History Headscratchers / Cloverfield

*** The bluray special feature Jossed that; it states that the boat didn't explode at that point and would not explode for several hours. Maybe Clover ruptured a lot of gas manes or something?

** This has already been asked, and nobody has a solution.Maybe Clover was resting in the park after knocking the chopper down, and the movement from the chopper got it's attention.

* These were young women 18-30 we're typing about here. At their ages they can climb mount everest in high heels. It's the over 30 women who have to creatively hide their age related inability to wear high heels all night.
** Does not reflect this female troper's experience. Some women don't feel discomfort in heels, even cheap ones. Some feel lots, even in quality ones. It has nothing to do with age. This Troper's mother wears heels much more than she does.
** And that's not even mentioning that it's extremely hard to run for your life in strappy high-heels, much less over debris, gravel, on a slanted-roof, etc. Even if a woman in comfortable is them, they're very impractical shoes.

* What bugs me is 18 freakin' minutes at the beginning wasted to establish that someone would be carrying a camera around for the remaining 66 minutes. "Duh! I'm documenting this!" Then there's the extremely long shot with the Mountain Dew cooler brightly lit (by comparison with the rest of the room) and perfectly clear almost dead-center while they were discussing what to do next at one point. Oh, and Marlena sitting there looking bored and completely unconcerned as she asked how bad her wounds were. And them yanking Beth off of the spike that was impaling her - and which would have been the only thing keeping her from bleeding to death (and I couldn't spot any blood on her after that, either). But what bugs me most is that I wasted 84 minutes of my life on this movie today, plus the time it took to go to the library, check it out, and take it home. Thank the gods I wasn't one of those poor souls duped into paying $12 at the theatre or, even worse, $20 to actually buy the DVD... I'll admit there was one decent part, though: near the end where the monster was staring at the idiot (ie, Hud) and lunges. Pity, though, that after all the mangly chewy noises, he's spit right back out, even though you'd think a critter that big wouldn't need to bother chewing something so small...
** Dude, this ain't the place to [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike Complain About Movies You Dont Like]].

* What bugs me are the interruptions when the camera stop recording and show those TastesLikeDiabetes moments. My reason is that right at the begging we are told that the recording was found and that is, IIRC, from a SD memory card and not form a video tape, and some how the new video is recorded over old video, and i don't think that, if the SD card had suffered damage, the process to recover the data would have overwrite one video over the other.

* How about the noisy monster rampaging through the city almost the entire movie...and then creeping up Ninja-style in the park?

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* It bugs me that the movie let way too many things go unanswered and then (depending on who you talk to) either [[WordOfGod tried to use the ARG and interviews to fill in the gaps after the fact;]] or [[GodNeverSaidThat didn't,]] and they were well and truly [[AssPull yanking plot points out of their rectums.]] I get what they were trying to do; I know that your average person in that kind of survival situation wouldn't have access to those answers. But it seems like they took the "We don't have to explain ourselves lulz" excuse and ran with it, to the point where ''nothing'' makes sense and the plot is impenetrable simply for the sake of being impenetrable.

*** Okay, maybe I expressed myself poorly. What I was trying to say was that ''before'' they went off to save Beth, during the "Let's go to that Whateveritsnameis Bridge!" scene, I was completely confused as to where the main characters and the crowd they were part offwhere heading, and I got the impression that they were heading to a ''different'' part of NYC instead of trying to get ''out'' of the city. That scene is kind of hard to follow for me. Also, I don't remember the helicopters being a factor in that scene where they're crossing the Nameescapesmeatthemoment Bridge, so maybe that's why it struck me as stupid - I dunno, it made more sense to me that they'd go for the nearest way out of NYC.

*** Okay, maybe I expressed myself poorly. What I was trying to say was that ''before'' they went off to save Beth, during the "Let's go to that Whateveritsnameis Bridge!" scene, I was completely confused as to where the main characters and the crowd they were part off where heading, and at one point I got the impression that they were heading to a ''different'' part of NYC instead of trying to get ''out'' of the city. That scene is kind of hard to follow for me. Also, I don't remember the helicopters being a factor in that scene where they're crossing the Nameescapesmeatthemoment Bridge.

*** Okay, maybe I expressed myself poorly. What I was trying to say was that ''before'' they went off to save Beth, I was completely confused as to where the main characters and the crowd they were part off where heading, and at one point I got the impression that they were heading to a ''different'' part of NYC instead of trying to get ''out'' of the city. That scene is kind of hard to follow for me. Also, I don't remember the helicopters being a factor in that scene where they're crossing the Nameescapesmeatthemoment Bridge.

** Wow. This isn't ignorance of NYC geography, this is just not paying attention, and blaming the movie for it. They were headed for a building in NYC to the guy's girlfriend, and then they went to the helicopters in an attempt to evactuate like everybody else. Not complicated at all.