We saw previews for this 1½-2 years ago and couldn’t decide if it would be good or not.

Woah, dude.  Thorough post.  You should win a Poppy Award for this post alone.

And, um, I didn’t come up with “bugs from Starship Troopers,” I heard someone else say that so please don’t give me credit.  I just passed on the info.

Who the hell leaves the theater 4 minutes before the end?!

DaDuck - GO SEE IT. :D

The battery life of the camera and the nightvision button didn’t bother me.  It’s only 75 minutes long, and some camera batteries can last 90-120 minutes.  And it makes sense that Hud wouldn’t know about the nightvision option - it isn’t his camera.

I think that before 9/11, nobody really knew what would happen if a huge building collapsed in the middle of the city.  The dust and debris cloud flooding the streets was something that now we know would really happen.  It makes sense that they would use that if another building collapsed in the city.

I think that if you didn’t live in NYC, the imagery isn’t blatant in the slightest.  It only occurred to me because of all the NY critics mentioning it.

I’m looking forward to where they take it from here.  I’d like to see the Hollywood version of what happened in Cloverfield, too.

Hmm, Avi, I may need to disagree.  As we all know, I am not from NYC and the entire movie I was thinking “this is sooooooo foreshadowy of 9/11” particularly when the dust cloud happened and the buildings were falling over. 

Let’s watch Godzilla with Matthew Broderick, which is, obviously, pre-9/11, then let’s watch Cloverfield and see how we feel about how New Yorkers react.  I know Godzilla was a bit more light hearted, but still… the way people reacted to a monster in the city was VERY different.  And people chattering in the background of Cloverfield even said they thought it was another terrorist attack.  I mean, jesus, if I was in the city and saw a gigantic explosion I would 110% jump to that conclusion as well.  I just would.  Right or wrong, I would.

What I’m saying is that before 9/11 nobody realized that there would be this huge maelstrom of dust and debris rushing down the streets like that, which is why prior movies have not used that.

The dust cloud certainly was reminiscent of 9/11 for anyone who watched the video footage, but some of the other elements, like the towers that Beth lived in, are something that would never occur to the rest of the US.

It took me 30 minutes to figure out the ending of the Blair Witch so this might be a bit advanced for me.

Avi, ahh.

Monique, I assure you there’s nothing to figure out about the ending.  It’s plain and simple.  Go. see. it. :D

I didn’t read the whole post cuz I haven’t seen it.

But the most important thing here for me is Monique!!!  You got the ending to Blair Witch?  Plz email me forthwith and tell me what it was about.  Kthx.

This was a great post.  Thanx.  This post, and no other so far, actually makes me want to watch it in the theatre a little.

Good job.  You’ll make the Cloverfield nazis happy.

Miss Ann—srsly? Or are you mocking me?! Told you, it takes me a while sometimes lol.

totally serious.  ey em duhm n ie dit knot git et.

Without my knowledge, my son (13) saw this movie over the weekend.  He didn’t talk about it at all.  It must not have phased him.

It doesn’t sound like my kind of movie.  Thanks for telling me about it so I don’t have to sit through it. 

The VCR part was a smart ass remark, wasn’t it.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I get horribly motion sick with things like that.  At Universal Studios, I got sick on the Back to the Future ride, which is mostly just video and a stationary car that rocks and jolts.

Thanks for the details, Dawg. I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to see this flick and now I’m positive.

Oh, and to answer Poppy’s question: “Who the hell leaves the theater 4 minutes before the end?!”

A complete tard, that’s who.

Or, obviously, a person who had to poo reeeeealllllly bad after ingesting gobs of butter (and I pray it was real butter and not that fake “golden topping” shit).

Wow, Sour, tell me how you really feel!  And. um. that’s gross.

Dawg, sorry I yelled about your friend.  It occurs to me in retrospect that was kinda rude.  (oops)

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Yeah, as a native new yorker...I have to say that it was very nerve wracking to watch new york be destroyed yet again.  It bothered me in “I Am Legend” also.  Can’t we beat up Idaho or Ohio or some shit like that????

My friend told me it was based on the video game Halo. I still have no desire to watch it though..because end of the world movies do actually freak me out. That’s why every morning I stand on the corner of a street wearing a cardboard sign that says “THE END IS NEAR” because it is...near that is...ya.

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