1. Yes, the entire movie is from a hand-held camera. And it was AWESOME, though I did honestly get a little motion sick at times. But you really do feel like you're in the movie which is sweet. Leaving the building I kept thinking I was still there (and kept looking over my shoulder!).

2. As I said, the entire movie is from the camera- as in, there is no explanation for anything. It starts off with some small text on a black screen saying something like 'Camera found from formally Central Park' or whatever. And then it starts playing. And it just ends, too. Which is, in my opinion, a little frustrating.

3. Ok, so, what does the monster look like? Well, it's really hard to explain. You never really get a clear shot of it... it's always surrounded by a dust cloud and pops out only for a second (plus it was a HUGE lecture hall and by the time I got in, I was sitting pretty far back ). But from what I saw:

It walks on four legs. Has an alien like face (with red sacs on the side of the head that inflate as it breathes). Super long whip like tail. The arms/legs it walks on are very long and some what human like.. maybe ape like. Long fingers that grip on to buildings and such. Hairless. Grey. Some what long face but HUGE jaw (that snaps out like an alligator).

4. Ok, big monsters aren't that scary. But what is? TINY HUMAN SIZED monsters!! (DUNDUNDUUUUN!) Parasites (or babies, who knows) drop off of the monster and turn into spider/crocodile things. They are FAST and MEAN.

They're kind of hard to see in the movie since they move/attack so fast, but they have really long snouts and move with multiple arms like a spider. They can hang from the ceiling and their bite as poisionous. They are what made the movie scary for me.

5. The beginning is a little slow. I mean, over all, it's kind of a love story. This guy is leaving for Japan and he broke it off with the girl he loves and they get in a fight at his going-away- party. Then the monster attacks-he gets a call on his phone from her saying she can't move... and he goes (towards the monster) into the city to try and find her.

Beth to stay dead, instead of her getting up and running around.
and dont u just love the scene where marlena exploded.

carpet bombing / napalm on the monster....

hud : thats the shit right there....

*secs later*

hud : oh god help us  

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when its reverse :
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when every1 went up to  d roof top after d 1st quake.. wat's d big explosion afar?.. building dont explode like dat when it collapse..

There's a lot of homework to be done here but this is how it works. Slusho, the drink that Jason has on his t-shirt, has the parasite eggs in it, unknowingly placed in the drink as part of the flavor, and that is what attracts "Cloverfield" the creature to Manhattan. He eats the parasite eggs. Hence the reason why Marlena, et al were infected with the eggs so that the monster could eat the eggs, or to produce more parasites for the monster to eat. Earlier when they are attacked in the subway tunnel, Hud says that he thought the parasites were just trying to drag him away. The parasites were trying to drag him away because he drank a lot of slusho, and therefore had the eggs inside of him. The reason we see part of Hud's body after the monster attacks him is because the monster sucks the parasite eggs out of Hud's body, (assuming that Hud drank a lot of slusho, "You Can't Just Have Six" (because assumingly, after six the parasite eggs start to infest in your system.) and left the carcass behind because he wasn't interested in the flesh, just the parasite eggs.

Interestingly enough, the company that Rob has been promoted to Vice President in is called Tagruato. The company that ironically enough, produces Slusho, among other things. So therefore, we awoke the monster Cloverfield from his slumber deep beneath the ocean, because we drank enough of this slushy drink containing as one of the ingredients, parasite eggs.

This is also why people such as Marlena were overlooked by the monster because apparently they never drank Slusho, and therefore didn't have any of the parasitic eggs in their system to interest the monster in the first place. Otherwise she would have been sucked dry just as everyone else had been in her first encounter with the monster.

Man I've done way too much homework on this flick, but the viral marketing compaign is fascinating.