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
