Lean and Mean — Cloverfield’s a winner
After watching “Cloverfield” on Saturday night, I couldn’t stop thinking about one thing:
Man, “Godzilla” was a horrible movie.
At just 76 minutes, “Cloverfield” is everything 1998′s “Godzilla” should have been — scary, funny and unforgettable. One friend I saw it with spent most of the movie with her hands over her mouth, preparing to muffle her screams.
I give all the credit in the world to the marketers on this one. A great movie will win fans, but it takes something special to get that many people to care about a monster movie after all these years.
A lot of people say it’s related to 9/11 (destruction in New York City, though that was a theme in prior monster flicks, too), but all I cared about was how exciting the film was. I found myself thinking today about sneaking out to another showing, just because I thought I might enjoy it a second time.
Anybody else see it? What did you think?
– Greg Elwell
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I felt that we as people are always projecting, the monster outside ourselves, but the real monster is within. The fact we see it on the outside,is maybe we think we can destroy it, before it destroys us. We have so much going on in this crazy world, that we forget the real monsters have been created in our souls, because we have all been living away from the true creator. The scary movies with real back bone, have always seem to have come true.