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Cloverfield [BLU-RAY] (Paramount Home Entertainment, 6.3.2008) Disguised under deliberately goofy, yet deliciously edible-sounding, aliases such as Cheese and Slusho, Matt Reeves' Cloverfield was produced and rushed into theaters under an equally appetizing shroud of secrecy. From last year's incredibly elusive Super Bowl ad to the film's viral marketing campaign, Cloverfield had everybody scratching their heads and drooling in anticipation. Aside from the as-yet untitled title and the Blair Witch-ian visual style, the film's biggest appeal was the enigmatic creature who was last (un)seen hurling the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty onto the crowded streets of New York City. All we knew about the mysterious beast was that it was big and angry. Now that the highy-anticipated project has come and gone, one question has fortunately been answered: Cloverfield was a major success. (continued)

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The way I see it (and I realize I'm probably in the minority among attending journos), these olives are as memorable an aspect of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, which I've now said goodbye to, as any of the films shown over the last nine days.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 23, 2008 at 9:05 AM

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actionman says ...

Those olives do look pretty fucking delicious

Posted by actionman at May 23, 2008 10:25 AM

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Walter Sobchak says ...

Thanks Wells.

Before I saw that photo I wasn't planning on hitting the olive bar at Whole Foods. That has now changed.

Posted by Walter Sobchak at May 23, 2008 11:52 AM

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Edward says ...

I want a martini!

Posted by Edward at May 23, 2008 11:59 AM

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Richardson says ...

Jeff -- Maybe it sounds different over there, but from over here, it sounds like most of the journalists over there would agree with you.

Posted by Richardson at May 23, 2008 12:25 PM

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George Prager says ...

What a sorry-assed bunch of olive-loving America haters!!! What's next -- a limp-wristed paean to those crypto-Marxist mini-vanilla scones they're selling at Starbucks?

Posted by George Prager at May 23, 2008 12:42 PM

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actionman says ...

I like those mini vanilla scones

But I like gourmet olives more

Posted by actionman at May 23, 2008 12:59 PM

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Gaydos says ...

Wait a minute! I may be cognitively reeling from Hillary's "I'm staying in the race cos somebody might shoot the guy" strategy, but....

Two days ago Jeff called "Che" "Brilliant," "incandescent," " "gripping," levitational, a "perfect dream movie,". "politically vibrant and searing..."

And today he's telling us that Soderbergh's ass got kicked by a picholine?

Posted by Gaydos at May 23, 2008 4:12 PM

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