Maddie and I saw Cloverfield tonight. Great characters, great monsters, but an abject failure of storytelling. After both this and Blair Witch, I'm convinced that first-person limited belongs in print, not on the screen. Add to the fact that although I inferred a positive moral out of the movie ("earn the privilege of dying well"), the movie's contents were pretty nihilistic, and I'm just bloody sick of Gen-X nihilism.
Overall C+ since the baseline concept was so good; definitely a matinee at best, and I can't imagine owning the DVD.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
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