Annoyance #108
... is when people tell me if people in THEIR theatre booed or whatever. It's like, "SO?" Like I care about them??

I love these two quotes (grabbed from lj) 'bout Cloverfield:


visionari
2008-01-26 06:05 am (local) (link) Track This
"a lot of people are just not going to get this movie"

I think that's true. The most common complaint I've heard/read is that there was hardly any exposition; people are accustomed to the formula, where somebody in a white coat comes out and explains what the creature is and why it's so mad and how they can make it go away. Obviously, we can't get that in this movie because the story is told from the POV of a group of people who neither know nor (while they're busy running for their lives) care.

The seoond most common complaint is about how the film turned out. People like their monster movies to have happy endings: the monster dies or leaves and everyone (except the designated red shirts) lives happily ever after. Yay! Except that if a monster ever shambles out of the sea and starts laying waste to things, chances are there's going to be an unhappy ending for a whole lot of people.



devinkye00
2008-01-25 08:14 pm (local) (link) Track This
To me its like.... the movie wouldn't have been this much of a success it if it was told like all the other movies out there. You can FEEL everything in the movie. If there was an explosion, the camera was thrown, when he turns around and the monster is staring at him right in the face you can feel his fear and it gives a realistic sense to the film. Would you honestly have the same emotion if it did the same stuff but with the regular camera?