xD

I've seen some criticism of the dialogue in the movie, but I thought that was really natural too. Real humans aren't polished characters. In a crisis situation, we're going to be babbling about senseless crap and muttering that we don't know what to say. It might not be genius dialogue, but it's realistic.

BTW, I've heard you can see the monster falling to Earth in the Coney Island flashback scene at the end.

I don't mind at all. :) I pretty much agree with what you say here. I can spot some nitpicky flaws here and there (and the leaning building sequence was pretty unrealistic, but very scary) but in the end, it was just an awesome, well-done movie.

One of the people I went with saw the fall at the end, but I missed it! Must see again.

I loved Cloverfield SO MUCH. Caught the first matinee right before I had to head in to work. (Still managed to make it to work a whole TEN MINUTES EARLY! Go me!)

There is so much wonderful with the movie, and you summed it up well.

...but, I wanted to say thank you so much for the DS games, that was so sweet of you! (Thanks for the DBZ figure too! Is tres cute!) We did get a DS for Christmas, so this is really nice! Thank you again.

Oh yay, I'm glad they got there okay! I hope the games are fun--I've never tried them myself XD I'm really happy you guys are getting back some of what you had before those jerkwads broke in.

That was an awesome movie!

By the way I was checking out your LJ and I really liked it!

Scott and I saw this movie this weekend - dude, so awesome. Even though I'm usually not frightened by (or even interested in) monster movies, I was actually pretty freaked out for this one. It wasn't the monster per se, but the movie was so good at putting you in the midst of this extreme state of panic - THAT is what freaked me out. Also, the "let's walk through the subway tunnels!" part was so obviously a bad idea, I kept kind of ranting at the movie screen. Quietly, of course XD

The movie does not explain where the monster comes from

Scott was saying he'd really liked to have known what happened with the monster "after" the movie. I have that curiosity also, but I kind of like that you really don't know anymore than the main characters did. Because that is what makes it the most realistic - if you're in the middle of a disaster, you won't know exactly WHY things are happening and if there are plans to rescue you, etc. And if you die before "the end", then that's it. You never even know what killed you. That level of realism makes it all the more disturbing.

I think I'll need to see this again, though I wonder if it can withstand repeated viewings, or if it'll just seem silly the second time.

ROAR!

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