All this rain made me think today of that Godzilla movie made like 10 years ago where it was raining in New York the entire movie. That's basically like where I am, except they weren't able to register how sucky the rain was because they had a giant monster destroying their city. They were blissfully ignorant of the rain. I am I actually complaining about this?
Anyway since I was thinking of it I just thought about the great American monster movies, which there really aren't that many of. They are really all Japanese, and all we have had in America are a few old movies, like War of the Worlds (1953) and (2005) if you can really call them monster movies, then the one I mentioned: Godzilla (1998) which was not eve
n close to spectacular. Then of course Cloverfield, which I absolutely loved. In fact, I remember J.J. Abrams talking about why he made that movie, and he said he wanted to give America its very own monster. I guess that is really the only legit one we have.
That movie was so good that I have re-watched it god knows how many times, and every time I want to go out and make my own shaky cam movie, but then I realize I have no money and it would never be as cool, so I just keep it in my head. Nevertheless that style of filmmaking really appealed to me in that movie, even more so than in The Blair Witch Project. I think that ideally every scary movie should be shot that way, were it not for the fact that it would get incredibly old after a while. But still, just by itself, a movie can be much more effective if the audience even believes for a second that it is really happening. That was what Cloverfield did for me. It was the camera work that allowed me to suspend my disbelief for the entire film, and it made it scary as hell to watch. Anyway, that is my rambling on about rain and monster movies, enjoy this video and a few pictures.
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