A Note to the Fine Folks Who Made Cloverfield
Posted by: pcloeb on: 27/04/2008
See me after class.
In the future, please make your characters more sympathetic. The characters are all pretty much selfish, arrogant, self-centered, former hipsters and future yuppies.
I understand people make irrational decisions in weird situations but all these characters did were irrational decisions. Of course they also fought with each other a lot and there was just the thinnest hints of justification for their actions. They got annoying and I couldn’t wait to see their inevitable deaths. (See: Irrational decisions). By the time the movie got heavy as characters reflected on the situation, it was ridiculous to see them weep over their dead friends because I don’t believe they really gave two shits about anybody else but themselves except for Rob and his “noble” act of trying to retrieve the-might-be-dead-might-be-alive Beth.
Next time you come up with a really good idea for a monster movie. Think about your perspective. When the monster is the focus it’s okay to have paper thin characters. However, when you try to give us the perspectives of Joe and Jane Everyman, well we should at least sympathize with them a little.
I’ll write some more about it when I catch up on the other billion things I need to write about here.
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