❝People are strange creatures. You can't always convince them that safety is in their best interest.❞
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It really hurts when you're fully invested in a film and it suddenly switches from great to dumb. As a psychological thriller, 10 Cloverfield Lane had me hooked from the very start.
It was a bit harrowing to watch John Goodman as the unstable antagonist because I usually think of him as Sully from Monsters, Inc., but he did an incredible job of filling the other two main characters and me with absolute dread. And Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Gallagher Jr. were really good, too; I was rooting for them so hard, and Emmett didn't deserve that ending 😭.
As I already mentioned, the plot grabbed my attention almost immediately and kept it tightly held in Howard's hands for the majority of the film. Which is why, after the excellent two-thirds that took place in the bunker, I was pretty pissed when it suddenly changed into an alien invasion story. Maybe it's because I haven't watched any of the other Cloverfield films, but it was just such a 180° shift that it ruined the end of the film for me.
It can be difficult to make an engaging film set mostly in one location, but the static and observational style of camerawork serves to create a very claustrophobic and panic-inducing atmosphere. It, of course, also forces the viewer into the pretty limited perspectives of Michelle and Emmett as they fight to survive Howard.
I'll definitely be watching this again, but next time I'm gonna just stop the film when Michelle exits the bunker to save myself from fresh heartache.
❝People are strange creatures. You can't always convince them that safety is in their best interest.❞
𐄁─────⋆⁺‧₊☽ ◯ ☾₊‧⁺⋆─────𐄁
It really hurts when you're fully invested in a film and it suddenly switches from great to dumb. As a psychological thriller, 10 Cloverfield Lane had me hooked from the very start.
It was a bit harrowing to watch John Goodman as the unstable antagonist because I usually think of him as Sully from Monsters, Inc., but he did an incredible job of filling the other two main characters and me with absolute dread. And Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Gallagher Jr. were really good, too; I was rooting for them so hard, and Emmett didn't deserve that ending 😭.
As I already mentioned, the plot grabbed my attention almost immediately and kept it tightly held in Howard's hands for the majority of the film. Which is why, after the excellent two-thirds that took place in the bunker, I was pretty pissed when it suddenly changed into an alien invasion story. Maybe it's because I haven't watched any of the other Cloverfield films, but it was just such a 180° shift that it ruined the end of the film for me.
It can be difficult to make an engaging film set mostly in one location, but the static and observational style of camerawork serves to create a very claustrophobic and panic-inducing atmosphere. It, of course, also forces the viewer into the pretty limited perspectives of Michelle and Emmett as they fight to survive Howard.
I'll definitely be watching this again, but next time I'm gonna just stop the film when Michelle exits the bunker to save myself from fresh heartache.
