{"id":92,"date":"2008-01-19T21:38:24","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T01:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/reviewer\/cloverfield\/"},"modified":"2008-01-19T21:38:55","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T01:38:55","slug":"cloverfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/reviewer\/cloverfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloverfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I browsing around the internets this morning and came across a few mentions of the movie Cloverfield. I vaguely remembered seeing the preview and thinking it looked interesting. But when I saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bablog\/2008\/01\/18\/cloverfield-review\/\">Bad Astronomer<\/a> (who seems to have a pretty good taste in movies) say it was (and I quote) <q>AWESOME<\/q>, that was enough for me.  So I woke up Xiaofen and we headed off to the theater ($5 off if you go to the 10:15AM show).<\/p>\r\n<p>After seeing it I have to agree, I really enjoyed it and I was on the edge of my seat through the whole thing. I definitely recommend Cloverfield (in the theater if possible). Just one caveat, it&#8217;s possible the camera work might disturb anyone with motion sickness although Xiaofen didn&#8217;t have any trouble and she gets car sick all the time. I had only seen the (cryptic) trailer and didn&#8217;t have any expectations going in and I think that helped so I&#8217;m going to leave it at that and follow <a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.typepad.com\/wwdnbackup\/2008\/01\/cloverfield.html\">Wil Wheaton&#8217;s example<\/a> and leave my slightly more detailed analysis in the comments.<\/p>\r\n<p>Oh if you&#8217;re like me and worry that the director is going to stick a little extra on after the credits, there is a little something but it&#8217;s not really worth waiting for (only a couple seconds of audio and I&#8217;ll link to it below).<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Possible spoilers in the comments<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I browsing around the internets this morning and came across a few mentions of the movie Cloverfield. I vaguely remembered seeing the preview and thinking it looked interesting. But when I saw the Bad Astronomer (who seems to have a pretty good taste in movies) say it was (and I quote) AWESOME, that was enough [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[270,139,271,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}