I promised my friend at work I would go to see the movie Cloverfield tonight at midnight. This should be an interesting feat given I won’t be home until after 2 only to roll out of bed at 7:oooo ummm, actually yeah, it will be like 7:45.
The trick is you wear as much of the clothing you plan on wearing the next day to bed. Though I have been known to pass out with my boots on, this cannot happen tonight (mostly because I am wearing snow boots which I will wear tomorrow). So I will wear everything else, jeans, longjohns shirt, everything. I have been getting up later and later. I always try to leave the house by 8:20…but I am a low maintenance kind of lady.
I’ll do this and then I’ll roll out I can take the crazy stilting dogs out and go to work. And when I get home, I will be super-duper tired. Yes.
REdBALLS here I come (yes I drink the bull of red, but I usually only down my medicine with it).
So yeah, the best thing about CLoverfield is that the producer of Lost produced this I think. And we all know how fond I am of Lost.
Wish me wide-eyed and not bored…though the quasi-apocalyptic 9/11 feel should keep me awake…um, not necessarily but I will try.
January 18, 2008 at 4:09 am
Let me know how Cloverfield is, it looks interesting and I haven’t seen a good action flick in a while.
January 18, 2008 at 4:42 am
The trick is you wear as much of the clothing you plan on wearing the next day to bed.
See, this is why I love you. Let me know how the movie is. XO
January 18, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I heard it was a good movie. The monster was kind of like something from H.P. Lovecraft, who I worship. I get up at 4am every day, you shouldn’t complain. Today is my first day off in 2 weeks, yes I worked 14 straight 12-14 hour days. Maybe I should go to bed in my scrubs each day and save the extra minute or 2.
January 18, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Was it as Blair Witch meets Godzilla awesome as the trailers promised? (I’m supposed to see it soon with a friend)
January 18, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Um.
The dude from Lost did it, so of course you have to wonder, WHY?
It is a blend of Day After Tomorrow, I am Legend and Alien all wrapped up into one. They also tried to weave in some weird love story (maybe to give it a point?) which you did not realize was a love story until the last 20 minutes.
It could have been better. It could have explored the what and why. But it did nothing to answer either one of those questions (I am not even kidding). The best part? They showed some pretty extravagant Lost previews, which made us all cream our pants.
Let’s just say it seemed very much like a student film with glammy special effects. It did reinforce my opinion that living in Jersey (the mainland) makes me feel much safer than being on an island.
The camera work in the beginning was hard to get used to…but you just need to close your eyes for a few seconds every once in a while.
January 18, 2008 at 5:30 pm
How was the 9/11 factor? I read in an interview that the filmmakers were consciously trying to evoke a Sept. 11 vibe, but not as a weighty global and personal matter but more as entertainment so the viewer wouldn’t realize what’s going on until much later, sitting with it and thinking about it long after the final reel. I’m not sure how I feel about that, though the original Godzilla (Gojira) was about Japan’s fears of the atom bomb soon after the U.S. destroyed Hiroshima, so there is precedent.
However, at least Gojira explained where the monster came from. It’s too bad they don’t even try to explain things in this movie. There seems to be a lot of copping out in movies nowadays. I miss some of the good ol’ narrative muscle.
I still want to see it, but your review of it has dialed back my expectations a little bit. It has to be better than I Am Legend though, right? That was really underwhelming once all was said and done.
And I have not yet seen one episode of Lost. My friends rave about it so much, and act so shocked when I cop to not having seen one episode, that I need to get in on that.
January 20, 2008 at 5:13 am
I went to Wikipedia, cheated, and read the entire plot synopsis.
January 20, 2008 at 6:27 am
haha.
I love you FRancis. You rule!