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Denys' Cloverfield review (Some spoilers!) (pg. 8)
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| denys envy |
| lol @ homeless dude on fire too. that was funnay. |
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| Mebot |
| quote: | Originally posted by inconspicuous
How are these drunk people performing at the peak of their athletic abilities? It explains Hud's failure to realize the gravity of the situation, but not his improved stamina.
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See I was thinking the same thing, but honestly you sober up pretty fast when happens.
Have you ever drank some alcohol(not too much, but just enough to know you're over the limit) and drove because you know you don't live too far away and suddenly there are blue police lights behind you? You'd sober up pretty fast
I'd like to think that was the same deal at the party. When your fight or flight insticts take hold, I'm sure sobriety takes a backseat.
Speaking of sobriety, I'm pretty hungover right now :( |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by denys envy
lol @ homeless dude on fire too. that was funnay. |
+1,
and i agree w/ a lot of stuff you said too david. MARLENA! that was her name. i thought it was melinda.
and yeah, i forgot how drunk they all were...and then, bam! insta-marathon runners!
i saw the movie at 8:10pm on a friday night. prime hour for high schoolers. which, at first was a bit of a pain in the ass, because they were making comments early in the film. but once hit the fan they shut up (except at the ending this one dude was like, "man that movie sucked worse than the mist"). but Hud's comments, like the above mentioned homeless guy on fire, was what made the whole theatre laugh...which was comforting sometimes amongst the eerie silence.
sound was definitely one of the best things about the film. |
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| nchs09 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mebot
See I was thinking the same thing, but honestly you sober up pretty fast when happens.
Have you ever drank some alcohol(not too much, but just enough to know you're over the limit) and drove because you know you don't live too far away and suddenly there are blue police lights behind you? You'd sober up pretty fast
I'd like to think that was the same deal at the party. When your fight or flight insticts take hold, I'm sure sobriety takes a backseat.
Speaking of sobriety, I'm pretty hungover right now :( |
Only time sobers you up n00bz |
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| CONNERMAN2000 |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
most likely it was the monster attacking the oil rig out there? that happened just the day prior, right? (i.e. the day they were at coney island?) |
Wasnt the oil rig attacked the very night the thing attacked Manhattan, or did I miss something? According to the camera they went to Coney Island on April 27, and the monster attacked the night of May 22. |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by CONNERMAN2000
Wasnt the oil rig attacked the very night the thing attacked Manhattan, or did I miss something? According to the camera they went to Coney Island on April 27, and the monster attacked the night of May 22. |
they were reporting it on the news that night.....but the stuff they showed it was light out....so it had to have happened at least the day prior?
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ok, then yeah not the day they were at coney island, then either. |
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| jupiterone |
Supposedly they're doing a sequel. Somewhere I read the initial idea for it would be to have it done on the same night but off someone else's camera to depict a different story. I don't know if thats a good idea or not but it sounds interesting either way. The camera didn't bother me at all, I don't think it would of been ANYWHERE near a good film without the camera work. Normal equipment and camera work would not work well with this movie at all. The shaky cam added to the suspense of the movie because if you paid attention and looked around you could pick out some things that were meant to be missed by someone who isn't looking for it. Especially during the end where the thing falls from the sky (whatever it was).
Plus, the fact the movie was short = win, added to the realism of being taped on a cam + a short unexplained story. |
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| PoisonJam19 |
| Saw this last night and I liked it overall. Very unique presentation, making the camerman a character and all. My friend got motion-sick about 15 min in and had to leave :D The only disappointing part was the ending, just because nothing was explained. |
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| Krypton |
| Saw it last night. Honestly, I thought "giant monster terrorizes city" movies were dead. Glad to know they aren't! The camera movements did make me nauseas and I was blazed. I had to close my eyes a few times to give em a break..Like riding a roller coaster!! This movie was the shiite!! |
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| Krypton |
| quote: | Originally posted by PoisonJam19
Saw this last night and I liked it overall. Very unique presentation, making the camerman a character and all. My friend got motion-sick about 15 min in and had to leave :D The only disappointing part was the ending, just because nothing was explained. |
I think the "Hammerdown" order the army was talking about was to completely write off Manhattan and destroy it completely. That monster just wouldn't die, even after the B2 bombers hit it. I think they nuked it. The ending looked just as if a nuclear explosion went off. As if it was Hiroshima or Nagasaki. |
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| PoisonJam19 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
I think the "Hammerdown" order the army was talking about was to completely write off Manhattan and destroy it completely. That monster just wouldn't die, even after the B2 bombers hit it. I think they nuked it. The ending looked just as if a nuclear explosion went off. As if it was Hiroshima or Nagasaki. |
Regardless, they didn't explain what happened to the city/world or what the monster was, which is what I was waiting for the whole movie. |
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| CONNERMAN2000 |
| quote: | Originally posted by PoisonJam19
Regardless, they didn't explain what happened to the city/world or what the monster was, which is what I was waiting for the whole movie. |
I'm almost guaranteeing a sequel, especially with all the hoopla about how at the end credits, a certain sound clip played backwards says the words "its still alive." I'm sure more questions will be answered. That being said, a lot of the coolness of the movie had to do with how you knew very little of what was going on, kinda like if you were in the situation yourself, you would just have no ing idea what the hell to do or think except to be scared less and run for your life.
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
they were reporting it on the news that night.....but the stuff they showed it was light out....so it had to have happened at least the day prior?
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ok, then yeah not the day they were at coney island, then either. |
Yeah I dunno man, I'm a little confused. It could NOT have been just something random, too many people spotted it. It had to be something relevant to the plot of the movie. Either the sequel (if there is one) will explain this part, or maybe we'll just never know. |
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