I still think the move could have used more dismemberment.

Oh, and the dude that gets stuck behind the camera is the nerdy friend that everyone deals with because it was the life long friend of the coolest hipster.

He should have lived!

So it IS in fact a must have seen movie.

Thanks for the recommendation :-D

Ron, New York hipsters wear skin-tight jeans and canvas shoes and grow ironic mustaches, and they would have been safe during the attack because they mainly live in north Brooklyn. These kids were more yuppies than anything. I'd actually prefer the movie where the hipsters get killed.

My mistake, I meant to type yipster.

Fully Agreed!

And one at the cinema. If I wanted to see a few explosions and a bunch of idiots screaming and running in circle, filmed by a camera bouncing around like a ballet dancer having a seizure I'd watch Trasformers.

Oh snap!

Snif, it didnt make it yet to the big screens of Argentina, and i think it will take a while til it does. You see, they are announcing the upcoming premiere of ROOM 1408... so.

DON'T SEE 1408!

word!

Waste of time

One man's waste of time is another man's sole reason for being.

I loved the movie.  It wasn't the best thing ever made, and certainly not better than sliced bread, because really, very few things in life are better than sliced bread, but it was good for what it was.  I pity the people who went to see a stand up fight between the military and a monster, they should have been informed that Cloverfield was not a monster movie but a survival movie.

Sucks big time.

Does not have a plot.

he's right, you REALLY hope the characters die. all the time.

photography sucks --the camera is suposed to be a camcorder, but there's cuts when the guy is running for his life and enters a helicopter for example... I mean, WHO does not turn the camera off to enter ah helicopter and turn it on a seccond after siting down?!

The monster design deservers the lame award of the century.

Also, the monster have an army of mini-me!

I'm glad I haven't paid to see it. I downloaded by mistake instead of porn. damn missclicking.

Bad Porn! BAD!

Best. Review. Ever.  You should replace Ebert!

lol i gotta check if german cinemas are going to put it on the screen...ummm... check check one two three check... yeah it's coming Jan 31. Why do the cinemas pay for such movies or are there no fees for presenting them? God damn and the advertisements also suck in cinemas. That's why I like TV advertisements, some of them are really funny and differ from time to time unlike cinema advertisements. Even a grumpy gamer can laugh about it. If you want something to laugh, tell me, I'll give you links to Youtube to advertisements for an energy company and also translate everything they say for you. Advertisements are like small movies, they tell short stories and some of them are better than many 1 1/2 hour movies. You sometimes remember advertisements better than any little action of those long movies. More fun means more recognition.

/sad

I thought that all people who live in New York inhabited fancy apartments... Sorry, those of us from the land downunder only have TV and Film to tell us what to think about NY :P

I did see the film and enjoyed it for what it was, Godzilla meets Blair Witch. Great review though Ron!

So Ron is like the next Leonard Maltin I guess.

Clover-what?
Oh come on, watch a real movie.
Something like PotC3 hahahaha

bwahahahaha, thanks man :-)

It's clear this movie is yet another sign of the Apocalypse of American taste. The good side is, it'll encourage televising all news using shakey-cam, and make all the fat home viewers scarfing down dinner at the time barf out a lung.  Best innovation in media since more cowbells. And you can never have enough parasites killing people in their 20s, either.

No, you didn't save me an evening in the library. You ruined a night at the cinema by giving away the end... (and no, it's not obvious that it'll end this way...  Plus: not all the "whiny self-absorbed twenty-something New York hipsters" die...
Anyway, thanks for spoiling that...

I thought the movie was the best mosnter movie I seen. It felt no need to hold your hand, explain where the monster came from etc. If you want that go see asexual godzilla over there with whiny matthew brodrick. Well cloverfeild does explain where the monster came from in the viral stuff. The alternate reality game it had going for it and all.

I thought the movie was great and had a great ending. The mosnter was way cooler then godzilla also how did godzilla get from the pacfic to the alantic ocean? I know he sawm but why not attack LA since he was born in the pacfic due to the nuclear test.

That would be nice... mastered surfers scaping from godzilla on top of their boards. Please movie monsters, atack L.A. just for once!

At first when I saw a tentacle trash the bridge I thought: yeah! somebody made a contemporary film about cthulhu. but.. .in the end,  I guess not. They shouldnt have included the ten second full frontal of the monster towards the end, when it eats the cameradude, that ruined things for me. apart from that and the boring people/actors, pretty decent.

As a long time resident of downtown Manhattan, I hardily agree with your thoughts on the movies, i.e., selfish brain-dead yuppies getting their's.  The first view of the creature appearing off in the distance by the Woolworth building, three blocks from my 'umble abode, did piss me off though.   Too many sad-eyed memories of a sunny blue-skied September day in 2001.

Ron, you should be booked for D. Lynch or Kubrick reviews

"and the shallow asshole good looking people all die because they should"

Umm... barf. Just because people are social and don't sit behind computers 24/7 doesn't make them shallow. While the characters were good-looking they weren't particularly shallow from what I could tell. His Justin and Lilly were in a serious relationship and Rob/Beth had been best friends for a long time. He risked his life to come back and save her so I'd say he wasn't so shallow or such an asshole. If that were the case he would've just booked it out of Manhattan instead of coming to get her and so would've the others.

The only one who could really be described as a shallow was the cameraman. I think most people have someone they know like that who's a little bit crazy and over-the-top.

People aren't shallow or assholes just because they have money. They're shallow or assholes because they're shallow or assholes. There's a lot of poor assholes, poor shallow people, ugly assholes, and ugly shallow people. Actually, maybe this description fits the original review better than it fits the characters in the movie.