There’s a difference between the camera that was used to shoot the film, and the camera that the characters were using.
Here’s a picture of the camera that the characters were using.
I saw your link earlier, which I believe is a publicity photo. I think your point is debatable. I don’t think there is a difference. Since the entire movie is filmed by the one camera, we don’t actually have any clue what model of camera it is (other than: Rob: "Is that my camera), and a publicity photo showing a scene it is impossible for the movie to show is of little value. The camera that was used to shoot the film is by its very nature the camera the characters were using, y’know? 
Regardless, I get your point. I just thought people would like to see what the camera that filmed what is on the screen really was.
I was discussing this with a friend. I wonder if it could appear that way due to lack of other context. Kind of like when the moon is low on the horizon, it appears to be larger than when it is higher in the sky.
I vote that this be the official name for the monster from this point forth.
Heh. His Myspace profile changed…now he’s only 2’6" tall. :eek:
I dunno. Maybe I’ll rent it. Maybe.
However, I now wish I had some sort of vidoe-making or catoon program to do my YouTube thing.
Groverfield would not only be terrifying, it could totally teach kids the alphabet.
Honestly, this is just one of those few movies you absolutely have to see on the big screen to really appreciate it. And I don’t say that often.
I gotcha, but time and money are two very precious things to me right now and I’d frankly sooner watch Godzilla smash a city flat than watch people’s reactions to Godzilla smashing a city flat.
Jackie Aprile, you mean? (There was no Richie Aprile Jr.). Jason Cerbone is credited as a police officer. I totally missed him, though!
I enjoyed the movie. It definitely scared me, and even though I did think of 9/11, it’s not as if the city wasn’t ever destroyed (in fiction) before 9/11. It did make me think that, you know, as bad as 9/11 was, it was NOWHERE near as bad as the Cloverfield monster.
“The Monster At The End Of This Movie.”
Question…what killed Hud at the end? It couldn’t have been the monster, could it? It was too small. Was it something that fell off the monster and spawned?
Yeah, my bad. I conflated Jackie and Richie Aprile…too damn many cousins and crap on that show. His role was comically small. He played a cop directing fleeing people as the camera ran past him. It’s crazy that I even noticed him, to tell you the truth.
That’s what I thought–it was too small to have been the big baddie, and maybe those cockroach-like sucker things that attacked them in the subway grow fast. Who knows.
That Myspace page is horrible and I am going to hell for laughing at it. :smack:
Then my work here is done…
Near…RUMBLE Rumble rumble…far…rumble Rumble RUMBLE…near…RUMBLE Rumble rumble …far!
I saw a matinee yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was one of the best monster movies I’ve seen in many years. I had no difficulty with the “shaky cam,” although my wife said she had to close her eyes a couple times because she got a little disoriented.
I thought the movie was extremely successful at what it set out to do, and I was totally drawn in immediately, which was very much due to the way it was filmed. It was visceral and intense and I was definitely on the edge of my seat. I thought the pacing was very good throughout, with enough pauses to let you catch your breath, but not so much that it dragged out or completely released the tension, allowing the stakes to be continually raised.
The thing I love about J.J. Abrams is his ability to keep things mysterious. I hate predictability and love watching stuff when I have no idea what is going to happen. Lost is the perfect case in point - it’s totally unpredictable and so it keeps me rapt. Cloverfield was similar in the way it kept me guessing about what was happening and why (although the plot was very straightforward and I knew the general direction). The characters had no clue, we had little clue, and that made it…I don’t want to say scarier because I don’t think it was scary per se. Perhaps “tenser.”
Of course you can nitpick it to death, as some have been doing here, but my disbelief was happily suspended the whole time. Yes, 99.99% of people would not have gone back into the heart of the city to rescue their girlfriend, but if we watched the tape of the people who left, we would have been sitting watching people drinking coffee in FEMA tents in Jersey for an hour, which - let’s face it - would probably not have been as good. YMMV on that. My biggest nitpick was the girlfriend and the rebar through her shoulder. She was running around pretty good after being de-impaled once they got out of the building, and that annoyed me, but I got over it.
Overall, I thought it was great, and quite the experience.
The movie’s not even 90 minutes long. At the very least, try to see it in a decent home theater if you’re absolutely sure you won’t see it in the theaters. This movie will lose a LOT without LOUD sound.
Is that what happened to her? I couldn’t tell–I thought they were trying to lift her up, or that she was pinned underneath something. That does make sense since she was screaming a lot after it happened.
Yep - best as I can recall, the rebar was sticking out just under her left shoulder/collarbone. They had to lift her to de-impale her. (Another good piece of camera work there - Hud sets the camera down on the floor, so it’s a static shot and you cannot see her upper torso where the rebar is. All you can see is her lower body kicking and her screaming at them not to do it, then they lift her up. Very effective, IMO).
BTW, when they first found her, she’s unconscious and of course you’re supposed to think for a moment that she might be dead. I was really hoping she would be, just to break the convention, but that would have been a risky choice. Still, can you imagine if they went through all that and she had already died. Ouch.
This is exactly what I thought was going to happen. I was a little disappointed that it didn’t and was a little bummed that the plot turned out to be so cookie-cutter… until the monster grabbed the helicopter out of the sky.
Awesome, awesome movie.
I do think it was a mistake, however, to have Hud get a clear shot of the monster. My favorite thing about the movie was that the monster was so damn big that we only got the smallest glimpses of what it might look like.