Really enjoyed it too! I always love seeing how movies of that rating are gonna use their one "Fuck", and this one was spectacular. XD And I do recommend Cloverfield, though obviously it's a very different movie. :D

Oh yes: That "Fuck" has to be in the running for the best PG-13 F-bombs in the rating's history. XD I've also gotten a copy of Cloverfield to watch sometime this week, so, I'll be looking forward to it. :D

If "Cloverfield" is just going to be Bad Robot's strange anthology of sci-fi/horror mashup films I want to see J.J. Abrams walk onto the screen, cigarette in hand, and deliver Rod Serling monologues. XD "Imagine, if you would, three strangers in a box."

I have my own theories about what "Cloverfield" as a concept means. Not saying it's actually relevant to the canon, but a headcanon explanation for the movies and any future ones. :)

Nice. I'll give those theories a listen when I finish watching the first film. :)

Back on the "Fuck," I was surprised by how much humor they were able to work into the film. It really is something when a story about doomsday, and a young woman being held against her will in a bunker has more humor than the latest Batman/Superman movie.

Indeed! But very true to life, human's ability to find moments of levity amongst grimness if only to prevent themselves going insane. :3

Yeah.

The movie's gotten overwhelmingly positive reviews, but I did see two or three critics who slammed the movie for, I quote, "poor characterization." Did they watch a different movie? 10 Cloverfield Lane is simple, to the point, and let's us know all we really needed to know about the characters. Doing anything more would have detracted from the pacing and mounting tension.

It's like the people who say "Everyone in Zootopia except for Judy is a complete asshole because no-one but her says the words 'I'm sorry' for their judgements". Some people expect stuff spelled out for them, and don't understand that action and sometimes the LACK of a response/answer to certain points is more powerful than just having everything spelled out.

* seethes * That really bugs me, actually. XD

Yeah. I really hate people who criticize a story for not having things spelled out for them. We get a lot of this from Mad Max: Fury Road haters. "Why do they do this?" "How did the world get this way?" It's all there in the visuals! You can put together that society's backstories through visuals and brief dialogue exchanges. You don't need the characters to go into Christopher Nolan monologues about life and humanity to piece together the history of this world and the story's themes/messages. -_-

There are movies where this criticism is applicable *cough* Batman v. Superman *cough cough*, but the more a movie can tell through visuals, or brief snippets of dialogue, the better. xD