Just came back from the movie, and I'm still in the moment.

Bloody hell. Definitely an experience worth experiencing in the cinema. The acting is meh, but goddammit I was sucked into the nightmare. It was pretty damn intense at parts, beginning with the subway tunnel scene ("Turn on the night-vision!"), and I still can't stop thinking about the movie.

I don't know. It definitely has its flaws, but man... what a movie! The whole in-your-face hand-held camera shooting was pretty incredible, and this is my first time watching something like this (I never watched Blair Witch, and I don't think I'll bother). It felt like a documentary rather than a film, and Matt Reeves went above and beyond to make sure it FEELS like a video recording found while the US Military were excavating around what used to be Central Park.

I wonder if we'll ever get to see what the other guy was recording.

P.S: Oh, check this link out. It's IMDb's FAQ of Cloverfield. They have a lot of answers for your questions regarding this movie, for example:


My respect for the whole production team just went through the roof after reading it.

I think it was more of a realization that this might be his last night alive, and he didn't want to end it by thinking of all the "What if"s that might have happened differently. Beth was the one thing that he could change at that time, and maybe what his brother said spurred him on. The three of them (Lily, Hud and Rob) were sticking together more from desperation than actual friendship, me thinks.

Pity about Marlena, though. That was pretty f***ed up. They should have turned on night-vision earlier. :sigh:

This post has been edited by ganaeshd: Jan 23 2008, 10:34 AM

Matt Reeves went above and beyond to make sure this FEELS like a documentary. But since this is a major motion picture backed by Paramount, the illusion is broken. I would've loved it if they made it look like a REAL documentary, i.e no studio logo, no credits, nothing.

P.S: I gave the IMDb link because it was a well-written, well-researched FAQ. If people still can't accept it, I really pity them la. You can't just say "OMGLOL it's juz a movie wan la, why wanna read so much one, it sux lor, CJ7 so much better one" and leave it at that. It doesn't work that way. If your narrow perspective does not allow you to appreciate the extremely detailed nature of this movie, then... sucks for you la. Stick to standard cookie-cutter action movie je la, yer?

Oh, and btw, no bad feelings towards CJ7. Haven't watched it yet.

This post has been edited by ganaeshd: Jan 23 2008, 10:37 AM