[qd0vhq4f]

Yes, it was on a matter of weeks before Diary of the Dead came out (shame it looked so shite, I'm a big Romero fan), but now, a few months later we have a new clone of Cloverfield! I give you quarantine

[DouseAuthott]

Just because it's from the perspective of a held hand camera means it's a clone? Wouldn't that make Cloverfield a Blair Witch clone? I mean I understand your point, just saying...

[qd0vhq4f]

Just because it's from the perspective of a held hand camera means it's a clone? Wouldn't that make Cloverfield a Blair Witch clone? I mean I understand your point, just saying...

Yeah you're right, but you can tell this director is just jumping on the band wagon with this one

[DouseAuthott]

Yeah you're right, but you can tell this director is just jumping on the band wagon with this one

Yeah seems like everyone has to do that if something new (or freshly borrowed) is successful.

[ggandibazz]

I didnt like cloverfield BECAUSE of the hand held shaky ass cam...it got annoying way too fast...This is one movie I wont be buying on BD[thumbdown][thumbdown]

and what all in all we got to see the monster for a total of like 30 seconds combined thru-out the movie?? weak

[ThisIsOK]

I am a sucker for zombie movies... I like this shaky cam idea because it could make the zombie survival horror movie a tad bit more realistic.

[cigattIcTot]

Hehe. I couldn't care if it has a similar idea to cloverfield where you watch the movie through a single cam. So long as its good. And watching people getting mutilated by zombies is cool.

[amimabremiBit]

Ah yes, yet another Remake for the illiterate (unable to cope with subtitles) masses. It seems that the studios that do all these remakes are waiting less and less time after the original release these days. Is is that they think they can do a better job of portraying the story? It can't be just that surely?

The original is well worth seeing, by the way:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038988/

[mr.memo]

I didnt like cloverfield BECAUSE of the hand held shaky ass cam...it got annoying way too fast...This is one movie I wont be buying on BD[thumbdown][thumbdown]

and what all in all we got to see the monster for a total of like 30 seconds combined thru-out the movie?? weak

Agree..

[alecaf]

...and what all in all we got to see the monster for a total of like 30 seconds combined thru-out the movie?? weak

It's called a Psychological Thriller

[yahyynzer]

I didnt like cloverfield BECAUSE of the hand held shaky ass cam...it got annoying way too fast...This is one movie I wont be buying on BD[thumbdown][thumbdown]

Well you wouldn't have been able to buy it on Blu-ray even if you wanted to.

[km2000]

Ah yes, yet another Remake for the illiterate (unable to cope with subtitles) masses.

The original is well worth seeing, by the way:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038988/

This man speaks truth. It is a remake of the spanish film [REC] (came out 2007) I got this film on the HDD and lemme tell you even if you don't like movies with substitles, you won't care once the initial setup happens and the freaky **** goes down. Its a simple concept, but executed so well. And the end will have you questioning whether or not you figured out what was really going on. A must see for any horror fan. But I doubt this remake will be as good.

[Aaron757]

It's called a Psychological Thriller

Shouldnt have been hyped as a monster movie then... was expecting Godzilla and got some drunken college quality camera work that may or may not have involved a monster somewhere.

[avodeinst]

Don't forget MONSTER!!

And don't miss The Asylum's other pictures, Transmorphers and Snakes On A Train...

[Mmccqrtb]

I am a sucker for zombie movies... I like this shaky cam idea because it could make the zombie survival horror movie a tad bit more realistic.

Because, yes you know, were you to get attacked by Zombie's first thing you'd think to do would be to run around with your DV-Cam. I really don't get this whole idea of making these things more 'realistic'. It's cinema for God's sake it's all about fantasy and the suspension of disbelief. Is that a little too taxing for today's movie goers? Zombies aren't real, neither are Cloverfield style monsters it's fiction. Are there loads of people out there who just read Auto Biographies because they are more realistic than novels?

[yahyynzer]

Because, yes you know, were you to get attacked by Zombie's first thing you'd think to do would be to run around with your DV-Cam. I really don't get this whole idea of making these things more 'realistic'. It's cinema for God's sake it's all about fantasy and the suspension of disbelief. Is that a little too taxing for today's movie goers? Zombies aren't real, neither are Cloverfield style monsters it's fiction. Are there loads of people out there who just read Auto Biographies because they are more realistic than novels?

I can tell by your highly cynical post that you clearly have gone sailing past the point of the style used in these movies. [rofl]

The whole idea is that it is a mechanism and technique filmmakers use to pull the audience more into the film in attempt to make them feel as they are actively involved with the action going on on the screen rather than passively watching. Whether or not it is effective is debatable and depends on the person. I have been drawn in by many fantastic films that do not use that technique but I personally think it plays well with the types of movies using it.

[avodeinst]

The whole art of suspension of disbelief is lost on most people nowadays, so that's probably contributed a bit to this new style being adopted, too.

[russmodel]

and what all in all we got to see the monster for a total of like 30 seconds combined thru-out the movie?? weak

I wouldn't have showed it at all, and Cloverfield KICKS ASS

[Byxtysaaqwuz]

I would have showed it at all

See, I dont get this? if we were allowed to see all of the creature then the fear and chaos of it all would have vanished!!

For example: why was alien such a genre defining and ground breaking film? because of what we DON'T see, the fear of the dark that it might be hiding in the shadows, gives the imagine a massive workout! nothing on screen can make us feel fear more than what our imagination can conjure.

I am glad we see little and know little about the creature... its what makes the film 'feel' like it is a real event or even worse.... that it is happening to us almost!

When i was in the cinema watching Cloverfield, at times i felt that i was watching some kind of real event that occurred and we just see the tape that was lost, its an awesome idea [i know blair witch did it first]

[qd0vhq4f]

See, I dont get this? if we were allowed to see all of the creature then the fear and chaos of it all would have vanished!!

For example: why was alien such a genre defining and ground breaking film? because of what we DON'T see, the fear of the dark that it might be hiding in the shadows, gives the imagine a massive workout! nothing on screen can make us feel fear more than what our imagination can conjure.

I am glad we see little and know little about the creature... its what makes the film 'feel' like it is a real event or even worse.... that it is happening to us almost!

When i was in the cinema watching Cloverfield, at times i felt that i was watching some kind of real event that occurred and we just see the tape that was lost, its an awesome idea [i know blair witch did it first]

I 100% agree with all you've just said here mate!
Yes, Alien 1 & 2 were both fantastic because you never see the xenomorph properly, your imagination creates the rest of it like you said. Alien 3 was kinda sh!t because at points you could see the whole area and the way it was animated was crap too so it became un scary, and again in AvP (altogether proper bollocks film(s) ) - which was just, god you know what I mean - I don't want to talk about that crap.

And yes, being able to see the whole of the monster in Cloverfield (all the time), would have totally ruined the fact that you see the whole story from one small point of view. There's a lot of people in New York yet you only see through the eyes of the one camera, it's great. It makes a change to the crap Hollywood flicks where it would cut to the president suggesting how they nuke the whole ****ing thing for the good of America and all that tacky crap we've seen before.
What i loved most about Cloverfield were the bits that kept you guessing such as when that girl who was infected had her chest explode, yet you only see a bit of it and get pushed along with their story. It's something I'd love to discover about but it's another estuary in the river you can only look at and imagine what's down there.