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Originally Posted by Jerome Grate
Any gripes about a 7 year old seeing this movie?
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Originally Posted by Jerome Grate
Any gripes about a 7 year old seeing this movie?
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Originally Posted by rich_d
When you use the word "gripes" in question, one gets the sense that you already have your mind made up versus just asking the question 'what do you think about ...'
Hopefully, I'm wrong. My questions to you are ... why would you think about taking a seven year old to Cloverfield? What gives you a sense that that would be a good idea? |
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Originally Posted by Jerome Grate
Gripes was probably a wrong word to use, I've already decided not to take him simply because of the rating. My son came home and said dad, can we see Cloverfield and my jaw dropped when he asked since I have not seen it yet. Almost got the best of me that's why I asked the question.
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Originally Posted by Michael Elliott
A lot of kids today are watching HALLOWEEN and various other strong R-rated films so he might be able to handle this.
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Originally Posted by Michael Elliott
If you've shown his Spielberg's JP films then this shouldn't be much different.
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Originally Posted by Holadem
Exactly what are we calling "a lot of kids"
"My kids..." ? "My family/friend's kids..." ? "The kids I work with..." ? "American kids..." ? "All the kids in the world..." ? "A lot of kids today..." ? ? -- H |
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Originally Posted by Michael Elliott
A lot of kids today are watching HALLOWEEN and various other strong R-rated films so he might be able to handle this. If you've shown his Spielberg's JP films then this shouldn't be much different.
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| I counted at least 11 kids (under 12 at least) when I watched HALLOWEEN. At least four kids under the age of 10 when I watched THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2 At least 3 under 6 when I watched GRINDHOUSE. Three under 12 when I watched AMERICAN GANGSTER. At least 5 when I watched THE SHINING last year. |
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Originally Posted by Michael Elliott
I counted at least 11 kids (under 12 at least) when I watched HALLOWEEN.
At least four kids under the age of 10 when I watched THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2 At least 3 under 6 when I watched GRINDHOUSE. Three under 12 when I watched AMERICAN GANGSTER. At least 5 when I watched THE SHINING last year. I don't mean to take this off topic but if theater owners lived by the ratings code and didn't let people under 17 (without a parent) into R-rated films then we wouldn't have all these big horror hits. |
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Originally Posted by Michael Elliott
A lot of kids today are watching HALLOWEEN and various other strong R-rated films so he might be able to handle this. If you've shown his Spielberg's JP films then this shouldn't be much different.
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| I disagree. The JP films were presented as movies, as fiction. They are traditional movies with an omniscient point-of-view. Cloverfield is presented as "found footage" with a limited point-of-view, and a child may be more likely to accept it as reality. |
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Originally Posted by Inspector Hammer!
There's another aspect that I was thinking about while watching the film a second time, I was considering the whole situation from the perspective of the creature, was it malicious by choice or did it find it's way to NY and was unaware that it was hurting us, like it was so big that all it was trying to do was find a way out and was unintentionally causing damage.
Maybe it wasn't evil at all, just big and scared and was only doing what it was doing to defend itself from us, it was attacking what was attacking it. You know a film has done it's job when you start feeling for the creature and causes the viewer to think of things like that. |
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Originally Posted by Dingiswayo
I only skimmed this thread but I didn't see anyone that said this film kinda blew. So I'm saying it.
It looked cool (when the camera didn't make you sick) and it was an original concept, I'll admit, the POV filming of a tragedy. But most of the characters were completely retarded. Maybe Hud would have followed Robert, who was on a ridiculous mission in the first place, but the South Asian woman seemed intelligent enough and had no real reason to follow them, and Malena (or whatever her name was) had less than no reason to follow them. Not even a total moron like Hud would film some of the things he did and much of his humor was formulaic, the type of thing one would say in an audience when watching from an objective viewpoint (and thus seemingly appropriate and identifiable for the actual audience - but cheap). Thems my opinions, as I stand against a rushing river of joy about this movie! |
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Originally Posted by Inspector Hammer!
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 came to and turned it back on.
If it wasn't edited we would have stared at the same thing for that couple of hours until Hud picked it up and pulled Rob and Beth from the wreckage. |
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| It also seemed rather ludicrous that given the entire island of Manhattan, the group seemed to keep crossing paths with the creature. But I guess when you make a monster movie that isn't about the monster, you still need to figure out ways to show the monster occasionally so you can cut away again and remind people that this movie isn't really about a monster. |
| I watched the final Coney Island scene several times and also didn't see any splash. |
Still, I wish the higher frequencies were translated to DVD more faithfully, the creature screaming just doesn't have that blood curdling dynamic range in all channels like it had at the theater, i'm hoping that Blu Ray will rectify that.
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Originally Posted by ChristopherG
The splash is clearly visible in one of the alternate endings - I didn't go back to the film to see if it was there. Look at the 2nd alt end and watch the ship out in the ocean to the right of the screen...the ending was predictable and boring, other than that I liked it.
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