The wife and I just got back from some of the best 90 minutes we’ve spent at the movies. I was impressed. She was floored. This movie is everything the American-made Godzilla flick should have been, but wasn’t. Really, really well done. You have to be able to sit through 20 minutes of a Dawson’s Creek episode, though, but it’s worth it. Go watch.
A side note: we were two seats over from an Asian couple with their two kids, approximately two and four years old. Cloverfield is a loud, intense film. Aside from the age-appropriateness of exposing kids that age to such a cacophany, that was some damned impressive parenting skills we witnessed. The children made not a peep during the entire movie, just sat there playing silently with a toy in each lap.
Oh, and the Iron Man trailer was just about perfect. Whoever’s making this film really respects the comics character, which is as it should be.
I thought it was going to flop – goodness was I wrong. Quite an astonishing movie, wasn’t it? I’ve got to say that it was one of the better movie experiences I’ve had in awhile.
Just got back myself… I loved it. Couple of cheesy lines but other than that I thought it was well worth the 9 bucks for the ticket. Gave my wife motion sickness though.
I believe Ironman is being made by John Favreu.