Cloverfield!

[theweaselking]

Cloverfield is great fun, as long as you can handle Blair Witch-style "all of this filmed with a shaky hand camera" filming. I know some people get motion sick from that kind of thing.

But yes. Watch this film.

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[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

I saw the trailer for that when watching I am Legend (everything you said is true) and went 'I must see that, to see if they can pull off the hand camera thing.' I take it that they do.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I am lucky in that I have a reasonably high tolerance to shaky camera work, but I didn't have any problems with that. I found it a lot less disturbing in terms of camera work that The Blair Witch Project, which I sat through twice and only got queasy at once, towards the end of the second viewing. I thought the production values are pretty good, which may have helped a lot.

(Aside from being not-eye-searing, I thought the handheld camera was plausible within the context, which helps.)

[city-of-dis.livejournal.com]

I also have to emphasize that if you were in New York during Sept. 11th, you might want to prepare for some emotional flashbacks with this film. I really had to have some time alone afterwards due to that.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I suspect that in many cases, it's not their own trauma, but a rather widely shared trauma. (Given that my awareness of the clips and pictures of 9/11 is limited to the first plane heading towards a tower and a photo of people running down the street to get away from the rubble, I'm starting to suspect that I may be missing a cultural block of references that the movie refers to pretty heavily.)

That said, I didn't actually take it as an example of people being dulled to lived experience at all. I understand that it probably couldn't've been made plausible/palatable in a culture that *isn't* so heavily visually documented, but I didn't find commentary on what that culture has done to people.

[eididdy.livejournal.com]

Just as long as that's the only trait it shares with BWP...

[jrolsma.livejournal.com]

I saw it today and loved it. It definitely took me back to the "Monster Movie Matinee" shows I used to watch as a kid. Monsters! Shit blowed up! Scary! The hand held camera didn't bother me at all.

I have to admit that the biggest creep out the movie gave me came after it was over. I stopped at the ladies room on the way out. The room was completely deserted (it never is after a movie lets out. Ever.). They were showing Cloverfield in a theater near the restroom, so the deep base of the monster's steps were echoing through the bathroom. Every so often, someone would go out some doors near the restroom causing a loud slam on the wall of the restroom. I was so creeped out I practically ran out of the room when I was done.

[kakkoi-hakujin.livejournal.com]

I just got back from seeing it. It's amazing.

On the other hand, while I normally don't get motion sick while watching shakycams, this one almost had me vomiting.

[hadesflower.livejournal.com]

The motion sickness was worth it for this movie, I found it highly enjoyable and the pre-movie complaints that you don't get to see the monster are unfounded, you get to see it alot and the little face hugger trantula things were a nice surprise as well...