hmmm....not yet seen the movie, but from reviews and reader comments it appears to have an over 90% rating which is simply amazing for such an unbelievable nonsense as a outsize monster rampaging through a city !!! and that too with countless godzilla, king-kong type movies already becoming history, seems the movie producers have pulled off the impossible...glurk !

guess its worth seeing.......off to the ticket booking counter !

A NOT scary nauseating walk through Cloverfield..

My ex-mother-in-law is scarier than the monster and I get her for free. I got dizzy while watching this movie because the camera is so blury and jumpy. Blair Witch used this style, but at least that movie had a story. The character who was filming the home movie was annoying. I know that kid. I have kicked him out of my house and now he's in a movie. Nice...You don't really get to see the monster clearly, only at the end and just for a second. It looked like a muppet.

You're welcome to your opinon on how scary the monster is; What I found scary about the mosnter was how destructive it was more than it's look.

However, there was never any promise that there would be a full on look at the monster. You do get to see views of the monster, but never a full view of the monster from front to back. I still can't piece together how it looks. Since the movie, I have seen art of the monster, and I would have thought it would have looked more octopus-like.

Oh, and BTW, this has more of a story than the Blair Witch Project. I will stand up to that statement as a fact. There's a lot of backstory on who the characters are in Cloverfield. We know Rob is a VP for a big company with offices in Japan. We know that Hudson is his friend and Jason is Rob's brother. We know that Rob and Beth have a certain type of
relationship. We know a lot of details about them. Further along in the story, when characters meet other people, they learn a little more about the monster and its offspring. What's missing is the history of the monster and how it was created, which you aren't supposed to know anyway.

I'm not a big fan of when people say a movie has "no plot." I have watched movies (usually extremely low budget ones) that literally have no plot.

Also, don't tell me you didn't laugh at the thing Hud said about a homeless guy while they were in the tunnels. That had me laughing hard!

I thought that this movie was great. It had me interested through the whole movie, not like the Blair Witch. I liked how Cloverfield made me feel like I was watching a news breif on what was happening in NYC. It was all over just a great movie!

My theory is that watching this movie is much like looking at a 3D movie or a 3D image on paper. It's like when you draw a cube on a paper... some people see a cube when they look at it, but a small percenetage of the people only se a bunch of lines... thats probably because their brains are still very primitive or they lack something that allows the rest of us to grasp abstract concepts and ideas. To make a long story short, if you get motion sicknes from watching something on TV or Theater then your'e a fucking idiot.

Calm yourself :)

If you want to make a leap from motion sickness to stupidity, that's all you. a vast array of people, some who I know personally, some who I don't, complained of catching motion sickness from the camera flaying wildly. It's just, I don't know, something genetic. All I know is that I've never gotten physically sick from a wild camera.

I believe you may be correct and what you said is exactly what I meant. It most likely is something genetic. It's just saddening to hear that there's so many people that have the same reaction. It even made CNN.com. I personnaly thought it was a great movie, and at no point during the movie did I feel nausea or motion sickness. I wonder... if I were to draw something on a paper and let one of them look at it while I shake it all around, would they get sick then too? It's very sad to hear that so many people have no appreciation for the arts.

Is stupidity a genetic trait?????

Um, yeah. I don't know what agenda you're on about, or why you think that linking to wikipedia makes any sense, but OK.

For some reason you hate people for having a reaction they are not completely in control of.

If you want to continue this conversation you can come here.