IT MADE MY LIFE (VERY minor spoiler)

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 2008)

Approximately 4 hours ago some thing attacked my mind. What was the thing you ask? Well it was the amazingly bad-ass subject designate CLOVERFIELD otherwise known as the Cloverfield monster, and Cloverfield the movie itself.
As you may not have known, I have been waiting for this movie since last July when Transformers came out and a mysterious trailer for an unnamed movie puzzled me and my friend. Through many viral websites and movie news sites I have come to love Cloverfield more than your average viewer. I survived the horrific Ethan Haas hoax, Slusho (BET YOU CANT DRINK JUST 6!), and the infamous Tagruato. Through all that waiting and excitement that built I have to say that I was in absolutely no way disappointed.
Now to the movie: (VERY MINOR SPOILERS YOU MIGHT NOT EVEN NOTICE IT)
First you should know, that you are in the movie. Seriously. Or at least that is the feeling that our wonderfully hilarious cameraman Hud so aptly conveys to us. When they're screaming, you're screaming. Whether out of pure excitement, pure fear, or a mixture of both (Me =D). Second, yes you DO see the monster, in fact you see it REALLY close. And yes he is just as bad-ass as you imagined, or at least what I imagined. You get the best of all genres while watching Cloverfield. There's a romance, there's crazy action constantly, there's scary things everywhere, head-exploding gore, and of course it's also extremely hilarious.
Cloverfield is not your ordinary monster movie. The characters you come to know aren't the heroes who know exactly what's going on and what to do to defeat this thing. These are the normal people, you and me. Running in the opposite direction just trying to find your friends and get the hell out. It makes Cloverfield so much more personable knowing that that could be you (if an evil oil company unintentionally brought monstrous wrath to a city... but i digress).
I recommend Cloverfield for absolutely anyone who wants to see a genuine monster movie. J.J. Abrams said that he wanted make an American monster movie and I think he accomplished that with flying colors. Go see it, even if you think it looks stupid, its not. Even if you have no idea what I'm talking about with websites and oil companies, go see it. And finally, even if you think The Dark Knight will be so much cooler and you don't want to waste $8, go see it. You'll thank me later.