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Cloverfield (2008)
Another over hyped piece of trash
Cloverfield tries to emualte The Blair Witch Project and fails spectacularly. If you're going to rip off a movie, rip off a good one! Everything about this movie stinks. The "gimmick" of being recorded on home video gets in the way of actually telling the story. Literally there are plot points that cannot get across because of the films style. When one of your main characters is heard but hardly seen, it makes sense for that character to not have an annoyingly whiny and dumb voice. In fact, all of the male actors in this movie are stupifyingly annoying. So much so, they all mold into one person. I couldn't tell who was who for most of this movie, making it hard to care about any of the characters plights. All the cool stuff happens off screen or out of focus or the camera is filming the ground at the time. It is the cinematic equivalent of turning up ten seconds after a hot chick has just put her top back on. This will be a contender for worst film of the year- a film that is too bogged down in it's own cleverness and gimmickry to make sense or engage the audience.
Rogue (2007)
A croc movie that is a CROCK
Greg McLean's follow up to Wolf Creek about a killer croc may well come back to bite him...on the arse. Underwritten to the extreme, this movie harks back to 70's creature films but isn't anywhere near as fun. The cast have nothing to do, especially John Jarratt who seems to stand around in a bad moustache and fat suit. The acting is on par with bad Crocodile Dundee ultra-Australian stereotyping. We don't see enough gore which made me think there will be the obligatory "Unrated" DVD to suck more money out of us. Disappointing film that pays not to think about too much because logic was out having a smoke on the set of this one.