Wednesday, August 6, 2008

CLOVERFIELD: A Call Me Snake Movie Review — by Steve Nadis

What if we crossed Blair Witch with Godzilla and set it in New York City only instead of populating the movie with the young scruffy types of Blair Witch we’ll populate it with young beautiful people–the type you’re likely to find at a hip New York loft party? Sounds like a movie. In fact, it sounds like a movie I ought to have been smart enough to skip. One of the few interesting things about Cloverfield was the presence of these oversized scarab-like mini-monsters (as opposed to the one giant monster terrorizing Gotham) which looked almost exactly like the oversized scarab-like mini-monsters in THE MIST. Is this a coincidence? A pattern? Or a conspiracy? If I told you I’d have to, you know, so, well, let’s just leave it at that…
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