January 20, 2008 10:28 am
Color this Sunday afternoon football-free and art awesome: Susan and I are gonna get on our bikes at noon and head downtown to catch the 1 p.m. matinee of Cloverfield at the Laemmle’s Grande on Fig. After that we’re gonna scoot on over to the Central Library to catch the last day of the Julius Shulman’s Los Angeles photography exhibit. And then as if that weren’t enough we’re gonna pedal over to MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary space to take in the Murakami show. From there we just might roll up to Olvera Street for margaritas and a late lunch/early dinner at La Golondrina before deciding whether to bike back or to hop a bus home.
January 20th, 2008 at 11:56 am
I’d be interested in your take on Cloverfield. My middle is not too tolerant of terror and came back mad as this was so lame and not scary at all. His 5 other friends that saw it with him, all 14-15 also thought it was lame. They even hated the video work as they thought they could do better.
I am most curious to see an adults take on this one.
January 21st, 2008 at 5:43 am
Fraz, my inner teenager was definitely disappointed from a monster-movie perspective. My outer adult appreciated it from a post 9-11 frame of reference.
For the rollercoaster ride it was it worked well enough for me, but the excessive shakycam work style definitely got old after awhile (Susan actually got nauseous 2/3rds of the way through and had to avert her eyes; and of course I had trouble with certain plot points.
I can understand your kid’s take. There were only a couple moments in the film that were deliciously harrowing, the moment the attack began and the subway tunnel ambush, and the rest sort of devolved into the unsteadycam-carrying character yelling “Rob! Rob! Rob!”
Two things I came away with: 1) Enough with destroying NYC already (my previous movie experience was “I Am Legend”), and 2) the sad inevitability of a sequel.