Agreed. Some Cloverfield thoughts of my own. http://videopancakes.blogspot.com/2008/01/seeing-cloverfield.html <http://videopancakes.blogspot.com/2008/01/seeing-cloverfield.html>
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Amirault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just got back from the movies. I saw CLOVERFIELD and all I knew about it > going in was that it was a "monster" movie. > > I had no idea that the entire movie would be from the point of view of a > character with a hand held video camera. You never see the actual camera and > while they refer to "tape" in the movie I would strongly suspect that the > camera is a memory card based device, not a tape camera, and that they (the > writers) intentionally had the characters use the most common term. > > Frankly I was not impressed with the beginning of the movie and actually > closed my eyes for the first half hour or so. I didn't want to watch all > the shaky footage .. and was considering leaving the theatre .. but when the > s**t hit the fan I started watching and they really did a credible job. > > There was some times where I couldn't believe that the character operating > the camera would be 'filming' certain scenes .. and that he would turn it on > and off .. or NOT turn it on or off .. at certain times .. but that's where > "suspension of disbelief" comes in. > > It's a decent "monster movie" .. I recommend it .. especially for video > enthusiasts. > > Richard Amirault > Boston, MA, USA > http://n1jdu.org > http://bostonfandom.org > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
