@tcql good analysis. yeah, i just, didn't get much from the events of the vast majority of the flim. hence my ennui toward it

(were the C1 monsters aliens? i thought they were not, but it's been forever)

i don't think a cloverfield movie would ever have much badass alien fighting though. i get the feeling the franchise, if it has any consistency, is more about twilight-zone style shit happening and people having to deal with that unthinkable sci-fi crap becoming reality... and it not necessarily ending well for them

well, we'll see if that holds!