| Cloverfield - Non-Spoiler Movie Review |  |  |  |
| Written by Michael Dayspring | |
| Wednesday, 16 January 2008 | |
| So was it A Cloverfield of Dreams? Or Did it rock Mikeys socks off? Get the non-spoiler scoop.
Let me side track this for just a moment if I may; I LOVE Godzilla films, I love King Kong, Ultraman, all of IT! Why? Because I'm a man-child who’s "Bucket-List" has on it "Trash Model City while wearing a Monster suit" and I know I'm not alone in that one bit. However one of the most frustrating things about giant monster movies is the lame attempts to "humanize" the story. Nobody takes these things very seriously and you wind up with some cool city smashing action sandwiched in-between what feels like hours of god awful dialog from people you couldn't care about on your most charitable day. With all that in mind the forces behind Cloverfield took a different approach to telling the story of what happens when a giant monster decides to smash a large city to rumble; the point of view of those poor people on the ground during this nightmare. And by god it works on levels you won't even realize as you are watching it, it will hit you later like a ton of bricks. The people in this movie don't play this like a scripted drama, so much so I have to wonder how much of it was ever planned out or scripted. Which brings me to my next side tracked moment: Jessica Lucas is STUNNING!! so stunning in fact I'm not only saving her a spot on this years hottie list, but I'm even considering watching The Covenant (on purpose) just to see more of her....if that doesn't qualify as smitten I don't know what does. Ok back to Cloverfield. While I did promise I wouldn't spoil it for you (and I wont) I will tell you this, I know some people are thinking that you won’t see much of this beast in the movie...NOT true! You see quite a bit of it but they will tease you with it for a good while before giving up the goods. It’s a great build up and the trailers don't show you ANYTHING about what you will see...and hear. |
I literally just walked in the door at the House of M after a scary drive home in high force winds...which is fitting since I just had my mind blown by just how well Matt Reeves, Drew Goddard, and J.J. Abrams re-invented the giant monster 
1 comment:
soo ginger smith how could you put Cloverfield Videos on YouTube, that's plagiarism
is it not
or is it is
IJ rocks
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