There are no spoilers in this blog - I don't believe in them. I'm not stupid, I know they exist, I'm just not going to be someone who creates a spoiler. I think it's just common courtesy. A certain movie theater on the other-hand was not so courteous.

I went to see Cloverfield with Sylvia and Ezekiel.
The theater in question has started a little, what I like to call, "customer service moment" after the trailers, but before the feature. It's bad enough that I've had to adjust my arrival time to the theater such that I miss the genuine commercials, but still catch the trailers. Now they send a kid who fancies himself a thespian out to tell us how wonderful DLP technology is. Then they play the DLP trailer, and then the movie.

This time the kid came out and did not mention the millions of colors, the sparkling clarity nor even the marvelous contrast ratio provided by the DLP experience. Nay, he stepped out into the role of the film critic.

I should point out that I don't like to know too much about movies before I go to them I want to enjoy the experience and be surprised. Some movies, if you've seen the trailer, you've seen the movie. Those are annoying. I had managed to shield myself from most things about the movie before I got there. I knew from the trailer that something happened, everyone was scared, and we might see some of it through a hand-held home video camera.

So, when the kid stepped out to talk about DLP and instead started talking about the movie, he revealed certain truths about the movie that I did not know before that moment.

sigh...

I'm not going to tell you anything about it other than what I thought of the movie. Ready? If you don't want to know what I thought, don't read any more. In fact, I'm placing this image here again so that you won't go any further if you don't want to.




It
Was
AWESOME!!!
If you see one movie this month - go see that. It's got everything a great summer blockbuster needs, except the summer.
WOW!!!
Whew!
Great movie...
Yeah!

2 Comments:

 Jules said...
I so agree with you about trailers and critics giving away spoilers. That's not their job! That's why (short plug for my critic hubby here) Barry is such a great critic. He never gives away plot twists, just his opinion on why he liked or didn't like a movie. He liked Cloverfield, by the way. You can read his reviews on Rotten Tomatoes if you search "Barry Wurst" or at screengeeks.com. (Shameless plug over.)
11:11 AM, January 23, 2008

 

 Brian Atkinson said...
Yepper!
I'm a fan of Barry Wurst's screengeeks reviews and the ones on rotten tomatoes.
5:24 PM, January 23, 2008

 

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