Friday, February 01, 2008 . 5:57 AM

CNY rehearsal was screwed up. So was arts@atrium. String broke, then string went flat midway, and other reasons which i can't be bothered to mention.

Forget it, talk about the happy stuff.
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Went with godbro Ivan and Henry to watch Cloverfield. Apparently they've watch The Mist, and said it was a movie with a nice plot but crappy ending. Apparently the guy decided to suicide with everyone since they were are going to die, only to find that after he shot the other 4 guys, he did not have any shots left to kill himself. And just at that instant the police arrived to rescue him. Wtf.

Anyway, Cloverfield was a UBER MOVIE. Throughout the whole movie (other than the credits), it was all filmed with a video camera. Okayy I know of cos they didnt, but the movie was about a video camera documenting the series of events involving the destruction of Manhattan, and moving on to other cities.

The video camera was held by the actor (duh), and thus it was always tilted or shaking, so you feel as if you have to always turn your head to watch, or at least imagine yourself on a roller coaster ride, which is something I find very special about this movie.

In fact, it involves the Statue of Liberty's head being blown off and aliens. In a normal movie, everybody knows its computer effects, but with the video camera effect, it greatly heigtens the reality of the movie, and thus everybody forgets about the special effects, but focus more on the thrills and explosions.

To spoil a little more for you, everybody dies in the end (meh), but actually it is realstic if they all die, since the Govt. TNTed, or hammered the whole city up to destroy the alien. It ends with a cliffhanger, as the movie ends once the surviving pair gets blown up by the explosives, and the video camera is left there, lying still.

At least its not some normal Alien plot that concentrates on the origin of the alien and how to defeat it. Moreover, this time you see it from a civilian's point of view.

The only thing I found unrealistic is how a video camera could have that much battery life, and also how it could have survived so many crashes and drops. My phone already cracked when dropped into a drain from my height. And the freaking camera survived after dropping from an exploded camera in the sky, and the countless drops that the actor had done while tripping onto the floor.

Score: 8.5/10
Lost 1 due to misleading and boring introduction, and 0.5 for the amazing survival of the camera. Alien looked really cool though.

Signing off,
FMA