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  • That new movie the Darkest Hour reminds me of Cloverfield

  • The film was good, I wanted it to be longer though.

  • I thought this movie was brilliant.

  • I think diary of the dead was the first.

  • I pretty much agree with what James says. I enjoyed the film and I really liked the way it was shot from the perspective of a person stuck in the middle of all of it. That made it different and interesting, but overall as a movie it wasn't that amazing. Probably worth a watch just to experience the feel of the film, but it's nothing to write home about. It didn't live up to the hype in any way at all. Although I was never interested in the hype at all when it was all going on.

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  • if u guys look close in the topright cornor u see gamara

  • This was almost as bad as avatar

  • Good thing this movie was ass

  • I got so fucking sick when I saw Hancock the first time...

  • Godzilla 1998...

    Cloverfield 2008...

  • @supereldinho Godzilla 1954

    Get it right

  • @TheBump465 I meant the Tristar Godzilla 1998. That it and Cloverfield were the worst monster movies made by American movie companies.

  • @TheBump465 your an idiot

  • @KaiserReich98 you're a faggot

  • @TheBump465

    Just say Gojira. That's his real name.

  • @Apjooz that is his japanese name. Also for the dvd rerelease. I would if i wanted to, but i stick to my first impression

  • I fucking hated this movie i pereonally think its worse than battlefield earth

  • It's not monster film.It's film about alien invasion(there are more monsters than one in it) and everything(overall atmosphere,commotion of people,military intervention,scale of destruction etc)proves the point.It's a unique film and for camera one,it's really good at that.It's never boring and camera shaking depicts nervousness of persons filming.They are running,being scared and they don't care about footage quality.It's recorded more as file/documentation-to be found after all ends,as memory

  • @BoxyTheSpaceDog Monster and alien, whats the difference. And saying its a monster film doesn't mean the setting is around a single monster.

  • @OwenTPW

    Well it's not a monster film(it's invasion film)and yes a main integral requirement for a film to be classified as"monster"sci/fi is that there's only 1 monster!Not just that the reviewer got many things wrong but just because it's camera film he compares it to Blaire Witch.It's definitely not "one watch" film and ending I must say is one of the best(most realistic of endings).I reluctantly went into cinema expecting trash but came out glad I have made decision not to miss it

  • @BoxyTheSpaceDog Alien movie? I heard it was a animal that was contaminated by radiation (obviously cliche) and that it woke up once a bomb or something else disrupted its sleep.

  • @joujou264

    There are more than one of those in the city and you don't nuke the city for just a lab mishap.

  • @BoxyTheSpaceDog I hate to break your theory, but WIKIPEDIA says that is a monster movie.

    if wikipedia says it is, well, IT FUCKING IS

  • @thiswask

    Wikipedia isn't really credible source for info,maybe you should know that as well.Monster film needs to be about one monster,the city is attacked by few of different ones!The scale of panic,destruction and military response is as if it's invasion!Something similar was done in The Myst film!The beings aren't familiar to people since they do have trouble destroying them.They had to resolve to total destruction(at very end of the film).

  • @BoxyTheSpaceDog i think he was trolling

  • @BoxyTheSpaceDog Trying to hard fail.

  • lol, I remember the theater audience booed when the movie ended. There was something just so completely unsatisfying about the ending I guess

  • Watch the title on the movie. In the upper right you can see a face of the monster :O.

  • 100% agree! I was just thinking about not wanting to watch it again when you mentioned it seconds later

  • I watched it alone and it wasnt boring

    IT WAS FUCKING CRAP!!! The monster looks like shit and everything is silly

  • @666Marius666S Then why watch it?

  • @CrashRproductions because the trailer looked good

  • I was HUGELY disappointed when i went to see this movie, but only because i was so hyped for it. I went in expecting the next big monster since Godzilla, but it turned out to be only your average monster movie.

  • Just bought this movie!

  • looka the top...

  • fuck this move becaused of the camera angle. that got on my nerves so much

  • Due a review of The Bucket List.

  • its not ur thoughts, its cinemassacre's thoughts damn it

  • I'm pretty sure Cloverfield 2 is coming out. I never loved Cloverfield A LOT,but I think I'll give the second a chance.

  • I will like to see other cities, not just the cliche one

  • You know what's BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL­LLL SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII­IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII­IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII­IIIIT?! Cloverfield.

  • This movie is one of those movies where I love it, and everybody else hates it. Why? I don't get it. Same thing with Avatar, King Kong, Spider-Man 3. What is it about movies I like that people just disregard or hate?

  • @FlyingFocs Dude I totaly agree, I love all those movies but people just seem to hate them.

  • @FlyingFocs damn, i was the only person i have ever heard of that DIDNT like avatar.

  • @calataris Well, to be fair, it is one of those movies where I understand why people don't like it. I just hate that everyone I knew made fun of me for liking it.

    And the unoriginality, to be honest, it doesn't bother me that much, because nothing is really original anymore. At all. So that argument, to me, holds no ground.

    Out of curioisty, why didn't you like it. I'm curious.

  • @FlyingFocs I don't like Avatar cause its too long

  • @MrJorge006 You know, that's actually one of the better reasons I've heard. And yeah it is long, but that didn't really bother me. I don't know, maybe it was like King Kong in which there's so mauch to look at, that I didn't care.

    But still, good reason. And better reason than most I've heard.

  • @FlyingFocs Ummmm thanks :D

  • I think the main criticism..

    IT'S IN NYC! I love New York, but I hate how every single movie has to be in it.

  • @ComedyStanCam Yeah, we need more attacks on other movies like San Diego, Miami, or even Honolulu. I would love to see Honolulu destroyed by a giant moster.

  • you know how you could tell haters are from the devil? because the dislikes used to be 666!!!!

  • Wordfaith your totally right this movie sucks ass

  • Awesome ass peice of sci-fi destruction

  • I don't know why but for some reason I have an obsession for this movie. I really do like it.

  • chazzerhazzer ,i aint no nobhole.

  • chazzerhazzer ,i aint no nobhole

  • i love this movie! godzilla is better tho..

  • Hated the movie! It made no sense, left questions unanswered!

  • i dont believe a trailer should tell you rather if you'll like it or not. legend of the guardians is a perfect example. the trailer made it look like a cliche kids movie, but it wasnt

  • Wasn't there supposed to be a sequel?

  • This movie is ironic, a guy is having a going away party before he leaves to JAPAN, and for some weird fucking reason.. a gigantic 150ft MONSTER appears.

  • (possible spoilers) I really hated this movie in how they spent such a long time building the background for the characters(which is normal I guess). But when you finally think you've waded through all the bullcrap and get a chace to see the monster terrorize the city, you only get glimpses. Only at the end do you get to see it for like five seconds, and you realize that the characters were pretty much screwed anyways. So the point is, neither the characters or the monster were worth it IMO.

  • I couldn't finish the movie in one go for the same reason you explained: it's nauseating as hell :)

  • i disliked the video to break the curse (666) :0

  • 666 dislikes! :O

  • when i first saw this, I was like OHH yeaaa awesome movie? then fiund out it's on a fucking camera recorder!!! alll the wayy through till the end?? but still good MOVIE

  • @JaMarr2424 Yes it is. But I feel that the camera work was a bit uneeded. Still I myself like the movie for what it is.

  • when i first saw the trailer in the theater i thought it was going to be a Rampage movie based off the videogame, it got me hyped up,the ni was all like "cloverfield?,whal the hell? this movie is going to be shit." and i was right

    BTW, a Rampage movie has to be made

  • I liked this movie. Granted it is a Godzilla knock off, but I found this to be an enjoyable one. 8/10 for me.

  • @stlouisrocker100 When you expect Godzilla, you actually get Godzilla. In Cloverfeild I only got to see the monster at least 2 or 3 times, tops. But the dickhole hole holding the camera wasn't exactly making things better. And yeah you could argue with me about how The Blair Witch project started the POV Genre, but in my opinion it was one of the worst ways for a Genre to launch. if you want a good POV film that actually scares you, I would reccomend REC.

  • @MonkeyBoy3000ii I've seen REC and yes it is good. That was my one big problem with Cloverfeild. As realistic as it would look it actually did make the film a little bit of a headache. But I still enjoyed it nonetheless. Suffice it to say that camcorder filming isn't meant for every film.

  • @stlouisrocker100 I suppose :/

  • @11damion11

    Search google images for Godzilla 2012. The picture with Godzilla standing behind a bunch of rubble and charging his atomic breath is the only official picture for the movie

  • @11damion11

    yea but we don't care that it looks good, we want the upright walking unstoppable science baffeling physics defying almost indestructable laser shooting behemoth we know as Godzilla/Gojira, which means Gorilla Whale. And thats what the new american remake godzilla movie being made by legendary pictures will 99% most likely have, only in cgi.

  • @NexusARC

    watch "Godzilla vs Cloverfield - Who do you think would win?" on my channel then decide who would win. please reply/comment.

  • @Gallavant123 Godzilla all the way he is the King of the Monsters.

  • i havent seen this movie,but i have absolutly no clue of whats the point of it or the plot...would some one xplain whats all this bout,i dont get the orgasm bout this movie.

  • 663 people suck that's it they suck!

  • The Bucket List was beyond scary

  • Hate when they shake the camera in this movie

  • cloverfield was awesome

  • 2 hidden images. the first one is in the water is that a monster in the water or a path? the second on the top right u see the monster in the clouds

  • @jasonvrhs14 Holy crap. I see what you're talking about. What is that? It looks like the alien from war of the worlds.

  • waiting for cloverfield 2

  • i love this film,because its not scary but it is, if you know what i mean. its a pov which makes it feel like your in the movie, like a good movie should.and its just overall a good movie.

  • okay pause the vid(or not) and look at the clouds next to libertys hand with the flame thing. See anything? If not then click the vid cloverfield monster hidden image in the suggestion vids to the right.

  • Cloverfield's monster probably has the most cuckoonuts origin story ever.

  • This review made me angry at James!

  • can someone pleez explain to me the ending of it, haha i dont get it they died, but then there on the ferris wheel? lmao

  • @Myst3ry1996 I'm not sure whether you were joking or not but basically the tape in the video camera is glitching and it keeps showing past footage. Also it shows that one scene because there's a secret in it. The video is called cloverfield-all secrets revealed.

  • i was very dissapointed, i didn't like this movie, it wasn't entertaining i hated the 1st person shaky cam and screams. it wasnt good to me, over-hyped, overrated & just not a good monster movie. my opinion.

  • Did you know The Bucket List averaged less than 5/10?

    Surprising, right?

  • IT WAS AMAZING!

  • Peppy: "Trust your instincts!"

  • I LOVE THIS MOVIE IT WAS MADE TO BE SHAKEY BECASUE ITS AS IF IT WAS A HOME VIDEO!

  • I agree with you James-sensei

  • Mr. James, You are the .... KING OF ALL MEDIA!!!! SCREW THAT OTHER GUY... STERN!!!!

  • I liked it but I didnt want the cameraman to die. Also, the movie didnt really tell a story, it's just people running away from a monster that we have no idea how it got there

  • I don't hate this movie, but I didn't like it that much. If I want to see a "handheld camera" movie, I'd watch [REC], Paranormal Activity (All of them). I know that the genres are different, but the ones that I quoted were better, in my opinion. Actually I got hyped by Cloverfield's trailer, but in the end, I didn't like it; and no, not because of the ending.

  • the entire movie is awesome but the ending i have mix feelings about

  • not good

  • the ending sucked...

  • @DarkNyghtmareX yea it sucked, but it was sad.

  • notice the monsters face at the upper right hand corner of the pic its in the clouds

  • I would rather watch Cloverfield than Battle: Los Anglesa or Skyline

  • @MrOfferp oh my god skyline is the most shit movie ever...

  • @MrOfferp hahahahahahahahah agreed

  • hey do you guys see the monster head in the cover its near the torch

  • Don't get me wrong, I LOVE "The Simpsons"! But WHY did they have to shut down the Back to the Future ride for it?! Couldn't they have shut down one of the less popular rides?!

  • i rented this video and it skipped... THAT"S BULLSHIT

  • This movie sucked, just it was terrible bad acting and i know it was suppose to be on a hand camrea but the shit was shakey as fuck

  • @Darkfoxx999 i agree but you do have to know that there trying to make it feel like a real monster attacked

  • This is my only trife with the movie. The protaganists is a COMPLETE asshole. If it wasnt for him everyone would be alive.

  • if u saw the movie in theatres there would be a sign that said cloverfields filming technique is like being on a rollercoaster

  • did u notice that in one of the old clips i satelite fell (in the one on the ferris wheel) they say the satelite woke the beast

  • This movie was bad from start to finish. Bad actors and bad overral. I have nothing good to say about this crapy movie!

    And people who says that its cool that is from a camera view or whatever, it sucks and the endig is really bad also.

  • @Leon5k I agree that the acting was pretty bad in this, but then again who truly acts in their day to day lives? I think it succeeds in portraying an incredibly massive upheaval of daily life. Personally, I think the movie really tanked not so much because of the attempt at amateur-looking camera work or bad acting, but more at the fact that none of the characters are remotely likable. We can relate to their problems, but their problems are the petty issues of soap opera characters.

  • I loved this movie so why do evruone hates this? ITS AWSOME! =)

  • Rec is better i think.

  • @Vika2 I love both... REC 2 sucked though.

  • @Vika2 rec is more , scary style, cloverfield is massive-monster-destruction-ev­erywhere style xD

    I love both, though rec 2 failed a bit.

  • I hate this movie because it made me sick literally after 10 minutes.

  • i hated the the ending

  • i thought it was good but it had its flaws

  • I would love this movie. If it is not like a first person shooter game.

  • The Cloverfield monster is the only movie monster who's appearance has truly scared me.

    Well done movie in my opinion.

  • I think this is the first time I thumb down an AVGN video, this movie was great.

  • @IGNsucks so just because his opinions are different from yours, you thumbed it down? He never said it was a bad movie.

  • @xFIRERUSHx well no its cause many of his complaints are really bad anyway im not going into this..............Ill just say most people who hate this film hate it not because of the quailty of the film but what they expected and thats completely unfair.

  • @IGNsucks Well that is what happens with every movie. If your expectations are too high, then you are never gonna like a movie because most likely, the movie has no way of living up to your expectations as you expect too much. This doesnt happen all the time. I watched Indy 4 and when I saw it in theatres, I had very very high expectations and I loved the movie. I watched Cloverfield with no real expectations and its okay. Not OMG amazing, but good. I like the unique film style.

  • @xFIRERUSHx but thats my point you shouldnt do that, its not fair to the director, hes trying to create his vision not yours so putting your own expectations into the final product and then judging the movie based on those expectations instead of judging the movie for what is it is unfair and makes this a bad review.

  • @IGNsucks Wait...What? How is it unfair to have high expectations? When someone is excited for a movie, it isnt as if they want it in a certain way. They just want the movie to be good. When Revenge of the Sith came out, I thought it would be cool if Yoda caused all those scars on Palpatine. But he didnt. That didnt kill the experience because the movie was great. There is nothing wrong with hoping. If you expect a movie to be good, and it isnt, well then it probably is a bad movie.

  • @xFIRERUSHx if you thought revenge of the sith was a good movie then we have nothing further to talk about.

  • 660 people are pussys and pissed their pants

  • Cloverfield was so boring and trite. I don't understand why people liked it at all! I tried to watch it but just ended up fast forwarding hoping to find a good part, which never came. The monster just looks like the same old CGI mess as used in 90% of sci-fi games/movies these days.

  • Dope movie/cast was coo.

    1 of my top5.

  • So your saying it sucks

  • this movie is the crappiest movie ever.. its filmed on a video camera witch is annoying and the film overall is boring

  • Did they put the monster in the clouds on purpose. id really like to know

  • it semed really to me short because only 3 senes had the monster in detail.the way it was shot anoyed meand it didin't give a back story,i got a nest of what ever the hell those things are grew in lady liberty and when the big one, the queen i gess got P.Oed it got out,but it would have been nice to have a little help. i didin't know if they all died at the end or what, and the begining at the party was super long. all in all i give it 7/10 cause i still liked the monster,the story and people.

  • dude,, ever heard of.. ppl that are hired to hang out in malls.... and what they do is.. stand next to ya in a cd shop and say man have ya heard this yet its awesome... little do you know they gettin payed for it.... im thinkin the hype movies get nowadays..is just ppl who get payed to spread the word... yeah im prob just cynical

  • @johnnyrockerfella It's true. IMDB is riddled with bullshit Hollywood puffery.

  • @johnnyrockerfella wats with... all the... full stops...? :P

  • It was ok, but it needed more scenes with the monster

  • I didn't like this movie.

  • Man I love James and his reviews, but I think he is dead wrong with this review, I thought this movie not only lived up to the hype but is the best monster movie that's ever been made.

  • Thank you.....for smelling mi clover farts!

  • being as the monster is just a baby imagine the parents

  • ok,im gonna go see it in theat.....awww man this was uploaded 3 years ago!

  • I hope James does a review for 'Devil' by M. Night Shyamalan. It's similar to Cloverfield as a 'one-shot deal' although I don't think this will give the 'scare' James is looking for, it may deliver in the creepiness of the concept =D

  • @animefin don't call it an m.night shymalan movie because it's not. I get that it's marketed as an m.night shymalan movie which is totally ridicules cause thousands of people hate his movies but he actually had no involvement in the films creation besides creating the concept(but not actually writing the script). Yeah he produced it whatever it doesn't even count he organised the production and got everyone together but it's not really his movie at all.

  • @KelanDWood oh I didn't know that. Thanks KelanDWood :) So he was more of a side/co-producer? Wonder who the main involvement goes to...

  • @animefin main involvement goes to the writer and the director. Look up Devil on rotten tomatoes or wikepedia or imdb and you'll probably find out who it was

  • Cloverfield was a movie with lots of mix reviews. I like it because it put you in the spot of the citizen and it was a movie that you could say, If it was real, this is what it would be. People who hate, hate it because of sudden camera movements, and a bland beginning. People who love it, love it because its the realest thing you could get, for a monster movie.

  • I thought James would've at least liked how they put a frame from King Kong in after the helicopter falls.

  • Oh ya what was the monster any way?

  • its been 3 years, and im still fuckng obsessed.

  • wait a second . i can see the monsters hed

  • I ve never seen a movie with such corny lines ,the movie is perfect for retards. which is why it was so successful considering most the population is retarded

  • I liked this movie. I hated how everyone hated it. The ending was my favorite part.

  • I'm not sure why everyone hates the ending. Did you expect them to magically kill the monster, say a one-liner, and then have cheesy music play?

  • amazing film. end of

  • i think they hate it because they love justin beaber

  • You know what's bullshit? This movie on the big screen. Especially when you're forced to sit in the front row because the whole fucking room is full of assholes who showed up 30 minutes early. When half the time you can't tell what's happening, because you can only see sections of the screen at a time when it's already hard enough with the camera shaking like the guy has fucking tourettes. That's bullshit.

  • eh, it was ok.

  • i thought that movie was AWESOME

  • Didnt like it.

  • The thing about the people who say the ending sucked have to understand, THIS IS GOING FOR BEING LIKE REAL LIFE NO REAL ENDING, people can think about this movie and the ending, plus the recording that they show at the end shows how the monster awoke

  • Mason was the shit though =)

  • if you want to review a shitty movie review the american that movie i think is worse than alien 3 and alien 3 was my all time worst movie