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.
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comment #1
Mr. Muckle
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JW, while you've been out of the country, the Clinton golem suggested that she had to stay in the primary race in case Obama gets assassinated. Now what could a reasonable person say about THAT that would not get him arrested?
Posted by Mr. Muckle
at May 23, 2008 4:02 PM
comment #2
NDH
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Some Tim Roth wire action is just the thing I needed to brighten my day! I'm convinced this movie will bomb at the box office (simply because the masses will be scratching their heads saying "The Hulk... again?"), but I bet it will actually turn out to be a somewhat decent flick.
Posted by NDH
at May 23, 2008 4:14 PM
comment #3
Richardson
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Muckle - you have to admit, it's the most realistic road to the nomination going to Hillary that she has brought up in months.
Posted by Richardson
at May 23, 2008 4:18 PM
comment #4
Jason
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I can't swallow this fake bullshit any more. I've become too desensitized to it. I miss gravity. Please bring it back.
Posted by Jason
at May 23, 2008 4:27 PM
comment #5
Edward
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That is some ugly CG. The Hulk doesn't even come close to looking real.
Posted by Edward
at May 23, 2008 4:38 PM
comment #6
York "Budd" Durden
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Jason, you have hit it on the head. I just don't feel anything at these movies. Indy 4 was the same way--all CGI, no sense of danger or peril.
That's why Death Proof, for all its flaws, was a real adrenaline charge for me. Real cars on a real road with a real girl strapped to the hood holding on for dear life. In the context of today's films, that sounds quaint but is pure genius IMO.
Posted by York "Budd" Durden
at May 23, 2008 4:40 PM
comment #7
Edward
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Ditto, Jason and York. I'd love to have action films return to the real world for their thrills.
Posted by Edward
at May 23, 2008 4:43 PM
comment #8
Jeremy Smith
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Check out the clip at Yahoo! Movies. Much, much better.
Posted by Jeremy Smith
at May 23, 2008 5:16 PM
comment #9
Jason
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I'm with you, Budd, on the tactile thrills of Death Proof.
Crystal Skull, for all its bustling energy, had no moment like the one in Raiders where Indy precariously straddles the front wheel of the truck carrying the Ark: He's desperately hanging on, scrabbling for anything that will keep his nuts from getting trampled by a truck moving at 50 miles per hour.
Posted by Jason
at May 23, 2008 5:58 PM
comment #10
fielding
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It should have been William Hurt's character fighting the Hulk. That would have been entertaining.
Posted by fielding
at May 23, 2008 7:13 PM
comment #11
storymark
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I'm all for more grounded action in conventional actions films. But this is a movie about an 10 foot tall green mutant than can leap miles at a time. I'd rather have CG than some wrestler painted green.
Posted by storymark
at May 23, 2008 7:58 PM
comment #12
D.Z.
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I didn't buy those chicks in danger in Death Proof, either. It's not about the budget, but the script.
Posted by D.Z.
at May 23, 2008 8:09 PM
comment #13
Roman
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Looks very poor. The editing in particular is very bad. But, utlimately, it's the CGI that will doom this movie.
This movie will amke less money than Ang Lee's the Hulk. You heard it here first, folks!
Posted by Roman
at May 23, 2008 8:22 PM
comment #14
Rothchild
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No one heard it here first. Everyone knows this film will struggle to hit 100 million. The movie never should have been made. I'm actually warming up to it, and it's certainly going to be better than Indy, but if a CGI Hulk doesn't work with Dennis Muren then it's not going to work with anyone else.
Posted by Rothchild
at May 23, 2008 8:29 PM
comment #15
actionman
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Terrible CGI. Wire-work with Tim Roth? Stupid.
Posted by actionman
at May 23, 2008 8:35 PM
comment #16
Richardson
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"I didn't buy those chicks in danger in Death Proof, either. It's not about the budget, but the script."
DZ, you don't like Tarantino. Why spend your time on a movie that even a lot of Tarantino fans didn't like? That's two hours of life you could've spent entertaining us with how stupid you are.
Posted by Richardson
at May 23, 2008 10:14 PM
comment #17
Richardson
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For that matter, Jeff, you don't like comic book movies. You didn't even like 'Iron Man' that much. Why are you pimping 'Hulk' so hard?
Posted by Richardson
at May 23, 2008 10:17 PM
comment #18
Roman
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Wait, people liked the utter shit known as Iron Man?
Posted by Roman
at May 23, 2008 10:23 PM
comment #19
storymark
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Roman - Weren't you the guy defending the lame CGI in Indy...?
Actionamn - Roth's wire-fu does look odd out of context, but this is supposed to be after he's juiced with marvel's Super-Soldier serum (forshadowing the Captain America movie).
Posted by storymark
at May 23, 2008 11:04 PM
comment #20
Richardson
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"Wait, people liked the utter shit known as Iron Man?"
Anybody who doesn't know that most people on the Internet and in the world writ large did indeed like Iron Man is not somebody I'm going to waste my time talking to about movies, since their opinion is laughably uninformed by facts.
Posted by Richardson
at May 24, 2008 11:47 AM
comment #21
Richardson
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"Actionamn - Roth's wire-fu does look odd out of context, but this is supposed to be after he's juiced with marvel's Super-Soldier serum (forshadowing the Captain America movie)."
See, I didn't know that happened in this movie. Why are they showing clips that require plot explanations in order to make sense? Is the 'Incredible Hulk' movie really *that* complicated?
I wish they'd put the clip up of Hulk fighting Omar.
Posted by Richardson
at May 24, 2008 12:11 PM
comment #22
frankbooth
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So Roth is a Brit soldier with a Russian name working for the U.S. army? Okay.
Maybe the CGI will look better on the big screen. Sometimes it does. And maybe the kids won't mind. Cartoony effects didn't hurt the first Spiderman at the box-office.
How many more years 'til Dark Knight?
Posted by frankbooth
at May 24, 2008 1:23 PM
comment #23
actionman
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Didn't know he was injected with a serum. Very dumb to release an out-of-context clip like this.
Posted by actionman
at May 24, 2008 10:04 PM
comment #24
fielding
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frankbooth, Blonsky was originally going to be a Russian, but the producers didn't want to pay for a dialect coach for Roth so they made him a Brit instead.
Posted by fielding
at May 25, 2008 7:01 AM
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