So Joe's been filming a thing for his class over the past week or so and they went to one of his co-filmer's apartment to shoot. Joe noticed that he had a "Cloverfield" movie poster framed on his wall. They had to move it to keep it out of the shot and the guy says, "Be very careful!" Joe says, "Heh. Not like it was a good movie." The guy gasped and said, "If you didn't like it, then you didn't watch it enough or
understand
it." Joe just kind of gaped at him.
Later they were talking other movies and somehow
Bladerunner
came up. Same guys says, "I didn't like that movie at all. It didn't have much of a story."
The pitfalls of going to film school with kids 10-20 years your junior.
I love 12 Monkeys, and La Jetee was all right.
Do you hear that? That is the sound of Corwood's ultimate pain disdain.
I thought
Cloverfield
was great.
I didn't dislike Cloverfield but I have no desire to watch it again. Mostly I'm glad I saw it so I could get the jokes when South Park was invaded by guinea pigs.
Cloverfield
mostly bored me. The characters were all too dumb to live and there wasn't even a minimal attempt to get NYC right. I think if it had been a better story I wouldn't have been so thrown by the massive geography and continuity errors, but there really wasn't much else to focus on.
Cloverfield mostly bored me. The characters were all too dumb to live and there wasn't even a minimal attempt to get NYC right.
What you didn't see was when the monster had first attacked a couple of weeks before and just jumbled everything up like a game of Boggle.
I enjoyed Cloverfield well enough, but it's not one of those movies where I'm shocked and appalled that others didn't. And as it's basically Godzilla with shakycam and bonus explosive-venomed giant lice, I seriously doubt that many people have formed a dislike of it due to failure to understand it.
We started calling it "Six Douchebags, a Monster, and the City."
"Six Douchebags, a Monster, and the City."
This is brilliant, and I'm stealing it.
As far as
Avatar
goes, if I view it as a 1950s/60s pulp sci-fi B movie, I really enjoy it. If I start thinking about the massive story/plot problems, my head explodes.
Sadly, it's become impossible for me to think of it as anything but Jim Cameron's sweaty junk swinging in my face for 3 hours.
