Godzilla + whale whatever, it blew!!

I actually felt like this monster was quite a bit scarier than any incarnation of Godzilla I have ever seen. The way he could move his arms was quite freaky. Plus, he didn't have huge eyes but for the eyes he had were scary.

Count among that can accept laud the fact that its not a tightly wrapped film, but still don't care for it.

I didn't care about the leads a single bit. If the main thrust of movie is interpersonal relationships against the backdrop of a disaster, you either have to make the relationships resonate strongly with the audience so that they accept the occasionally nonsensical decisions of the characters - or make the disaster so epic that the characters take backseat.

Obviously, the monster invasion is merely backdrop in the movie - so I'm left with Rob and Beth, who I thought were the 5th and 7th most interesting human characters in the movie.

That's just how I saw it, I'm know I'm in the minority on this one.

It wasn't the lack of monster action (which was very well done) or the shaky cam (I like the idea and the execution) that made the movie fail - just the usual culprit, story and acting.

i had a similar experience yesterday at the 4:45pm showing i went to...thru the previews and into the beginning of the movie there were some kids cracking jokes and just being stupid but once that first BOOM happened everyone shut up and there wasn't another word from anyone...even after the movie ended everyone quietly got up and left w/o any talking until we got out into the lobby

as for the movie i thought it was really effective in the storytelling if you realize it isn't about the monster but about the people trying to survive the chaos going on around them--really great stuff

i loved the movie!

but damn that camera has long battery life!!!!!!!

74 minutes is a long battery life?

Try about 8 hours...

I wonder why the never just stole a car. There were plenty of them lying around. Maybe a cab or something that was abandoned.

No, not 8 hours. It was turned off a lot. Everything we saw was what they recorded. We assume it was turned on and off as Hudd saw fit, with no edits made to make 'a movie.' So, in short, the battery life had to be at least 74 minutes.

I would have to assume the cuts are just him pushing the button to turn it from STBY to REC and back again, not turning the entire thing off.

that way you have something to complain about. it all makes sense now.

Question about the ending:

Driving around NYC in a panic generally doesn't work so hot.

I'm pretty sure I loved this movie (I need to sleep on it). The ending was pretty much exactly what I expected and I would have been extremely disappointed with some hollywoodized cliched ending.

Hud was amazing comic relief and I'm seriously so gay that my biggest concern the last half of the movie was that So gay.

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I haven't seen it yet but a guy I work with saw it and he said a woman vomited in the back row of his screening. He said it was during a particularly bloody scene but he wasn't sure if it was the camera work, the scene, or a combo of both that caused her reaction.

I was warned about motion sickness when I bought the tickets... I didn't get motion sick though - I was too busy being blown away. I loved this movie. Seriously loved it. Brilliant.

...and I hate everything...

haha - just read through a page of comments... very entertaining.

Hollywood releases giant monster-destroys-city movie...
Internet boards explode with attempts to logically dissect and intellectually dismantle said movie as though it's Citizen Kane...

Priceless.

Good stuff Trigger.

I saw this yesterday, and like many others, I had to sleep on it before really drawing a conclusion on how much I enjoyed it. Looking back I think what impressed me the most is how real it looked. Granted I'm a fairly easy to please movie goer, but that in itself made the film for me. Sure the characters weren't all that strong, but I thought the action was great. I'll be intrigued to see if they follow up with another movie, as it could go in so many directions. The same movie from someone else's perspective, the events and origin of the monster(s), the events that pick up where this movie left off. They could really milk this if they want to. Should be interesting to see how well this does at the box office.

Okay so can someone answer the question once and for all:

It's in the upper right hand corner of the screen, falling into the ocean.

100% awesome.

I loved this movie from start to finish. The handheld camera was remarkably effective and gave the movie a sense of scale that few monster movies can achieve. The scene where the army is shooting at the monster from the street was one of the most intense things I've ever seen on screen, ranking right up there with the opening of Saving Private Ryan as far as "Holy fuck! This is insane!" goes.

I enjoyed the characters a lot - they were extremely genuine. I actually felt sad when he was telling his mother what happened to his brother. I loved not knowing exactly what happened and that the monster wasn't easily dispatched.

It was a thrilling, gripping and extremely effective movie with a unique perspective on a tired genre and I cannot wait to pick it up on DVD.