First of all, what a film. Absolutely loved it up until the "twist" ending. The buildup was brilliant! My girlfriend who
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smoko — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 10:53 PM)
@FairlyAnonymous Yes, it was like a movie-length episode of The Twilight Zone.
What was also odd about the ending is how fast the pacing is.
I think they paced it fast because once Michelle got away from Howard, most of the tension of the movie is gone. Time to wrap up the movie.
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m-vaskes — 9 years ago(August 01, 2016 02:58 PM)
The monsters from Cloverfield were aliens too. 10CL is set during the same alien attack we see in the first movie, but at a different place. The filmmakers just didn't limit themselves to the same monsters all over again.
And the decision she makes in the end was to go where people can help her, or to go where she could help people. Which fits with the domestic abuse theme and her regret that she hadn't helped the little girl from her story when she could.
This being said, I did lower my score from 8/10 to 7/10 after seeing the ending, because I thought it wasn't executed very well, the action scenes weren't believable and I personally would have preferred a more bleak or open ending, perhaps she just seeing the aliens in the distance and catching a distress call on the radio after escaping the bunker, something similar in mood to the ending of Stephen King's novella "The Mist" (though the movie ending was awesome too).
But 10CL's ending just seemed a bit rushed, jumping so quickly from the bunker to the alien action scenes didn't work that well for me.
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mgreen9715 — 9 years ago(August 06, 2016 04:34 AM)
Considering how bad the majority of films have been the last few years, this ending was actually decent and tied up loose ends.
The proposed ending of a cliffhanger is cliche and would have just been another of the thousand movies to end on one.
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armhammer — 9 years ago(September 02, 2016 09:35 AM)
I agree with much you say.
The alien that attacked her while in her car looked like nothing more than a huge slug with a single eye, perceiving a person as just a food source. That's supposed to be representative of a superior intelligence seriously threatening mankind ?
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!!!deleted!!! (52800787) — 9 years ago(September 07, 2016 03:48 AM)
Who says the small alien was a member of an intelligent species? Obviously the aliens are trying to replace Earth's ecosystem with their own (the Cloverfield sea monster was likely planted there). That small alien maybe was the equivalent of a wolf. The intelligent alien species is piloting the spacecraft.
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jpozenel — 9 years ago(September 03, 2016 08:04 PM)
At the end I think that she was just going to the place that had the most liquor stores. Bottles of liquor set on fire proved to be the secret weapon against the alien invaders. (I hope I didn't give anything away.)
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sleeping_gorilla — 9 years ago(September 06, 2016 07:20 PM)
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They should have just done the reveal with the ship in the distance, and then run the credits. The extended fight was silly and hurt an otherwise good movie.
Thor 2-Attack of the Clones-The 5th Element the trifecta of bad movies.