Saw it at Grossmont, theatre 10.
First off there was a teaser trailer for what looked like a kick ass movie in the beginning, made by bad robot productions. was it Godzilla? nah, was it Jesus as someone in the theatre yelled...no freaking cool, but it looked really freakin cool!!! (runs off to find out what it was)
Looked it up and this is what i found:
We saw a screening of Transformers last night (which was awesome by the way, full review coming next week), but we weren’t lucky enough to see what people are now referring to as the trailer to JJ Abrams Top Secret Movie titled Cloverfield. Our friends at FirstShowing were lucky enough to be at a screening that showed the trailer. Everyone who has seen it so far are calling it one of the coolest trailers ever. And the best part, it’s for a movie no one really even knew existed. The trailer apparently ends without even a title, just “Produced by J.J. Abrams†and the release date “1.18.08″. You can read the trailer description over at FS, but everyone is saying not to. People are saying this is a trailer you really need to experience yourself.
So what is Cloverfield? According to AICN, it’s a giant monster movie (refferred internally as “The Parasiteâ€) which is shot using home video cameras from the point of view of real people who are experiencing the attack on New York City.
And let me tell you, this movie was NOT what i expected at all. I ex[expected some "BAYhem" but didn't get it. which is a good thing,. no uber slow motion fight/bullet stuff that is usually overdone in his films, or flat dialogue. What you will see is a lot of humor and funny moments that had the whole theatre laughing there transforming asses off, mixed with possibly the best special effects in a movie, ever (even better than SW:ROTS). You all remember watching Jurassic park for the first time, and seeing the T-Rex attack, and how it sucked you into the movie and the characters? well imagine that, but all over this movie.
The human characters are good, the robot characters are better (believe it or not). some (a not-so-well-thought-out-tearful-moment, which backfires) scenes were just a bit sub-par story wise, but those are 1% of the movie.
the action starts at about 3 minutes in and doesn't stop for the whole damn movie (OK i lied, there are a few expositions moments or plot building scenes that are necessary, but worth it).
hopefully, as the last few shots suggest, I will be expecting even better things down the road.
So Bay has once again made the blockbuster movie of the summer, clearly outweighing Spidey, Jack Sparrow, Ben Grimm and most likely Harry Potter as well. Not your typical Bay movie, who even pokes fun at himself in the script, but it's possibly the best movie he's made, most likely because Spielberg reined him in a bit, or possibly because he has enough experience as a filmmaker now to make a kick ass, huge freaking robots are coming movie.
DONT MISS THIS ONE, YOU'LL REGRET IT!
***saw it again today. still holds its humor and fun factor***
note** I've known for some time that most of the actors have signed on for at least 3 more
