Cloverfield // DVD
By it’s very nature, an unedited recording made by a hysterical man experiencing an attack on his city by a big monster (who narrowly escapes death several times and loses several friends and a relative), would not be particularly cohesive. It may well be sporadically exciting, but there would be little narrative, the characters would be shallow and difficult to empahise with and the camera work would be lamentable.
Unless, of course, this man thought that filming such an attack might be more important than saving his, or his friends, lives. And he happened to be a record/pause genius, who managed to catch only relevant (arguably contrived), dialogue and action. Both somewhat fortunately taped over the top of a previous recording, that occasionally appears to remind us of the validity of our ‘empathy’.
But I guess that might be a silly film, and one someone like me wouldn’t enjoy.
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I watched this on Sat night. It was awful.
They should have just left it at the fantastic trailer and not made the movie at all.
Cloverfield is Half-life
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/archives/2008/02/14/cloverfield_is_halflife.html