AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

pkneer I can take a shaky camera, but this is beyond bad. You can close your eyes for 20 to 30 seconds at a time and not miss anything. Nothing in this movie makes any sense. Just a cheap hand held camera with a group of teenagers running around the city in a panic. Bad acting, horrible special effects, and beyond bad cinematography. Don't waste your time - the Internet hype is the only reason this film was financially successful.

classicsoncall I didn't mind the shaky camera business too much, but the whole exercise seemed rather pointless. I suppose if you considered the action in the story as something you would have to undergo if faced with a similar catastrophe, then I guess it works. But I just got tired of the whole thing after a while and didn't care much about what would happen. A funny thought crossed my mind at one point when much of the dialog sounded like it could have come from the old "Dick Van Dyke Show". That was when some character started calling out "Rob, Rob, Oh Rob". If you're of a more recent era you won't get the reference, but for us old timers, I thought that was hilarious.So in the Awards section for this film, I see it won a Golden Schmoe in 2008 as Best Horror Movie of the Year. Not having seen any of it's competition for that year, I would have thought it would also walk away with the Trippiest Movie of the Year as well. Oh well, I guess you can't win them all.

CloverMatty2028 Cloverfield is a 2008 American found footage monster film directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J. J. Abrams and written by Drew Goddard. The film stars Michael Stahl-David, Odette Yustman, TJ Miller, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan and Mike Vogel. The plot follows six young New York City residents fleeing from a gigantic monster and various other smaller creatures that attack the city while they are having a farewell party. Then in the end, the New York City got Disaster by the NUKE and the Monster, but there is more cloverfield cinematic universe films. THAT GOOD, I'm very happy :). But if some of you don't like this movie, you are a terrible person.

Chipper Xavier Cloverfield (2008).Chipper F. Xavier, Esq.After its shocking release 10 years prior, a repeat viewing of Cloverfield still manages to disgust and terrify. Unfortunately, many viewers do not recognize its genius. Imagine going to a famously hip New York nightclub on a Saturday evening and being shocked that there are heavy, 808-styled drumbeats interspersed throughout the catchy-but-vacuous lyrics as half-drunk people madly carouse about the parquet dance floor. A reasonable person would argue that you should have known what to expect. An open-minded person might even say, "... heck, that was different!" But only a 'hater' would exclaim: "That sucked!"Cloverfield, directed by Matt Reeves, written by Drew Goddard and produced by J.J. Abrams, is a shaky-camera, found footage horror film which begs the question: What would happen if a gigantic, intelligent, malevolent alien monster attacked New York City? In order to properly frame this fantastical event, the director filmed the movie using a hand-held camera to establish a sense of timely realism and cast relative unknowns as protagonists to force the audience to focus on what was happening within the camera frame. The result is partly unique, partly hilarious, very unexpected and 100% terrifying... But only if you, the viewer, allow a willing suspension of disbelief.Cloverfield works well because the field of view is grounded by normal twenty-somethings attending a going away party for a friend, brother and paramour, as viewed behind the lens of a handicam. When this banal celebration is interrupted by the surreal experience of unnatural disasters in a population-dense New York City, the fear is amplified and very real as the audience is taken along for a very bumpy ride.Some of the more original OMG-worthy moments include: 1) The head of the Statue Of Liberty flying through the air to land at the fleeing feet of pedestrians; 2) The giant, rampaging monster disgorging smaller babies from its body that fall to the ground and immediately begin attacking people; 3) The giant, rampaging monster carefully considering the cameraman before ruthlessly biting him in half.You don't have to like roller-coasters, haunted houses or Santa Claus to enjoy a good horror flick - but you are probably in the minority of the human population if you don't. Escapism only works if you give it permission - or else, you'll always be that person wondering why everyone but you is having such a great time.