Way too early to tell, I men it had close to 8000, the day before it was released. When it gets to 50,000.

I went with 4 people with different views, they all liked it, but none of them shit their pants over it. It'll fall below 8 on imdb soon enough.

on Sunday, it was only at 4500 reviews and an 8.1

their top 2007 movies are (in order): There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Juno, Ratatouille, The Bourne Ultimatum, Sweeney Todd, American Gangster, The Man From Earth (?), and 3:10 to Yuma. That's not too shabby if you ask me.

Cloverfield will have a bigger impact on the way films are made than The Blair Witch Project did. The Blair Witch Project was boring, not scary in the least bit, and only made so much money and attention because it was the first big blockbuster to be shot using a handheld cam. Since then, there haven't really been any other movies to use the handheld cam technique, which in my opinion shows that the directors and studios didn't like the concept. However, I think with Cloverfield things will change. The movie was legitimately scary, not things popping out at you scary, but plotline scary. I have never in my life had such a realistic and interactive experience with a movie as I did in Cloverfield, which is why I think more and more movies will now start to use similar technique.

And to all you idiots complaining about the script - there's a monster tearing apart Manhatten, what would YOU say? And keep in mind swearing needs to be practically non-existent for the movie to categorize at PG13, or 14+.

Clearly.

A better question is, are you goldie

No, I am not 'goldie', this is my first account on this site.

B+. The film was fantastic. A lot of fun and very suspenseful. It's not shit your pants amazing, but it does what I wanted it to do and nothing more. The characters were alright, the only recognizable actress was Lizzy Caplan from Mean Girls, who was great. Hud is the best character obviously, adding a lot of comic relief. The little monsters were better than the actual monster. The first half though, especially when it brings a lot of emotions. It strikes a cord since a lot of it is eerily similar to 9/11. I would have prefered one ending, instead of like the 3 or 4 "endings" until the final one. Overall a lot of fun, but it's a love hate.

i'm sure it would get a ton of talk on a Tuesday when everyone returns to their work schedule and the market gets flooded with tons of other huge events (Oscar nominations, a tragic death, the primaries, etc...) if Cloverfield was honestly getting a page a day on a day like yesterday or today, that would be pretty ridic.

Well then, welcome to the party.

You've already been de-virginzied with regard to attacks.

I remember looking at promo pics (before the movie's release) and I thought Lizzy Caplan was Tina Holmes (the hairstyle).

Of course, only a few indie geeks here would know who Tina Holmes is.

Liked it for the last 10 minutes...everything from when the helicopters bitten till the end was aweful...but the directors and actors have obvious talent.

ill go with a b

but how did that marlena girl die and i guess lily lived?

I officially hate JJ Abrhams and I've never met the man. This has to be one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated upon the movie going public. He sold us a monster movie and gave us a shaky as shit crappy love story instead. Over half of this movie deals with some douche bag named Rob who was dumb enough to dump his smoking hot girlfriend and then get pissed off when she shows up at his goodbye party with another dude, and then realizes he f'ed up and wants her back after the piss-poorly rendered and designed non-believable so called monster begins attacking the city. We were promised carnage and chaos and were given nausea by the horrendous story telling and acting. Abrhams knew he had a stinker and thats why he shook shit out of the camera so as to cover up his lack of creativity and talent. There is no story, there is no plot, there is no credible or decent actor to be found, the monster is lame, there is no way cHuds battery lasted that long or the camera was built that reliable, there is no concievable reason I can think of to have green lit this utter disaster(pun intended).

Still not as bad as Meet the Spartans

Grade F+

aww man...I was thinking your Meet the Spartans review was legit.

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Why can't we delete posts in the Critic forum?

Your sign should say BAAAAAAAAAA. How does it feel to be a mindless sheep?

A mini-WotW here in terms of my how I was amazed. Some of the reaLLy intense moments were right before they went down into the subway, the whoLe night vision scene, the twin towers, and MarLena. Though even if they Looked satisfying and reaListic enough, the monster attack sequences vs. the miLitary and the whoLe heLicopter scene up to the monster confrontation feLt Like a GodziLLa 2. And my very compLaint about the acting is that they feeL Like sooo good peopLe (which I found very unreaListic) that they even don't know how to use the word fuck (or maybe I'm just deaf) when there's the monster and expLosions right in their faces. StiLL, an amazing fiLm overaLL but couLd have been the best fiLm ever if they tried to do something that has never been done in any monster/disaster fiLms, ever.

A

You know, amazingly, some people's first instinct isn't too shout the f-word.

meh, I'm 100% sure that one of the four 18 year olds would've used that word a few times...it was one of the prices they had to pay to keep the thing PG-13. Blair Witch, which was very R-rated, was more realistic in terms of how characters reacted to the crazy stuff, since they had the ability to swear with more than just "shit"

Saw cloverfield today as part of a double header and it was quite an experience.

I dont have much to say apart from that it was a really different experience and I was more scared in this movie than ive been by any movie since The Ring.

The monster[s] were actually terrifying. The acting was great and the filming style whilst slightly annoying sometimes, also added a fantastic quality to it. The characters were kind of irritating sometimes though.

Solid.

B / B+

I don't swear.

Well, on here I swear. But in actual REAL life, I don't.

And I'm pretty sure my reaction to a monster wouldn't be to swear. It would be to run as fast as I can away from it.