Harry Knowles eats CLOVERFIELD
I've just stumbled across Harry Knowles' amazingly glowing review of CLOVERFIELD over at AICN, possibly the best review I have ever seen Harry give to a movie. Even more so than the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy. Now Harry is known to get himself a little too excited over movies from time to time and we have to remember that he LOVES his monsters and gave a similar kind of review for Roland Emmerich's GODZILLA remake a decade ago. A movie which I think he was the only person on the planet who liked upon it's initial release.
Still we love the guy and if he's right, we are in for a really special treat when this opens soon..."Utterly Brilliant". "CLOVERFIELD is a bold genre-reinvention unlike anything weve ever seen before". "Like SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, but instead of Nazis its a giant monster". "Theres no score, theres no rules, there feels like theres no script and no movie. It feels found, but it is so huge that you cant ever really believe that but handheld film just has never had a story of something this fantastical or huge happen. The movie is a landmark genre film. A true milestone in film".The big monster movie opens next week in the U.S and in February in the U.K. One thing happened to me yesterday when I visited one of my mates who I talk to about movies quite a lot and he didn't even know what CLOVERFIELD was. And you know he has a real point. Where is the marketing in the U.K? Where are the trailers? Where are the t.v. spots? No-one here seems to care about it and I've told my girlfriend about four times the title of the movie is CLOVERFIELD but she can never remember it. Not exactly the best name for a big monster epic? I really hope they aren't neglecting the movie in the U.K. because this could be huge over here if it got some good backing.