Just Stumbled across a picture of the monster model Hasbro are making

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/02/15/cloverfield-monster-toy-revealed/

So that’s that question answered… its a big weird thingy

[quote post=”2285″]Also note the fact that they had almost no reaction to their friend being dragged off by Hazmat guys shortly before she exploded. You’d expect them to at least want to know what happened to her, maybe get themselves checked out for similar infection/infestation. But no, everyone is too emotionally invested in saving that one guy’s girlfriend to stop for 5 seconds.[/quote]

I know, they were like: “H.U.D. your girlfriend just exploded!” And Hud was like: “Dude… Like… Lame, bro…”

Oh, and here is the best picture review of the movie I found somewhere on LJ – click on the thumb to embiggen:

I think this sums up the movie pretty well. lol

I actually saw someone describing it as “the multi-million dollar YouTube video”.

lolol. Well, there ya go… that says it all. :D

One of the things that drew me to this film was that the trailer focused on an apparently insignificant group trying to survive in the midst of an attack they do not truly understand. I am quite pleased to find out that this is in fact the general rule of the film.

I personally enjoy movies that focus on the human element, and if this monster flick uses the attack as background for a human story rather than the main focus then I would be quite the happy camper. I hope to catch it soon – it opens on the 13th where I live.

hehe.. spam-word was fail. Like Cloverfield :lol:

Did seem like they were all far too tied up in their own stupid lives, even whilst an entire city was very literally falling to pieces around them. I can’t even remember their names – names were unimportant, no-one was ever really referred to who was off-screen… just a lot of running and yelling and things going boom.

Also note the fact that they had almost no reaction to their friend being dragged off by Hazmat guys shortly before she exploded. You’d expect them to at least want to know what happened to her, maybe get themselves checked out for similar infection/infestation. But no, everyone is too emotionally invested in saving that one guy’s girlfriend to stop for 5 seconds.

Bringing up another thing – why was there never a single argument, debate or even the question raised of why they’re all off on the quest to save generic-man’s girl? The others have no real reason to do it, it’s clearly near-suicidal, when the shit really hit the fan why weren’t they telling him to get real and accept his loss and/or telling him that if he’s going on he’s going alone?

Lets be honest, half the reason for watching the film was to find out what the shit the monster was, and we didn’t even get that reward – it was either some kind of sea monster thing, but then it had weird insect things running around in its wake, or it was an amorphous “big beasty thing” that doesn’t fit into any known category of life, but then we’d need a clear view of it to stand a chance in hell of knowing what it was.

I think some kind of pretense from the characters that they’re actaully shocked by the monster might help. Seriously, when stuff started exploding, it was like they were argueing about who said what or who spent too much on a new car.

I actually saw someone describing it as “the multi-million dollar YouTube video”. The gist of that review was that Cloverfield is a great film if you would look at it as a professionally done online feature aimed to be distributed through Youtube like channels.

If you look at it as a regular motion picture you find the obvious flaws because it was not designed that way.

I think the point wasn’t to develop characters, or any of the usual, superfluous -to-the-plot but “important” developments. The gimmick is the hand-held camera, and an attempt to show everything with that in mind. What character development, other than what would be caught on a typical person’s digital camera, could there have been? I loved this movie for what it wasn’t…a typical monster movie with all the typical cliches (“ooohhh no…here comes the monster. Quick, start the car! Ooooh no…the car won’t start….”).

Cheers man. Good consolation for the actaul anger this movie made me feel at how Hollywood sees society in general.

[quote comment=”8047″]Does any one else think ‘six figure jobs’ is a troll, based on the fact that this website link leads to a job matching site….not to mention the fact that his name is six figure jobs???[/quote]

LOL. I noticed that too, but his comment was actually relevant and on topic so I didn’t delete it. I think I can live with spammers who manually post somewhat thoughtful things like that. :mrgreen:

@Mackenzie – best review evar! LOL I think you hit the nail on the head here. This is what I briefly alluded too in my post but you fleshed it out quite nicely – these people are just generic cardboard cutouts without much personality. A generic suit, a frat boy, a myspace girl and the mandatory generic black friend. You’ve got them pegged perfectly.

Sigh… How come there are no more good movies coming out of Hollywood?