Cloverfield: Your Girlfriend Won’t Like It

Forget the fact that you really have little to no idea what the movie is about or that it’s all shot from a hand-held camera angle, Cloverfield from producer J.J. Abrahams and director Matt Reeves, is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. The only reason that you didn’t hear it summed up in our movies of the week post is that it deserved an entire article to itself. I went into this movie knowing nothing at all about the movie. On the ride to the theater, my buddy Jake told me all about the viral marketing he had been following and what info it gave him. To sum it up, there’s an oil rig owned by Tagruato Corporation off the coast of Connecticut that was “sabotaged” by protest group T.I.D.O. Wave. Some of the news report trailers show you that when the rig collapsed into the water, giant pieces of debris flew out of the ocean as survivors escaped. Hence sabotage in quotes. Cloverfield at heart is a mash-up of today’s culture being obsessed with capturing horrific events and the lack of a monster like Godzilla on US soil. Abrahams has admitted that his inspiration for this movie spawned when in a Japanese toy store with his son and saw row after row of Godzilla toys. Feeling the need to add a true monster rampaging New York, the Cloverfield concept began. Originally baring the codename of “Cloverfield“, the intended debut name of “Greyshot” was dropped as news spread throughout the internet, gaining popularity and steam behind the title Cloverfield. In regard to style, the entire movie is a review of footage shot from a hand-held video camera. You never see any other point of view but the camera the entire time.  As expected, just like Blair Witch Project, you’re going to experience a lot of up and down movement when the camera operator runs. This is something you become custom to very quickly and it honestly doesn’t happen as often as you’d expect.

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