Movie recommendation--Cloverfield

[Innoc]

Originally Posted by FrenchToast

They lost me when they jumped between buildings. Up until there I was like FUCK YEAH!

And then to see a girl with a half inch diameter hole through her chest booking it down a street at top speed drove another nail in the coffin.

And the part that really pissed me off is that if the characters had any intelligence at all, there would have been no movie.

Are you referring to the whole "OMG, STATUE OF LIBERTY HEAD LET'S GTFO OF HERE!" knee jerk reaction most of us would have had?

Anything that can bite off the head of that statue and spit it or throw it a couple of miles is not something I would stick around to see.

[Demasu]

Originally Posted by FrenchToast

They lost me when they jumped between buildings. Up until there I was like FUCK YEAH!

And then to see a girl with a half inch diameter hole through her chest booking it down a street at top speed drove another nail in the coffin.

That piece of steel was through her fucking lung. You won't survive that for as long as she did without any medical intervention. And the only intervention they did was to close the hole, which can lead to a tension pneumothorax and that, is deadly. That's what got me, and @Backstabber, I get what you're saying, but that seems like a little much for an inflammatory reaction. Those things could've injected a type of parasite or poison that started one that just took a while to culminate into that. It looked awesome though. You think the one solider with the popped open chest suffered that too?

[Backstaber]

Quite likely.

[Demasu]

I would love to know exactly what it is that makes the body react like that though, could just be because I'm a huge nerd when it comes to medical stuff.

[FrenchToast]

Originally Posted by Innoc

Are you referring to the whole "OMG, STATUE OF LIBERTY HEAD LET'S GTFO OF HERE!" knee jerk reaction most of us would have had?

Anything that can bite off the head of that statue and spit it or throw it a couple of miles is not something I would stick around to see.

Yeah, first it was the statue of liberty taking them out, then it was them hiding in the convenience store while everything goes to shit etc. etc.

Then when the army first rolls through, they see a covoy taking civilians out and they're like .... maybe later.

Really frustrating.

[BinaryLife]

Originally Posted by Demasu

I would love to know exactly what it is that makes the body react like that though, could just be because I'm a huge nerd when it comes to medical stuff.

Well, in this movie at least, you weren't supposed to. It was supposed to put you in the shoes of the people on screen and realistically, they wouldn't know. Which makes it scarier. The army apparantly didn't know what happened either, just that whatever it was would happen if she was bitten.

The style of the movie is good. The camera work is interesting. The nerd stuff I went all over were all the hidden cuts as I said earlier. The shaky cam was used well to hide stuff like that. Think about it, all you gotta do is pan quickly to a wall and stop the camera then yell cut. Reset your stages appropriately, then stick that camera right where you cut and pan back to the action. You delete to two or three frames of stillness and on screen it just looks like some dude can't wave a camera around.

That's the kind of stuff that I think is cool. The director has promise, clearly, just needs to lay off the other bull shit which I'm mentioned to death already. (I'll spare you the read at this point I'm sure you're all quite bored of reading it)