CLOVERFIELD (2008) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

"I take it back, you can go 30 minutes longer" is the greatest response to Cloverfield I ever heard.

You're the first person in a loooong time who went in to watch Cloverfield entirely cold.

The marketing of Cloverfield was genius. Almost nobody knew what it was about when it premiered. I remember people thinking it was a Godzilla movie. All we knew was that it was some kind of horror. The realism is what made it so great.

Don’t look at it, don’t look at it, don’t look at it…I looked at it. 😂 hilarious

I think the reason why nothing is explained is so that it feels the way it would if you were really there -- you wouldn't know all the details of the disaster, you might not see key events but only catch glimpses of things. And surely you would be left with questions, especially if you didn't survive.

I kept waiting for Cassie to realize that Beth’s apartment is the same building where she and Carly went to the Mission Impossible premiere.

The thing that freaked me out in the background lore is that the monster in this movie is JUST A BABY.

Lizzy Caplan thought this was a romantic movie until her second audition, where she read a scene. After she was offered the role, she found out it was a monster movie, and the actors weren't allowed to read the script until after they signed on. And the running time of the film, without credits, is about 80 minutes, the length of a long-running MiniDV tape, a common format used in consumer camcorders.

The scene of them hiding in the store is actually a nearly shot for shot remake of a 9/11 camcorder video of someone being saved from being covered in debris and smoke by being brought into a store. I was 9 years old in Manhattan that day and this movie does a pretty good job of capturing the chaos and confusion - at least from my child memory 10 Cloverfield Lane is a GREAT movie set in this universe and it gives you a protagonist to really cheer for

"Cameraman never dies..." 26:27 Well, there goes _that_ theory.