Thursday, May 23, 2013

May 23 - Cloverfield


Hello. Here is today's movie. I hope you enjoy it and watch it tonight. 


CLOVERFIELD

The movie begins with an indication that it was taken from a camera found in an area formerly called “Central Park”. The first segment shows Rob waking up Beth after they have spent the night together and they go to Coney Island. Suddenly there is a film of a party. Rob’s brother Jason and his girlfriend Lily are giving one to say goodbye to Rob, who is moving to Japan. Their friend Hud does the filming.  Beth leaves the party. Shortly after midnight on May 23, 2009 [15:31 to 1:13:07] an apparent earthquake hits New York, causing a brief power outage. TV reports an oil tanker has capsized in the harbor. The partygoers  climb to the roof to try and find out what is going on, but there is a distant explosion that sends shrapnel flying their way. Rob, Jason, Hud, Lilly and Marlena leave the building and see the severed head of the Statute of Liberty lying in the street. Hud films what looks like a monstrous arm several blocks away and the Woolworth Building collapses. The group heads towards the Brooklyn Bridge to get off of Manhattan, but a creature with tentacles attacks the bridge, and they barely escape with their lives, except for Jason, who is killed. TV shows  the army attacking the creature, which sheds smaller beasts that attack people. Rob finds a working phone and listens to his messages. One is from Beth telling him she is trapped in her wrecked apartment building. The group travels to rescue her, going down into the subways where they are attacked by the smaller creatures and Marlena is bitten. They leave the subways and find an army command center/hospital. Marlena dies. They learn the last helicopter will leave the island at 6 am, before action is taken to destroy the creature. They rescue Beth. At the evacuation center Lilly is put on one helicopter and Rob, Hud and Beth are placed on another one. They witness a B-2 bomber attack the creature, which lashes out, causing their helicopter to crash in Central Park.  They get out of the wreckage, but the monster kills Hud. Beth and Rob hide underneath a bridge. Then bombing starts and the camera (and presumably Rob and Beth) is buried. We then switch back to a brief segment of the Coney Island trip.  

An unusual docudrama style monster movie. It starts out like a young adult drama , but then suddenly morphs into a terrifying monster flick. There are some plot issues. I don’t think the armed forces could get into position and be attacking within just a couple of hours/. 

Date given in film at 1:11:41-42. At 15:34 a clock shows it’s about 12:10 a.m.

Producer - J. J. Abrams and Bryan Burk

Director - Matt Reeves

Screenplay - Drew Goddard

Released – January 18, 2008

Runtime -  1 hour 25 minutes

Staring –

Michael Stahl-David as Robert "Rob" Hawkins
T. J. Miller as Hudson "Hud" Platt
Odette Yustman as Elizabeth "Beth" MacIntyre
Jessica Lucas as Lily Ford
Lizzy Caplan as Marlena Diamond
Mike Vogel as Jason Hawkins
Ben Feldman as Travis
Billy Brown as Staff Sgt. Pryce


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