@Science  
ponify 10.5/10.5 apocalypse

@Gundlach  
I really don’t mind the camera shacking at all.
 
I thought the movie was great.

@Drefsab  
 
We don’t take kindly to opinions around here!
 
(Just kidding, everyone has opinions)

I’d just like to say that I really enjoyed Cloverfield, and consider it to be a very entertaining movie.  
But this is the internet, where everything is hated by everyone. So I’m gonna go sit in my corner and enjoy my movie for what it’s worth.

I would’ve really loved it if they did something like Chronicle where we have the camera shots from different angles. That would’ve been a lot better in my opinion.

Oh for Pete’s sake- EVERY damn monster movie is sky-shots of the monster, people are just ants in most moveis, and whatever human elements are tacked on. Cloverfield is the inverse of your run-of-the-mill monster movie- it’s the story about the people on the ground, the “ant’s-eye” perspective. As for the camera work, how many people have a Steadycam on them at all times? Yes, some scenes were contrived, and the camera guy was a bit unrealistic at times, but on its own, it wasn’t a bad movie. People just just expected another Godzilla movie, not a ground-level disaster film with a monster in it.

@Gundlach  
And I probably would have liked it more if it wasn’t a terrible movie with nightmarishly bad writing and abysmal cinematography.

@Prof.NightJack  
Yeah. I probably would’ve liked it more if it was put together like a documentary containing news footage, cellphone camera clips, and other recordings. (like some of the 9/11 and Japanese Tsunami documentaries)

Ponify the Cloverfield monster.

In other word, why have it a giant monster when it could just as easily be alien, a foreign invasion.  
You know, make the fact it’s a giant monster more important.

@Gundlach
 
>eye-level account of a giant monster rampaging  
Ya… maybe if they covered more of how the people saw the events with a focus on the monster, not just the one guy wanting to get his girlfriend and the others tagging along, and not heading into the area they know the monsters at, like it was more trying to not be taken out of the city so he can find her and not go into the more dangerous area, you know more common sense less stupid.

The camerawork was utter garbage and a worthless schtick, the framing story of it being a handheld recording was atrociously executed, and the human characters were the most unlikeable protagonists I’ve seen outside of the worst movies MST3K ever parodied. The monster design was merely mediocre, putting it way ahead of the rest of the movie. At least I saw it for free.

@Prof.NightJack  
I liked it because it was an eye-level account of a giant monster rampaging through New York. Yes, there’s a few things that could be fixed.

Yeah, I prefer my movies to be Godzilla, Gamera or Ray Harryhausen.

@lainofthewired
 
Nope, the joke here is, I didn’t pay anything to see that movie and I was right before I saw it, DUMB MOVIE!

@NightJack
 
That’s the joke.

Don’t worry Dash, he’s just looking for his mommy.

@Gundlach
 
More that I want my giant monster movie to be about THE GIANT MONSTER AND NOT A GROUP OF PEOPLE BEING DUMB!

 
@Prof.NightJack  
Motion sickness or just not your kind of movie?

THAT MOVIE SUCKED! _{(to me at least)}

Fucking Cloverfield.