Cloverfield's name being well, Cloverfield

Rating: 7/10 (18 January 2008)

The movies name is Cloverfield because that is a nickname for Central Park. And you know what happens in Central Park. Also, a four-leaf clover is a symbol for luck. So it's ironic. All-in-all, great name. Great, great movie as well. I've been waiting for this sort of thing for a LONG time.
So anyway, about the movie. Obviously, I loved it. If you are an ass, and aren't going to like it because of the shaky camera, then you are condemning all visual media to horrendous "film" like Step Up. Anyway, this is definitely what War of the Worlds should have been like. I liked War of the Worlds, but this was so much better. It's almost as if J. J. Abrams was watching WotW and thought to himself, "I could make this a whole lot better." Some people thought it was a bit pretentious, but it wasn't. Seriously, if you're going to judge this movie based on it's realism, you're missing the point. Of course, if you understand things like propellers and blood-clotting, this movie is as real as it can get, besides the whole monster-destroying-the-world thing. Great movie though. I'd advise everyone who isn't prone to motion-sickness to see it.