The best news about the new Cloverfield DVD is that you can
pause it whenever you want in case -- ya know -- halfway through
you feel a little motion sickness. It's been touted as "The
Blair Witch Project meets Godzilla" or "a monster movie for the
You Tube generation," but when it was all said and done
Cloverfield turned out to be an original, captivating piece of
filmmaking that took risks where other films of the genre
would've played it safe. The initial "Holy crap, what is this
movie!" is what attracted people opening weekend, when
Cloverfield grossed a whopping $46 million before dropping off
an equally-as-whopping 68% in box office totals the following
weekend.  Was it the hand-held shakiness that kept people from
seeing it ... and then seeing it again? Or was it because of the
unusual storytelling techniques? Perhaps, in the end, folks
simply enjoyed chasing the film through viral sites more than
they did actually sitting down to watch it in a theater.
Whatever the case may be, I'd definitely recommen