Comments on: Cloverfield destroys Godzilla http://www.arenamagazine.co.uk/filmandmusic/the-great-cloverfield-divide/ the world's smartest men's magazine Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:09:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: stopsatgreen http://www.arenamagazine.co.uk/filmandmusic/the-great-cloverfield-divide/#comment-28280 stopsatgreen Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:55:43 +0000 http://www.arenamagazine.co.uk/?p=1109#comment-28280 I enjoyed quite a lot of the film, but the central conceit - everything being recorded from a first-person POV - was both the films strongest point, and its weakest. At times the POV worked hugely in its favour to create the mode of chaos and fear. At other times, I just thought: why don't you put the camera down now and help your friends. The Guardian blog recently had a good post talking about <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/archives/2008/02/14/cloverfield_is_halflife.html" rel="nofollow">the influence of Half Life on Cloverfield</a>. I enjoyed quite a lot of the film, but the central conceit - everything being recorded from a first-person POV - was both the films strongest point, and its weakest. At times the POV worked hugely in its favour to create the mode of chaos and fear. At other times, I just thought: why don’t you put the camera down now and help your friends.

The Guardian blog recently had a good post talking about the influence of Half Life on Cloverfield.

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