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.
You guys had a riot? On account of me? A real riot?
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Jessica - Mar 03, 2010 3:20:44 pm PST #7045 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
billytea - Mar 03, 2010 3:24:20 pm PST #7046 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 03, 2010 3:29:54 pm PST #7047 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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.
Aims - Mar 03, 2010 3:31:17 pm PST #7048 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
We started calling it "Six Douchebags, a Monster, and the City."
Volans - Mar 03, 2010 4:19:28 pm PST #7049 of 30000
move out and draw fire
"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.
Amy - Mar 03, 2010 5:37:15 pm PST #7050 of 30000
Because books.
I hated Cloverfield so deeply, I actually shouted at it while watching. Aims, your title is perfect.
I don't remember 12 Monkeys much. I do have a certain fondness for the spectacle of The Fifth Element, though. Mostly naked Milla helps.
tommyrot - Mar 03, 2010 5:39:17 pm PST #7051 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.
I don't remember 12 Monkeys much.
Me neither, and I've seen it again a few years ago.
I called it 12 Angry Monkeys for so long now I have to pause to make sure I've got the title right.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 04, 2010 5:27:17 am PST #7052 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
12 Monkeys freaked me out more than anything I'd seen since Eraserhead by somehow managing to make Brad Pitt look exactly like the friend I was watching it with, including mannerisms and speech.
Daisy Jane - Mar 04, 2010 5:33:02 am PST #7053 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I feel like I need to watch Twilight, and yet I keep bumping it down in my queue.
Watched The Informant! and Almost Famous, and will watch Law Abiding Citizen. Next up is The Goods, Igor and Let The Right One In.
tommyrot - Mar 04, 2010 5:37:30 am PST #7054 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.
For Let The Right One In, watch it with the "theatrical subtitles" option (if available on the DVD you have), as they are better than the default subtitles (which were redone for the DVD release).
It'll probably default to the English voiceover version, so you'll have to change the language to Swedish as well.