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[kosmopol]

I'm from Germany. I'm into Cloverfield since July 2007 so I was pretty eager to know, what's going on (and I had to avoid the [spoiler]-marked threads in this forum for torturing 2 weeks).

I've seen the movie and I have to say: It was better, than I imagined before. But it wasn't a cinematographic revolution (it was very impressive, though). I enjoyed the seven months before and of course I also enjoyed
that 85 minutes. But I found the Cloverfield ARE more interesting and addicting than the movie.

Of course, it was the apotheosis of the story, and of course I sympathized to our good old MySpace friends. But the movie itself was like "OK, I've got it, I'll buy DVD and perhaps forget the most scenes", but the ARG/ARE is everlasting in my mind, even because of the whole collective imagination power we used this whole time together.

In German cinema there wasn't many people, and it was really mismanagement in Germany. I predicted it (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=24181), because Cloverfield was in US mostly a marketing success. Even if very enigmatic and with less of information. In Germany there was no information, really nothing besides of TV clips and 2-3 paper standees in theaters.

Even in gratis preview cinema magazines - just no word about Cloverfield. This is not a marketing of secretiveness. This is not a marketing at all. So the cinema wasn't really full. Now - the end of first week - Cloverfield has in cinema charts on the 6th place (hehe, that famous number 6).

Anyway, the event of movie premiere was great for me (I couldn't really sleep before that day like in my childhood before X-Mas Day). And I was not disappointed.

The German media critisized the movie mostly because they don't really know about the ARG. I mean, everyone knows, there was something marketing-alike hype and stuff. But the "what" is unknown for the journalists. So they observe the movie like a "new hip and hype monster movie from Hollywood, nothing more".

They don't know the deep dimension behind that movie.

But I try to tell about everything in German Wiki and in my blog. Hope, I can show people, what it IS.

***Sorry for long text. And thank to people, who has read it ***

[caoslayer]

[11808]

[fredthedeadhead]

My friend has a funny story about when he saw it. At the end of the film, this chavvy girl stood up and shouted in her stupid accent "why the fuck was it called 'Cloverfield'?"

[underwaterdonkey]

[octaine]

The monster could easily scare the shit out of godzilla... damn that was one ugly motherfucker! I liked it a lot! It reminds me a lot of Idiocracy, another movie I can watch soooo many times and still discover new things...

[Kahran]

I loved the movie even if my expectations was damn high. Been lurking around on the forum and posting a little here and there since very early in the ARE, and it was just so great to finally be able to see the movie here in Norway on Friday. It was everything I wanted it to be and more.

I was damn sceptical about Hud's funny lines as some said they were the only one keeping the story together, but they were delivered great and it was so nice to see someone rather "noname" acting as good as any other "I'm a big star" actor/actress. If the people in Cloverfield doesn't get famous after that movie then I donno what's wrong with the world. They deserve all the credit they can for pulling off such a strange secretcy (is that even a word?) of a movie. Damn if I had played someone there I'd be talking about everything all the time if having the possibility

From what it seemed in the cinema pretty many people that was sitting around me said that they liked the movie to someone so I think it was rather nicely recieved in Norway Atleast at the screening I went to see.