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  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    markymark550 wrote:
    The filiming style was what I was referring to. Of course those two movies are not similar in content. To me it seemed that somebody watched BW and liked that style, then wrote a bad story to fit that style.

    Somebody = JJ Abrams. And, that's certainly possible...camera-wise... However, as I said, I liked this storyline and action sequences a whole lot more.
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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    I dug it because it was exactly what I expected: Blair Witch with a large budget. It entertained me for an hour and a half...that's all I expected it to do at best.
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  • Lukin66
    Lukin66 Posts: 3,063
    AmentsChick wrote:
    This is true. You could definitely tell it was JJ Abrams...it seemed to have the "LOST" feel to it.
    I'll second this....I half-expect the monster to show up on the Island now. The movie had a couple jumpers in it, especially with the mini-monsters and the scene in the infirmary.
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  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    BinFrog wrote:
    I dug it because it was exactly what I expected: Blair Witch with a large budget. It entertained me for an hour and a half...that's all I expected it to do at best.

    Entertaining it definitely was.

    ALso, did anyone happened to check out the making-of extras on the dvd?? Good stuff!
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  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Lukin66 wrote:
    I'll second this....I half-expect the monster to show up on the Island now. The movie had a couple jumpers in it, especially with the mini-monsters and the scene in the infirmary.

    NO JOKE!! In fact, the Sea Monster sounds were VERY similar to the Smokey sounds. rat-a-tat-tat-tat RAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
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  • EvilMerlin
    EvilMerlin Posts: 1,865
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Seriously?? 09? Where was that?? I missed it.

    The movie was said to take place in May of 08. But then in the movie I think it was Hud that says it's Saturday, May 23, which of course everyone online looked into and that doesn't take place til 2009. So now it's just up to whoever to decide. There's no clear date set.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,712
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Seriously?? 09? Where was that?? I missed it.
    I don't think it says it in the movie. May 22nd was on a Saturday in the movie and the next time that happens is 2009. Merlin beat me to it.
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Another thing...those girls were running around in HEELS! HEELS!!!!! If it was me (well, I would've been in flip flops in the first place), the first thing I would do is bust into a shoe store and grab a pair of converse or something.
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  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,712
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Another thing...those girls were running around in HEELS! HEELS!!!!! If it was me (well, I would've been in flip flops in the first place), the first thing I would do is bust into a shoe store and grab a pair of converse or something.
    On top of that one of them was jogging around after being impaled by rebar for a few hours. ;)
  • TiaMija
    TiaMija Posts: 597
    I think that's where the inspiration came from. Then, J.J. Abrams mixed it with a Godzilla movie.
    After Lost and Cloverfield, I am worried about the monster that he'll probably put in the new Star Trek!
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Rygar wrote:
    On top of that one of them was jogging around after being impaled by rebar for a few hours. ;)

    Thank you!!!!!! That was another thing. Wouldn't she have bled out??? Or maybe it's like on The Island where everyone recovers really quickly (i.e. Rose, Locke, Ben)?
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  • EvilMerlin
    EvilMerlin Posts: 1,865
    There was also two things that got me...the size of the freaking thing. It seemed to change in size quite a bit from each time you see it.

    And then the ole monster movie killer...no physical being could sustain that amount of mass on land. :p
  • Snake
    Snake Posts: 2,605
    Yea I liked it, it was intense, and the ending was real, not realistic, but real. Like, not a happy ending, but just a "shit happens, and some times your friends all die and you get nuked" kinda real. Ya know? :D

    But I think it started off really slow, maybe it was meant to be that way, I dont know. I almost left and went to another movie because It was so boring and making me sick. And yes I did get sick, partly because there were so many people I had to sit very close, normally I sit in the back.


    So yea, I liked it, I recommend it if you enjoy a nice movie every once and a while. :D
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  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    Apparently there's going to be a sequel from a different angle. Well, that's what I've read.
  • RockinInCanada
    RockinInCanada Posts: 2,016
    I enjoyed this flick a lot....seemed "real" to me because there were no answers/explainations just as would be the case for the average Joe citizen during an event of this magnitude....

    In the theatre I heard one chick say "such a stupid movie, didn't even explain where the monster came from"...I thought, no if they did have some covert team tell the group of nobodies where it came from it would really make the movie lame and not as "real".....
  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    Rockin'InCanada wrote:
    I enjoyed this flick a lot....seemed "real" to me because there were no answers/explainations just as would be the case for the average Joe citizen during an event of this magnitude....

    In the theatre I heard one chick say "such a stupid movie, didn't even explain where the monster came from"...I thought, no if they did have some covert team tell the group of nobodies where it came from it would really make the movie lame and not as "real".....


    I missed it but in the last scene where they guy and girl are at coney isl, you see something fall out of the sky and land in the ocean.
  • Slip Kid
    Slip Kid Posts: 1,175
    the bulk of the movie was good. the ending not so much.

    It was pretty good for what it was
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    I really do hope they make a sequel. Hopefully it'll tie up the major loose ends
  • brainofPJ
    brainofPJ Posts: 2,361
    Rockin'InCanada wrote:
    I enjoyed this flick a lot....seemed "real" to me because there were no answers/explainations just as would be the case for the average Joe citizen during an event of this magnitude....

    In the theatre I heard one chick say "such a stupid movie, didn't even explain where the monster came from"...I thought, no if they did have some covert team tell the group of nobodies where it came from it would really make the movie lame and not as "real".....


    there was a lot of viral marketing for this movie that may have explained more.

    i started to follow it but then it just became so much i got lost.

    there was a website up for the company Rob was going to in Japan...

    the object that falls into the ocean at the end was apparently a satellite...blah blah blah...it was interesting.

    but yea, i enjoyed the movie. just bought actually.


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  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    i finally saw this and actually hated it. i dunno, i just found nothing redeeming. i didn't feel like i got to know the characters so i didn't really care what happened to them. the whole shaky camera thing was giving me a headache. plus, didn't the beginning flash something about how the camera was found by the govt. in central park? i thought it was a given that none of them survived. it was definitely no lost!

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