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Tonight’s cinema experience
I do enjoy a good trip to the cinema. Tonight’s was excellent.
As well as finally getting to see Cloverfield, there were a whole host of goodies before the film, both in the form of adverts:
- A Coke advert based on Rockstar’s GTA (also mentioned over at The Guardian)
- Snoop D-Oh-Double-Gee getting the Orange treatment
and three “ohhh, I must see that” trailers:
Cloverfield
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I, like the rest of the cinema, was speechless at the end of Cloverfield tonight having been, as Jay put it, thrashed to within an inch of my life for the passed 90 minutes. The only thing I think I’m safe to say it’s missing is the word ‘monster’, which I’m pretty sure despite the nature of the film, wasn’t uttered at all in the dialogue.
I was skeptical at first about the ’shaky camera’ angle to filming, but they’ve pulled it off with fantastic style. Whilst some may say it was a bit slow to start I think it was about right to building up background on the characters and the relationships between them, but the first 15 mins can be summed up by the trailer. From that point on though it’s a roller-coaster ride of “:o”. (I’m not sure I’m fully comfortable with using a smiley as an adjective).
The ‘night mode’ scene I could see coming from a mile off, but I thought the camera auto-focus in Central Park towards the end of the film was a nice touch. According to wikipedia there is an object crashing into the sea in the last scene (from the original tape), which presumably forms part of the back story.
There are so many angles left open for sequel(s). The same events from a different view point? The back-story? The next chapter? I’m not even going to try and guess which direction they will (inevitably) take the story in.
The first film in ages that has had me literally on the edge of my seat! What’s more Lost is back as of today, JJ Abrams overload 
