I liked it. I tried not to buy into the hype, but I watched it on opening night so I guess they got me. With movies like this where the previews aren’t very revealing, I try to watch them as soon as possible assuming it’ll be ruined for me within a few weeks if I don’t. Just sort of a rant, but if Myspace spammers rate a 0/10 and YouTube commenters rate a 1/10, then IMDB posters have to be around a 2 or 3. Too many people complain about others not posting “spoiler warning” in their post titles. If you don’t want a movie to be spoiled, just avoid message boards, especially after the movie’s been released.

That being said, I’ve decided to just use the old technique of making users highlight to read spoilers. This is mostly because I try not to be that guy that ruins movies, but then all my reviews end up being, “worst movie ever” or “best movie ever.” Anyway, it’s basically what I expected: good, not great. It’s shot like The Blair Witch Project, and it’s only 80 minutes—I liked that. There are some times when I just don’t want to have to concentrate to enjoy a movie, and Cloverfield let me do that.

Spoilers: They could have replaced the monster with Godzilla and it would be the same movie except better, because it would have Godzilla. The similarities between this and Aliens vs. Predator Requiem were uncanny. Creature invades city. Attractive people between 20 and 30 involved. Reminiscent of National Guard commercials. Characters try to make it to an evacuation location before the hammer is dropped and the military bombs the city. Nearly everybody dies in the process.

Also, I forgot to mention this last week, but before No Country for Old Men, we saw, consecutively, previews for In Bruges, Pride and Glory, and Cassandra’s Dream. Not that interesting at first thought, but look closer and you’ll see that they all star Colin Farrell. Two in a row was like “whoa cool,” but three was sort of like the Twilight Zone. Correct me if I’m wrong, but 10,000 B.C. is gonna be awesome.

I thought it was the worst movie ever made. For what it is, it’s good… which is a movie with no plot. If someone told the director to make the best movie he can with no story, then it probably couldn’t get any better than Cloverfield.

But that isn’t enough. Not enough for people to pay 10 bucks for. It’s a movie about a guy trying to tell the girl he loves that he loves her. Come on, I’ve seen 5 minute animated shorts that have moved me much more emotionally than this 80 minute film could have ever done.

In the end this is what the Cloverfield team wanted to create. That was the whole purpose since the beginning… but that doesn’t cut it.

Read the comments above and had to post my experience..hah
Movie was great! It was intense from the beginning to the end.. Can’t wait for them to reveal everything…Read more stuff about the movie afterwards and a lot of stuff in the movie ties in with how everything came about i.e Rob’s new job in Japan..I’d watch it again just to catch the stuff I missed….like the satellite in the background of the ferris wheel video, etc.

damn dude up top has a lot of hate…. of you got hate in your heart let it out…. movie wasn’t bad… didn’t live up to the crazy hype after the cool trailer… but wasn’t as bad as cellular.. still i would have made the monster go head to head with solo in the end… wouldn’t make sense but damn would it have been a clash of the titans.

^monster rips off lady liberty’s head, climbs inside of the statue, armored monster. you are an idiot.

Optimus Prime should have shown up at the end and took that whack ass monster OUT

You can’t expect to make a movie where the only way to experience everything requires the audience to look it up on the internet. I paid for the theater seat, I shouldn’t have to scour the goddamn internet for the rest of the info missing from the film. It might have been OK for a show like Lost, but this just dumb.

looking things up was not “required” after the movie..i guess what i found on the internet about the movie aftewards was just a bonus which made the movie….that much better to me.

Armored monster theory is straight genius… to make it even better he rips off both the head and the flame from the torch… .makes a real torch…. armored with flame torch……….. humans would be running son….

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