Monster (2008)

I've seen so many people talk about this film in a negative light....but they're all wrong! This is the greatest movie ever made! Casablanca and Citizen Kane ain't got nuthin on this SH*T! I mean, the actors are SO believable in their performances, and i'm so surprised that they aren't in any other movies! The monster itself looks amazing, and it makes movies like Cloverfield or Godzilla look like fake clay puppets. The camera work is also amazing,and the random effects added in make the camera work even better, making everyone look like they're actually there! This is definitely the best movie ever made! Or.....it's a giant piece of Tyrannosaur dookie. Also, it's a rip off of Cloverfield....just wanted you to know. However, i actually do have two uses for this movie 1. As a piece of toilet paper 2. As a sleep aid (it's so boring you're probably not going to make it through without falling asleep or skipping through)

Even bored on a rainy Sunday afternoon I could not cope with watching this. It's another "found footage" film, which in itself is not necessarily a bad thing - some of them can be good. This, however, was in my opinion unwatchable. A large amount of the run time had nothing discernible on screen thanks to the massive amount of camera-waggle and low light etc. I know some degree of this is part of the genre but in this it was far too much. Unless it was a dull (and often repetitive) piece to camera by one of the 2 main characters you could barely see anything and the waggling camera is enough to make you feel sick. This is one of those low budget films where almost nothing happens, when it does you don't see much (it's basically a monster movie with almost no monster at all) and it felt like a total waste of my time. I've thrown this away because I would feel guilty if someone else ended up paying any money for it and wasting 90 minutes of their life on it. It truly is awful.

Very rarely is there a film that comes out with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING redeemable about it. Even garbage like transformers 2 has one scene that at least makes it look like one part of got it right (even for one second), and even batman and robin is so bad its hilarious. This movie just has absolutely nothing to it, not even as a riffing movie with friends over a beer, its just that bad. The monster isn't even shown for a good glance, and when you do its so generic, acting so bad you actually feel sorry for the actors involved, and it doesn't show its budget. And it wasn't even 1 million dollars. Do yourself a favor, don't waste your time on this, watch something worthwhile or just take a nap. Its just a waste of time

Perhaps one of you, eloquent commentators, could explain how "Monster" (on the market since January 18, 2008) can be a knockoff of "Cloverfield" (on the screen since January 16, 2008)? A great show of clairvoyance or a masterpiece of film-making and marketing? There are quite a few flaws in the movie (like why the recording on the first cassettes was OK and the distorted picture/sound effects appear at the same time the monster does - if the cassettes were found later together, damaged), but they are their own flaws. Oh, and stop wondering how one camera battery could hold for so long - the girls had a few batteries, as they indicate themselves at one point.