The film was a great suspense film. I loved it.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — 10 Cloverfield Lane
AtheismBecauseReason — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 07:10 AM)
The film was a great suspense film. I loved it.
It was nearly perfect the way it ended with her seeing the birds and removing her mask, taking in a deep breath. It really was compelling. And then she sees the UFO in the sky, and the weird dog creature.
At that point you're just watching an entirely different film and in the worst way possible I was asking myself WTF?
From that point on it played out like the directors 10 year old son thought it would be really super NEATO! to add in these crazy alien fight scenes at the end with splosions!!!!!!!
One of the most misplaced, jarring, unsophisticated endings to an otherwise good film I've ever seen. -
AtheismBecauseReason — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 07:08 AM)
It technically made sense, but for 10 solid minutes it made the themes established in the rest of the film completely irrelevant. It was just suddenly a sci-fi epic. It was a completely different movie.
Now they didn't have to change the story or the aliens to make it work. Should could have taken off her mask, heard somewhat bizarre but unidentified noises in the corn field and taken off in her car in fear. Ratchet up the tension a bit, and then have her hear the radio conversation.
But the whole chased by the dog thing that stops chasing her and then a gas spraying UFO that picks up her car 40 feet in the air only for her to blow up the entire ship and drop her was completely absurd given the context of the rest of the film. -
AtheismBecauseReason — 9 years ago(February 05, 2017 12:46 PM)
The problem is it began a completely different film. The entire "take down UFO" scene was a travesty to everything they had set up. Almost laughable if it weren't so f'ing perplexing why they made that decision.
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danmax67 — 9 years ago(February 13, 2017 01:02 PM)
I was particularly irked by her making a molotov cocktail out of the bottle of scotch. The car is being pulled up. She's off balance, bouncing around and somehow:
-She realizes the bottle is there
-She opens the bottle. Scotch drinkers know there is foil to be removed, it does take a bit of time. Fortunately she didn't spill any, I'd hate to think she wasted good scotch
-She makes the molotov coctail
-She lights it without spilling anything and burning herself
-She throws it into the vulnerable part of the alien
It was all too convenient. I enjoyed the movie, but really rolled my eyes at that point.