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[orangerful]

So, we just finished watching 10 Cloverfield Lane

I think it's going to take me 24 hours to really get my head around the whole thing but here is my initial reaction:



First, a big screw you to the person that designed the DVD cover art, because on the back of the DVD there is a pretty spoilery image. It didn't ruin the movie for me, per se, but I did end up *waiting* for that image to happen.

It is unfortunate that was just watched the episode Ted from Buffy Season 2. Just...lots of the same red flags.

I know this was a semi-sequel to Cloverfield but all I could think about was Steven Spielberg's take on War of the Worlds, though I think that might have been because of the noise the alien ships made.

Yeah, I'm not sure if I loved or hated the last 20 minutes...



More coherent thoughts later, maybe. I'll have to dig around and find rhoda_rants's post about the movie from last month -- anyone else see it and/or post about it?? linky linky please!

Comments

[rhoda-rants.livejournal.com]

Hi! :) I've actually never reviewed this one, just to save you some time digging for a post that doesn't exist. I was thinking about it, and posted the trailer a while back, but nah. I only just watched it myself a few weeks ago.

However, just to get this out there: I loooooved it. I always enjoy Mary Elizabeth Winstead anyway, and John Goodman was so thoroughly creepy in a very believable way. One thing I saw another reviewer point out that I totally agree with is that nothing she does in the movie comes out of left field. Like, there are no Carrying the Idiot Ball moments where she has to do something obviously dumb to make the plot roll forward, and I appreciated that about it. Liked it much better than the first one. I can't recall what image you're thinking of from the back cover, although I know I must've seen it when I picked it up...

Like you, I can't decide whether the last ten minutes were awesome or really lame. (I assume you mean the plot reveal.) I'm choosing to believe SPOILER that she did make it to the town with the hospital and was able to do some good, because she's a badass. Also, her reaction of "REALLY?" was pretty funny. War of the Worlds comparisons notwithstanding. END SPOILER

I also saw someone say that this feels like a companion rather than a sequel to the original Cloverfield movie, like this was happening at the same time elsewhere in the world while that monster was tearing up New York, which I can see.

I'd watch it again.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

oh yes that was TWITTER! Wrong social media interaction! :)

I like that she never made any stupid mistakes and, really, apart from the creepy child kidnapping storyline, it didn't matter that she was a female.

back cover images = her in the shower outfit outside. I mean, WTF! Epic spoiler.

I just can't decide if it would have been better for the film to have just ended after she emerged from the bunker, maybe with the alien ship flying by and a "oh shit" or if that would have been too cliche/infuriating and the random 20 minute action sequence was the better choice. Because when she got outside I was kinda ready for it to be done, I needed to breathe! But I had to hang on for another 20 minutes of alien attacks.