I just got around to watching Cloverfield.  I picked it up at a Fresno Blockbuster (I do love my Total Access) and watched it the same night.  I watched the beginning with interest and tried all throughout the movie to find out what this crazy Manhattan wrecking monster was or if it had any similarities to creatures we currently know.

After watching the entire movie (and being disappointed at the ending), I decided to watch a few of the extras to see what they said about the monster in Cloverfield.

The guy who designed the monster said that it was a baby.  How were we supposed to know it was a baby?  It was eating people and knocking over buildings, it wasn’t playing or having a good time nor did it growl in a baby voice.

Then the guy said the Cloverfield monster was scared.  Scared!?!?  How am I supposed to interpret a 350 foot tall monster eating people and destroying a city?  It seems like this monster was on the attack.  After all, it never tried to run, it was attacking, especially in the helicopter scene where it jumps out of the mist and smoke to attack a helicopter that was fleeing the scene.  I would assume a scared monster would be heading back to the ocean, where it came from.

Lastly, the monster was horribly designed.  It was both too boring and too far fetched in the design and qualities.  It had typical horror movie qualities like the little babies that jumped off.  Whenever they bit someone, another baby jumped out.  Typical horror movies have some sort of continuation to the plot so that just incase someone kills the main monster, there are thousands more.

Like typical horror movies, the monster didn’t look real at all.  It came out of the ocean right?  Why didn’t the cloverfield monster have any kind of swimming abilities?  Arms aren’t great for swimming, but tails and fins are.  Oh yeah, it didn’t have a tail or fins.  It did have some weird head gills though.  I don’t mind monsters that don’t look real, but if the point of the movie is to be a realistic type fantasy like King Kong, Big Foot, or Godzilla, make the thing resemble something viewers would understand.

The final thing that struck me as ridiculous is that JJ Abrams said something about how the Japanese always have their monster, Godzilla.  He wanted the Cloverfield monster to be the USA monster.  Sorry dude, your monster sucks worse than the ending!  Please stick to Lost and drop the Cloverfield sequel already.  This one was bad enough.

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