Cloverfield

During the subway tunnel scenes, Rob's shirt seems to clean itself.

At first it is dirty and sweat stained, then it is relatively clean, and then it is dirty again.

The time stamp on the camera disappears after Jason gives his testimonial to the camera.

Considering Hud had no idea how to use the camera, and the option for time stamping is often a button on the side, it is very easy to conceive that the button was pressed at some point during the video.

However, it is most likely a creative decision by the Director, as the time stamp would be annoying to view the entire time of the film.

When they are on the slanted roof, their clothes seem to defy gravity.

- PLOTIt would be impossible for any consumer camcorder to survive a 300 foot drop from the monster's mouth.

From the time Hud first spots the monster in the helicopter to the time the helicopter crashes is less then a minute, yet the time changes from night to sunrise.

However, the military man that told them of the helicopter told them that the last helicopters would be in the air by 6:00 am.

The time from the crash to the time when the camera restarted recording is unknown, but it is possible that the sun began rising at that point.

Even their visibility in the helicopter was getting much better and looked like the early dawn.

When Rob runs over to the electronics store, Hud tells Marlena, "I'll go get her.

" When everyone sees the explosion from the rooftop, the explosion (and bits of debris flying from it) appears very far away.

But, by the time Hud has turned around, the flaming debris has already reached the rooftop.

When Jason approaches Hud with the camcorder and when Hud turns up the volume on the TV in the electronics store, he has a watch on his left wrist.

When the soldiers take away Rob, Lily, and Hud after Marlena dies, Hud's watchless hand comes up in the shot.

In the theatre, it is obvious that the footage is of very high audio-video quality, including multi-channel surround sound and ultra-high-resolution video at 24 frames per second, typical of movie productions, as opposed to 30-frame-per-second digitally compressed video with stereo sound that can be created with most consumer video.

However, this is a necessary and deliberate change on the part of the crew, and not an error.

Producing a movie with "authentic" quality based on the equipment Hud is carrying would have produced a very poor result when projected onto hundred-foot screens, and incompatibilities in frame rate between a 30-frame-per-second recording and the 24-frames-per-second provided by movie projectors would have created a movie which was unusable to most theaters.

The subway entrance consists of two flights of stairsone straight down and one to the left.

As the group runs down the stairs, Rob and Lily begin to run down the flight to the left, and Hud (while at the top of the first flight) turns around and a huge explosion knocks him down the rest of the stairs.

However, he falls straight down to the bottom.

He should have fallen to the end of the first flight.

When Beth and Rob are sitting under the bridge at the end of the movie, Beth has her left arm up, touching her head.

This should be impossible or at least excruciatingly painful as her left shoulder was pierced by a steel bar earlier in the film.

The helicopter crashes towards the finale, yet the characters are able to walk away with only minor injuries.

If the crash was a straight 400-foot drop, this would obviously be impossible, but the helicopter as attacked and damaged, and did not instantly fall from the sky like a rock.

A trained pilot would be able to achieve a semi-controlled landing via auto-rotation even in the event of a complete engine failure.

It's clear that Rob didn't record for 7 hours.

There are about 70 minutes of footage in the movie, so the battery would only have had to last that long.

Most consumer digital cameras, even battery-hungry miniDV devices, boast a recording time of more than 2 hours on the supplied battery pack, and on the order of five hours on the manufacturer's high-endurance option.

Coming through the Narrows from Lower New York Bay (off Coney Island, where the monster was awoken) and onwards to Liberty Island (where the monster first makes its presence felt) there's no straight-line path that would subsequently put the monster in lower Manhattan.

If it continued on a straight line from here it would wind up in Jersey City or Union city.

However this assumes that the creature would continue in a straight line.

Given that the monster is a disoriented, angry sea creature, and that it negotiated the Narrows to stay in the water until it came across Liberty Island, it's not unreasonable that it returned to the Upper New York Bay after attacking the statue instead of pushing onwards over land.

If it continued inland up the Bay, it would inevitably run into Manhattan Island as we see in the movie.

At the party, when Lilly begins to tell her testimony, the heart on her necklace is upside down hanging on the chain.

Later in the testimony, the heart on the necklace hangs tilted off one of the bows.

When the group makes their escape into a small room in the subway, a partially-eaten meal on a table contains some bottles of Mountain Dew.

The bottles have labels advertising a contest for the film "Transformers" which took place in the summer of 2007, when the scenes were filmed.

The events of the film are said to take place in May of 2008.

When Rob, Hud, Lily, and Marlena are hiding in the subway, Rob gets a call from his mom and has a conversation with her on his cell phone.

There is no cell phone reception underground in the subways.

In the movie, footage is shown being recorded over existing footage, as if the camera were recording on digital or analogue tape.

However, the the title card at the beginning of the film claims the footage was recorded on an SD card.

During the first attack when everyone runs outside of the apartment building, Lily can briefly be seen wearing white sneakers even though she has high heels on during the rest of the film.

No camera comes with an integrated light (which it is obviously as Hud must be pointed to it) that has such power as it is seen in the tunnel.

As the Statue of Liberty's head strikes the high rise, there is a large and fiery explosion.

The statue itself is composed of iron and copper, and the head is hollow, yet the impact causes an explosion akin to that of artillery fire.

However, it is very likely that this is a residential building, and therefore likely to have gas lines, which could easily rupture and explode after such a catastrophic impact.

We see Lily wearing gold heeled shoes throughout most of the movie.

Then when the group are walking up the stairs to cross to Beths Apartment she takes her shoes off.

A Short time later when Lily, Hud and Rob are crossing to the Apartment roof, Lily is wearing Gold flat footed shoes, not the heels she was wearing before.

Her shoes then change back a short time later.

At the party at one point the clock at the wall shows that the time is 12:10.

On the next scene when Beth is talking on the camera its 11:40 and on the next scene when they are on the kitchen its again 12:10.

A lot of things get smashed, destroyed, and broken–heck, most of Manhattan, for that matter–in "Cloverfield," but the film never really breaks through the surface of getting us to care much about it. The most high-profile film of 2008's "found footage" fad is rife with spectacle in its attempt to postmodernize the drive-in flicks of the 1950s, where some Inexplicable Thing (irradiated bugs, hostile aliens, or plain'ol monsters) bears down on our resourceful–but all too human–protagonists.

Cloverfield exceeds as both a monster flick and a horror movie. It does so by being old-school in its approach and showing restraint.

A completely idiotic story presented in an utterly unwatchable way.

My biggest complaint is that the introduction where everything's calm and you're supposed to bond with the characters goes on for WAY TOO LONG. For a whole quarter of the movie this guy with a camera goes around talking to the party guests and it's clear we're supposed to be bonding with the characters, but it just doesn't work because there's too many of them and it's too casual apart from a stereotypical cheating partner sub-plot.

Told through a hand held camera, the movie uses the same story telling technique as the Blair Witch Project - just not as well. While the first few moments of explosions and mystery are engaging the movie soon begins to drag, as a band of friends makes their way uptown to rescue the leading man's girlfriend.

Brilliant piece of work,it was bit annoying when the camera does not show what we want to see but their dialogues keeps it intriguing.Rob and Lilly role was played well.

I saw War of the Worlds yesterday and was disappointed by Tom Cruise's awful performance and to be honest everyone's performance except Tim Robbins.This film was 100%.

Another prime example of someone getting funding for a film because of their name...even though this is simply a poorly made copy of a multitude of other films before it.

There are lots of movies out there believing only action sequences is enough ... but this one --- a blatherer running around with a camera and other stupid guys behaving stupid?