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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Cloverfield Review
There are very few movies I love that also gave me motion sickness. You can add Cloverfield to the list, along with these classics:
Synopsis Simply Explained: Friends are preparing to see their good friend Rob off to Japan, when it is discovered that his long time friend Beth has recently become a friend with benefits and I aint talkin’ dental…. or am I? I just got lost in my own innuendo. After an argument with Beth, Rob seems distressed and while his friends talk to him on the fire escape all hell breaks loose. Something is tearing through the city like an Exlax burrito and the entire island of Manhattan is under siege. The rest of the story is essentially Rob and company trying to save Beth who is located in one of the buildings the monster has already destroyed. On their way they confront a military throwing everything it has at the monster, news reports that document the horror from a bird’s eye view and finally one of the best aspects of the movie…The Louse. The Louse fall off the monster like parasites, attacking anything moving and we’re all out of that “special” shampoo.
Verdict:
Cloverfield was a great start for movies in 2008. Is it an intellectual piece that will have you thinking for days? No. Is it some overdone romance story involving a triangle of love interest? No, and fuck Atonement. What it delivers is the ability to put the viewer in the middle of a crisis and leads him/her through a roller coaster of events and turns.
I was a little under the weather when I saw this movie, so the shaky camera routine wore on me after awhile. Nonetheless, Cloverfield is an extremely entertaining movie and makes its hour and a half runtime feel like a meager hour and fifteen minutes. It’s a vintage monster movie made contemporary and pulls it off better than some films I won’t mention.
The documentary, Blair Witchesque cinematography works well throughout. Shot through the eyes of Rob’s friend Hud, you do get a more intimate ambiance than if it were shot traditionally. I could have gone without some of the cheesy lines, but that is to be expected. You’ll pray for Hud’s death as soon as he is introduced, but his character is important to the story overall and he comes off more similar to a hero than a boom mic operator.
The special effects are stellar. The audience is denied a full visual of the monster until near the end, but its design is really cool and unique. The Louse are my favorite monsters since the Face Huggers from the Alien series. They look like miniature versions of the Starship Troopers bugs, but beware their bite. Need a hint? KABOOM!!!.... There’s a hint for you.
Overall, I think you can expect this movie to have at least a cult following and as usual you probably can expect a sequel as well. The movie rarely asks you to think, but rather insists that you sit back and keep a bucket under your chin, cause it’s about to melt your face off. After all, during a time where global terrorism is all the rage, it’s nice to see what the real threat is. Alien terrorists aka Space Niggers!
Synopsis Simply Explained: Friends are preparing to see their good friend Rob off to Japan, when it is discovered that his long time friend Beth has recently become a friend with benefits and I aint talkin’ dental…. or am I? I just got lost in my own innuendo. After an argument with Beth, Rob seems distressed and while his friends talk to him on the fire escape all hell breaks loose. Something is tearing through the city like an Exlax burrito and the entire island of Manhattan is under siege. The rest of the story is essentially Rob and company trying to save Beth who is located in one of the buildings the monster has already destroyed. On their way they confront a military throwing everything it has at the monster, news reports that document the horror from a bird’s eye view and finally one of the best aspects of the movie…The Louse. The Louse fall off the monster like parasites, attacking anything moving and we’re all out of that “special” shampoo.
Verdict:
Cloverfield was a great start for movies in 2008. Is it an intellectual piece that will have you thinking for days? No. Is it some overdone romance story involving a triangle of love interest? No, and fuck Atonement. What it delivers is the ability to put the viewer in the middle of a crisis and leads him/her through a roller coaster of events and turns.
I was a little under the weather when I saw this movie, so the shaky camera routine wore on me after awhile. Nonetheless, Cloverfield is an extremely entertaining movie and makes its hour and a half runtime feel like a meager hour and fifteen minutes. It’s a vintage monster movie made contemporary and pulls it off better than some films I won’t mention.
The documentary, Blair Witchesque cinematography works well throughout. Shot through the eyes of Rob’s friend Hud, you do get a more intimate ambiance than if it were shot traditionally. I could have gone without some of the cheesy lines, but that is to be expected. You’ll pray for Hud’s death as soon as he is introduced, but his character is important to the story overall and he comes off more similar to a hero than a boom mic operator.
The special effects are stellar. The audience is denied a full visual of the monster until near the end, but its design is really cool and unique. The Louse are my favorite monsters since the Face Huggers from the Alien series. They look like miniature versions of the Starship Troopers bugs, but beware their bite. Need a hint? KABOOM!!!.... There’s a hint for you.
Overall, I think you can expect this movie to have at least a cult following and as usual you probably can expect a sequel as well. The movie rarely asks you to think, but rather insists that you sit back and keep a bucket under your chin, cause it’s about to melt your face off. After all, during a time where global terrorism is all the rage, it’s nice to see what the real threat is. Alien terrorists aka Space Niggers!
Friday, January 18, 2008
Sweet, Sweet Denise Schnieder
Let me be the first to welcome you all to Golliblogs... You will be wowed by drawings, writings & more ...
Alot of the pen drawings are from Fax-Wars that Matt McKenna and myself participate in. Fax-Wars began small, just a random fax to one anothers workplace with hidden meanings and things that only he or I would recognize and know about ... alot of subliminal imagery , and now we are more blunt and to the point or just plain weird. Sometimes they are crudely drawn on purpose to add to the humor... sometimes they are well drawn and a lot of time is spent just for a fax to bring entertainment and joy to the workplace and now to you...
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