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!

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[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...