Get the hell over your need to be spoon fed your horror, then you might like this film

Rating: 10/10 (19 January 2008)

I saw Cloverfield last night and I have a few things to say, so I figured what better place to say em.
First, if you're the type that gets motion sick, wait for the DVD. I'm completely serious. This is a rough film for those who get motion sick and while I want everyone to see it, I don't want it to be lumped in with a nauseous stomach in folks' memories. And if you push it and go ahead and go, just the first 10 minutes of Hud's crappy video technique is gonna have you ralphing in the aisles.
Next, to those of you who are prepared to hate this movie because you think the marketing/game was dumb: Get your heads out of your behinds. It's been a breath of fresh air to have something different in film to look forward to. If you want things to stay the same, keep pumping your money into classics like "This Christmas" and "Alvin and the Chipmunks" and let the real movie fans have the good seats.
Look, Cloverfield ain't a Disney ride type horror film. You don't see people cutting off their arms, legs whatever to get away from a murderer. You don't have some maniac chainsawing coeds into pieces. This is a thinking' man's (and woman's) monster movie. And if you take a few minutes to THINK about WHAT they were trying to convey with this movie, you might just like it a little better.
I have had to listen to so many nasty comments about this movie being "stupid" or "gay" from so many ignorant folks I'm about ready to barf. I'm not disgusted by the opinions these people have. I'm disgusted by their need to have story spelled out in detail in order to enjoy it. The movie going public has, in a large part, become so used to cut and dried stories with a beginning middle and end (which this one really did have if you pay the heck attention to the frigging thing) where everything is cut and dried that when they're shown something like this, which is basically a teeny tiny cut of a teeny tiny portion of an attack on a major city, they don't know how to react and immediately dislike it.
Look people, this movie is the monster film equivalent to 1. If someone had a handy cam with them when heading out on a trip where the plane crashes and kept the thing running all the way into the ground. 2. (I apologize for the 9/11 analogy. Gods, so many people have done this but it's kinda true) If someone had their handy cam with em on 9/11 and taped their own efforts to get out of the building and the cam was found but they weren't.
It's a split second view of what it was like for these yuppies, many of whom have probably never really faced true fear before, who got caught up in this weird, terrifying situation. The beginning is just to get you an idea of who these people are. The rest is a documentary of their fight to stay alive.
That said, I plan to smack the next person who says they didn't see enough of the monster. WTF are you ON idiot???? I bet these people didn't understand Psycho or any Hitchcock film since he didn't shove folks face into the blood and gore.
You get to see plenty of the monster: Just as much as the actual characters saw which is the frigging point! And, to be honest, that last scene where you get up close and damned personal with the monster, that was PLENTY for me! Between that scene and the parasites, I was THRILLED with the monster stuff in this movie.
To be honest, I'm glad some folks hate this movie. Because those who do ain't the kinda people I want to watch movies with anyhow! They're better off in line for Hostel, Saw, Wolf Creek or the horrific remake of Halloween foisted on us by Rob Zombie.
We need to encourage Hollywood to keep making original stories like this (no they didn't invent the monster movie, but at least this wasn't a frigging sequel, remake or other.. it was something someone actually thought up on their own for a change). If we don't, we're showing Hollywood we aren't smart enough to watch original stories and we'll keep getting fed crap.
Give the movie a chance. If you want, go to www.cloverfieldclues.com and dig deep into the back story. No, the back story is NOT a big part of this movie, but it serves to make you really curious as to what's going on. The marketing/game was VERY interesting and probably will spawn some follow up whether audiences pan this movie or not. And I'd love for that to happen.
I'm just sick of the whiners, whingers and downright ridiculous comments calling this movie stupid from folks who have become used to having gore, violence and idiocy crammed down their throats. We've got to get over our need to see everything in full Technicolor every second. Otherwise we're never going to get a decent film outta Hollywood ever again.