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Honsoku -> RE: Cloverfield (1/23/2008 1:18:42 AM)
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~fr~
My thoughts (without spoilers);
I personally think that the shakiness was overdone, as it detracted a bit from the movie. From a practical standpoint, it was unnecessary as quite a few hand held cameras these days have stability features to minimize that very thing. Thematically, the overuse meant that when it was used during times of panic, the potential effect was dampened. This led them to try to compensate during panic times by making it so jerky that you couldn't really tell what was going on, which disrupted the flow of the movie. The effect might have been more tolerable on a smaller screen.
They had problems deciding just how big the creature was. It had to be big enough to wreck major buildings (and a few choice landmarks), but small enough to traverse the city streets. This yielded to the creature appearing to grow or shrink from sighting to sighting. It's size was determined by story and framing needs and not visa-versa.
Final big issue; the nature of the ending was foretold by the opening sequence.
The good points; Had one decent twist. It was reasonably suspenseful without being overly predictable. They handled most of the gory bits with a measure of decorum, instead of the rub-your-face-in-it method that has been popular as of late (besides, leaving it to the imagination tends to be even worse for the viewer [:D]).
Other than the issues, it was pretty much exactly as I expected it to be; a cross between blair witch and godzilla. I give it a C+, maybe a B-: Worth seeing if you are into that sort of thing, but not worth seeing twice.
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