Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.
Lizzy Caplan Jessica Lucas T.J. Miller Michael Stahl-David Mike Vogel Odette Annable Anjul Nigam Margot Farley Theo Rossi Brian Klugman Kelvin Yu Liza Lapira Lili Mirojnick Ben Feldman Elena Nikitina Bick Vakisha Coleman Will Greenberg Rob Kerkovich Ryan Key Hooman Khalili Rasika Mathur Baron Vaughn Charlyne Yi Roma Torre Rick Overton Martin Cohen Jason Cerbone Pasha D. Lychnikoff Billy Brown Show All…
Mark Boucher Paul Boucher Christopher Casey Dean Lakoff John R. Boucher Cameron Matheson Mark Tuttle Jason McDonough Kellen Dunbar Andrew Spagnoli Robert Greenfield Jane Wuu George Lee Chad S. Frey
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Goro Koyama Andy Malcolm Samuel H. Hinckley Don White Ed White Damian Canelos Douglas Murray Will Files Robert Shoup Luke Dunn Gielmuda Anna Behlmer Andy Nelson Craig Heath Blake R. Cornett Clint Smith
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Still the best film ever made about 9/11 -- about the 21st century -- Cloverfield is an unparalleled expressionist masterpiece. People talked about how it ripped its "don't show the monster" technique from Jaws, but it's closer to Lovecraft than anything else. Furthermore, it's an idea wholly indebted to the film's own era. We're afraid of what we don't know, what we can't see. Films like War of the Worlds come close to touching on post-9/11 anxieties so potently, but the first-person perspective gives Cloverfield the edge. Putting us in a single subjective point-of-view accentuates the terror (emphasis on terror) of everything we can't see or understand. The uncontrolled images create these chaotic spaces and incomprehensible geographies. It's an event…
"It's about moments, man. That's all that matters."
Much has been said already about the film's expert handling of post-9/11 anxieties. The way it lingers on people standing still in the wake of disaster, shocked & aimless, looking around, taking cellphone pictures as they try and comprehend an event they'll never fully understand; as reflected in Reeves' filmmaking, they'll never have anything more than a few, brief pieces of information sans context. But the thing that's managed to stick with me about this film many years later is its fleeting optimism. The most brilliant gesture Reeves & Goddard make here is the choice to have the footage of that terrifying day recorded over top of a tape that documents a joyful & intimate…
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Ever since Gojira, the kaiju/giant monster genre has explored a variety of socially conscious themes - often dealing with the aftermath of warfare and the chaos of a current political climate - but nothing has come close to the pure exhilaration of Cloverfield and its horrifying minute-by-minute depiction of an unknown terror ripping through structures and desolating any semblance of order. For a majority of its brisk run time, every frame is as unstable as the crumbling buildings and the shocked but lost citizens wandering the city streets, and it makes the quiet, endearing glimpses of a mostly taped-over document even more empathetic and heartbreaking. These are actual, genuine characters that the viewer ends up following; annoying, selfish, insecure,…
I wish I could shake the hand of every person who worked on this amazing movie and ask them why it's called Cloverfield.
if an alien interrupted a party for me I would sit it's alien ass down and make it wait til I had my fill of attention for the night
Without a doubt, Cloverfield is horrifying. The everlasting mayhem is what made it so incredible in my eyes. I don't naturally get shivers from found footage movies, though this one gave me the chills
