Craig's MovieBlog

David Poland Hated Cloverfield

David Poland hated Cloverfield:

"I'm never going to waste the time to review this magical marketing scam because it isn't even worthy of the blog-umn inches. Besides, I will be in Sundance when this one drops... into the toilet bowl of movie history. That said, it will open to over $40 million, breaking the record for January openings."

Jeff Wells liked Cloverfield

Jeff Wells liked Cloverfield:

Cloverfield is a monster film unlike any other -- a complete original, but no less of a rock' em-sock 'em for that. It's amazing in that it's so short (by my watch about 74 minutes without credits), and yet so fierce. If Allen Ginsberg hadn't already used this I would suggest that they call it Howl. This is not your father's Ray Harryhausen rampaging monster flick. Those movies, comparatively, were parlor dramas for the tame of mind. This movie is REM madness. It is Guillermo del Toro on a tab of brown acid with a little crack thrown in.

New Cloverfield Trailer

Okay... they got me.  I'm officially intrigued by the new trailer for Cloverfield.  It's as if J.J. Abrams said, "Let's make Independence Day, but we're gonna film it like The Blair Witch Project."

They even copied my favorite shot from the end of Blair Witch, when the cameraman falls over dead:

Prepare to get very, very carsick...  ;)