The Perfect Film

Rating: 10/10 (19 January 2008)

My friend who works at Fox has told me a lot about how the movie studios try to get lots of free advertising by setting up profiles on MySpace and other internet related stuff. And this movie was an internet sensation for a long time with it's advertising.
WELL IT WAS ALL WORTH IT!!!
Holy Jesus Mary and Joseph. This movie was such an intense experience like I haven't seen since watching Sigourney Weaver in Aliens. More importantly I was so entirely engrossed in the whole film for the entire time, and it's been 10 years since I saw a movie where I didn't look at my watch and wonder when it's going to be over. I loved "There Will Be Blood," but even there it didn't keep my attention the entire time.
My only criticism is about near the end when Rob and his gang continue to pursue their quest to save Beth. Why in hell would you climb into the AOL/Time Warner building when one tower is collapsed into the other tower? Didn't we learn from sept. 11th? Although it all serves the cute love story I still felt no woman (Or in my case man) is worth risking your life like that when you don't even know if she's alive or not. And when they get to her she's impaled by a steel girder? Oh well, Trinity seemed to live for awhile at the end of the Matrix trilogy when she was in a similar situation.
However all in all I finally totally experienced the "Dream like state" that Freudian film theorists talk about in watching a film in the dark theatre. When I left the theatre I was so exhausted and traumatized I felt I had been through a war.
Some people were angry, and wanted their money back, because the movie didn't explain anything as to where the hell the alien came from and why he (Or is it a she?) chose to rampage and destroy Manhattan. That wasn't the point of the move dumb asses. It's all from the perspective of a guy with his video camera. Of course we don't get all the nice explanations. And if you sit back and enjoy the film you don't give a damm about nice explanations as to why. Film is usually about a "Slice of life" and just because this is a science fiction film doesn't mean it can't also employ the standards of other film genres.
Crazy kudos to J.J. Abrams. You had me with "Lost" but now I'm totally and completely in love with your genius.
Is it a little weird to like a movie so much where the city where I live gets destroyed? HAHAHAHA