Sunday, January 27
Watched Cloverfield two nights ago. I was pretty excited to watch the movie at first, don't get me wrong I loved the movie. I mean just look at the movie poster, a headless statue of liberty with an opening through Manhattan buildings being walk over like Lego bricks. If you're a regular movie buff who LOVES watching movies, I'm sure u'll find this movie out of the ordinary. The friends that I went with to watch the movie said that it was pretty confusing and disorienting (mainly because of the 3rd person camera angles, I've heard of other friends that vomited when they came out of the cinema) and there was no substantial storyline or plot for the movie.
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From what I think, the director, Matt Reeves, meant to make the film to seem like he broke into some national government high-security evidence storing facility in the future and managed to snatch this video of the "thing" that wreaked havoc in Manhattan, New York which in the end resulted in the annihilating bombing of the whole Manhattan Island, along with the creature on it. Amazingly this little video footage was salvaged from the debris and surfaced as the evidence for this horrific encounter.
One thing I absolutely loved was the amazing sound effects, especially when Hud who was holding the camera like a few feet away from the military launching a Bazooka directly at the creature followed by a fleet of tanks crawling through Manhattan Street while shooting missiles at it. It was surreal and the effects were realistic, not to mention the sound.
One thing that bothered me was the characters in the movie and their little love story, I mean making all the way from another side of the island to save this girl that was never actually his girlfriend, which if I may add, was punctured with a steel rod through her chest just above her heart. Not forgetting the fallen 45 degrees slanted apartment building that the lead character, Rob had to crawl through in mid air from another building to find his future-girlfriend, Beth. She should be dead with that kind of injury. Imagine waking up and realizing u had a steel road through your chest. I would die from shock if that rod didn't kill me.
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Overall, I loved the movie. Matt Reeves talks about a sequel here which I can't wait. My rating u ask?
A solid 4 our of 5. Can't wait for the sequel, if there's one.
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