I just caught the opening sequence. I'm still cheesed as hell for this picture.
They're doing it backwards; walking up the down slide.
River ,'Ariel'
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Laga - Mar 05, 2009 8:22:38 pm PST #222 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Atropa - Mar 05, 2009 9:18:46 pm PST #223 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
(Well, no; I can't handle horror movies in that general vein. They stay stuck in my brain and I can't ever get them out. So I have to just not see them. But I *do* remember hearing how bad it was and thinking it was just as well that I avoid horror flicks.)
This is my problem with super-creepy/suspenseful movies. Or TV shows; if I think about two certain episodes of Carnival (the Babylon episodes, with the town full of ghosts who kill one of the hootchie girls so they'll have company forever) , I get freaked out and have problems sleeping.
Amy, Cloverfield was very, very dumb. I kept cheering for the monster. The big, stompy monster, not the spidery/tick things that FREAKED ME RIGHT OUT, THANKYOUVERYMUCH. Because the main characters were all too stupid to live.
Sean K - Mar 05, 2009 11:22:27 pm PST #224 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
That episode of Carnival really messed with me too, Jilli.
Glamcookie - Mar 06, 2009 1:29:26 am PST #225 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
That ep was creepy, especially when we see the daughter in the window at the end. t shudder
Volans - Mar 06, 2009 2:59:16 am PST #226 of 30000
move out and draw fire
The only good thing in Cloverfield was that the HUD was named Hud. And that's my attempt to damn with faint praise, because otherwise I would have just repeated what Jilli said.
le nubian - Mar 06, 2009 4:03:13 am PST #227 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
That ep of Carnival was just fucked UP. That bothered me too! I turned to Beau afterward and said, "what kind of twisted shit are we watching?"
Amy - Mar 06, 2009 4:08:27 am PST #228 of 30000
Because books.
I loved that episode of Carnivale. Totally creepy.
I forgot Tep doesn't watch horror. Oops. But I'm gratified everyone else thought Cloverfield was as stupid as I did. Characters were completely too stupid to live. Halfway through I was rooting for them to get to Central Park West and find Beth dead. Ah well. Lesson learned.
tommyrot - Mar 06, 2009 4:44:44 am PST #229 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Polter-Cow - Mar 06, 2009 5:12:00 am PST #230 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
For serious! Speaking of Cloverfield, he spoiled Hud's fate in the very first paragraph. What the hell.
Aims - Mar 06, 2009 5:34:31 am PST #231 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Also a test subject, have read Watchmen, am seeing it tonight.
With 13 other people, most of who have read it. I'm excited.