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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: CLOVERFIELD - WIDESCREEN (DVD MOVIE)
EAN: 0097363520641
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Running Time: 84 minutes
Sales Rank: 34
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: January 16, 2008
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Product Description:
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.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS UPC: 097363520641 Manufacturer No: 352064
Amazon.com:
One of the first things a viewer notices about Cloverfield is that it doesn't play by ordinary storytelling rules, making this intriguing horror film as much a novelty as an event. Told from the vertiginous point-of-view of a camcorder-wielding group of friends, Cloverfield begins like a primetime television soap opera about young Manhattanites coping with changes in their personal lives. Rob (Michael Stahl-David) is leaving New York to take an executive job at a company in Japan. At his goodbye party in a crowded loft, Rob's brother Jason (Mike Vogel) hands a camcorder to best friend Hud (T.J. Miller), who proceeds to tape the proceedings over old footage of Rob's ex-girlfriend, Beth (Odette Yustman)--images shot during happy times in that now-defunct relationship. Naturally, Beth shows up at the party with a new beau, bumming Rob out completely. Just before one's eyes glaze over from all this heartbreaking stuff (captured by Hud, who's something of a doofus, in laughably shaky camerawork), the unexpected happens: New York is suddenly under attack from a Godzilla-like monster stomping through midtown and destroying everything and everybody in sight. Rob and company hit the streets, but rather than run with other evacuees, they head toward the center of the storm so that Rob can rescue an injured Beth. There are casualties along the way, but the journey into fear is fascinating and immediate if emotionally remote--a consequence of seeing these proceedings through the singular, subjective perspective of a camcorder and of a story that intentionally leaves major questions unanswered: Who or what is this monster? Where did it come from? The lack of a backstory, and spare views of the marauding creature, are clever ways by producer J.J. Abrams and director Matt Reeves to keep an audience focused exclusively on what's on the screen. But it also makes Cloverfield curiously uninvolving. Ultimately, Cloverfield, with its spectacular effects brilliantly woven into a home-video look, is a celebration of infinite possibilities in this age of accessible, digital media. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Where's the Monster?
I know it's become an annoying Hollywood cliché to wait until act three to show the monster, but in this one you see ONE shot of it's face as it's looking down at the guy with the camera and that's about it. Everything else is a quick glimpse.
Was this someone's first film ever?
Rating: - Warning!!!
Do not waste your brain cells on this garbage. This is the first movie that I could not watch to the end... ever! After 20 minutes I was begging for the alien monster to "please kill all of them" so the torture would end. If the rating scale permitted a minus zillion rating, this movie would have gotten it. You have been warned.
Rating: - Horrible, don't bother.
I'd give this movie 0 stars if I could. This movie is horrible and made no sense. Shaky camera aside, what was the plot. There is a monster, where did it come from. I watched the extras and all I learned is that the monster is a baby, which you don't get from the movie. You don't know what it is, where it came from, why it is here or why the movie is called Cloverfield when it takes place in NY. There were too many unanswered questions. Also, really who would hold on to a stupid camera that long and go back for it when it is dropped. Movie is pathetic, stupid and boring, also has a stupid ending. Waste of time, money and film.
Rating: - Awful
Despite this being the first new monster film in a while, I found it flat an uninspiring. I could barely stop myself from skipping through the chapters. Save your money.
Rating:  - Monsterous!!
As everyone has said, the camera shaking makes this film barely tolerable. There were a couple of times I actually thought that if Hud would quit shaking the camera so much, this might not be a bad movie. The special effects are great, and the acting is not too bad, but I wanted some CLOSURE and gave a low rating because I did not get it. Someone please tell me...
What finally happened to the monster?
Where did the monster come from...space???
What happens to the "bite victims"??
Aside from these main questions I also wondered...
Why are those girls continuing to run in high heels?
How did the Army get to Manhatten so fast, were they pulled from Iraq???
I could go on and on and many of my issues have been addressed in earlier reviews. Let me conclude by warning that if you like movies with well-rounded endings that answer all of your questions, you will be disappointed.
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