Seeing a movie like this is like Christmas. You wait so long for it, and then as soon as it begins it's over and you're left feeling like "well, that was that."

I fear the same thing will happen for me with The Dark Knight.

The anticipation almost prevents me from liking a movie as much as I should. I should be going apeshit for Cloverfield, and I almost feel bad that I'm not.

How old are you people on this board? Seriously, the last time I was "excited" about a movie was when I was in high school, maybe. I guess I'm just immune to hype.

Liked this much more than I thought... Sure you need to let a lot of things go, but a movie with a big monster, thats to be expected. Really the worst part was the audience. High school girls and boys and senior citizens shouldnt really be allowed anywhere near a theatre these days, but I guess I should have been ready for it. Anyways, pretty good action and intense scenes at times. If you can forgive a lot and you're not a new yorker who is going to get upset by the rapid pace at which these people seem to be able to traverse the city in (plus great cell reception in the subway station) pretty enjoyable Saturday matinee movie.

i just saw it. This movie is going to sweep the Razzies, for a monster with less than one minute of screen time in a 90 minute movie. This movie is a BOMB of Battlefield Earth proportions.

Why would you see a movie if you're not excited to see it? I can't understand why someone would spend their precious time and hard earned money on something that doesn't excite them. Maybe there are better entertainment options for you than movies?

27, btw.

Some of it was very cool and game like, but overall the characters sucked and acted dumb, they wore too much make-up for DV and were too 'pretty', the insects were contrived, all three of them stepped out of a helecopter crash pretty easily, and the ending was a cliche. I'd probably go 2 out of 5 for its modern attempt at the genre, but it is still very much in the genre.

On another note, I was initially impressed at the willingness of the filmmakers to make it so ambiguous, such as the monster's origins... But then I read some interviews and they explained in detail everything that should've been left to the imagination. Dumb hollywood.

And the title is a new marketing low as well, a title about how the title has nothing to do with the film... except to have people asking what it means, and creating more hype. This whole thing is a very shallow way of mixing business and art, but in the end as I said it's just a genre pic.

let's see....

Battlefield Earth 3%

Cloverfield 76%

I liked it. At first the "Blair Witch" style kinda bugged me, but by the end I had gotten used to it and thought it was a pretty neat way of showing the chaos and confusion going on. It was pretty neat that the characters and the audience had the exact same level of knowledge...which was zero. Nobody in the movie had any idea what was going on and neither did the audience.

I've heard a couple people complain about the ending and how it was predictable and cliche. Well, first of all you should have been able to figure out how the movie was going to end 30 seconds after the movie started simply by reading the screen.

Secondly,

LOVED it!
This is definately one of those movies I'll always wish I could experience again for the first time.


Exactly.

True, it was relatively obvious how it was going to end. I laughed out loud at the "I love you" crap.

I would also be a little pissed at the liquor store they bought their booze from. That was the most sober I've seen anyone at a party with a free bar.

I enjoyed it, but felt like it was channeling Blair Witch way too much. I almost expected them to say "F***!!!, we're lost. F***!!!, where are we? F***!!!, where are we going?"

And the ending...

wow! such amazing insight from someone who seems to know...oh, so little.

considering this was made for around $30 mil and will make almost double that this weekend alone, i would hazard a guess and say it will be anything but a "BOMB of Battlefield Earth proportions".

I remember numerous shot of Lily holding her shoes in her hands while they were going up the stairs. I also saw her running in bare feet, so I believe she just took her shoes off eventually. Of course it would still be pretty difficult to run through rubble in only bare feet.

Is that true? It only cost $30 million? That seems hard to believe. I know it was short and had no stars so they didn't have to pay the actors anything, but there was A LOT of CGI and it was good CGI to boot. That stuff's expensive.

Don't get me wrong, movies excite me, but I don't get excited to see them. I look forward to them if I see a decent trailer and knowing who's involved, and/or see there are positive reviews, but until the actual date I end up seeing it I really don't think about them that much.

I liked it but it could have been better, I wouldn't rank it higher than The Host but it was better than Godzilla Final Wars and some of the other recent Godzilla movies. My biggest gripe was the lice creatures, it just seems like I've seen that so many times before...I would have rather seen more of them dealing with getting through the destruction and the city crumbling around them than fighting off those little beasties with crowbars and axes.

Well fair enough, but I guess you'd have to expect on a movie-lover's website you'd find a lot of people who actually get excited for movies

A lot of mentions have been made about this movie seeming to attract rowdy teenagers. I'm a little curious as to who you had expected to be at a movie like this? Shit, what mainstream movie nowadays doesn't attract said teenagers?

We had some rowdies in the audience last night, mohawks, piercings and all. Before the movie began, they were loud and extremely rude, letting the gay slurs and expletives flow from their mouths with absolutely no regard. However, I guess we were lucky, because once the movie started they shut right the fuck up and didn't make a peep until the end credits.

Yeah, well, that's why I almost NEVER go to a movie at night. It costs more and there's more stupid people.

I wanted to chime in on this gem of a comment. I'm 30 and for some of the bigger movies I see each year I get so excited that I will actually be sick to my stomach the night before the movie. It's a weird quirk and far from normal but my friends always know how excited I am about a movie by how truly awful I feel the night before the film opens. I think in a time where the world is just falling to hell around us it's nice to get excited about things. I kinda wish I didn't get sick but it's great to look forward to stuff. I know folks complained about the new Star Trek teaser but it gave me chills and even after that simple teaser I have to say I'm excited.

saw it today and really enjoyed it.

if they make a sequel i think it would be cool to just show someone else's tape and be able to watch the exact same events unfold from someone else's perspective and location.

a lot of different things were going on all at once throughout the city and we only saw a small part of it.

basically a parallel story. kinda like half-life 1 and half-life: opposing force and half-life: blue shift.

LOVED IT. I've been dying to see this since I first saw the teaser trailer last summer, and it lived up to my expectations 100%. I'd really like to go see it once again at a theater, since I'm not sure DVD is going to be able to capture the same atmosphere that the giant screen and huge thumping sound of the theater had (unless you have a seriously kick ass home theater that is). The chaos was magic. Wow.

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I agree, thats why I said I should have been ready for it... But usually with movies like this its ok. There is enough explosions and music and what not to drown it all out. But with this during the "quiet" moments, the teeny girls decided to screem and giggle and the rest thought it was time to crack wise ass jokes. Just frustrating, but you're right, I should have expected it.

Are you upset that they used your DT name as part of the title?

And then all the boos and gay talked flowed once again from their lips.