calm down
ARGGGGH!! Apparently I have to talk more about this movie afterall. Like the monster, this topic just won't die.
Look, I have nothing against the mystery of the monster. CLOVERFIELD is hardly the first monster movie to have the creature arise mysteriously and wreck havoc without explanation. HALLOWEEN did it brilliantly with Michael Myers.
A problem is that if you didn't participate in the viral marketing campaign, you could miss something. Everybody paid the same price to see this movie. It shouldn't be treating viewers differently depending on whether or not they're J.J.'s fanboys. Either be a complete mystery like Michael Myers, or have the "white-coated scientist" scene that J.J. arrogantly scorns and have the movie scientist explain something to ALL the paying customers.
More to the point, Bebob4999 is wrong. The shaky cam was there from start to finish, not just during the running scenes. Viewers were getting sick from vertigo during that ridiculously long and boring party scene at the beginning where absolutely nothing exciting was going and the whole point was to try to get us to care about these self-centered yuppie halfwits who were all about to become monster chow.
There was no excuse for that ridiculous shaky camera work at a 20-minute-long deadass party scene in this day and age, and more than one movie reviewer has commented on it, so I know it's not just me. It was clearly designed to disorient the viewer to the facts that (a) the plot was idiotic and (b) the CGI was going to be minimal. You can criticize Godzilla 1998 (aka "Fraudzilla" to the kaiju fanboys) all you want but at least they gave you your money's worth in CGI. CLOVERFIELD, not so much.
Sure, the movie served its purpose in making a profit, but at what cost to future movies from the same people? I'm certainly in no hurry to pay to see J.J.'s version of STAR TREK in December, especially since it's going to be an odd-numbered Trek movie.
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take a breath. i am sorry that you didn't like the movie or the camera view but you have to applaud the intent of the movie. this movie was not about a monster, it was about emotional connection and loss. you have to go through the blips of beth and rob to have a deep appreciation for the conflict of love and life. i identified with that because we all have people that we had strong emotions for and we let go because of circumstances that when faced with life and death were really meaningless to loving that person.
the party scene was genius because it was designed to be dead ass conversation. you are just supposed to relax, like you are at a dead ass going away party. then the usual drama happens, this person won't talk with this person, so on and so forth, this person pisses this one off, and then DOOOOOM, the lights flicker, an explosion and all hell breaks loose.
to me the point of this movie was showing a different side of monster movies. a lot of times when we go to see these movies we get so caught up in the monster that we forget about the charecters. these guys act like yuppies because they are. there all twenty something still caught up in twenty something drama. they had lives before this thing happened. in this movie they viewed the attack not as the main point, but the interuption of peoples average ordinary, sometimes idiotic lives.
you go through the movie without answers because sometimes in life we don't have the luxury of answers. sometimes you just have to move and react the best way we know how.
ofcourse the plot is stupid, love makes us do stupid things sometimes. to risk it all, against all odds, to face soemthing bigger than yourself, to lay it all on the line for one last touch, one last kiss, one last chance to really live, not just avoid dying.
this marketing was about force. they forced people to go to the movie and fill in the holes of the trailer, just like they forced everyone to go see the sequels just to find out what happened, because human beings are nothing if not curious to a fault.
it's not the best movie in the world, but it is a movie that you can let yourself connect with, and the worst part is that if you really connect and let the movie in, it makes it all the more tragic (although i still hold out hope that they are in a hospital somewhere with just some broken bones).
the biggest concern is now, if they do make a sequel past other points of view, what do you do. if this thing really survived a moab (strongest nonuclear device) then the only thing left would be to evacuate a state and nuke the damn thing,
