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So, while I’m on the subject of movies, and can access my servers for long enough to do this for the first time since Sunday, I should do my take on Cloverfield.

Bubblehead gave it “3 Uncomfortably Vivid 9/11 Reminders out of five,” but I thought it was damned near perfect. Given what it is, that is. It’s a monster flick. It’s never going to be Citizen Cane. It’s always bugged me when people revew movies on one huge standard rather than taking into account the movie they’re reviewing. And what’s with the Citizen Cane thing, anyway. I’ve never really wanted to watch it, but Peter has and he didn’t think it was all that special. But I’m getting distracted.

There was only one point where I had my head down behind my coat, and if you’ve seen it you’ll know what that part was, which is good because I actually saw the whole movie. Which is good. I loved the monster. It was very Japanese, so when our self-imposed media blackout was lifted when we came home from the movie, it was funny to see that Abrams got the idea for it visiting a toy store in Tokyo with his kid.

But the best part was the way it was about a bunch of silly spoiled New York 20-somethings, the kind of kids that makes everybody tut-tut about how useless modern generations are, soft and unprepared, etc etc, but it took the main guy and made him just sort of step up and be a hero. And not in a stupid movie way, where suddenly he’d be jumping off trains and expertly handling anti-aircraft guns, but in a quiet, necessary way, acknowledging his limited abilities but still doing it, which is how I think most people actually would react.