Cloverfield (DVD, 2008)

Hey do you like monsters? Have you ever witnessed one. Well I have. In the gayest movie ever,CLOVERFIELD! O.k the setting is in Manhattan and there is a new couple having a going away party. When all of the sudden an earthquake comes. Turns out to be monster. Now there is a small group of 20 year olds that go on a journey to find the bride. Really stupid. They go through all this trouble just to have two of his friends die. The actors suck. The monster sucked,looked like a fish. The movie sucked. At the end the camera just cuts off. Wow. I think this is just as bad as The Blaire Witch Project. DON'T WATCH,RENT,OR BUY THIS MOVIE, IT WAS A WASTE OF AN HOUR OF MY LIFE.

This is the worst piece of crap since Blair witch project. I would advise NOT TO BUY THIS. Its fast, all over the place, no storyline, crappy acting and bad directing not forgetting horrible writing.

This movie is SO boring. Nothing really happens for the first 10 minutes plus or minus. The acting is something you would expect from a low budget movie. Its a bunch of 20 year olds that have ZERO personality. Suspense? Where? This movie is a waste of film. I am 20 minutes into the movie plus or minus and am debating turning it off. Not entertaining. Would NOT buy this movie! Save your money for a better movie.

this is not what i expected at all,it is filmed as if an regular person is filming the movie,prettry shakey ; i couldnt hardly watch it . i got through a half hour and couldnt watch it any more. this could probially be a good movie if there was a professional camera person filming it i know there trying to give a real effect but its too shakey too watch.

When I first watched Cloverfield, it was surreal. The scenes were shot as if you were right there. I'm not an eloquent writer, so I will just say a few things:
The Spiders really creeped me out
and What Was That Thing?
and, last - did the two die in the underpass?

Incredible well made film. I had to buy it for myself and my husband! I am not selling this !

C.Nitowski

Highly disapointed in this film. I only watched 5 minutes of it, and decided to walk out on it. Maybe I watched it at a bad time, but I really disliked the way it was filmed. I had seen enough of these Blair Witch-like movies, such as Diary of the Dead. I feel as if this movie should had been a short television series, along with Lost. The director and writers of Cloverfield should stay away from movies!

It's not the best movie ever, and I could have done without the video camera perspective, but there is enough here to at least warrant a rent, or cheap buy. It does start slow, but things pick up quick and it's a pleasant ride, so long as you don't get dizzy, which I have both times I watched it, even at home.

if you're thinking this is a traditional monster movie, it is not. The photography aspect was a head ache to say the least. There should be a new category that uses this kind of photography. There's alot of shaking camera and next gen rhetoric. There's no plot, and no conclusion.

Yes, "..?" Cloverfield delivers something like out of Godzilla. But, it isn't as good as I thought. Besides the horrible actors, I think it could of had more added to the movie, but it didn't. Overall the movie was OK, I am not totally bashing it. People who liked the Blair Witch Project should somewhat enjoy this film- however it isn't as good as the Blair Witch. I recommend renting it first before you decide to add it to your own library of horror movies (if you do.)

I imported this one from CANADA because the original region 2 DVD still not available in JPN. I imported this one from CANADA because the original region 2 DVD still not available in JPN. Cloverfield has to be one of the strange story movies that I have ever seen. I don't understand that the small Creatures relate to big monster, so I strongly wishing production to be created part 2 movie continue to story.

I don't care what anyone says. This was a well done movie; very original and realistic. It gave me the sense of being right in the disaster, which led to its creepiness.

So you don't see full details of the creature. That adds to the mysterious nature of the flick. Not everything needs to be fully revealed and understood right away for a movie to be enjoyable and entertaining.

I also don't see the similarity of Godzilla, nor even Blair Witch Project with Cloverfield.

...seen on the Big Screen at the local theater!

The hand held camcorder filming of the entire movie just isn't meant to be viewed on a tv screen, no matter how big the tv screen is.

We heard too many dissapointed film goers not like the film, which is why we didn't go, even after Tina saw JJ Abrams preview the film at the San Diego Comic Con.

This would normally not be her type of movie to go out to watch, so we waited for the DVD...

Tina and I are fans of JJ Abrams works, (Lost, Alias, etc.), but this one just didn't do for it us. But then again, we're not twenty-somethings like the main characters are in the film...

I don't know what to really rate this film on DVD. Especially after viewing the DVD bonus features and finding out that the monster was really a baby!

Nowhere in the film was that ever alluded to!!!

Sheesh!
Michael

This movie takes you to a new prespective. It's really good and can be watched over and over again. Its not a one timer movie, like the passion.

Assuming you still don't know what the monster is; the movie cloverfield does a very good job of keeping you in the dark and only releasing small pictures of the monster at a time so that it gains the fear factor. IT is a very good monster movie and a good start to hopefully a century filled with ones of similar quality.
The filming style is good as well in order to capture the true chaos of the event. It's not a movie for everyone but it's very good for the people who want to see it. I highly reccomend owning it because it has a 'Usual Suspects' Allure in finding clues to figure out the monster that are hidden throughout the movie.

Big monster eats little people. Lots of guns and huge explosions. Everybody dies at the end. Yea! Waiting for a sequal.

Not a bad movie---I like the way it was shot from a handycam---- When they show the monster he looks AWESOME only about an hour and 20 minutes least it didnt drag---worth watchin for the special effects!! Id reccomend it!

It's hard to say something about this film which was kept a secret until it's screening debut in the theaters. It kind of frightened me when I saw what was done with the Statue of Liberty head. It reminded me of 911 of which sadly to say; I saw the whole thing personally being that I worked in the area of the World Trade Center. The movie had it's point of suspense and clearly was made well for something that was filmed on a amateur basis by camcorder. It is something to watch and I like it.

I LOVED THAT IT WAS FILMED IN A POINT OF VIEW CAM. WHICH LETS YOU SEE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OFF THE PEOPLE INVOLVED.

THE EFFECTS WHERE GREAT BUT DIDN'T SPEND AS MUCH TIME ON THE MONSTER I WOULD OF LIKE.

TO TRY TO MAKE AN AMERICAN GODZILLA USING AN ALIEN INSTEAD WAS KINDA CHEESY TO ME. JUST A LOT OF HYPE FOR A MOVIE THAT DIDN'T PACK MUCH BITE.

IF YOU LIKE DIFFERENT EFFECTS AND CAMERA VIEWS. IT IS WORTH TO CHECK OUT. OTHER THEN THAT IT JUST LEAVES YOU WITH A LOT OF ?'S.

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One compelling reason I was interested in Cloverfield is because it bucked the Hollywood trend of a blockbuster costing an outrageous amount of money to make. Cloverfield cost $25 Million to make ... the advertising for the movie was essentially free as dozens upon dozens of websites picked up on the little things in the first movie trailer discussing them again and again in detail. I wanted to participate and contribute this experiment in movie making.

Now, I want to touch on one other aspect of this movie that intrigues me ...

Back when the trailer for Cloverfield (then called "1-18-08") first came out I suggested that this movie might be a LOST television series tie in. I think it still may be.

Yesterday I read this; Cloverfield graphic novel coming out.

"Remember this last shot in the film of our intrepid heroes at Coney Island, enjoying [a day] of amusement? Apparently something huge splashes down into the ocean in the background. We missed it, but if you couple it with the translation from the graphic novel that says the Japanese Tagruato corporation's satellite fell from orbit, then bingo. You've got the alarm clock that woke up the monster from its deep-sea slumber."

I almost want to bet that we will actually find that the Tagruato satellite was brought down by something related to LOST - possibly the satellite that was looking for the survivors AND that the monster could possibly be Ben's id (or the manifestation of the smoke monster/Jacob) - just like in Forbidden Planet. I will also bet that Tagruato is another subsidary of the Hanso corporation (the secretive entity that originally ran the island portrayed in LOST).

Wouldn't this be a great way to promote the DVD release of Cloverfield?

Review:

Cloverfield (formerly titled 1-18-08 in viral marketing campaigns) is such a historical, "I was there type movie".

Uniquely and masterfully shot from the point of view of a camcorder being held by a best friend; Cloverfield is compelling even without character development. But ... don't be fooled ... this is no Blair Witch Project ... although I'm sure many reviewers will compare and say Blair Witch did it first.

I may be over-rating it slightly, but ONLY slightly ... this will go down as one of the greatest Monster Movies of all time. I'm not going to call it a part of my top 10, but it definitely is part of my Top 100 - which are just about all interchangeable with the #1 slot.

This movie begged two questions of me:

1) Would I be the one that people stayed around in time of disaster such as this?

2) Would you risk your life in such a horrific, never before experienced by any man; tradegy?

Expanding on question #2 ... this movie handles this in such a unique way that it is just incredibly compelling; yet terrifying.

The movie ends perfectly and unexpectedly in an atypical movie fashion. If I said any more on this topic it would give one of the best endings in movie history away.

The movie is PG-13 and leaves a lot of the "horror images" to the imagination just out of view to those watching.

A great horror movie is terrifying and then relieves the viewer with comedy. The comedic relief comes from "Hudson" - the best friend holding the camcorder.

If you haven't kept up with all the viral marketing for this movie, don't start before you see the movie ... buy this or rent it now!

What is going on in Hollywood these days?
I just got done watching Cloverfield.... What can I say? Its kind of a combination of "Blair Witch Project" and any "Boy-meets-girl" flick but without any recognizable story line... Without any heros... Without any real substance. It leaves you asking more questions than you had before seeing it... a real head-scratcher.
On the positive side, the 5.1 Surround audio tracks and well executed video presentation seemed to compete with the lack of substance and somewhat successfully made up for the difference.
Final Score: Sights and Sounds=1 vs. Substance=0
My suggestion? Pop in the DVD, Grab a bag of popcorn, Turn the lights off, Take a seat and, Crank the 5.1 Surround Audio up REAL LOUD! (That way you won't be tempted to fall asleep!)

The first few minutes were kind of hard to follow but it was setting up the characters and story so don't give up. If I had seen this in the theater I would have been screaming my head off. First decent monster movie in a long time. Kept us on the edge of the couch, this is a MUST see for any monster movie fan!!!

This movie is all beefed up like Blair Witch was and we all know how much that sucked. Yeah I'm sure everyone that went to a movie the past year saw these previewsand was like.."this looks bad a**" I wonder what they are running from. Well they did that on purpose cause if they actually showed more clips of this movie you wouldn't of went. It was by far the hardest movie to watch with the camera jumping all over. Yeah...yeah...they wanna make it look like it really happened but its like they dropped the camera off Mt. Everest. So much shaking leads to serious headaches. There was actually people leaving the theater swearing about how crappy this was. Go rent it if anything....don't waste the money. Not worth buying the DVD. Trust Me.

Completely ignore killraven's review, he needs to go back to high school english for one, and for two he doesn't have a legitmate reason as to why he dislikes the movie. This movie is unlike any horror/monster movie ever made. It's filmed entirely on a hand-held camera which makes it almost too realistic at times; you feel like you are right there with the characters, not knowing what will happen next. I sat forward in my seat with my hands on my head pretty much the entire time after the monster initially attacks, it's intense. I am not going to describe what the monster looks like, except that the thing is HUGE; you will have to see it for yourself. At times you may think that the cameraman acts a little out of character and not really very serious about the situation, but after I thought about it, I couldn't really say anything because who knows what a person would act like in a situation like that...you're at a party having a good time and then ALL of a sudden a gigantic monster starts attacking the city; what would you do, what would you say? You would have to try and make the situation a little humorous or else you would go crazy, just like he says in one line in the movie. So, to conclude my review, I highly recommend this movie. The hand-held camera alone is a reason to see it, and at times you will think to yourself, "how in the hell did they do that?" It is a fairly short movie, about 80 mins. not counting the credits. The characters are unknowns which also adds to the realisticness of the film, and they do a terrific job. Cloverfield is filled with thrills, chills, suspense, and a little bit of humor thanks to the cameraman. 9/10.