|
| quote: | Originally posted by MJM74
What was cloverfield about?
|
a young guy is having a going-away party in NYC cuz he's moving to Japan to work for a big company...so the movie starts with the video-camera journal a friend is making for this guy to take with him and remember the last night he spends in NY...well then the "monster" basically blows up the statue of liberty and the city goes under attack and we get to see the hand-held camera view of what this small group of friends experiences. it has its moments where its really fun/scary in a silly way and the characters are generally likable...just like any other group of friends really...it has some pretty dumb moments though that make it 100% sci-fi fiction and unbelievable. theres a whole backstory online about where the monster came from, what the monster has to do with the guy moving to Japan, the company in japan and the monster, etc...its pretty crazy how in-depth it all is. i can't keep up.
but its a fun concept.
___________________
there comes a time when the operation of the machine is so odious that you cannot even tacitly participate. you've got to place your bodies on the gears, the wheels, all the mechanism. you've got to indicate to those who own it and those who run it, that unless you are free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.
|