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Cloverfield Sets Box Office Record!
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Cloverfield sets box office record this weekend. The J. J. Abram monster movie brought in nearly $50 million over four days setting a box-office record with the biggest Martin Luther King weekend opening ever. It also broke the record with the biggest January opening. This could be quite a breakout for stars like Odette Yustman and Lizzy Caplan.
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Does 'Cloverfield' Lower Standards or Raise Them?
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Like many of the movie going public, I went to see the J.J. Abrams backed Cloverfield, which follows a small group of people via camcorder as they endure an attack on New York City by a Godzilla wannabe. The film cobbles together many influences, most notably The Blair Witch Project (1999) which also used a documentary POV style, but is more successful because it leaves much more to the imagination. Cloverfield is an interesting experiment, and considering the record-setting box office, is one that paid off. My first reaction was that this looked like a no ...
