Drew Goddard's Cloverfield - Review (Spoilers)

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The much buzzed about Cloverfield comes out in a couple of days. Buffy/Angel writer Drew Goddard wrote it.

Herc from Ain'titCool has a review up. Major spoilers and bad language, so I thought I'd just link.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35236
 
Crikey! He really liked it, didn't he? I think I might try and persuade Mrs P that we should go to this when it's released in the UK.
 
Goin' to see this tomorrow hopefully, if all the tickets haven't sold out. 🙂 Hope it's good as the hype says it is.
 
I'm totally psyched! My hubbie and I are going to watch this Friday night (which would be tonight, but because I haven't slept yet, it's tomorrow...:drunk🙂 for date night. I didn't read too far into the review, because hubbie doesn't like spoilers and I can't lie to him, so he'll know that I know. Anyhoo, yeah, I can't wait. :cheering:
 
Here's what I posted at After-Darkness...

Guys, I loved this movie.

If you haven't seen it yet, don't read this post, unless you wanna be spoiled....I'm gonna put the entire thing in spoiler tags.

OK, so, overall I found this movie to be completely exhilarating, cool, scary, fun, sometimes funny, and very tense. I liked nearly all the characters so whenever they met their fates I actually felt really bad, unlike most monster movies where I don't give a damn about the people. I'm glad they spent the first part of the movie just showing them at the party, it gives you a chance to get to know and care about 'em.

Also, I loved that a simple love story was the heart of this movie, it sort of took me by surprise and made me feel more connected emotionally to the film.

However, I can't come to a conclusion about the ending. It wowed me, and at the same time it really disappointed me, I figured everyone was going to die but watching those two go out like that was really sad, yet at the same time I was sort of "touched" by how much they still loved each other. And I guess in that situation death wouldn't be so horrible, I mean after living through that you'd NEVER be the same again so I guess moving on to the next stage of existence wouldn't be so horrible.

At the end of the credits, according to the internet, audio is played backwards that says "It's still alive". I guess we're getting a sequel.

BTW, I just wanted to comment on some of the reviews I've been reading. Why is it that so many old critics hate movies with younger characters? No matter what the characters do the reviewers go on about how shallow and vapid they are. Reviewers, remove the stick out of your asses before going to see another movie please.

Also, a lot of people accused this film of being insensitive to 9/11, to which I say "Give me a break".
 
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