Cloverfield comments
2008-01-28 | Filed under Movies |
We saw Cloverfield in Vermont, which was the perfect venue because the theater near Mount Snow has eensy screens. Thus I was able to watch the movie without fear of motion sickness.
(As if we needed more proof that CNN is no longer a good source for news, did we really need an article telling us that bouncy jouncy movies might induce sickness? We all saw The Blair Witch Project and Saving Private Ryan; we know how this works.)
I enjoyed the movie. Character-wise, they sold the inciting irrational act of running toward the monster, there wasn’t hideous protagonist stupidity, and they stuck to the chosen single-camera schtick. Thus I have some quibbles (including the impressive fortitude saves by characters running around in heels or recently impaled) but am basically happy, even though we got to see a lot of the monster and the Central Park quotes were irksome.
But Jim Macdonald’s comments are much more entertaining than mine.
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