The Cloverfield Pukefest
Posted by Kushal | Filed under Uncategorized
"I was excited" undermines the feeling I had of sitting there about to watch a film with such a unique concept and trailer. The excitement however, was short lived.
My wife tugged at my top about 2 mins into the film "Is the whole film like this?" She looked like death’s wife, warmed up.
"Erm, yeah, I think so." I whispered.
"I feel sick."
It was at that point that I remembered three rather relevant things. One was that my wife suffers from motion sickness. The other was one of the first film directing lectures I went to where the lecturer said "The camera must be stable and smooth in motion. ’24′ style on-the-shoulder camcorder shots blown up to cinematic proportions may induce motion sickness…"
The third was that I knew Cloverfield was an first-person perspective film, shot with camcorder style camera work.
So apologies to my darling wife who stayed as long as she could then walked out the cinema, preventing a catastrophic display of intestinal fluids. Other people, I’ve heard, have not been so lucky. I honestly didn’t see any warnings about motion sickness and I’m sure more people will suffer.
Personally, though, I suffer from very little motion sickeness. I can whole-heartedly say then that this was a true roller coaster of a film. I will watch it again, guilt free, at some point. But in the meantime, I reccomend it highly to anyone that doesn’t feel motion sickness.
4.5 / 5
Tags: English Movies
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