Friday, January 18, 2008
Cloverfield
I will admit to having been intrigued by the brilliantly promoted trailer for Cloverfield, the monster/thriller that opened in theaters today. Regular TigerHawk comment troll (and erstwhile TigerHawk roommate) Christopher Chambers went to see it with his lovely wife, and wrote a micro-review on his blog:
Go see it... [C]ool to see Abrams tanks rolling down Lexington Avenue as the monster gets in Manhattan's ass. Maybe Giuliani can use the footage for a campaign commercial.
You have to admit, the Giuliani line is pretty funny.
9 Comments:
By 
, at
Fri Jan 18, 10:53:00 PM:
You roomed with him, huh? Lucky.
By 
TigerHawk, at
Fri Jan 18, 10:56:00 PM:
He's a lot more amusing in person.
By , at
Sat Jan 19, 08:55:00 AM:
I'd add that, by Internet definition, Christopher is hardly a "troll". He's certainly not writing just to be disruptive, and occasionally makes some excellent points. If you want to categorize him, call him our "Resident Lefty" and be done with it.
(later, after looking over his blogsite)
Christopher is BLACK??
Well, that explains a LOT! I kept wondering why all the 'grievance politics' kept pouring forth from his words, but I figured he was just hooked into the usual liberal trope. Then it turns out it actually IS grievance politics!
BTW, speaking of movies, I saw "The Illusionist" last night on DVD. Very cool flick, best I've seen in a while, and the best surprise ending I've seen since 'The Usual Suspects'.
By , at
Sat Jan 19, 11:48:00 AM:
I was less impressed with the film than your tiger cohort, though at times it was disturbing. It's not truly a new take on the monster genre--usually the film's campy, shot really from the POV of the monster and the intrepid "loner" scientists and misguided general who are trying to kill it. The "Blair Witch" aspect actually worked here.
More entertaining were the trailers for "Hellboy II" and a teaser for the new J.J. Abrams (cross marketed with Clovefield) "Star Trek" flick, wherein you see an army of human and robot welders constructing the shell of the Enterprise.
By Pax Federatica, at
Sat Jan 19, 02:47:00 PM:
[C]ool to see Abrams tanks rolling down Lexington Avenue [...]
Naturally... :)
By , at
Sun Jan 20, 04:55:00 PM:
I'd add that, by Internet definition, Christopher is hardly a "troll". He's certainly not writing just to be disruptive, and occasionally makes some excellent points
This is not the first time I have made this point.
I would say that CC is not writing to be disruptive per se , but to get a reaction, to stir up the nest of "right wing-nut" hornets.
What he posts here is usually very easy to take apart. Since the guy is an attorney, he knows how to construct a cogent argument.He just doesn't post many of them here.That tells me that he is not devoting much care to his postings here. By contrast, the writing on his blog has much more cogent arguments, much better writing.
This is my conclusion from having read over a year of his postings here, and contrasted with his website.
By TigerHawk, at
Sun Jan 20, 05:03:00 PM:
Ok, Ok, Chris Chambers is not a Troll. He's a Tree. Or so he has claimed for at least 26 years.
ID will confirm, and perhaps even explain.
By Christopher Chambers, at
Sun Jan 20, 06:12:00 PM:
To set the record straight, I have always been a Troll. Strictly speaking, Trolls are under 6 ft tall barefoot, Trees are over 6ft, and "tweeners" 6ft exactly, can be hired like Blackwater (though more effective, less Christian) by either side.
Now, before this sails utterly in the ether vis. non-Princetonians, I'm not speaking figuratively about being a "troll" in the harsh disruptive sense. Yes, I do try to spirt as much dark urine as possible on the wingnut views expressed too often either in this blog or among the comments. I do so as cavalierly as possible. LOL However, "troll" here also refers to a game at one of Princeton's eating clubs (glorified frats...now coed) wherein Trees literally battled Trolls physically in an oxymoron known as a controlled melee. 99.9% of the time fists, feet and teeth were NOT used. 80% of the time no serious injuries occurred. 90% of the time those who were injured were so drunk (or high--this was the go-go Reagan-Bush Eighties after all!) to notice. Sort of like an Ivy-League "Fight Club," with Edward Norton look-alike TigerHawk participating as well...
By , at
Sun Jan 20, 09:23:00 PM:
Christopher Chambers wrote:
"99.9% of the time fists, feet and teeth were NOT used. 80% of the time no serious injuries occurred. 90% of the time those who were injured were so drunk (or high--this was the go-go Reagan-Bush Eighties after all!) to notice."
Eighty percent is too low, but that's not my point. Ninety percent, if not more, of those injured did not belong to the club and had no business rumbling among the membership. So go ahead and call Chris a troll (he was while playing T&T), but he is not an interloper like the drunk fools that got hurt while not knowing the etiquette inherent in the ritual.
BTW, legend has it that Cosmo Iacavazzi, class of 1965, invented the game. originally, it was played on the front lawn, but later moved inside to the "Green Room."
