Re: *** Official CLOVERFIELD Discussion Thread
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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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In the DVD special features, they basically say that this is the case. The monster is really just a "baby" and isn't intentionally trying to maim/kill/destroy. It's just frightened and, presumably, in pain from the attacks by the military. They say that the creature's roars are not meant to be menacing, but are likely calls for it's mother or for "help" from being attacked.
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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!  |
+1 : retarded characters, ridiculous quest, moronic Hud.
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.
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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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Good point.
I watched the final Coney Island scene several times and also didn't see any splash.
