So is "Cloverfield" going to make me ill?

[jb60606]

I had to leave "The Blair Witch Project" half way through and wound up hurling my dinner minutes later. Even after it hit DVD, I had to watch it in 2 different sittings.

Cloverfield is going to be released on DVD today.

I wanted to see it on the big screen, though, withdrew after hearing about all the motion sickness movie-goers were being plagued with.

If you suffered from similar symptoms, would you describe them as worse than what you experienced with BWP?

Or just tell me the movie sucked a$$ and I can avoid it. That way, I can rent The Orphanage (http://www.amazon.com/Orphanage-Blu-ray-Belén-Rueda/dp/B0015ET3YY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1208841132&sr=1-2) instead. I'm becoming a huge fan of Spain's cinema anyways.

[ErikCLDR]

Cloverfield was the most annoying movie ever.

All I can say is take some advil and Dramamine before you watch it.

For me it wasn't bad until the headache went away 3/4 of the way through the movie.

[ucsdmac]

I had to leave "The Blair Witch Project" half way through and wound up hurling my dinner minutes later. Even after it hit DVD, I had to watch it in 2 different sittings.

Cloverfield is going to be released on DVD today.

I wanted to see it on the big screen, though, withdrew after hearing about all the motion sickness movie-goers were being plagued with.

If you suffered from similar symptoms, would you describe them as worse than what you experienced with BWP?

Or just tell me the movie sucked a$$ and I can avoid it. That way, I can rent The Orphanage (http://www.amazon.com/Orphanage-Blu-ray-Belén-Rueda/dp/B0015ET3YY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1208841132&sr=1-2) instead. I'm becoming a huge fan of Spain's cinema anyways.

I rarely get motion sickness from too much camera movement, but i literally had to close my eyes a couple of times throughout this movie in order to stop my head from spinning. I can see that they were trying to give a realistic feel to the movie and a lot of people might have liked that, but it was wayy wayy too much camera shaking for me.

In conclusion, "the movie sucked a$$"

[bbbensen]

Like I said in another thread, it did not make me or my two other friends sick, and we saw it in a theater. :cool:

It might have something to do with the fact that we are young (13 at the time). I also dont get motion sickness.

But if you were having problems with the Blair Witch Project (Havent seen it...) , it might be a good idea to stay away.

Overall, I liked the movie, but I wish there were a little bit more back story.

[djellison]

Well - today I had a brief bout of exactly the same gut-twist-nausea that Cloverfield gave me. It was going backwards on a train (a stupid rear facing seat). Twice, with cloverfield, I just had to close my eyes for a minute or two - let my body ctrl-alt-del it's motion sensing for a minute - then I was fine. but the sensation was like very mild motion sickness.

Doug

[raggedjimmi]

I get migraines and motion sickness but all throughout the film I didn't have a problem. And I was dosed up on Coke Cola :p which usually makes me worse in sickness inducing situations. We sat right in the middle too.

But games, films and TV never make me sick.

[JLatte]

Never saw Cloverfield, never intending to, however I just wanted to point out that The Orphanage was an awesome movie. Definitely had amazing scare elements that you just don't see anymore. I have no idea what this movie is like on a TV, but seeing it at the independent theater big screen... it gave me goosebumps talking about it on the way home.

[c-Row]

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=472709

[dingster1]

Well thanks for the warning. I hurled with Blair Witch too!! I also get very bad motion sickness with any films involving water!!

[jb60606]

thanks all! Cloverfield will have to wait, at least until I can get my hands on some dramamine (which, I'm not even sure will make a difference).

"The Orphanage" it is.

[Fuzzy.]

i got used to it after 5 minutes. watching it on my macbook and also on my t.v.

i also recommend reading this after you watch it.
http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/01/22/cloverfield-mythos-explored-monsters-marketing-and-millions/

clears up a lot of the confusion. (and also adds more confusion).

[spencers]

thought it was fine.

i dont know how people have problems watching it

[Antares]

I didn't make me sick one bit.

[lofight]

It didn't make me sick. It's a good film, not one of the best, but there are nice decors and It's nice to see a film, filmed in an alternative way.

[spoon man]

The film didn’t make me ill but it gave me one big buddy head-ache it had good means the plot was good but it just dragged on to much and there was no real tension that you need in a film like that + you couldn’t see what was going on most of the time at least Blair witch was funny I would say give it a miss if you suffer from motion sickness un stuff like that. ;)

[leekohler]

Saw it last night and loved it. It was a good, creepy, fun movie. Sometimes that's just what you need. ;) I've got The Orphanage to. I'll be seeing that next.