Cloverfield

[V-Unit]

Originally Posted by Tullaeniel

Brilliant view point simpleton. Go back to lurking.

It's a simple movie that deserves a simple explanation. I don't understand why most of you are holding it to award winning standards.

[Tullaeniel]

Originally Posted by V-Unit

It's a simple movie that deserves a simple explanation. I don't understand why most of you are holding it to award winning standards.

Award winning standards? This basket of shit doesn't even hold up to straight to video standards. I've seen Troma movies with better production value. Cloverfield was Uwe Boll level terrible, nobody was saying this was not quite up to par with some masterpiece. This movie is about as entertaining as some 2:00am monster movie someone might see on TBS. It's a simple movie with a simple explanation. Milk peoples $$ with a shitty gimmick because they are dumb enough to fall for it. Just like every fat fuck goes to subway because they see a commercial with Jared and their gimmick "I lost weight eat sandwiches" horseshit. You fuckers lap up this first person shaky camera retardation like a hyper kid down riddlin.

[Crell]

Award winning standards? This basket of shit doesn't even hold up to straight to video standards. I've seen Troma movies with better production value. Cloverfield was Uwe Boll level terrible, nobody was saying this was not quite up to par with some masterpiece. This movie is about as entertaining as some 2:00am monster movie someone might see on TBS. It's a simple movie with a simple explanation. Milk peoples $$ with a shitty gimmick because they are dumb enough to fall for it. Just like every fat fuck goes to subway because they see a commercial with Jared and their gimmick "I lost weight eat sandwiches" horseshit. You fuckers lap up this first person shaky camera retardation like a hyper kid down riddlin.

Yeah....

This movie wasnt about "OMG this shit is scary omfg!", it was more about what a certain group of people would do in a crisis situation. Big unknown monster attacking NYC ---> Drunk guys at farewell part = " I dunno what to do but save my wannabe-girlfriend". Thats it. And it did it well. I liked the shakey cam since it gave the movie more feel to it. I liked how nothing was explained, since really nothing should of bin explained.

Its really a simple movie. It started things well, built the plot, then crisis, then conclusion. Good popcorn flick, and it was enjoyable.

[Desx]

the movie sucked.

[kcxiv]

Originally Posted by Tullaeniel

Award winning standards? This basket of shit doesn't even hold up to straight to video standards. I've seen Troma movies with better production value. Cloverfield was Uwe Boll level terrible, nobody was saying this was not quite up to par with some masterpiece. This movie is about as entertaining as some 2:00am monster movie someone might see on TBS. It's a simple movie with a simple explanation. Milk peoples $$ with a shitty gimmick because they are dumb enough to fall for it. Just like every fat fuck goes to subway because they see a commercial with Jared and their gimmick "I lost weight eat sandwiches" horseshit. You fuckers lap up this first person shaky camera retardation like a hyper kid down riddlin.

you sound bitter as fuck.

[Araxen]

Blair Witch was miles better than this movie. The plotline was just so fucking dumb for this movie.

[AladainAF]

Just saw it today (rented).

I want my monies back. Seriously. Shit movie.

I guess theres a reason the back of the DVD doesn't describe anything about the movie at all, because, there isn't anything in this movie worth describing.

Unlikeable characters, stupid characters, completely unrealistic scenes outside of the creature itself, stupid looking creature, 84 minutes long, no plot, no gore, no background, no explanation nothing.

Its like.. some party happens, monster attacks, chick gets saved, they talk into camera, movie over.

Horrible horrible waste of time and money.

3/10

[Astrocreep]

Originally Posted by AladainAF

Just saw it today (rented).

I want my monies back. Seriously. Shit movie.

I guess theres a reason the back of the DVD doesn't describe anything about the movie at all, because, there isn't anything in this movie worth describing.

Unlikeable characters, stupid characters, completely unrealistic scenes outside of the creature itself, stupid looking creature, 84 minutes long, no plot, no gore, no background, no explanation nothing.

Its like.. some party happens, monster attacks, chick gets saved, they talk into camera, movie over.

Horrible horrible waste of time and money.

3/10

what were you expecting? its a monster movie. monster movies usually are just a bunch of people trying to cope with the monster who wreaks havoc in the city. how is this different than that premise? this one ends not with the monster getting killed by something trivial but the fate of the monster being unknown. if you didnt like that ending then its understandable but the rest of the movie is pretty typical of the monster movies i enjoyed growing up.

[TheCutlery]

Originally Posted by Astrocreep

what were you expecting? its a monster movie. monster movies usually are just a bunch of people trying to cope with the monster who wreaks havoc in the city. how is this different than that premise? this one ends not with the monster getting killed by something trivial but the fate of the monster being unknown. if you didnt like that ending then its understandable but the rest of the movie is pretty typical of the monster movies i enjoyed growing up.

Honestly, I was expecting an hour and a half.

50% of my complaints with the movie would go away if they had actually worked on it a bit and made it a decent movie length. They could cut out the 10 minutes of shit at the front of this movie and it would fit in an hour on TV. Made for TV movie? Probably okay. Blockbuster? Hah.

[Astrocreep]

Originally Posted by TheCutlery

Honestly, I was expecting an hour and a half.

50% of my complaints with the movie would go away if they had actually worked on it a bit and made it a decent movie length. They could cut out the 10 minutes of shit at the front of this movie and it would fit in an hour on TV. Made for TV movie? Probably okay. Blockbuster? Hah.

Its the same running time as the new rambo, did you hate that movie too?

[TheCutlery]

Originally Posted by Astrocreep

Its the same running time as the new rambo, did you hate that movie too?

Is this the rambo thread? I fail to see what my opinions of one movie have to do with the opinion of another.

Maybe you wanna pay full price for half a movie. That's great. Some people feel they should get more.

[AladainAF]

what were you expecting? its a monster movie.

I can think of many monster movies miles better than Cloverfield. Even AvP: Requiem was better. Tremors was better. Mothra was even better than this. Hell I got much more enjoyment out of The Mist than I did Cloverfield.

monster movies usually are just a bunch of people trying to cope with the monster who wreaks havoc in the city.

Correct, which is what Cloverfield DIDN'T do. First off, it wasn't "the" monster. There were also a bunch of spiders that seemingly came out of no where from what I could tell. One of them that bit the girl, thus causing the army guys to trip out, which made no sense at all, since they never actually explained, or even showed, what happens when someone is bit. All they did was kill her off behind a screen by showing blood splatter. Secondly, it wasn't "a bunch of people", it was four totally and completely unlikeable characters with an unimportant long drawn-out opening scene which had -nothing- to do with the second half of the super short movie. All the rest of the people in New York City never got any "airtime" in respects of showing how they coped, outside of a scene of a truck hauling some of them off, and a scene of a place being looted - though was probably put there only because the main character needed to go there.

this one ends not with the monster getting killed by something trivial but the fate of the monster being unknown.

I don't mind cases like this. However, there was no setup, there was no ending. There was no development of anything other than monster appears, blows up city, movie over. There was no build up in the movie, it was just irrelivant 30 minutes of some love story/drama/party bullshit to instant climax of the movie, and then it was over - in the middle of the climax, with nothing resolved.

if you didnt like that ending then its understandable but the rest of the movie is pretty typical of the monster movies i enjoyed growing up.

I didn't mind some aspects of the movie - but scenes like going up 57 flights of stairs to hop over the roof of a building, to save the chick with rebar through her arm, and then immediately jump to a scene where they are running off the bottom floor. Uh huh. There are one or two respectable scenes in the movie, but thats it.

[Zeste]

Originally Posted by AladainAF

I can think of many monster movies miles better than Cloverfield. Even AvP: Requiem was better. Tremors was better. Mothra was even better than this. Hell I got much more enjoyment out of The Mist than I did Cloverfield.



Correct, which is what Cloverfield DIDN'T do. First off, it wasn't "the" monster. There were also a bunch of spiders that seemingly came out of no where from what I could tell. One of them that bit the girl, thus causing the army guys to trip out, which made no sense at all, since they never actually explained, or even showed, what happens when someone is bit. All they did was kill her off behind a screen by showing blood splatter. Secondly, it wasn't "a bunch of people", it was four totally and completely unlikeable characters with an unimportant long drawn-out opening scene which had -nothing- to do with the second half of the super short movie. All the rest of the people in New York City never got any "airtime" in respects of showing how they coped, outside of a scene of a truck hauling some of them off, and a scene of a place being looted - though was probably put there only because the main character needed to go there.



I don't mind cases like this. However, there was no setup, there was no ending. There was no development of anything other than monster appears, blows up city, movie over. There was no build up in the movie, it was just irrelivant 30 minutes of some love story/drama/party bullshit to instant climax of the movie, and then it was over - in the middle of the climax, with nothing resolved.



I didn't mind some aspects of the movie - but scenes like going up 57 flights of stairs to hop over the roof of a building, to save the chick with rebar through her arm, and then immediately jump to a scene where they are running off the bottom floor. Uh huh. There are one or two respectable scenes in the movie, but thats it.

It's funny and amusing reading your post. Such a profound failure to understand that everything you mentioned, was intentional and part of the movies purpose.

[Kuriin]

Originally Posted by AladainAF

I can think of many monster movies miles better than Cloverfield. Even AvP: Requiem was better. Tremors was better. Mothra was even better than this. Hell I got much more enjoyment out of The Mist than I did Cloverfield.



Correct, which is what Cloverfield DIDN'T do. First off, it wasn't "the" monster. There were also a bunch of spiders that seemingly came out of no where from what I could tell. One of them that bit the girl, thus causing the army guys to trip out, which made no sense at all, since they never actually explained, or even showed, what happens when someone is bit. All they did was kill her off behind a screen by showing blood splatter. Secondly, it wasn't "a bunch of people", it was four totally and completely unlikeable characters with an unimportant long drawn-out opening scene which had -nothing- to do with the second half of the super short movie. All the rest of the people in New York City never got any "airtime" in respects of showing how they coped, outside of a scene of a truck hauling some of them off, and a scene of a place being looted - though was probably put there only because the main character needed to go there.



I don't mind cases like this. However, there was no setup, there was no ending. There was no development of anything other than monster appears, blows up city, movie over. There was no build up in the movie, it was just irrelivant 30 minutes of some love story/drama/party bullshit to instant climax of the movie, and then it was over - in the middle of the climax, with nothing resolved.



I didn't mind some aspects of the movie - but scenes like going up 57 flights of stairs to hop over the roof of a building, to save the chick with rebar through her arm, and then immediately jump to a scene where they are running off the bottom floor. Uh huh. There are one or two respectable scenes in the movie, but thats it.

Do we really need to have another "you obviously didn't get the point of this movie, you fucking idiot." response?

[Druixx]

Originally Posted by Zeste

It's funny and amusing reading your post. Such a profound failure to understand that everything you mentioned, was intentional and part of the movies purpose.

Wrong. Stick to imagining what Wolverine would do if he were in the movie.