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Thanks. :)

I would just like them to keep it rough and unpolished, perhaps they could do the sequel in the style of a cameraman filming things for the military, similar to cameramen who were hired to go into the field with soldiers and document things during WWII? It doesn't need to be found footage...

Do better with this story or better in general? Of course JJ Abrams can do a great film using traditional film styles but in the case of this story I don't necessarily want tradtional styles used, that would take away what made this film effective and turn it into yet another ho hum blockbuster...

You said it, brilliant on all fronts. :emoji_thumbsup:

Yep, but the differnece is that film did not earn it's ending IMO and only did it for sheer shock value and nothing else, his cowardly and weak act didn't fit with anything else Thomas Jane did throughout the rest of the film. With an enormous creature decimating the entire city and the military...

They went the ballsier route with the ending IMO, if Rob and Beth had lived it would have been accused of being "too safe" or "too Hollywood" but they both croaked which is what makes the end work so well IMO.

When I first heard that the creature was a baby my immediate thought was "christ, i'd hate to see the freakin' parents!!" I like that he's a baby, it adds a poigancy to the creature to where you almost feel sad for it.

There's a really good article on the creature in the new issue of Fangoria magazine, apparently the creature is indeed supposed to be white despite most people thinking it's grey or light brown, indeed the new Cloverfield toy coming out correctly depicts it as white. It made me appreciate the...

Malcolm, the splash occurs at 1:13:15 on the DVD, it happens right on the oceans horizon line and off to the right, you'll see the tracer of something falling and then the splash. I must have watched the DVD 3 times since getting it on Tuesday lol, the LFE actually made a picture fall off the...

I saw Halloween for the first time when I was 8, screwed me up for a month or two but i'm okay now. :D

DVD is probably a better venue for your son to see the film, it won't be as large and in-your-face that way.

It certaintly isn't a cute and cuddly monster movie like, say Gremlins, that's for sure.

The film, while intense and LOUD (although that might not be a concern now because they've no doubt moved it to the cheapo theater by now), has very little in the way of blood (there is some but it's quick) and harsh language. But the creature itself might scare kids that age, it's large mean...

Her copter was away a good couple of minutes before they lifted off and the creature was busy with the bombers dropping the bombs on it, I think that Lily got away. But then again if her copter was in close proximity to theirs the creature could have taken it down and we never saw it since, of...

This is a sweet idea! :emoji_thumbsup:

Is it the same clip they have up on Youtube? (it's presumably bootleg footage so I didn't post it here) Because I couldn't make out a thing the quality was so bad.

So that would mean that Hud kept starting and stopping the camera during the entire ordeal, only capturing 84 minutes worth? But what about after the helicopter crashed and we cut to that lingering still shot? At least a couple of hours had to have past so the footage was either edited or Hud...

Ebert was on the money with the estimated running time of the camera, you figured they were at Rob's party for maybe 4-5 hrs when the monster showed up and then Rob said at the very end "My name is Robert Hawkins and approximately 7 hours ago something attacked the city..."

Yeah, I was just joking around with the "satisfy you people" part, people have always had a problem with shaky cameras, I remember reading simliar complaints about The Blair Witch Project.

There is a very reasonable explanation to Hud's camerawork and it is as follows... Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he had no experience with a camcorder, he doesn't own one and suddenly he was saddled with the duty of filming the party and getting testimonials from the...

Do me a favour, get out your camera, assuming you own one that is, take it outside and run down the street with it rolling, now play it back. See how shaky it is? And you weren't even running from a 200' monster lol. ;)

I hear ya, i've always hated that scene, it's a violation of everything master Hitchcock had established and spoon-fed the audience everything.

^^Absolutely, Chris, it's actually no different than the end of, say, Halloween which is considered by many as a classic, the characters all ended up in a satisfactory place and Michael Myers was still on the loose. To me this is no different than the creature in Cloverfield continuing to live...

To me, for all purposes, Cloverfield was the perfect movie. It's the first film in a long time where I didn't find a single flaw with it, the casting, writing, story structure and overall execution are all pitch perfect. Even the the length is perfect, it's short enough to get it's story told...

I agree with your opinions 100%, Joe, not even Peter Jackson's King Kong elicited so much tension and excitement for me and I love that movie. Cloverfield might be too new to be considered a classic but it's definitely on it's way.

I particularly loved the opening party sequences, for a time I had almost forgotten that this was indeed a monster movie and got totally wrapped up in Rob's life, and just when I was saying to myself "poor Rob, I can't believe Beth brought that other dude to his party."...the explosion happened...

I love not knowing exactly what the creature did to hurl the statue's head that far into the city, did it whip it with it's tail or rip it off and throw it? The again Rob did say at the party when they saw the report of the overturned tanker that Liberty Island wasn't too far from where they...

Yep, all from Hud..."Did you know that scientists discovered a species of fish that they thought were extinct for thousands of years? Maybe it came from a crevasse, a crevice, or from space like Superman." Then later... "Maybe it was the government, they made it, an experiment that went...

I just came from seeing the film again and loved it even more the second time around, what a rip roaring ride this movie is! :cool: I also made it a point to look for the splash this time and I did catch it, IMO the monster is from space (what a wonderful Tremors-ish debate this has sparked...

While I freakin' loved every milisecond of this movie, I just can't envision a sequel, I just can't. This was a one shot deal, no way could any sequel add to or improve on this type of magic again.