Last year, an unknown movie made a big buzz on the web. A video was showing a party in New York, during this party something happened outside appeared and it seemed to be some kind of big monster… All of this was filmed with a hand held video camera. At the time, noone knows the name of the movie and many people start to talk about it.
In the beginning of 2008, the film brought out, named Cloverfield. This week a friend droped me out to see it but I must admit I was not especially eager to see it…
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Synopsis
In a few words, Cloverfield is a mix of Godzilla and Blairwitch Project, the story of a monster attacking Manhattan and filmed with a hand held video camera. I won’t tell more! 
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“Hm…” was the only thing I said to my friend right after the movie. Actually, it’s hard to describ it. At first, I thought It’s not a good movie, maybe because I just don’t like big monsters oriented movies. Then I started to realize that there is something interesting there.
First, the hand held camera and the fact that there are no background music makes the movie more realistic. You are inside the story, stucked in your chair and all that you feel is not coming from the explosive music but from every little noise. Even sound effects seem to be more intense.
Furthermore, with the perspective of this hand held camera, visual special effects are even more incredible. The destruction of Manhattan is quite realistic and the shaking camera makes it even more impressive.
Finally, it’s hard for me to say if I appreciated it or not… It may be the best huge monster movie I’ve seen, but it may just be the less worst. I think there is someting interesting in this movie though as this is not the typical american style that one will find here. Maybe this is the most important thing to remember.
– Woods
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