This post is long past due... but about a month ago, we ordered Cloverfield On Demand due to my coaxing and assuring my parents it was pretty outrageous and amazing. My Dad was interested and gave it his full attention, but my Mom didn't fully commit (at first)... as usual, she had the "Ideas" section of the Globe to keep her interest JUST IN CASE...
Sooner than I had anticipated, I found they were BOTH drawn in... the comments they made warranted some note taking on my part, and here is a selection of the best and brightest from that fateful day:
(2 minutes into the movie, when Rob is videotaping Beth's apartment. Camera scans over pictures of Beth)
DAD: Is SHE Cloverfield??
(Camera scans to view of Central Park)
Is THAT Cloverfield??
(As party scene commences)
MOM: Is it... a field of clovers?
(Party scene is in mid-swing, Hud scans over random partygoers, including random girl who I will call Partygoer #3)
DAD: She's DONE. Cloverfield is gonna step on her!
(Lily, Jason and Hud are in the kitchen talking about how Rob and Beth "totes" hooked up y'aaallll - scandals! The clock on the wall behind them reads 12:10)
DAD: Ten past 12! The witching hour is here!! C'mon, Clove*!!
(Ten minutes go by)
DAD: Twenty past twelve!!
MOM: Sh-sh-SHHHH!!
(Everyone is on the Brooklyn Bridge trying to get out of Manhattan, of course the bridge is about to collapse)
MOM: I sure as hell wouldn't be on a bridge, because I think monsters LIKE bridges based on my experience as a moviegoer.
Yes, thank you parents... your commentary has been valuable and hilarious.
*Please note how my Dad is on a first name/nickname basis with creatures in movies. He refers to the monster in Cloverfield as "Clove", and just so you know... he calls Jeepers Creepers simply "Jeepers".
Oh ya... we had to rewind and pause the last scene when the alien pod falls into the ocean about five times so my Mom could see it... why am I moving to Chicago??
2 comments:
This is up there with the X-Men 3 watching.
I heart Martha and Peter.
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