The Cloverfield Post

I went to see Cloverfield last night at the midnight showing and if you like Monster Movies, like I do, than you'll probably realize that this film is really great. If you don't like Monster flicks you'll probably leave the theatre scratching your head and saying, "What's all the fuss about?" Plenty of critics will be praising the director for incorporating so many 9/11 allegories, fear of technology et cetera into the plot, however, for me it's simply a very satisfactory film that takes a tired genre and introduces a lot of very cool new twists to it. Now I'm not going to sit here and type away every single spoiler to the film,Minor Spoiler Alert but, if you know my taste in movies, you know I love it when the good guy does not win in the end and Cloverfield definitely did not disappoint in that regard. The monster that rampages through lower Manhattan, and presumably all of New York, is a real freak and I'm very curious to hear the backstory (if any) on the origins of it, that being said there are some very gratuitous and crappy looking close up shots of the monster that kinda made me want to laugh out loud. Go see it, and I hope you'll enjoy it.

Bullish and Bearish

It's time for another installment of Bullish and Bearish wherein Suddenlystruttin rambles and rants on what we feel is the hott and the decidedly not.

Bullish


Cloverfield

I've been bullish on this movie since the teaser hit youtube back in July and everyone was referring to it as "01-18-08" or simply, "JJ Abrams new project." Now they've released the full trailer and the movie is going to be called "Cloverfield." This trailer does not disappoint and I am extremely intrigued by what this flick can bring to the table. That being said, good monster movies are reaaallly hard to pull off, so, I need to temper my enthusiasm with a dose of: "Eh, it's not gonna be that great."
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New Silver Jews Album*

That cantankerous and oh, so poetic troubadour of "The People," David Berman, is at it again with a new album coming out sometime next spring, right around my birthday if anyone's wondering about what to get me... This time around the collection of songs will be called, "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea." Sounds pretty stupid to me, but hey, so does "Cloverfield" and lame titles aren't going to stop me from checking either of them out.

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Bearish


Sabotage

I'm all for sabotage along as it never, ever under any circumstances puts a beautiful, young woman at risk of losing her beauty and youth. This automatically puts me ahead of whatever courtesan/harlot/hussy that dared to endanger the looks of the tender and recently crowned Miss Puerto Rico. Allegedly the jealous competitor sprayed the clothing of Miss PR with pepper spray. Which reminds me of a funny story in which I used pepper spray as an aphrodisiac...it didn't work and I digress! In any case, Fuck! are women ever ruthless when it comes to competition and beauty pageants and whatnot.

"I'm not noticing any irritation, would you mind removing your bikini, so that I may, ahh, analyze the affected areas more closely?"

* Thanks to alert reader and Columbus, Ohio resident, David for bringing this to my attention.