Anders Wright Posted something interesting today on lastblogonearth.com
The first paragraph is here:
How to put this? Well, if Juno was the first real movie for the bloggers, Cloverfield is the first movie for the YouTubers.
But wait, you say. The Blair Witch Project did the same thing, with the handheld camera and the motion sickness and all the other trappings. Sure, but the makers of Blair Witch used a clever device because they had no money, and then worked that shit online. Now it’s almost 10 years later (believe it or not). We actually watch video on our computers, all the time. Cloverfield taps into that and makes the complete POV film, teaming a considerable budget with the wily smarts of J.J. Abrams and the standard monster movie concept and turns the dial up to 11. It’s Blair Witch meets YouTube meets Godzilla meets Tremors meets Lost. If you’re a fan of the genre, your time has come. Your stomach may turn but […]