Cloverfield

[ericcoleman]

I liked it ... yeah there are some glaring problems, and some glaring cliches ... but over all I thought it was very very good ... I do have one question that I will reserve for comments ... expect spoilers (I warn people, unlike some other folks)

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[ericcoleman]

Did anyone else ever see the movie Miracle Mile ??? and was anyone else reminded of that movie watching this ???

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, you actually saw that turkey as well!?

Jeannine and I have joked for years about the tragic but romantic possibility of being killed but accidentally fused into a diamond, and *SPOILER ALERT* we owe it to the end of that stupid movie.

[wyngarde.livejournal.com]

THAT'S the movie I could not remember! Thanks! It's also a big ripp-off of a flick called "The Host"

I really wanted to like this movie. I just hated the yuppie kids with superpowers we had to follow around with their indestructible camera.

I don't care: I really like "Miracle Mile". I think people don't like it because it's a downer and it's something they don't want to think about. The ending was solid. Soundtrack was cool, if I remember, from Tangerine Dream. But then again, when I saw it, I was going through the synthesizer phase of music loving in my life...

[ann-totusek.livejournal.com]

My bitches were almost all somewhat technical in nature:

1. The helicopters were flying wrong for in an in city situation. They would have gone almost straight up as quickly as possible because of wind shear.

2. They're going to evac healthy people first? The dead guy's uninjured girlfriend gets the first chopper out, and the chick who had been impaled has to wait? I don't think so!

3. Massive violations of a the cube square law. If it really was a deep sea creature as the movie implied, Clover should have had trouble just walking around out of the water, to say nothing of being able to jump high enough to swipe that helo out of the sky.

4. And speaking of that, the chopper wasn't firing at Clover, there were plenty of people on the ground doing that. Why would it waste energy going after something not bothering it when there was almost certainly a crapload of stuff surrounding it trying to blow it into its constituent molecules?

[wyngarde.livejournal.com]

I like that the kids never ran out of breath going up stairs and that being impaled will not injure you at all, no matter how much blood they loose.

But remember, Aquaman is stronger on land because he comes from the sea...

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

(I warn people, unlike some other folks)

Passive-aggressive doesn't suit you. If this was aimed at someone(s) specific, it's probably more effective to speak with them directly.

Just sayin.

[ericcoleman]

I already did ... this was just reinforcement