Just watched Cloverfield...
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Yup, I watched Cloverfield, [Rec] and Diary Of The Dead over three nights - Diary Of The Dead was definitely the most disappointing of them all.
secretsquirrel
Respectable married lady
Prompted by this thread, just read the wiki on it. I didn't realise that right at the end when you see the final camcorder image of the couple enjoying their day at Coney Island in the background you see something fall from the sky and land in the ocean and hear a faint 'euruugggh' noise like the creature made 
I felt quite nonplussed when I saw it at the cinema. And a little bit sick. There's something about that amount of motion on a screen that big that gives your eyes nowhere to rest. I had to close my eyes a couple of times just to readjust.
However, I did think the monster was pretty cool, I liked the lack of backstory - just BAM! we're in the middle of 'what the fuck's going on?' and I really like the idea of the monster just being a baby hence the stumbling around, being a bit shit but still causing absolute carnage
I felt quite nonplussed when I saw it at the cinema. And a little bit sick. There's something about that amount of motion on a screen that big that gives your eyes nowhere to rest. I had to close my eyes a couple of times just to readjust.
However, I did think the monster was pretty cool, I liked the lack of backstory - just BAM! we're in the middle of 'what the fuck's going on?' and I really like the idea of the monster just being a baby hence the stumbling around, being a bit shit but still causing absolute carnage
Dead Cat Bounce
A member of the Waffle elite.
It was a good film, I enjoyed watching it but one thing bugged me.
So, they dropped a nuke on the monster near Central Park. How the hell did the camera survive. The shock wave would taken out everything in it's path plus a possible EMP wave would of killed the camera for dead.
So, they dropped a nuke on the monster near Central Park. How the hell did the camera survive. The shock wave would taken out everything in it's path plus a possible EMP wave would of killed the camera for dead.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
Why does this only happen to girls? Maybe this 'visual overload' thing explains why some of them are such bad drivers.
DaRealSpoon
Do not try and bend the spoon...
According to internet rumour (I know) the monster was only a baby, hence why it was just stumbling around going "arrrrgggh" (as babies do), and that if they make a sequel mummy will make an appearence
Not a rumour. Sure jj whats his face reveals it in one of the dvd extras
tis ok, should have ended when the helicopter crashed tho.
h.p. lovecraft/cthulu influences in modern day were good.
a mate i saw it with had to leave after about 10 minutes cause it gave her motion sickness
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Ah, fair enough, still haven't got round to seeing the DVD yet, I really should do...
dilute micro
esse quam videri
It took FOREVER to get started. Some parts of the film were pretty good like when you first saw the alien. I realized not too long into it that we were only seeing the first episode of more to come. That's why they must have overlooked how boring the start of it was.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Has no one ever, in their cinema going histories, ever seen a monster movie where the character set-ups weren't boring?
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Matthew Broderick singing Singin' in the Rain in the rain in Godzilla 
Now that's character development.
Oh, and the entire roll calls of Tremors and Independence Day.
Now that's character development.Oh, and the entire roll calls of Tremors and Independence Day.
Jesus, that would have made it even shorter than it was, reckon they couldn't afford to make it 'normal' length because of all of the CGI.Not a rumour. Sure jj whats his face reveals it in one of the dvd extras
tis ok, should have ended when the helicopter crashed tho.
h.p. lovecraft/cthulu influences in modern day were good.
a mate i saw it with had to leave after about 10 minutes cause it gave her motion sickness
All-in-all I quite liked it, couldn't relate to the characters, but what do you expect in a monster movie. Some fairly good one-liners in the script that made me chuckle. Seriously, what are folks expecting from a film that is inspired by Godzilla FFS?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Ferris Bueller's day off is a shit film.
Swwwwwingg batter batter.
Swwwwwingg batter batter.
They found the SD card, I think. Even in a nuclear explosion, and it wouldn't have been a massive one, I'm sure some small items would survive in the rubble.
joustmaster
offcumdun
i really liked it. it kept me tense all the way through.
i saw it in the cinema and a fair few people walked out. not cos they didn't enjoy it, but cos of motion sickness. there where a good handfull of pale/green looking people in the lobby afterwards.
i saw it in the cinema and a fair few people walked out. not cos they didn't enjoy it, but cos of motion sickness. there where a good handfull of pale/green looking people in the lobby afterwards.
I thought Cloverfield was absolutely superb. 
steveo87
22/11/2022 - got a maths joke.
That bit really annoyed mer, I know she got bitten by those things but way the fuck did they take her behind that curtain and then explode?
Oh yeah just rembere that JJ Abrahams doing the new Star tek movie as well, great....
...maybe it'lll be two and a half hours of people talking about the enterrise and scotty and fuck knows what else without fucking getting anwhere....
Autonomous
Rise Above
I enjoyed it enough. It had some cool moments like the spider things in the subway, those things are horrible. But I know what you mean, I'm pretty tired of those movies where everyone dies, nothing else much happens, not a hell of a lot is revealed, and the whole terrifying series of events is captured on a camcorder that flies out of someone's hand in the last take. I'm talking Blair Witch, Cloverfield, (Rec) etc. I haven't seen Diary of the Dead yet but I'm guessing it's much the same. They just leave me cold.
