Cloverfield: Overhyped or Awesome?

[Stratopwn3r]

monster attacks lover goes finds hot girl hot girl found everyone leaves the monster gets a beer and some crack THE END!!!

[buckahead9]

i saw it the other day with a couple ppl. it was ok, but we all had motion sickness. and the ending blows

[Locomotor]

I think it was overhyped, even though for whatever reason I managed to dodge it all.

Don't get me wrong, I think it was very good. The whole "camcorder" thing didn't live up to its potential I don't think. It was clever that the incident was "taped over" a couple's day at Coney Island, and that yielded interesting things, but so much more could have been done with it. Of course, we're talking about a monster movie, which can't really be that deep anyway. Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Prestige) should do a movie with such a mechanic, perhaps...

In any case, I thought it was an extremely solid, thrill ride of a monster movie.