it's not cloverfield i object to per se, that fulfils it's objective of being a big dumb monster movie and selling lots of DVDs; but to give it's director the chance to mangle a (mostly) subdued and atmospheric film like LTROI will no doubt prove to be a mistake. Hollywood is so patronizing to the American audiences it's ridiculous, the cult popularity of LTROI speaks for itself. But then 'cult' is not exactly blockbusting opening weekend sales is it?

I was just sort of going on a tirade about how I hate Cloverfield but I agree with your (slightly more sophisticated) point as well. Hollywood clearly knows what it's doing because it'll most likely make a lot of money but ****ing ****, if you have to make a remake at least pick a director mildly suited to that task.

I didn't even like the original that much... but I accidentally saw the English dubbed version which probably subtracted from the mood about 2000%.

I liked Cloverfield actually, Godzilla meets Blair Witch was a pretty great concept and I thought it was done well, but yeah, of course it's being made into a gimmick now, horror movies that emulate the home movie/documentary visual style is a big trend right now.

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I knew that.

I saw The Crazies. I liked it. My standards for modern horror films are pretty low though.

I get the whole don't judge a book by its cover thing, but my god. I don't think I'd ever willingly pay for a movie called 'The Crazies,' knowing they were serious.

Even the original George Romero movie from the 70s? I've never seen it but I've always wanted to.

In the time since I've seen this it's become my favorite movie, atm. I think I've gone to bed with this on about 37 nights in a row now.

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I have to say I was a little disappointed after watching this last night. I was neither scared nor entertained. There were a few parts of the movie which got my heart beating, but other than that it was a waste of 87 minutes. The end scene was probably the best part of the movie, but some of the scenes reminded me of other movies, specifically when Micah lifts the camera to pan around the attic, right out of [REC].

*Spoilers*

The movie certainly did have some deeper meanings to it, namely that Micah (the boyfriend) was the antagonist of the movie and NOT the supposed demon haunting Katie. The psychic who visits them early in the movie states that whatever entity it is, it's feeding off negative energy and as the movie progresses you see how controlling and abusive Micah and Katie's relationship is. Micah's continued attempts at establishing himself as the dominant one only exacerbate the entity's behavior. Not only that, I have a sneaking suspicion the reason he waits so long to "allow" Katie to call the demonologist that the psychic recommends is because they would be able to recognize Micah as the cause of the haunting.

Bad movie but had some interesting afterthoughts.

^Hmmmmmm ..

Which ending did you watch? There are multiple versions. Just slap a big, red spoiler warning on your post :p:

I watched the theatrical ending where...

SPOILER

Katie becomes possessed again and stares at Micah while he's sleeping for several hours. Finally she goes downstairs and begins to scream, alerting Micah who runs downstairs and some kind of struggle ensues. Then heavy footsteps, Micah's body gets hurled at the camera.

I did watch the other two endings online, the one where Katie commits suicide and when the cops shoot Katie after being startled by a slamming door.