Feel it's might

Rating: 9/10 (8 April 2008)

The first thing i saw of Cloverfield was back on July 3rd, 2007. Me and my friend had met at our city's cinemas to see Transformers. The movie was great, and it had two trailers that greatly intrigued me. The first was I Am Legend (The Last man on Earth is not Alone), scared me. Definitely intrigued. I also saw the trailer for Cloverfield. Didn't know what was happening, just that there was a massive explosion, and then the head of the statue of Liberty came flying into the street, someone was screaming OMG, then, that was it. All we knew was that it was from J.J. Abrams, and that it would be coming out on 1/18/08. that was enough to get me intrigued. I couldn't stop thinking about it, and as the month's passed i got more and more excited for the 18th of January, 2008. When the day finally came, i saw it right after school. Never have i been more satisfied with a movie. It was laugh out loud funny at the right parts, had great characters, and was just as thrilling and scary and captivating as i had expected it to be. I have never been under more adrenaline in a movie theater in my life. I was even flexing my muscles during scenes without even realizing it. The movie was incredible in that it was actually able to live up to one of the biggest amounts of hype ever. I would see it five time in theaters. By the fourth and fifth time however, i was starting to get bored. understandably. That's the one problem with Cloverfield. I have realized that since it relied so much on suspense and shock, instead of eye candy, that after the first couple of times, you don't really get as much pleasure out of the movie. I know its kind of hard to judge based on my four consecutive seeings, but i think that even with DVD it still could be boring, although i haven't bought it yet. It's still fun to watch, because its so good, but i think the reason it wasn't the super blockbuster it could have been was because it didn't show enough scenes of buildings being demolished, or helicopters exploding. Still, the Cloverfield Monster was incredible, and you can't help but feel awed by it. The movie is good because it isn't scary primarily because of the little parasites, but because of the skyscraper sized carnivore. It is actually able to make something so fantastic, impossible, and big, scary, and an abandoned New York is the slaughter range. After seeing that thing, it is actually a little scary to walk at night, for fear it might appear. Because Cloverfield could capture that crucial and classic aspect of the monster movie genre, it is, i think, one of, if not the, greatest monster movies of all time. Go see the movie, and feel the might of the Cloverfield Monster.
*I am going to go see the sequel. Cloverfield, 2009!