the movie does an excellent job of keeping you on the edge of your seat for a while.
Really? At no point during the entire thing was I scared, anxious, edge of seated or in any way emotionally charged. The entire thing was just so bad - too bad to take even slightly seriously and thus 'buy in' to at any level.
What was I expecting? An exciting, engaging new take on the monster movie. What did I get? Bad acting, dreadful dialogue, zero character development and a plot line more feeble than most 12 year old's drama class.
I have an eclectic and broad taste in movies. The best movies I've seen in the last 12 months - Juno, Last King of Scotland, Sweeney Todd, In Bruges, Hot Fuzz. But Cloverfield was only the second movie in my life that I considered walking out of. The other being Star Wars Episode One which I did walk out on ( and ask for, and got, a refund ) . The only reason I didn't walk out was that I was with my other half. Turns out she would have been happy to walk out as well.
Sorry for banging on about it - but I really struggle to see what people enjoyed in it.
I was about to post the EXACT same thing...I find it hard to take you seriously when you say the best movie you've seen recently is Juno.....
I find it hard to take you seriously when you say the best movie you've seen recently is Juno.....
Really? At no point during the entire thing was I scared, anxious, edge of seated or in any way emotionally charged.
Glad to see some liked it.I loved it. I did not get a headache or get sick at all. I even went to see it twice (once with friends, once with family). I don't understand why people hated the acting or the plot. How would you have changed it?
I couldn't wait for the monster to arrive and start eating all of those bloody annoying twenty-something characters.
When the movie ended AT LAST, everyone stepped up and starting clapping because they finally were dead.
Really? At no point during the entire thing was I scared, anxious, edge of seated or in any way emotionally charged. The entire thing was just so bad - too bad to take even slightly seriously and thus 'buy in' to at any level. ... Bad acting, dreadful dialogue, zero character development and a plot line more feeble than most 12 year old's drama class.
...The acting was, well not good.
... my wife asked me what kind of movie is it after we watched about 30 minutes. I told her it was a monster movie like Godzilla. She then asked, "Is it supposed to be scary?"
I think that sums up our experience as well.
Would anyone recommend this movie to watch? Is the camera work really that bad that it makes you uncomfortable or what? The preview made it look pretty cool but I don't know if the story is that great.
My review of Cloverfield that I posted at bautforum.com forum..
"It was pure, unadulterated arse gravy of the sloppiest kind from start to finish. Sorry. The acting was dreadful, the dialogue hideously predictable, the direction was self indulgent and the plot line obvious after the first 30 seconds with what is on screen with the opening credits. The hand-held camera was a gimmick, and a nausea inducing one at that ( I had to look away for a minute or so, on several occasions, to subdue the genuine nausea I was feeling ). This brat's got an amazing HD camera that can survive a virtual apocalypse...and it doesn't have image stabilization?
It was too bad to be any good, and it wasn't set up to be tongue-in-cheek like an episode of Dr Who.
On the upside - it was quite short.
Doug
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I liked the film a lot. It's not genius, but it was a lot better than most of the crap that comes out of Hollywood these days. Your critcism of the acting is way off-base. Take it from an actor- they did a great job. If you didn't like the characters, that's one thing- but don't confuse bad acting with characters you don't like.
How would you have changed it?