Cloverfield was a flop

^ not sure if you are talking about me but what is there not to get about this movie? It's about some presumably aliens attacking Manhattan and people trying to get out. Then they all die. Not very complicated. It just wasn't very good.

 

There is not a single alien in this movie.

 

I liked the visual style, but there is no plot at all in this movie. Let me sum it up for you:


"Oh noes, something is attacking New York!"

"Oh noes, what is it?"

"I don't know!"

"Ahhh my girlfriend is trapped I have to save her"

*saves girlfriend*

Whew. Let's get out of here

"Ahhh there it is again, what is that thing?!?!"

"We don't know! Looks like some kind of monster."

"Uh oh, we're all dead."

Roll credits.

 

I didn't say there was an alien. I said there was what was presumably an alien. I only say this because at the end of the movie when the guy was at coney island with his girl in the recording that happened like a week before the attacks, you can see something falling out of the sky into the ocean. I thought this was what brought the "monsters" I just happened to call them aliens.

 

It's not an alien, and you obviously said there was an alien in the above post. It was a satellite that fell to Earth. The monster itself is from deep sea.

 

Since when is a giant monster movie supposed to have a deep & intricate plot? Godzilla (1954) doesn't have some sort of awesome plot and people love that movie, even though it doesn't hold a candle to Cloverfield.

 

I would have at least liked to know a little more about it - where it came from, what the deal was with the little critter biting the girl that they freaked out about, what happened in the aftermath, etc. It was just really lacking in substance to me.

 

The movie was meant to detail what it'd be like if a giant monster attacked your city, and you snagged a camera and caught some footage. You were never meant to know everything about the monster.

 

i fucking loved it. i dont care what anyone says. those fucking creature things were scary as shit man.