Cloverfield
All I wanna say above the cut is, I'm still shaking.
Okay, about the movie itself:
- What the heck was that monster? It was like a gigantic lizardy-thing with a finned tail (WTF) and half-hoofed-half-toed feet and a face that only a macro could love - huge black eyes and breathing-bubbles on the side and OMFGWTF THE TEETH. I think lynxgriffin called it a Predator-mouth, and after starherd showed me Predator pictures, I'd have to agree (although the monster totally had more teeth).
- Filming style actually made me very happy. It felt natural - we only ever got the information the characters got, and the filming style was very real (even though I got really sick of looking at people's feet while they walked). I do still wanna know 1)what the monster was, 2)where it came from, and 3)if it died, but I can live.
- I want their camera. Over six hours of battery life, to include running a spotlight and night vision, and surviving a monster attack on Manhattan. Darned if that thing wasn't custom-made.
- LITTLE DROPPED BUG-CRAB-SUBWAY!STALKER CREATURES WERE NOT COOL. HOLY CRIMINY THEY SCARED THE BLOODY HELL OUT OF ME.
- Girl exploding was worse. D:
- I totally thought I was going to get my nearly-everybody-survives happy ending. Then we got the bombing, quickly followed by the LOL JK NOT DEAD YET monster-grab of the helicopter and the certain knowledge that everybody who had not yet escaped (i.e. dead brother's girlfriend who got on the first copter) was doomed.
- Sometimes, I hate being right.
OKAY I ADMIT IT I WAS SO CLINGING TO lynxgriffin. LIKE THE WHOLE TIME. I AM SUCH A GORRAM WUSS.
I was good with the monster stomping around, because that's big and you can (mostly) see it coming and all that jazz, but the little crab-bug things SCARED THE BEJESUS OUT OF ME HOLY COW. I'm good with the giant things that one can see, but small things that jump out and BITE PEOPLE AND MAKE THEM BLEED FROM THE EYES AND EXPLODE are not cool. They're freaky. ;;;
Walking home was a whoooooole other adventure. I was dropped off at the top of a flight of about a hundred stairs that leads down to my apartment complex and was walking down, trying not to freak. Now, we've not seen a sign of life since we got back on campus, and going down the stairs I can see my window is dark, meaning Megan and her friend who's visiting for the weekend weren't home yet (they went to see Sweeney Todd). Okay, fine.
And then somebody screams.
It was followed up by the half-quiet laugh that lets you know it's a girl and her friend screwing around, but it freaked the hell outta me. So I start going a bit faster down the stairs.
And then the sprinklers turn on. But before the water itself turns on, they have to come out of the ground, rustling the long grass and making a huge WHOOSH sound.
So now I'm going GIANT CRAB-BUGS EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and near sprinting down these stairs. I managed to convince myself that it was the sprinklers, but still flipped out a bit going in, and wanted to hang out with my guy friend on the bottom floor. I head there, try to call him, have the call not get through, and reach his wall (because of the way Towers is set up, girls can't get into the guy's side without a key and vice-versa). I pound on it and he doesn't answer. I try calling him again, and I get the voice mail.
Then my phone makes the nice beepy LOL UR OUTTA BATTERY noises. Like the guy's cell phone in the movie died.
So I'm heading back up the stairs, hoping and praying that shadow_wings_ is in her room and trying not to remember that THERE WAS TOTALLY A CREEPY BUG THING IN THE STAIRS IN THE MOVIE AND I TOTALLY DON'T HAVE A HATCHET AUGH.
I got to her room, knocked...she answered, hallelujah. I spent three hours in there, just because I didn't want to come back to an empty dark room.
I. AM. SUCH A WUSS.
But it was a really good movie. ♥
Okay, about the movie itself:
- What the heck was that monster? It was like a gigantic lizardy-thing with a finned tail (WTF) and half-hoofed-half-toed feet and a face that only a macro could love - huge black eyes and breathing-bubbles on the side and OMFGWTF THE TEETH. I think lynxgriffin called it a Predator-mouth, and after starherd showed me Predator pictures, I'd have to agree (although the monster totally had more teeth).
- Filming style actually made me very happy. It felt natural - we only ever got the information the characters got, and the filming style was very real (even though I got really sick of looking at people's feet while they walked). I do still wanna know 1)what the monster was, 2)where it came from, and 3)if it died, but I can live.
- I want their camera. Over six hours of battery life, to include running a spotlight and night vision, and surviving a monster attack on Manhattan. Darned if that thing wasn't custom-made.
- LITTLE DROPPED BUG-CRAB-SUBWAY!STALKER CREATURES WERE NOT COOL. HOLY CRIMINY THEY SCARED THE BLOODY HELL OUT OF ME.
- Girl exploding was worse. D:
- I totally thought I was going to get my nearly-everybody-survives happy ending. Then we got the bombing, quickly followed by the LOL JK NOT DEAD YET monster-grab of the helicopter and the certain knowledge that everybody who had not yet escaped (i.e. dead brother's girlfriend who got on the first copter) was doomed.
- Sometimes, I hate being right.
OKAY I ADMIT IT I WAS SO CLINGING TO lynxgriffin. LIKE THE WHOLE TIME. I AM SUCH A GORRAM WUSS.
I was good with the monster stomping around, because that's big and you can (mostly) see it coming and all that jazz, but the little crab-bug things SCARED THE BEJESUS OUT OF ME HOLY COW. I'm good with the giant things that one can see, but small things that jump out and BITE PEOPLE AND MAKE THEM BLEED FROM THE EYES AND EXPLODE are not cool. They're freaky. ;;;
Walking home was a whoooooole other adventure. I was dropped off at the top of a flight of about a hundred stairs that leads down to my apartment complex and was walking down, trying not to freak. Now, we've not seen a sign of life since we got back on campus, and going down the stairs I can see my window is dark, meaning Megan and her friend who's visiting for the weekend weren't home yet (they went to see Sweeney Todd). Okay, fine.
And then somebody screams.
It was followed up by the half-quiet laugh that lets you know it's a girl and her friend screwing around, but it freaked the hell outta me. So I start going a bit faster down the stairs.
And then the sprinklers turn on. But before the water itself turns on, they have to come out of the ground, rustling the long grass and making a huge WHOOSH sound.
So now I'm going GIANT CRAB-BUGS EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and near sprinting down these stairs. I managed to convince myself that it was the sprinklers, but still flipped out a bit going in, and wanted to hang out with my guy friend on the bottom floor. I head there, try to call him, have the call not get through, and reach his wall (because of the way Towers is set up, girls can't get into the guy's side without a key and vice-versa). I pound on it and he doesn't answer. I try calling him again, and I get the voice mail.
Then my phone makes the nice beepy LOL UR OUTTA BATTERY noises. Like the guy's cell phone in the movie died.
So I'm heading back up the stairs, hoping and praying that shadow_wings_ is in her room and trying not to remember that THERE WAS TOTALLY A CREEPY BUG THING IN THE STAIRS IN THE MOVIE AND I TOTALLY DON'T HAVE A HATCHET AUGH.
I got to her room, knocked...she answered, hallelujah. I spent three hours in there, just because I didn't want to come back to an empty dark room.
I. AM. SUCH A WUSS.
But it was a really good movie. ♥