563: When Harry Met Sally (With Monsters)

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Drop the camcorder and whatever you do, don’t run toward the bridge! 2008’s “Cloverfield” mixes giant monsters, post-9/11 reactions to urban destruction, rom-com tropes, “Jaws” style monster hiding, and found footage shaky-cam into an incredibly intense movie experience. Does it matter that the main characters are generic, or does it actually help? Is this a slasher film or more of a smasher film? Why did it kick off a nonsensical franchise of unrelated movies? And if it was made today, how would it be different? (Hint: Less shaky-cam!) Find a quiet place to hide somewhere and join us!...

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 563, April 2021.
0:10.3	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:12.1	I'm your host, Jason Snellan.
0:13.2	In this episode, we're going to be talking about a movie from 2008.
0:16.9	You might remember it.
0:18.1	You might not.
0:18.6	I don't know.
0:19.2	Do people remember this movie?
0:20.1	It's Cloverfield, a monster movie, a found footage movie. It's so many different genres. It's a kaiju movie. It's so many different genres. And I got to say, I loved this movie. When it came out, I watched it. I thought it was amazing and I haven't seen it since. So I revisited it for this podcast. We'll see how I feel about it now. Joining me to talk about the flying head of the Statue of Liberty and whether it's the right size or not are the following people.
0:54.9	Annette Weirstra is here. Hello.
0:57.1	Hello.
0:58.3	I'm really excited to probably not rescue all my friends from monsters, but maybe I will.
1:04.0	It's okay. It's okay.
1:05.7	You know, it's hard to survive a monster attack is one of the things that we've learned.
1:09.8	James Thompson is also here.
1:11.1	Hello. Jason, are you aware of Garfield?
1:17.7	Ooh. Gene McDonald also joins us. Hi. Hi. I don't know why this is happening.
1:26.6	And in the corner wearing a slush-o t-shirt, it's Moises Chouyan. Hello.
1:31.3	Coincidentally, I do own that slush-o t-shirt from the movie.
1:36.3	Jason, does this bite look bad at you, though? I'm getting concerned.
1:41.8	Well, there are several moments in Cloverfield where you have to ask yourself the question,
1:45.3	what kind of movie is this?
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