There were unfortunately also several plot holes, like cellphone batteries that are fully charged right out of the package and the world’s longest lasting camcorder battery. Also amazed at how you can pull a semiconscious girl off a piece of rebar and she walks around like she just had a splinter. My wife is an RT and she said the girl, Beth, would almost have to have a collapsed lung from the spot where the rebar pierced her.

But hollywood is hollywood, and overall an excellent job, some people in the theatre got bored and started jacking with their own cellphones, a teenage boy in front of me was texting on his, and when the movie ended he was startled because he had lost interest, this is mostly due to the endless bouncing around of the camera and imperceptible footage.

The guy with the camera is portrayed as a doofus and this explains why he can’t get a stable shot except where he has to for you to see the monster.

A much cooler device would have been to have the camera operator as a film or mass media student, someone who knows what they’re doing with a camera, this would have allowed for better shooting and retained the realism. Hey, it’s okay, though, nobody’s perfect.

I couldn’t figure out if the “little terrible things” were parasites or babies.

I just wonder if anyone else figured out the title “Cloverfield”, my theory is that it is a reference to the heavy growth of clover that follows a nuclear explosion, as was documented in Hiroshima. From this are we to surmise the explosion at the end was nuclear, and was “The Hammer”? Any thoughts?

Also heard that the whale/crab thing above (third one down) was the original monster, but that it got leaked to the net and then Abrams changed it. Only scuttle-butt, but who knows?

If you didn’t like the camera gyrating from the Blair Witch you definitely wouldn’t like this one, but it was worth my eight and a half bucks and 90 minutes of my time!

In the shot where they’re on the ferris wheel at Coney Island, you can see it in the background fall into the ocean from outerspace.

I think that’s the whole point actually. That’s one of the things that made this such a cool movie. It was done entirely in first person. Think about it: if something like this really did happen, and one was caught up in it, there wouldn’t be any comforting voiceovers or cutaways where someone suddenly figured things out. You wouldn’t know what the thing was, or where it came from, and if you weren’t lucky enought to survive and get evacuated, you never would find out.

To delve into all the unanswered questions about the monster would require a sequel. If they do a sequel, it will have to be much different, because they won’t get away with this first-person on-the-spot format again. A sequel would have to be more like a traditional action/horror movie.

I don’t know if I want a sequel. If they make one it will either be awesome or awful.

I nitpicked about one or two little things with the crowd scenes mainly; the population of New York includes people of all ages, and lots of animals, especially dogs, none of which were a part of any outdoor scene – but on the whole it was a terrific flick.