Cloverfield (2008)
After seeing Monsters I had to go back and see Cloverfield . A friend said that I should, so I figured why not. First off I did not see this when it first came out. I saw footage of it and said that it would just be too jarring on the eyes, and apparently it was for some . The jarring camera work is enough to put me off, but a funny thing happens when it goes to video. The screen shrinks and all that shaking of the camera becomes a little bit less annoying. I say a little less because I swear the filmmaker in me wanted to grab the camera and film it the right way with less shake. But the filmmakers of Cloverfield knew what they were doing, and that little imperfection added to the reality of what we were seeing. I mean how scary is a Godzilla movie? Now if you put a camera in one of the hands of someone running from Godzilla I would think that would be a whole lot more intense. Not a new idea in this reality based wor...