Damn I so wanted this to be good, oh well move it to the dvd list. -----Original Message----- From: Adam Churvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 6:08 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Cloverfield blows goats
Okay. been waiting for this one since the first trailer sighting many months ago, and Mike (#2 son) and I had been really amped about going on opening day (picked him up from school and went straight to the theater for a 4:40 showing). So the movie starts. and starts. and starts. It's only an 84-minute film, but there are twenty minutes of self-absorbed over-privileged twenty-somethings whining as they simply must do, and a camera being slung around on a lanyard. Great for making you feel like you want to vomit from motion sickness. I'm thinking, "okay, pay attention, because this somehow has to have something more than trivial significance later in the film." Not a chance. So the first thing happens (and I wake up), which on retrospect didn't make any sense for the monster to be able to create a reaction like that. Then you can't see anything that's causing it, which you expect was the writer's intention for building suspense, but it was only frustrating. And then at the end when you finally get a decent look at the monster, it not only is of an entirely different scale than what you saw earlier, it doesn't really look anything like what you saw earlier. Alright, I get that it's a first-person perspective film. But for the sake of all that is decent in this world, get a minimal Manfrotto SteadyCam mount and just loosen the spring tension to give it more slop than normal, then film it that way. Feeling like I want to spew chunks doesn't increase the value of the film - or the entertainment. At best, this thing will become a half-assed video game for little kids. Adam's Rating: 9 Blown Goats (on a ten Blown Goat system, with ten Blown Goats being something like Ishtar or Muriel's Wedding, and zero Blown Goats being something like Godfather or American Beauty). Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis President Productivity Enhancement ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:251500 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
