I’ve just stumbled across Harry Knowles’ amazingly glowing review of CLOVERFIELD over at AICN, possibly the best review I have ever seen Harry give to a movie. Even more so than the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy.
Now Harry is known to get himself a little too excited over movies from time to time and we have to remember that he LOVES his monsters and gave a similar kind of review for Roland Emmerich’s GODZILLA remake a decade ago.
A movie which I think he was the only person on the planet who liked upon it’s initial release.
Still we love the guy and if he’s right, we are in for a really special treat when this opens soon…
“Utterly Brilliant”.
“CLOVERFIELD is a bold genre-reinvention unlike anything we’ve ever seen before”.
“Like SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, but instead of Nazis it’s a giant monster”.
“There’s no score, there’s no rules, there feels like there’s no script and no movie. It feels found, but it is so huge that you can’t ever really believe that… but handheld film just has never had a story of something this fantastical or huge happen. The movie is a landmark genre film. A true milestone in film”.
The big monster movie opens next week in the U.S and in February in the U.K.
One thing happened to me yesterday when I visited one of my mates who I talk to about movies quite a lot and he didn’t even know what CLOVERFIELD was.
And you know he has a real point. Where is the marketing in the U.K? Where are the trailers? Where are the t.v. spots? No-one here seems to care about it and I’ve told my girlfriend about four times the title of the movie is CLOVERFIELD but she can never remember it.
Not exactly the best name for a big monster epic? I really hope they aren’t neglecting the movie in the U.K. because this could be huge over here if it got some good backing.
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Yeah, I’m surprised at the lack of marketing buzz here in the UK. This movie could indeed be a crucial landmark and Harry Knowles’s review makes for good reading. If it is as big and brilliant as claimed, then word-of-mouth and web-raving will pull people in.
““Like SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, but instead of Nazis it’s a giant monster”. Ha ha!
Harry Knowles is friends with a lot of the folks whose flicks he reviews, so you have to be really careful when he gives four-stars to a movie produced by a guy who Knowles likes and supports.
I don’t feel any need to slap down ten bucks on Cloverfield, nothing about it says “must-see.” Everything about this movie is like the monster itself–big, ugly, and fake. And an endorsement from Harry Knowles is hardly inspiring.
After all, this is the guy who thought Fantastic Four 2 was a really good movie and didn’t seem to understand why no one else agreed.
“Like SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, but instead of Nazis it’s a giant monster”.
Every Knowles film review is exactly like this. It is impossible to take any of them seriously or see them as indicative of the quality of any film. Every bad film is “A cult classic!” Every mediocre film is “The best film ever made!” Every good film is “Better than sex!”
And of course, if the film is made by one of his many personal friends or acquaintances, then the film will redefine cinema itself!