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     Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
I've just watched CLOVERFIELD, and pretty much enjoyed it. ****SPOILERS**** The monster was very effective until you saw it close up and for too long near the end; the smaller things (especially in the excellent subway scene) were very scary. In some places this was almost Lovecraftian in tone. I thought several scenes were almost brilliant, and quite unexpectedly moving - the aforementioned subway scene (the fist sight of the crab-spider-things, crawling across the tunnel roof, made me jump), the rolling head of the statue of liberty, the brick dust obscuring the streets like fog, the forlorn sight of the horse and carriage, the inserts at Coney Island. The only problem I had was with the ending, which I found rather clumsy (I would've ended it after the helicopter crashed; the rest was a bit daft), and the fact that the guy with the camera kept quipping whilst runing from a 100-foot beast and its parasitic cohorts. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
I love that first glimpse of the spidery things, when you see them on the tv in the store they go into, and the reporters on tv in the helicopter are saying "there's stuff falling off it" and you see the things jumping at people on the ground; I found that quite scarily effective, although, as you say, that sequence in the tunnel is terrific. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
Yep, that was a good scene, Mick. The fil stuck in my mind more than I thought it would. I still have images in my head, even now; and my sleep last night was troubled by thoughts of big monsters and 9/11 style terrorist attacks. Resonant stuff. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
I always say I'll forgive a horror film (or in this case, a monster movie) a lot if it resonates with me. If it troubles me. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.101.66 |
Or if it makes you laugh like Frankenfish? | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.182.120 |
I just saw Cloverfield and thought it was great. The fishy/spidery things falling off the monster were like the things that were attached to the creature in The Host, so that could've been an influence. I loved the apocalyptic feel to it. We've had some great movies this year so far! | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.182.120 |
Just to add, I thought the monster was terrific. I was hoping they wouldn't try to make it look like Godzilla or a typical dinosaur-type thing, and they didn't. It looked (to me) like a hybrid of an octopus, a mantis and an ogre. Horrible! |