Cloverfield

[BIG GREEN]

...this is that monster flick with the clever marketing campaign. The movie makes you feel somewhat for the annoying typical onscreen new york character cross cut (caucasions are minority in new york city) but the rest of the movie leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth. Without spoiling anything, at the end of the movie everyone in my theatre stood up and were like "thats it?" or "i want my money back!"

[Patr1ck]

I knew it. Blair Witch 2. Fucking marketing.

Let's make a movie about people!

-Nobody is going to go see that shit.

We can disguise it as a blockbuster monster-flick!

-I think that just might work.

I am willing to bet the same thing is going to happen in the tv show Lost(same creator) when we find out what the smoke monster really is.

[Dean]

To be honest, i actually enjoyed Cloverfield.

[BIG GREEN]

Elaborate please. Cause the feel was realistic as far as the humans go...you definitly felt like you were there. However it falls short in the area that puts asses in the seat....the monster and the ending. A whole lot of build up...and a whole lot of let down.

[mvpshaq32]

Seriously....the ending was disappointing.
Everyone at the theatre was like, "WTF?!?!"
But I learned that at the ending when they are at the carnival, the background shows those "creatures" dropping into the ocean.
Though I did enjoy the battle scene where a shitload of army guys and tanks come blasting the creature.

[benji]

That was a satellite falling into the ocean at the end. Look at the viral sites.

There is stuff after the credits too, which is always brilliant because everyone I've ever seen at a theatre stands up immediately at the credits and tries to get out the door.

[mvpshaq32]

It would have made more sense if it were the parasites that dropped into the ocean....

[shadowgrin]

It would have made more sense to accept the fact that you just got duped into watching a movie based on hype...

[Jackal]

I went in to the movie not wanting to watch it. I didn't like Bourne Ultimatum so much because of the whole shaky cam effect and was seriously fearing a headache for Cloverfield. So because of my disdain going in...I came out pretty satisfied.

I thought it was a kickass movie. I would've stayed to see if anything came after the credits...but it was 3 and my brother in law was driving. So I guess I'll just google it.

[Eugene]

I like the movie, too. It had its shortcoming, but I don't think it's because of an oversight on the writer/directors part. They made their creative choices in storytelling (although you could argue that there was no "story" in the traditional sense), and left it at that.

That movie did have some of the most legitimately intense and terrifying moments I've seen in theaters.

I do wish there was at least some explanations for us. I was also thinking about staying after the credits, but I was also with my friends who left (disappointedly, as it were) right after the movie.