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Cloverfield - Spoilers ahead!
2008-01-19 23:01:34
okay.... What's to say about this film..
This film was worth the viewing, I don't know if I'ma run out to buy it when the DVD comes out, I'm susceptible to motion sickness.
J.J. Abrams I have a feeling that you are so going to fail Star Trek, I have no hopes this Christmas for anything remotely good. srsly.
The focus on the "pretty people" was kind of was annoying especially cause most of them were not so great actors, but really you shouldn't go see this for the acting seriously... Some of the other aspects make up for the poor acting and the "storyline".
I liked how they wanted to make a "realistic" fantastical situation movie... It's ironic in a way, but at sometimes it was a bit annoying... For instance I really liked how his girlfriend was alive after laying in her apartment (which was in a skyscraper that had nearly fallen down) for hours with a pole through her arm/shoulder, yea that was spot on realism there. I heard a lot of "oh what?" going on in the audience. It would have been better imho if she had died, or they didn't find her in such a situation. (Yea I know aliens/gigantic monsters attacking New York isn't exactly realistic either, but at the same time srsly she was alive? wtf is that shit?)
My favorite character was Hud, shame he was "holding the camera" the entire time... but the type of person he was made the movie make sense in the way it was filmed "by a handy cam" or whatever. He is the type of guy who was handed a camera who has no social skills whatsoever and doesn't know when to stop talking/filming.
The writing was blah... There could have been so much better writing, but at the same time some of the retarded-ness also felt a bit more realistic. Especially Hud, I know guys like him O.o Hud got most of the best lines... Pretty bitch however... got probably one of the worst/best lines (depending on how you look at it) Total Blare Witch moment "I am so scared" with a shot of just her mouth... I laughed out loud, and apparently I was the only one who got the joke. It was a joke right? if it wasn't then that was really poor writing to mirror Blare Witch so well.
The editing and the special effects, this is the whole reason to see the film.
While this was put together in a really interesting way, we can't say that the style is anything new. This however was a hell of a lot better than the Blare Witch Project (which is what it will be compared to for years, especially with some of the closing lines)...
The aliens/monsters were awesome, and the editing made it scarier/more suspenseful than I was expecting, really well done camera work, and it wasn't shaky too much that I wanted to puke. The sound effects were great and the editing was really well done. Well sorta.. If it were a REAL military tape then they would have cut out any of the storyline and got to the parts that the military cared about, such as the monster what it destroyed and what didn't work on it etc.
The movie was highly suspenseful it's just a shame that I didn't care for any of the characters, cept Hud.
Anyways go see it, it was entertaining, and a hell of a lot better than "I am Legend" or whatever :3 I'd say it was worth the night show we paid for it. -
*inverse* likes holding out on me.... that tease O:
2008-01-16 22:47:35
WHY OH WHY DO I HAVE THAT LINKIN PARK SONG STUCK IN MY HEAD?!?!?!?!
I should be going to bed now... I accomplished absolutely nothing today :3 -
I finally changed my myspace layout a bit, and got a Gaia
2008-01-16 19:12:26
http://www.gaiaonline.com/profiles/11965417
O.o I really don't know if I'll be active on it or not, I don't mind having a newb avatar and newb house. -
VOTE FOR ScoobINSMDBZ FOR EVERYTHING IN THE VCAS!!!!
2008-01-15 17:03:13
If someone has to circle-jerk their friends, I guess it should be me :3 (maybe next week I'll change it to Jade_Eyed_Angel or Radical_Yue O: lol)
YAY! MORE STUFF ON THE VCAs:
My first year on the Org, I didn't feel that I had anything worth contributing to the VCAs and purposefully didn't join them. I didn't go near the mean nasty forums.
My second year on the Org, I ended up joining the VCAs out of a whim... I kinda wanted to see what happened... I was surprised when one of my videos made it to the semi's @_@ I was starting to get into the forums a bit.
My third year on the Org, I joined the VCAs out of whatever and was shocked to see I made it to the finals @_@ I however was all over the VCA threads spamming them with my opinions of who should win.
And now I suppose this is my fourth year on the org (or it will be in March)... I think I'ma join the VCAs just to join them again... I never really have any hopes of winning anything, and I kinda have an idea of the results of each category, but I'ma join anyways just to see how things pan out.
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I think this year is the first year I'm actually not as excited about them, nor wanting to post actual recs in the VCA threads... I guess it hasn't hit me yet or whatever.
JCAs are going to be interesting though O.o I don't think I wanna be a judge but I've been nominated for the position. Thats going to take a lot of dedication I don't know if I have it in me. I'm lazy. I sucked at voting for VCAs last year and being a judge for JCAs just seems @_@ eeeeh... I donno.
stuff...
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I guess I've been too busy thinking about real life stuff..
Cons (yes they count as real life), Moving, My husband getting shipped out of country.. What am I going to do when he gets out of the Army? Where am I going to be living then? Where am I going to be living in this next year.. Getting a job...
I donno, it doesn't seem like I'm doing much, but there is a lot going on, or about to be going on in my life, and I want to be able to get it straightened out before its on top of me. It just seems hard when I'm not being given all the info I need. - 2008-01-14 19:21:08 and for the record, no one hacked my account O:
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