1-18-08 (Now Cloverfield) Options

[Retehi]

I'm just gonna guess every single person here has heard of this by now, if not,
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/medium.html

Anyway I thought I'd share this, someone posted it on another forum, saying he got it off Ain't It Cool or whatever. Saved it to AT so I wouldn't leech his photobucket, a picture of the possible monster no one knows squat about yet (I'm guessing fanart, but pretty nifty still):



You guys are probably tired of all the speculation, and all that stuff, but I think it's a fun mystery, I love creative marketing like this. It sure as hell has me excited to see it, haha.

There was supposed to be a new trailer out today with Resident Evil, but I didn't go to watch.

[Crushinator]

Just saw it, I thought it was fuckin' awesome. Spoilers to follow, I suppose.

To me, the opening party sequence helped establish an "authentic" feel to the handycam perspective. It also had a part in building up the tension. Everyone in the theater knows something is going to happen, but when? Kind of like the insipid girl-talk section before the action in "Death Proof". After the monster attacks, there are a lot of "ohshiiiiiit" moments, like when the bridge gets smashed, the liberty head thing, the military rolling in the for the first time with tanks and bazookas and shit, etc. I thought there was a nice pacing between "lets run away and try and figure out wtf is happening to the city" and "oh crap there's a monster smashin shit!" parts.

The dialogue is pretty geniune, like Scan said, with the cameraman cracking stupid ass comments out of nervousness, etc. The whole "I gotta go back for Beth!" plot was a little cliche, but the party established them as longtime friends who had finally hooked up, so I think Rob's desire to save her was pretty believable. It was nice how the footage would occasionally slip to their date the day previous.

The monster designs were excellent, both big and small. The part with the little zergling guys in the sewer reminded me of the sewer section of Silent Hill .

As far as the ending goes, I thought it was perfect. From the whole tense evac, to the helo crash, to Hud getting eaten by the monster, to the nuke dropping, a solid finale. They can't stop it with conventional weapons, so they gotta "drop the hammer" as it were. Nobody is fucking surviving that, and the bittersweet "I love you"'s from Rob and Beth masked by the rubble of the bridge crumbling was a great way to finish off. Nobody wins in the end, either all of NYC is flattened and the monster is dead, or they dropped the bomb for no good reason and it goes on to smash Rhode Island in Cloverfield 2: Quahog Rising.

Overall I give it 's and a . Crushinator approved!