Much WORSE the second time

Rating: 5/10 (4 January 2011)

I saw this opening night in theaters in 2008. I watched it for the first time tonight, nearly three years later.
Really what I wanted to comment about is how far CGI has come in these short three years. Watching Cloverfield tonight, it struck me how mediocre the CGI in this movie actually is in 2011 standards. The scenes of the monster wrecking NYC look awful. A few of the closeups of the monster later in the movie have held up fairly well, but overall, what awed me then, doesn't fly nowadays. It's pretty amazing.
Also, tonight I realized how AWFUL the acting is. Some of the worst in recent memory. I felt like killing HUD the camera man long before the monster did.
Cloverfield 2 is due out summer 2012. We'll see.