Cloverfield

[Free For All]

Saw it this afternoon. It takes a bit to get used to the shaky "reality" camera, but I thought overall it was pretty good. Not sure if I liked the way it ended (don't want to give anything away), but I liked the way you get little glimpses here and there of pretty creepy things. A very different type of horror/sci-fi film for sure. Some pretty spooky sound effects, too.

Anyone else?

[Dan Gould]

I was assaulted by the preview at "I Am Legend" and my wife and I turned to each other and said "I don't think so". Though I've seen a couple of good reviews, there would have to be unanimous, effusive raves before I'd reconsider.

[jazzbo]

I'm going to see it Sunday; four friends and I have been planning this outing since we saw the preview together at our last "macho man movie get together" (Beowulf).

[Shawn]

Went and saw this tonight. It's good, not great. Basically just take The Blair Witch Project and transpose it to a Godzilla movie. Quite well made but I was hoping for something a little more breathtaking.

[jazzbo]

I liked it!

The women were beautiful!

What sets this apart is the handheld video thing and the way there was no real explanations or narrations and the mystery was pretty intact throughout.

Cool on the big screen!

[Shawn]

The women were beautiful!

Most definitely!

I really didn't have any major complaints other than the constant banter from the guy holding the camera started to irritate me.

[Quincy]

I liked it!

I loved it! I thought it would be hard to exceed the classic trailer, but I really enjoyed it.

The women were beautiful!

Yes indeedlydoo!

Video of the girl they go back for washing a car for GQ.

What sets this apart is the handheld video thing and the way there was no real explanations or narrations and the mystery was pretty intact throughout.

Yeah. No dumb soundtrack either. It's not like they run from the monster while The Strokes play.

As far as the Blair Witch comparisons because of the hand held, I thought this was much better as it seemed more natural. I didn't like Blair Witch much as I'm a hiker, and those people were too damn dumb to live. And they were!

Cool on the big screen!

I haven't had so much fun and felt so exhilarated after a movie in a long time.

[PHILLYQ]

I went to see it with my 15 year old son last week. He was disappointed with the movie- I think he expected more. I liked it quite a bit even though it was sometimes hard to feel any sympathy for some of the characters(Yuppie Scum). Good monster movie and a worthwhile accompaniment to a large bucket of popcorn.