[jdjtcagle]

It was awesome... very suspenseful!  :yes

Ending could of been just a little better, though

[Bobboau]

agreed the ending just pissed me off.

[BloodEagle]

What did the 'monster' turn out to be?

[Bobboau]

eh, well, a monster.

[BloodEagle]

Was 'it' a specific 'monster'? Cthulhu? Godzilla? Hillary Clinton?

[Dark Hunter]

They give zero backstory on the monster. No explanations, nothing. So, like Bobboau said: a monster. That's all we know.

I think the point is that the viewer is meant to be just one of the civilians running away: having no clue what's happening, and not on the Army's "need-to-know" list.

I thought the movie was excellent as well. I highly reccomend it.

[IPAndrews]

It's this wierd thing so I heard.

[MarsNeedsWomen]

From what I've heard, the movie seemed kinda "meh". I'll wait for it on Cable. I've also heard many comments about the monster from "It's unique" to "It's stupid and cheesy looking".

[jdjtcagle]

Bah the monster was pretty cool

[Bobboau]

ok, take this thing, make it 300 feet tall, remove the tentacles and the wings, give it a set of semi-vestigial legs in the middle, make the rear legs smaller, front arms bigger the hands smaller, make the head smaller, make it walk on it's knuckles and give it two pulsating red sacks on either side of it's head and you'll have the cloverfield monster.
it also apparently is quite similar to some of the things in resistance: fall of man, though I've never played the game so I'm not sure.
if you are really interested go to youtube and type in cloverfield sort by date and look for the thing with really long arms.

[Rictor]

I really liked it. Granted, I missed the first 15 minutes because I walked into 27 Weddings by mistake.

The shaky-cam didn't bother me, although there's no assurance that others will feel the same way. It's a rare movie that has me on the edge of my seat throughout, and Cloverfield did. I would recommend it - it's not Citizen Kane, but it's a very enjoyable hour and a half.

[Ransom]

I thought it was excellent. I'm glad the creature wasn't Cthulhu, because that would have been stupid.

The ending didn't trouble me at all. That's me, though - I don't think I expected the same thing from the film's ending as most people did.

[Rictor]

I expected a good 20 minutes of hot we're-about-to-die sex, conveniently captured on camera. But the real ending was good too. I was afraid that they would somehow magically survive the massive bombardment, which would have just been cheesy.

[Topgun]

I expected a good 20 minutes of hot we're-about-to-die sex, conveniently captured on camera.

lol.
that would have taken a third of the movie . (it's 1hr and 20min)

[Kosh]

I'm wondering about

A.) What happened to that women in the army command center (the one who had a nasty bite from the tunnel)? I wasn't entirely clear on that.

B.) What the hell were those little things? Mutant ticks?

[Dark Hunter]

Spoiler:

A. My theory is that when she was bitten, something was implanted within her, a la Alien.

B. I just assumed they were the monster's offspring.

[jdjtcagle]

Spoiler:

A. I think the military would try and quarantine the situation, not knowing if there was any disease involved with it.  So they shot her...

B. spider babies

[Bobboau]

Spoiler:

most explanations I've read says she goes 'pop'.

[Rictor]

Spoiler:

To me, it looked like she way attacked by a silhouette of something that looked like a giant beat before a'sploding, but I have to watch it again to make sure.

[Black Wolf]

I liked it. The eding was what I expected, the monster was cool looking though a little... behind cutting edge inthe CGI department (though full props to the cgi peeps for keeping it fairly believable despite the shakycam, whic I thought worked well, incidentally. The only thing I dodn't like were:

Spoiler:

Those silly little sider things. They were cool looking yes, and the bit in the subway was awesome and atmospheric, but why in the hell were they neccessary? It made it feel less like a random attack and more like a military invasion, which I doubt was the effect that Abrams was going for. If he needed sub-baddies, put in insane humands trying to rape the girls or something, ala War of the Worlds. That creepy guy in the cellar was one of the things that made that movie,and yet, apart from the military and the guys looting the store, we see basically no non-main character humans. Otherwise though, top notch.