Anyone else interested in Cloverfield?

Jet_Jaguar · Post by **Jet_Jaguar** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:50 -0700

At first, I was only mildly interested in this movie, but I've become intrigued after hearing some early reactions:

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/005249.html

"It's amazing in that it's so short (by my watch about 74 minutes without credits), and yet so fierce," writes Jeffrey Wells. "This movie is REM madness. It is Guillermo del Toro on a tab of brown acid with a little crack thrown in."

If I were in charge of marketing for this movie, I think that's the quote I would put on the poster. I was a little surprised to hear that it's so short, which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing, but IMO, anything that's only about 74 minutes sans end credits should really be part of a double bill with something else.

Tinlantern · Post by **Tinlantern** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 18:30 -0700

Absolutely.

I will be at at the midnight showing.

Jet_Jaguar · Post by **Jet_Jaguar** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 19:27 -0700

This sounds interesing:

Cloverfield Manga Offers More Cryptic Clues

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/01 ... d-man.html

Jet_Jaguar · Post by **Jet_Jaguar** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:23 -0700

I saw this movie Friday night, and while it's not a new genre masterpiece or anything like that, I thought that it was a pretty entertaining Godzilla (1998)/Alien/Starship Troopers/28 Days Later/Blair Witch Project mashup. If you can see it in a packed theater on a Friday night, that's the way to go. I never paid much attention to the online hype surrounding this movie, so I had no expectation of it really being anything other than that. It has some good scary moments that make it worth seeing, and if you want them to really work, you probably need to see it in a theater no matter how big your home theater is.

I do think that some of the reviews I read just before it came out hype it a little too much and that calling it "Guillermo del Toro on a tab of brown acid with a little crack thrown in" is going a bit far. (Speaking of GDT, getting to see the Hellboy 2 trailer on a big screen was pretty cool.)

Post by **Todd Shogun** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:34 -0700

I've been interested in this one since I saw it in front of Transformers. Although I hear Cloverfield isn't as lame...I'm really excited to go see it...also to see the new Star Trek teaser on the big screen.

Stay away from AVP:R...a HUGE disappointment!