cloverfield, good or bad?

[out there]

my coworker just loaned me this film... and it is an overwhelming "bad". in fact, it is so bad that it can't even entice me to watch beyond the first four minutes. sure, maybe that wasn't enough time to really become engaging, but the dialogue eclipsed the stupidity of napoleon dynamite (which had the saving grace of at least being kind of funny).

can anyone else offer anything to explain what all the hype about this film was?

[STiSchucky]

?

the films like a year old. i thought it was dumb also.

[Slowica]

i thought it was allright. noting amazing but not bad.

[amicheze]

The hype of the film was all in the advertising way before it even came out. JJ Abrams and everyone who worked on the movie released almost no information about the movie before it was released, except for a few small teasers. There were people who were literally obsessed about putting all the little clues together to figure out the 'great mystery.' I don't think the movie lived up to the hype at all, but it was still good enough to sit through the whole thing, especially in HD.

[Jim]

This movie made me sick to watch in the theatre.... and it sucked...

[PSiedTSi]

I made it about 4 minutes as well. Took me until I found out what was attacking the city. As soon as I knew, the movie was worthless.

[Cura86]

The beginning is so SLOW and boring. I kind of liked the rest after the attacks start.

[Bryce]

I really liked it.

Then again I liked the Blair witch prodject.

[JN210]

Terrible movie...hated the fact that everyone dies, and it was filmed in the most worthless way...

[SPANISH-RICE]

jn210;269299 wrote:
everyone dies

well now i dont need to see it

[JN210]

Its an old(er) movie and I figured I neednt keep the secrets.

[GarageAlchemist]

Holy bad. With all the hype they put behind it before it came out, they had a great opportunity to do SOMETHING with it, but nope. The thing i didn't like is you sat through all that shaky camera bullshit, and never even got a good look at the damn creature thing.

[JN210]

If they just filmed the movie the right way it would have had a chance...thats all they had to do..

[Grr]

i actually liked it, once you get through the whole party thing at the beginning theres alot of action. I suggest you have a few beers before you watch it though. Theres some parts that were really cool, like when the army blasts that girl in quarantine, that was sweet

[DelSlow]

Horrible movie.

[PSiedTSi]

Bryce;269298 wrote:
I really liked it.

Then again I liked the Blair witch prodject.

Blair witch Project was good the first time, just because it was original.

[weshole]

I liked it.

[94NDTA]

PSiedTSi;269423 wrote:
Blair witch Project was good the first time, just because it was original.

Original doesn't always mean good. I really did not care for the Blair witch project.

I thought Cloverfield was ok. I wasn't super hyped to see it though, so that may have changed my view on it.

[Puppet Master]

Grr;269327 wrote:
i actually liked it, once you get through the whole party thing at the beginning theres alot of action. I suggest you have a few beers before you watch it though. Theres some parts that were really cool, like when the army blasts that girl in quarantine, that was sweet

they didnt kill marlena she just blew up