I finally finished H.G. Wells The Time Machine on audiobook. I was able to download it, free and legally, from this great online resource which I highly recommend: Project Gutenberg. Another great resource for audiobooks in the public domain is at The Internet Archive. And here’s another: Librivox. Read more »
Well, I took my wife to see Cloverfield. She totally couldn’t handle the whole hand-held home movie style; it made her sick. So she listened to most of the movie as she had her head buried in my shoulder. Well, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the movie. It was really good. It was intense! I got over the shaky camera stuff very early. I really enjoyed the first person perspective of it. I loved that it didn’t have some classic science fiction movie secret government underground group that knew about this creature for years. Or some major hero that rose up and kicked the monster’s tail. It kept everything to the limited perspective of those four friends running for their lives. So we only knew what they knew. I really enjoyed it.
I also want to know how they did some of those special effects.