Reeves Talks 'Cloverfield 2' And 'Super 8'

I liked Cloverfield for that reason. To me, it felt like I was running away from the Clovie.

Plus, as I have said before, I think it can serve as meta-commentary on the ridiculousness of monster movies in general (being forced to care for characters you barely have a chance to connect to before disaster strikes, really only caring about the monster and its destruction, a nice, tidy answer as to why it is happening).

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I, on the other hand, loved Cloverfield. Didn't care about a single character in it, though, except for the monster and maybe the Statue of Liberty head, but still loved every second of it.

With this much time passing since the first one, though, they really have to go all out on the sequel. Another shaky cam monster movie just won't do. I've always maintained that the first movie should be the video evidence found on site and the sequel should be the military's evidence videotaped from tanks and choppers and even satellites.

I loved Cloverfield. Not for the characters, for the monsters. I love monsters.

My problem with Cloverfiled was the guy with the camera (and the projectile vomiting he caused, and no I am not kidding).

He spends the whole movie (as much of it as I could watch) saying, "I'm documenting everything!" Then whenever anything even remotely interesting happened, he would point the camera at it for 0.63 seconds before turning the camera away to point at his dopey friends and their reaction to the interesting thing that the audience didn't get to see.

Then he would hang the camera from the bungee cord around his neck and proceed to riverdance through the next several dull scenes until another interesting thing happened.

"I'm documenting everything! I'm documenting everything! Oh My God! Did you see that??"

No, we didn't, you jackass, because you TURNED THE CAMERA AWAY FROM IT!

Cloverfield was the epitome of shaki-cam crap. I'm now waiting for the epitome of 3D-crap and the next phase of lame movie gimmicks to commence.

Dogs & Cats 3D and Step Up 3D didn't combine into some Voltron-like epitome of crap 3D for you?

Cloverfield was ok. Unlike Godzilla, it failed to be a great American monster in popularity due to the fact that in was unlikable. Nothing about the monster made you feel for him. Perhaps with a standard filming we could have gotten a sense of the monster.

Even the American Godzilla had more personality.

So we have a movie with uninteresting monsters, (The poison sea crabs were.... weird and not needed.) unlikable characters, ( I had no desire to see any of them survive.) and shaky cam to make things more frightening.

Could have been better, could have been worse. A sequel makes no sense though.

I think, if done right, the first movie could be seen as a good set up for a more monster-centric sequel.

However, in order to have done this effectively, they should have shot both back to back and released the sequel within a year. At this point Cloverfield is barely on the radar for mainstream America, especially with Paranormal Activity stealing it's "Found Footage" glory last Halloween.

No I enjoyed the characters. They are exactly the kind of mid 20 somethings who often portrayed on TV and in films that after only 3 years out of college they will be making mid six figure income and living in an enormous lofts in SOHO and own $1000 state of the art digital camcorder with 100:1 zoom.

I enjoyed watching them die, one by one, as their artificially constructed view of how the world revolves around them is torn down.

I liked the flick i wish they had made the replay of the meteor/monstor crashing into the water off of Coney Island a little more clear...and yes im old