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New (Nameless) Movie 01-18-2008: Cloverfield, Slusho, Parasite, Overnight


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it's definitely a handycam-style movie ala BlairWitch BUT with better quality (handycam technology has become better over the years! Hahaha! [laugh] Just joking!)....

 

CONFIRM watching...

 

possibly might puke @ the end of the show... [smallcry]

 

but CONFIRM watching!!! Haha!!! [laugh]

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so thats how the bloody thing looks like...

 

ok here goes my honest opinion and i will try to keep it spoiler free...

 

Cloverfield is like the biggest major let down of a movie...the trailers made it look like an epic, all i got was a shoody videocam movie with almost half the time the screen is slanted at an angle usually in near total darkness.

 

and thanks to its videocam quality, even with Cathay's Digital Cinema magic didnt save the clarity, its grainy, the colours are pretty washed out, everything seems so dull and badly pixelated. whats the point of having million dollar CGI when they look like something out of a PS2 Resident evil game?

 

the show didnt captialise on its monster vs human factor, death/destruction was kept to a bare minimum, instead we get treated to blurred imagery of buildings being blown up or destroyed, people dying, crying and shouting (i.e. who gives a Sh1t)

 

where's my epic disaster movie??? I didnt even know how exactly the monster looks like till i saw the pic above...thats how bad the graphic quality is..and I think the creature gets about only 3 full minutes of screen time!

 

My 2 cents: I should have just DL it off the net and saved myself and my friends 39bucks

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I watched it yesterday with my wife. Half way through the movie, my wife felt like puking and we have to abandon the movie. But we are not the only ones. Quite a no of people also walked out of the show. Oh man..I too felt like puking.

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its a p.o.v movie, imagine blair witch project but instead of some ghosts...you get these people running and video taping themselves the whole movie long as they run from a gozilla looking thingy that you never really end up seeing...jeez what a rip off, anyhow, its just my input, some may still enjoy it.

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yea i did notice it too, half way thru quite a number of movie-goers got up and left

they shld have put a health warning or something to people who intend to watch warning of the motion-sickness caused by the movie...heng i immune to blair witch project liao, watchin Cloverfield juz got on my nerves as i cant see the monster properly [furious]

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after all the hype...i guess its not worth de money n time?...mayb will leave dis out.was really hyped up after de trailer.but wif de feedbacks given, definitely seemed to b jus another gd marketing strategy by de makers.

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here's a summary (SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT READ)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

guy and best friend make out

he dumps her and gets ready to work in japan

at his farewell party best friend shows up

they argue she leaves

the monster attacks

guy finds out best friend is trapped at her house

he attempts to cross town to save her with a bunch of friends

few meetings with the monster and US army

he rescues her

they board a helicopter but crash as the monster attacks them

somehow they survive the crash and end up in NY central park

caught in cross fire the couple die

 

the end.

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so thats how the bloody thing looks like...

 

ok here goes my honest opinion and i will try to keep it spoiler free...

 

Cloverfield is like the biggest major let down of a movie...the trailers made it look like an epic, all i got was a shoody videocam movie with almost half the time the screen is slanted at an angle usually in near total darkness.

 

and thanks to its videocam quality, even with Cathay's Digital Cinema magic didnt save the clarity, its grainy, the colours are pretty washed out, everything seems so dull and badly pixelated. whats the point of having million dollar CGI when they look like something out of a PS2 Resident evil game?

 

the show didnt captialise on its monster vs human factor, death/destruction was kept to a bare minimum, instead we get treated to blurred imagery of buildings being blown up or destroyed, people dying, crying and shouting (i.e. who gives a Sh1t)

 

where's my epic disaster movie??? I didnt even know how exactly the monster looks like till i saw the pic above...thats how bad the graphic quality is..and I think the creature gets about only 3 full minutes of screen time!

 

My 2 cents: I should have just DL it off the net and saved myself and my friends 39bucks

 

That's the art of filming in darkness.

 

For "Lord of the Ring" ..... I heard from my friend that they actually film it in the day and then use computer to make it to night ... that is why the quality is so clear.

 

If you just shoot in the dark ... it'll inevitably be grainy.

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I AM LEGEND should be good.

 

Earth is infected by a virus ala RE Extinction but instead of Zombies, all r turned into blood thirsty vampires.

 

Somehow Will Smith is immune n seems to be the LAST living survivior less his dog. Day time he looks for survivors n hangs ard. nite is when the fun begins.. So its one man against a world of vampires [rolleyes]

 

I watched liao ... Will Smith is ok ... but the plot is .... [thumbsdown]

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Wah......... what a crappy story! [thumbsdown][thumbsdown]

 

I saw the trailer also dizzy liao.... Same like Bourne Ultimatum. The scenes were so shaky when they were fighting. Duno who punch who.... All I knew was some fella flew to 1 corner after a while [sweatdrop][laugh]

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yea i know its an art...but im oreadi sittin in a cinema having spent nearly 10bucks per person...least they can do is use a HD video cam [laugh] the pic quality is comparable to Youtube! [jawdrop]

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