An excellent movie especially considering i had only seen one trailer for it

Rating: 10/10 (14 February 2008)

I had first heard of this movie from one of my friends who had seen the teaser trailer on Transformers. Later i saw this trailer and my immediate reaction to it was "oh this movie is gonna be as bad as the American Godzilla". I however am a monster movie buff and did want to remain objective to this movie and so i paid no attention to the "hype" it was getting. After watching it I concluded that this movie was in fact one of the best monster movies i have ever watched.
further i would like to address some of the complaints i have heard from many people about this movie: First: People state that the camera work was horrible at best because it was shaky.... I would like to say to them, it was designed that way, if you were in that situation filming and running for your life wouldn't you be shaky as well? Second: the lack of big name actors... again this was designed for realism, it is supposed to be average people living average lives who are going through this horrible event.
thank you for your time and i hope you understand my opinion of Cloverfield