mayorredbeard
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I don't think you guys watched the same movie.
It wasn't creative, it wasn't artistic, it was bad. The movie was suppose to be a thriller/horror movie. At no point during the movie was I incited to any emotion. I was not scared at all, nor did my heart start racing at anytime.
I'll admit, I fell for the hype of the movie. It was built up so much I just had to see it. But after the movie I can not help but feel as if I had just been taken for a con ride for $10.
The monster was un-creative. Sure it looked great, but it failed to incite any horror or terror in me. I respect the 'shakey-camera'. I enjoyed Blair Witch Project. But it was used to no effect in Cloverfield. It made me feel removed from the movie, rather than putting me right there in the middle of the action like it was supposed to.
You learned nothing about the monster. Absolutely nothing. My friends asked what the movie was about, and I did not know what to say. Because it wasn't about anything. The entirety of the plot is, "Monster attacks Manhattan, people try to survive it." Nothing else. There was clearly no thought put into this movie. It's not part of a grand scheme of things that the writers had planned.
The movie was ended at a point to force a sequel. *SMALL SPOILER* People say, "Yah but the 'Property of US Government' in the credits means that the government was involved". OF COURSE THEY WERE INVOLVED! The military was fighting them. That one line watermarked into the credits does not reveal anything. It was just dumb.
The entire movie was dumb. I'm left with more questions than before I watched the movie:
- Why did the girl explode behind the curtain after being bit, that was just stupid.
- Where did the monster come from
- How does no one notice a 30 story tall monster in the surrounding waters of New York City. How the hell did the cost guard miss that? Dumb.
- Why did little baby monsters fall off the big monster? Doesn't make any sense. Even if it is a monster from another planet or something dumb like that how'd the monster get here. Dumb.
- The entire cast was so annoying. Horrible acting. The horrible acting prevented me from getting at all submerged into the movie. Never have I rooted for a monster with such enthusiasm.
- Did the two people in the end die?
- Did the nukes work? Were they even used?
A good cinematic movie would answer the questions a viewer had going into the movie; while having the answers to those questions raise new questions. This was just a waste of an hour and 20 minutes. And its actually a lot shorter than that, because the theaters consider the 10 minute previews as part of the total movie length.
There is no justification for this to be called a good movie. I'm not calling you guys stupid, I'm calling the movie stupid. And I think we all fell for the hype; so we don't want to admit we got conned. We did. The greatest con of the new millennium so far.
I have never had a police escort out of a theater. While I did not, a couple people threw stuff a the screen at the end of the movie. There was a small riot and after two people puked the theater issued a certificate to everyone in the theater to see another movie at a later time for free and apologized.
It wasn't creative, it wasn't artistic, it was bad. The movie was suppose to be a thriller/horror movie. At no point during the movie was I incited to any emotion. I was not scared at all, nor did my heart start racing at anytime.
I'll admit, I fell for the hype of the movie. It was built up so much I just had to see it. But after the movie I can not help but feel as if I had just been taken for a con ride for $10.
The monster was un-creative. Sure it looked great, but it failed to incite any horror or terror in me. I respect the 'shakey-camera'. I enjoyed Blair Witch Project. But it was used to no effect in Cloverfield. It made me feel removed from the movie, rather than putting me right there in the middle of the action like it was supposed to.
You learned nothing about the monster. Absolutely nothing. My friends asked what the movie was about, and I did not know what to say. Because it wasn't about anything. The entirety of the plot is, "Monster attacks Manhattan, people try to survive it." Nothing else. There was clearly no thought put into this movie. It's not part of a grand scheme of things that the writers had planned.
The movie was ended at a point to force a sequel. *SMALL SPOILER* People say, "Yah but the 'Property of US Government' in the credits means that the government was involved". OF COURSE THEY WERE INVOLVED! The military was fighting them. That one line watermarked into the credits does not reveal anything. It was just dumb.
The entire movie was dumb. I'm left with more questions than before I watched the movie:
- Why did the girl explode behind the curtain after being bit, that was just stupid.
- Where did the monster come from
- How does no one notice a 30 story tall monster in the surrounding waters of New York City. How the hell did the cost guard miss that? Dumb.
- Why did little baby monsters fall off the big monster? Doesn't make any sense. Even if it is a monster from another planet or something dumb like that how'd the monster get here. Dumb.
- The entire cast was so annoying. Horrible acting. The horrible acting prevented me from getting at all submerged into the movie. Never have I rooted for a monster with such enthusiasm.
- Did the two people in the end die?
- Did the nukes work? Were they even used?
A good cinematic movie would answer the questions a viewer had going into the movie; while having the answers to those questions raise new questions. This was just a waste of an hour and 20 minutes. And its actually a lot shorter than that, because the theaters consider the 10 minute previews as part of the total movie length.
There is no justification for this to be called a good movie. I'm not calling you guys stupid, I'm calling the movie stupid. And I think we all fell for the hype; so we don't want to admit we got conned. We did. The greatest con of the new millennium so far.
I have never had a police escort out of a theater. While I did not, a couple people threw stuff a the screen at the end of the movie. There was a small riot and after two people puked the theater issued a certificate to everyone in the theater to see another movie at a later time for free and apologized.