Cinema Science

I completely agree with Jeffrey Welles over at Hollywood Elsewhere about Cloverfield. They should never show the monster, just little glances and the destruction it causes. Whatever they have come up with will never be as scary as what is in your mind, what you think it is. These things hardly ever live up to the hype and if the monster is sub par in anyway it could ruin the entire thing.

Before 2008 begins, a Cloverfield statement for the ages. I'm not saying the following will happen or that it needs to happen, but the highest expression of the Cloverfield idea would be to never show the beast. A bringer of horror and havoc that doesn't finally exist except in our heads. There's a way for a movie like this to be done right -- all omens and tremors and chaos-around-the-corner -- and if it was nailed just so, it could be beautiful. But of course, there's the moronic-masses factor to consider. 97% of the mob out there would revolt if Cloverfield played this way. JJ Abrams obviously (a) knows this and (b) wants to stay flush and keep crankin' out the Big Dreams, so that's the end of that tune.