Wow - what a film!!

You guys gotta see it if u havent. Its a proper cinematic experience - major sensory overload. Felt really weird after it as well. I dont think I've been so tense during a film!

Anyone else seen it yet?

yeah i saw it at the drive in a week ago. it was pretty good. it at least a netflix movie or a rental if you dont want to see it in the theater. the drive in in San Jose is so cheap! like 7$ for 2 movies so if you can do that its way worth it.



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could have done with out the yuppy douche bags but i guess the guy who made the film always has yuppy douchebags in his stuff.

there were some questions that i havent gotten answered. like....why the hell did they go back for that girl! they could have all lived if they just left her!!!!!

i mean i wouldnt have wanted my bf to go back all that way for me. and then he told me he wouldnt which was kinda like "omg he wouldnt come back for me" but then again i just told him if a somthing like that happened (like it would) dont come back for me. ok im a girl, i want to be rescued....im also a dork but anyway enough of my rambles on that subject.....

what if the girl was already dead when they got to her and what if she was hurt so bad she couldnt walk.
and what happened to the girl who exploted? did she have a egg in her or did they kill her?
why did the monster go after what would be a ant sized thing aka the guy with the camera (in relation to the monsters size) just to spit him out?

over all it was a good horror movie. very fun.

I agree about the yuppee douche bags, however, I disagree that J.J. Abrams has them in all of his work. Consider Lost. I think the yuppee douche bags, if any, were Paolo and Nikki who have been killed off.

The guy who made Cloverfield is the same guy who made Lost.

Did you notice the Dharma Logo at the very beginning when you see the military "do not duplicate" message?

I think the creators have kind of explained why this monster would chew that guy up just to spit him out.

As goofy as it may sound... self defense.

J.J. Abrams said that this monster, although approximately 1000 years old, is a baby compared to the average age of adults in the species. The animal is reacting the same way a wild animal would when let loose in the city. When it feels threatened, it attacks. The animal is scared by this new scary area where all of these things the size of flies (people are flies in size compared to the animal) are attacking him. He doesn't have the comprehension to understand why this is going on and why these things are attacking him. I think this is why he spit the guy back out. The animal at least has enough intelligence to recognize him as being the same type of thing that was shooting at him. Didn't recognize the camera. And not because he had any intention of eating him, he attacked him by chewing him up and spitting him out.

But what do I know. Maybe he did want to eat him, but, he tasted like idiot douche bag.

I thought it was an interesting experience. It had a similar concept, cinematically, to The Blair Witch Project. The idea being that you are not actually watching a movie. What you are being shown is footage found after that hypothetical monster situation.

It made sense that these idiots all went running together into harm's way. There once was a time where almost everyone, in a similar situation, would say "Dude, you're going back in there? I wish you the best. Call me if you make it out." But, I think alot about the guy with the camera. I think he's very real. Some people are so concerned with getting millions of YouTube hits that they are willing to put themselves in danger to get the footage.

I can't really read what I just wrote... must put the alcohol away. Linderman's Apple from Trader Joe's. I highly recommend it.

ok and jack is not a yuppie douche?
yeah hes the "hero" but hes a total yuppie.
i dont know if i like him......
palo and nikki were just evil, but yeah, yuppieish....

the idea of the movie wasnt new and not blair witch new. cannibal holocaust is apparently the first of that type of movie. i refuse to watch it because they kill real animals in it and thats not cool in my book.

the monster was cool. when the movie comes out on dvd i want to freeze frame the end and take a look at the monster "arriving" or something falling into the water that "wakes" the monster up.

and did i hear that the are making a cloverfield 2? or was on crack that day?

"when the movie comes out on dvd i want to freeze frame the end and take a look at the monster "arriving" or something falling into the water that "wakes" the monster up. "

Was that after the credits???

yeah, it was at the end sometime......but it was on the original tape of when they went to conie island i guess you can see something fall into the water behind them. i didnt notice it at the time.