Whaddya say folks? Friday, 7:10pm at Regal Richmond?
15 January 2008
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Whaddya say folks? Friday, 7:10pm at Regal Richmond?
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Is this movie supposed to be good? I might be in.
I couldn't make it then because of League Ultimate. But I'd be interested if the times were different.
Earlier? Later?
I don't know if it's good or not.
Some dude named Choire Sicha is authoring kottke.org this week and seemed to like it.
If there's no particular group in or near En Dub, Valleyview is more convenient for me, and has showings at 5pm, 635, 740, 820, 920...
BTW, movie appears to be 1:24 long.
Wow, that's pretty short.
Valley View would be perfect for me as it is very near both work and the Winter League Ultimate fields.
I would need to be out by 8:30.
I also don't know if it's good. I'm intrigued by the character held recording idea, and the viral advertising. I'm afraid it might have the Lost syndrome where all these cool ideas are opeend, questions are asked, and then everything is tabled in favor of the next cool idea and question. Nothing is resolved and it would suck.
Still want to see it pretty bad.
Not sure I'll be able make it to the 6:35 show... might have to pass on the big par-tay...
WELL?? WAS IT RAD????
i didn't see it. I read some bad reviews and can't think for myself.
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I dunno about Mr. Bala there, so I went out and saw Cloverfield finally on Tuesday. Can't wait more than two weeks to see a big event movie or all the air comes out.
It was solid. There were reports of "too soon"-ness by New Yorkers, but I didn't get that feeling. The telling scene [Slight Spoiler] is a building collapsing and debris flooding down a street in a cloud. I think it was just using current knowledge. Before 9/11 we wouldn't have known that's what happened, now we do. [/Slight Soiler] OK, I wasn't in NY during the attacks, but I didn't get a twinge at all. Action was good, the overall story was decent... like many scary movies, it's a little weird/frustrating when people aren't doing what you might like them too, but it wasn't too aggravating. Decently entertaining throughout. Cool monster(s).
i thought maybe it was supposed to be "about" 9/11 the way the original godzilla was "about" the allied bombing of hiroshima / nagasaki (just saw it recently, and wow, i didn't pick up on any of that when i was a kid). godzilla came out about 9 years after the bombings, so the timing is similar.
Just saw it.
I didn't get the feeling it was about 9/11. The cloud of dust coming down the street is the only thing that reminded me of it.
I really liked the movie. It did sort of have these unexplained things that happened, with no resolution, but I could dig it because you are watching through these people's eyes as if you were there. They don't know what's going on and neither do you. Perhaps they moved on to the next sequence so fast that I didn't have time to care that I didn't know everything.
There were some of those confustions that did get me. When one character dies near the end I didn't undertand what happened to him.
The acting was very solid for a movie of this type.
Leaving the theater, I was thinking I've never seen a modern big-monster movie where it's actually taking itself seriously. It's not a King Kong absurdity and it's not Men in Black comedy. I suppose the studios think the audience won't buy in, but this definitely kept my disbelief at bay. Double thumbs up, and probably worth seeing in the theater.
You're making me think down some interesting paths.
For instance, most modern monster-ish films have to have things well explained. This didn't even bother.
The monsters of the early half of the 20th century occurred as humans were really probing into the last unknown areas of the world, and took the first steps into space. Those provided fodder for monsters.
We, and our parents, even, grew up in a world explained, understood, cataloged and very unscary. So where be dragons?
Jurassic Park used the science frontier well, and I would argue it took itself seriously and had a message. The whole genre of Gore-no might not be 100% serious, but there the monsters come from within. Humans committing atrocities.
This might be new, or maybe a return to old, thinking -- no explanation necessary, bad stuff happens. Sociologically, Americans always seem to want to "root cause" bad things, so to blame and chastise. Is it better that we're wiling to accept that bad things _happen_? Or could it be a sign of national sentiment turning towards pervasive fear?
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