Aaron has been wanting to see 10 Cloverfield Lane for quite sometime now and we finally got the chance to rent it. We both really liked Cloverfield and are fans of J.J.Abrams, so that made us very excited to see a 'sequel'. I love me some IMDB and I tried really hard to not check this movie out before watching it. I just couldn't figure out what it was about.
10 Cloverfield Lane started off normal enough. Girl gets in crash and wakes up in a foreign place. But something happened while she was unconscious, the whole world went to H-E-Double Hockey Sticks. When Michelle wakes up, it appears she has been taken care of from her accident through bandages and and an IV. Creepy, but nice I guess. Then, the movie just got eerier (is that a word?) from there. John Goodman's character, Howard, is quite complicated and you never quite get the full scope. Essentially, Howard realized long ago that aliens would be invading and contaminating the air, so he built an underground bunker. Throughout the movie, 3 people live in the bunker: Howard, Michelle and Emmett, who is a friend of Howard's.
As time goes by, Michelle seems to find peace with her situation. That is, until little things don't add up. She finds traces that another female was once in the bunker, and that Howard has been telling her lies. Is he the reason she crashed in the first place? Michelle and Emmett come up with a plan to escape the bunker. Not everything goes according to plan, of course, but Michelle makes her way to the outside world.
Here is where the movie went south for me. I was interested all the way until when the aliens appear. Maybe it's really hard to dazzle me with the image of an alien, I am not sure, but the aliens are what tanked the movie. It was suspenseful yes, but an alien that sprays a poisonous gas and a huge mother ship that just happens to be right outside from the underground bunker.....not interested.
Aaron happened to really like the movie, although his pros are more of the story aspect of John Goodman's character, Howard, than they are of the aliens. We discuss whether he is a good guy or bad guy- which I guess is up for interpretation... see below :)
What do you think? Is Howard a good guy, or slightly messed up in the head?
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