Anyways. here are my thoughts.

The beginning is kind of boring with them going to the party up till the first attack. But once the attack happens it gets much better. I must say the best thing about the movie is the sound. Really great sound and sound effects throughout the movie. The way they slowly reveal the creature is similar to Jaws. The creature design is a disappointment imo. I don't think it'll become iconic like Godzilla.

My favorite scenes is the very first military attack on the creature. Very well done. Then of course the finale where they fully reveal the creature from above.

Some things I didn't like. The Hud character. His constant saying "Oh my God" and "Shit" over and over got annoying. It's a little hard to know the characters or to follow where they are sometimes in the scene. Some of the scenes are a tad too dark which makes following what is happening on screen difficult at times.

Overall better than Enchanted, but not as good as it could have been. I think I would say on a scale of 1-10 I would give it a 7

When Paramount Home Entertainment drops Cloverfield into stores on DVD Tuesday, April 22nd, there will be one place to get more bonus features than what's included on the disc.

ShockTillYouDrop.com has exclusively learned Best Buy is offering a bonus disc entitled "TJ Miller's Video Diary" (artwork below). It will include nearly 30-minutes of behind-the-scenes footage with T.J. Miller - the talkative, and resilient, camera operator of the film.

Miller made his feature debut with Matt Reeves' monster flick, he'll next star in the romantic comedy She's Out of My League for Dreamworks.

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On our way out, my friend and brother were all in hysterics about seeing the shadowed object fall into the water at the end of the movie, which was something I missed. We also didn't know to stay until the end of the credits to hear "Help us" (which, when reversed, sounds like "It's still alive"). And having looked at all of the clues that were presented to the fans before the movie's actual release, I think I've gotta go see it again.

And from the looks of it, I think there will be a sequel. J.J. Abrams has said that if they do another one, it will be told from another person's perspective on the same night. Very, very cool.

I have seen pics of the creature on the net and it appears that the head looks somewhat snake-like from the front, but kind of human like from the side.

I've also read that the scene where the woman goes behind the screen and something happens the before that happened she was bitten by one of those small creatures. I guess it would be possible that since she was bitten that sometime later the babies emerged from her and that is what was hinted at.

Perhaps we'll get an unrated version of the film when it gets released on DVD.

-TeeJay

I didn't know the whole movie was gonna be handheld camera. But though it did annoy me for about two minutes in the beginning, I got used to it. Didn't bother me much at the end anymore. And I thought it really added something to the atmosphere. There were a few moments where I was really drawn in, where I felt as terrified as the characters must have felt. That was really well done.

I wasn't all that curious about what the monster looked like. All you really needed to know was that it was terrifying as shit. LOL But it was still pretty cool. And scary. And, like Sean, I left the cinema, thinking about all the unanswered quesitons that you keep wondering about. I think that's what I like most about the movie. It takes you on a wild ride and it leaves you guessing. Things like: Did they ever manage to kill the monster and its offspring? Did they managed to save Manhattan? Did Rob and Beth really die? How on earth did they recover the tape? Why didn't the monster eat Hud? (Seemed like a waste to kill him and then leave him behind. But then you only saw his head...) Why the hell is the movie called Cloverfield? Where did the monster come from? Are there more of it?

And isn't it kind of tragic that they went back there to save one girl, they even found and rescued her, and in the end they all got killed? Though we don't know about Lily. She got on the first chopper, she might have made it.

Overall, I really enjoyed it. Though it's not a movie I'd go watch a second time or buy on DVD. Unless I find it in a bargain bin some time.

Last but not least: I don't think I've ever watched end credits roll by in such silence. The ending was so abrupt, it literally took you that first, music-less silent minute of end credits to digest what just happened. People in the theater only started talking after the music started. Deb, you said you liked the music for the end credits. I hated it. I sat through it until the end (because I always do when I can), but I thought it was awful. Just my personal opinion.

One more thing I was wondering, while we're talking about music... There was no real score, was there? Or at least if there was, it must have been subtle, I certainly can't remember any scenes that were accompanied by instrumental music. Yet, there were about 15 or 20 songs that scrolled by in the end credits. Where was all that music used??? There was some at the party, but that's all I remember. That can't have been 20 different songs, can it?

-TeeJay

I think they were trying to say that people who were bitten turned into monsters or something.  You see them drag Marlena behind that curtain and then something bites off someone's head.  That should've been a little clearer, but it was still disturbing.  When they were up on the roof, looking down at the monster, that really wigged me out.  The little monsters were like something out of the Alien movies.  Fast and terrifying.  I absolutely loved the Cloverfield Overture over the end credits.  It was just a fantastic homage to all the great monster movies of the past.  I stayed for the whole thing.

I don't really know what "cloverfield" itself was supposed to mean, but I saw some of that show on the History Channel this week called, Life After People (or whatever it was).  They mentioned that clover can grown anywhere, and showed the city streets of New York literally becoming a clover field.  Maybe that was the idea.

oh, and watch out!! The Monster has fleas!!