\nI feel stupid about this because I really wanted to see this film in
\nthe theater, with a bunch of people around me. I dragged L along with
\nme. I thought it would be part of the fun to not know anything about
\nthe movie going in, but perhaps that was a mistake.\n<\/p>\n
\nSPOILER<\/font>\n<\/p>\n \nIs it fair to say that the film is "Blair Witch Project<\/a> vs. Godzilla<\/a>"? \nBlair Witch succeeded (for those who enjoyed it) because we never really saw anything.\n<\/p>\n \nThe producers of Cloverfield were not brave enough to maintain this \nActually the only mystery remaining is how the handi-cam's battery powered the thing for 84 minutes.\n<\/p>\n \nAnd of those 84 minutes, the film actually seems 20 minutes too long.\n<\/p>\n \n"Cloverfield" succeeds when it is focused on telling a personal I feel stupid about this because I really wanted to see this film in the theater, with a bunch of people around me. I dragged L along with me. I thought it would be part of the fun to not know anything about the movie going in, but perhaps that was a mistake. SPOILER Is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYeah, it probably is. Except that it's an apt description of the movie
\nI'd wished I'd seen, because it only really describes the first half of
\n"Cloverfield".\n<\/p>\n
\nthroughout the film, and the second half of the movie is an unlikely
\nsequence of Perils-of-Pauline near-miss encounters as we see more and
\nmore of the monster until nothing is a mystery anymore. (Any fan of
\nDoctor Who knows that monsters are scariest when you see only glimpses
\nof them.)\n<\/p>\n
\nstory of regular people on the periphery of an extraordinary event. It
\nfails when – like a dinosaur trapped in a tar pit – it is unable to
\nbreak free of traditional block-buster movie cliches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"