hammer time

[adelaidesean]

What I am thinking at the moment (along with 1/365 of the cinema-going population of the planet):

Holy crap! Cloverfield takes place on my birthday!

Comments

[king-espresso.livejournal.com]

Sorry, it's not called cloverfield any more. It's the Shaky-Cam Big-Arsed Puffy-Headed Axolotl movie.

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Hey--I'd pay to see that.

Except for the Shaky-Cam crap. I'm waiting until the room stops spinning before I dare go to bed.

[king-espresso.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's a little better if you sit at the back of the theatre, but not perfect.

[shadowsandice.livejournal.com]

well....you know it's only crashing your party if your party is in New York. So just make sure you never celebrate your birthday over there. You'll bring about the end of the world.

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

We're pretty close to the coast here in sunny Adelaide, so I'm reluctant to take any chances. I think I'll have my next party in Alice Springs.

Hey, love your userpic. Took me an embarrassingly long time to nut it out. :-)

[shadowsandice.livejournal.com]

True, but you should be okay as long as you don't get it into your head to go rescuing people from very tall buildings. Always a bad move, that.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Tall buildings that are LEANING. Mad people.

But it did create the opportunity for my favourite shot in the movie.

[shadowsandice.livejournal.com]

which is what? I'm quite partial of the moment when Hudd turns on the night vision in the subway, and freezes.


did love the movie, but was horribly bitterly terribly devastatingly disappointed that the astonishingly creepy sound effect they used in the trailer never actually featured. it was that one sound that sold me in the first place.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

The bit where they've rescued whatsername and are clambering over the tilted roof, and suddenly the monster appears in the streets below. It's such a wonderful use of vertigo--not just the height and the angle, but the size of the damned thing. That was the moment where it really sank in for me. It's haunting me today.

I liked the movie a lot, but thought the romance was played a bit too hard (maybe that was because I thought all the characters were dicks, except for the poor girl who exploded, because she obviously didn't like the others much either). And yes, I missed that sound too! If I can ever bear to watch it again, I'll be listening closely to the subway sequence. I know they say the movie doesn't have a soundtrack, but I bet they've added something there.

The background crump-thump of distant footsteps and explosions created a very powerful soundtrack, anyway. Another Blair Witch comparison that kept coming to my mind in the cinema, but which I haven't seen mentioned anywhere so far.

[http://users.livejournal.com/doctor_k_/]

>I think I'll have my next party in Alice Springs.

Great idea! We know some terrific restaurants here now, and have just bought a blender to investigate making pink girly drinks at home (when the 20 minute walk to the tapas bar gets too much).

Plus, spare room etc.

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

pink girly drinks

Mmm, tempting...

[gloripebbles.livejournal.com]

So it appears you are fated to end the world. Always something to aspire to.

I saw Cloverfield after the 13 1/2yr old acted like it was the 2nd coming of the existence of the universe. In other words, we didn't get a sentence without either a)Cloverfield or b)the monster getting a mention. It still hasn't stopped *sigh*.

Glad of the warning re motion issues (though the other half didn't have dinner that night - serve him right for ignoring the sage advice of a teenager) & we had added atmosphere with someone bringing along a small child ie 16mths or under. So the crying & distress were REALLY authentic.

Which helped me cause I was nerh about ALL the characters.

Overall, it was better than I was expecting, though I kept having to explain the homages I kept seeing to the said teenager (Alien, WotW...movie to mention a couple). Least translation wasn't required for Godzilla :)

Now I live with daily updates about what is to come next .... (& I'm making disparaging remarks about Barbie dolls).