Boredom and Cloverfield

Wow. I missed a day already. I really fail at this whole blogging thing. Whats really crazy is that Thursday is the one day a week that I don't have class and thats the day I missed an entry lol. Oh well.

Anyways, for some reason this week I decided to venture out from my little room and go talk to people. Its been pretty crazy and its been pretty fun. I don't think I really got sick of being cooped up alone, I guess I just decided that I should get to know these people that I'm going to be living with for the next year and I should probably get to know them before they form an opinion of me and its too late to change it. So this week we've all been hanging out and doing some crazy things (which you can find pictures of on my myspace or on this crazy British socializing fad site that seems to be a low quality myspace copy called bebo). Now its the weekend. Everyone goes home for the weekend. I don't. I like being alone. The weekend has been what I look forward to all week long and its been my relaxing and alone time. It is 11 O'clock on a Friday night. I am already bored out of my mind. I guess this is what happens when you actually talk to people instead of keeping to yourself: when you finally end up by yourself you become so bored its unbelievable. Oh well, thats ok though, there are plenty of things that I SHOULD be doing and just haven't gotten around to. Like looking for the books I need to read for my classes. Or doing my photoshop projects...sigh.

I watched Cloverfield tonight. Mostly cause I had nothing else to do but also because last Friday in my film studies seminar the student teacher brought it up and said we should watch it. If there is anybody reading who hasn't seen Cloverfield and doesn't want to hear anything about it, stop reading now. If you have seen it or you just don't really care if you hear what happens, well its your choice lol. I think Cloverfield was supposed to be a horror film. I'm really glad I didn't see it in theaters. I was laughing almost all the way through it. Right before the movie starts there is a text block that says something about how the tape is the property of the US government and was found in the area formerly known as Central Park or something like that. Right then you know everybody died so I'm not really sure why you would keep watching the movie. I guess just to see HOW they died. The movie itself starts off in this guys house and hes randomly videoing some stuff and then he goes into a room and theres this girl on his bed and he talks to her for a while and then they decide lets go to Coney Island and then it switches to some jerk guy screwing around with a camera and getting yelled at by some girl and I was just like um ok...thats nice. Suddenly everyone is at this party and the jerk guy is talking to some other person about being the camera guy and hes just like oh I don't know how to use a camera but alright I'll do that for you. The main character of the movie is called Robert and hes going to Japan to work and so the party is this going away party for him. The camera guy (Hut? Hud? I dunno) decides to go hit on some chick that hes only ever met twice and she gets freaked out and goes away from him but he ends up stalking her for most of the night. Apparently Hut is Robert's best friend and the jerk dude is called Jason and he is Robert's brother and that girl from the beginning is Jason's girlfriend or fiancee and I don't remember her name but it might be Lily so I'm just going to call her that. Robert comes in and everyone is like surprise and hes like omg I'm so surprised. Then he goes wheres Beth but shes not there. Beth comes in some time later with this other guy and Robert starts freaking out and finally is like come here and talk to me and so they go outside and Hut follows them until he gets yelled at to leave. So Jason and Hut corner Lily and ask her whats going on and she goes Beth and Rob had sex blah blah blah and the guys are like omg they had sex. So Hut goes and does exactly what a best friend should do and tells everyone at the party about it. Eventually Beth and Rob come back in and Beth grabs her man friend and they leave. Hut and Jason take Rob outside to talk about it and then the building shakes and everyone is all OMG WHAT WAS THAT LETS GO ON THE ROOF AND LOOK!!! OH NO BEING ON THE ROOF IS A BAD IDEA THERES FIREBALLS FLYING AT US FROM ALL DIRECTIONS, MAYBE BEING OUTSIDE ON THE GROUND WHERE WHATEVER IS CAUSING THOSE FIREBALLS CAN STOMP ON US OR GET US EASIER! So everyone is stupid and goes outside. By the time the Statue of Liberty's head hits the ground right next to Hut (who is miraculously unhurt) I am just cracking up. Theres these huge claw marks in the side of her head and everyone is just looking at it going 'dur'. After about five minutes they decide that whatever clawed up and threw Lady Liberty's head is malevolent so they run away. Don't get me wrong, it was a pretty good movie and I liked it. The acting was decent, the special effects were cool, and I liked the idea of it being filmed using a regular camera, but some things were just overdone. As far as the rest of the movie goes it was RUN AWAY RUN AWAY. 'Lets escape from the Brooklyn bridge'. Number one rule in a crisis (as far as movies are concerned) NEVER USE THE BRIDGE. Of course it got attacked by the monster when they were halfway across and Jason died. And then it was 'Lets go walk along the subway tracks underground cause theres no way anything could get us down here right?' Wrong. Dumb question. Hut starts talking about some guy who a couple months before was burning hobos down in the subway tunnels which set me off laughing again, but it was probably supposed to be funny. Then that girl that Hut was trying to pick up freaked out because there were thousands of rats running along the ground. Robert states the obvious fact "they are running away from something, somethings coming!" You would generally expect that that gives you reason to run away. They didn't. They kept walking at their general happy walk in the park pace until they heard something behind them and finally decided to turn on the night vision that the camera just so luckily happened to have. The spider/octopus/weird creatures, of course, waited until the people could see them before they attacked. Even though they were right behind them the entire time. But attacking someone when their back is turned is cowardly I suppose. How incredibly decent to wait for them to look. Next time I am in a deserted underground subway tunnel in Manhatten while the buildings about me are being torn to pieces and I hear something moving behind me, I will make sure and remember NOT to look because of course nothing can attack me until I see it. So they fight off an attack from like two of these creatures even though there were way more originally and there were more chasing them when they ran away. Once again I suppose they were being chivalrous and decided that two of them were enough to finish the job. The girl that Hut was stalking in the beginning of the movie got bit by one and was bleeding all over the place, so after locking themselves into a room they broke into some vending machines and tried to clean her up. Then they come to the conclusion that they can die in that room, in the tunnels, or up on the ground, so they go up to the ground. They end up in a mall or something and wander around it for a while until they almost get pwned by the marines. For some reason it is sunny outside so I guess hours must have passed since the attack originally happened which doesn't really make sense because at the end of the movie the Rob is like it is 6:40 something AM and it has been 7 hours since the monster attacked. Maybe they weren't quite outside, but it looked sunny. The marines take them back to their temporary camp and as they stand around and wait for a while stalker girl is like Hut I don't feel good so he turns around and she looking all possessed or something and bleeding out of her eyes and mouth and her wound where she got bit is still bleeding and I just start giggling and think please don't turn into one of those monsters, that would make everything so horrible. Even better. The marine doctors suddenly freak out and start yelling quarantine all over the place and they grab stalker girl and drag her away. Hut is yelling come back come back and he and Lily are trying to chase after them. They put her into some sort of weird tent that you can see her shadow through and seconds later she exploded all over the place in it. Lily and Hut are crying and I was laughing. Funny how they got her into that tent just in time for her to explode. So Hut and Lily and Rob set off to go find Beth again and the marine dude who let them go said be at some place by 0600 hours or you won't get off Manhatten. Blah blah blah random exciting ways to get to the building, OMG Beth's building is leaning against another building, however will we get in! Hut says well lets get up the straight building, get on the roof of Beth's, and then go down to her apartment. He was kidding but everyone else thought it was genius. That part was probably supposed to be funny too. Writing this is boring me. It essentially got to the point in the movie where I am in this writing: Hurry up and die or escape or SOMETHING and get the movie over. I'm pretty sure they didn't even know when to stop...after they got Beth they go to escape in the helicopter and I was like well finally its over...but NO. The monster goes all King Kong on them and smacks the chopper out of the sky and they crash epically. And I was like thank God, its done. Wrong again. Everyone survived the freaking crash after falling about 1000 meters and then crashing into the ground in Central Park. Then the monster eats Hut. I laughed at that too. I would have been in such big trouble had I watched this in the theater lol. So then the marines start blowing up Manhatten and of course Beth and Rob end up dieing too. There are rocks all over the camera, so whoever went looking for it and found it either knew it was there and they were looking for it or the military ended up doing some sort of super thorough sweep of Manhatten after they blew everything up. Anyways, I probably just ruined the movie for some people but whatever, it should have ended sooner. And it shouldn't be called horror cause it really wasn't...at all.