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Re: Cloverfield
I haven't seen The Bourne Ultimatum or The Blair Witch Project so I can't compare Cloverfield to them. Two other movies that did use handheld camera work that I have seen are Narc and Three Kings. For those two movies the handheld camera work is very limited in it's on screen time (no more than 15 minutes) and is meant to show the point of view just behind of one character in the movie.
Cloverfield on the other hand with the exception of the ending credits and about 10 to 15 seconds worth of screen test patterns and some text that says Department of Defense, found Digital SD card and other text at the beginning of the movie the entire movie is shown from this handheld camera operated by one of the characters in the movie. For the most part you don't see the operator but the operator is saying stuff.
Hud who operates the camera for the bulk of the film says a lot of things and is normally in back of the group during the disaster part of the movie. During the party scene he is not operating the camera very well so you get to see people's head cut off, camera tilted, that sort of thing. It's during this part of the movie that it's the most humorous.
I just came from seeing the 5:40 pm showing of Cloverfield at Ward (#8) today. This time around I sat in the near the top of the middle section.
Two things to watch out and pay attention to in this movie. First of all are the clocks. The other is Rob and Beth's trip to Coney Island which is the events on April 27 while the main focus of the movie is May 22/23.
The Coney Island scene, the hint is look at the boat on the right hand side of the screen, something happens behind of the boat (to the left of the boat).
As far as staying to watch the credits, the ending music is pretty good and while there is no ending scene there is some sort of audio clip at the end and oh yeah a lot of people worked on this movie.
I haven't seen The Bourne Ultimatum or The Blair Witch Project so I can't compare Cloverfield to them. Two other movies that did use handheld camera work that I have seen are Narc and Three Kings. For those two movies the handheld camera work is very limited in it's on screen time (no more than 15 minutes) and is meant to show the point of view just behind of one character in the movie.
Cloverfield on the other hand with the exception of the ending credits and about 10 to 15 seconds worth of screen test patterns and some text that says Department of Defense, found Digital SD card and other text at the beginning of the movie the entire movie is shown from this handheld camera operated by one of the characters in the movie. For the most part you don't see the operator but the operator is saying stuff.
Hud who operates the camera for the bulk of the film says a lot of things and is normally in back of the group during the disaster part of the movie. During the party scene he is not operating the camera very well so you get to see people's head cut off, camera tilted, that sort of thing. It's during this part of the movie that it's the most humorous.
I just came from seeing the 5:40 pm showing of Cloverfield at Ward (#8) today. This time around I sat in the near the top of the middle section.
Two things to watch out and pay attention to in this movie. First of all are the clocks. The other is Rob and Beth's trip to Coney Island which is the events on April 27 while the main focus of the movie is May 22/23.
The Coney Island scene, the hint is look at the boat on the right hand side of the screen, something happens behind of the boat (to the left of the boat).
As far as staying to watch the credits, the ending music is pretty good and while there is no ending scene there is some sort of audio clip at the end and oh yeah a lot of people worked on this movie.
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