A movie has never made me do this before. People always talk about how FPS games and such give them motion sickness, and I've always been, "Pshh, yeah whatever." Then I went to see Cloverfield tonight on this huge screen. I was stupidly eating a lot of popcorn during the previews.

A little bit after I saw someone explode in a bloody mess or something (I'm not sure what happened 'cause I was just glancing at the screen every now and then 'cause I was ill), I left to go to the bathroom and ended up throwing up.

While it's obvious the shaky cam bothered me, I'm not sure if I would've preferred the movie any other way. If the movie was filmed like any other monster movie, in third person and such, then the movie would've lost a lot of its...mood. It would've ended up another cheesey monster movie. The cam-corder (which an amateur camera guy is willing to lug around during a dangerous monster attack , recording in high definition on a tape and has a long battery life, but I'm willing to suspend my belief) makes the movie very unsettling (both in the "omg creepy" and "ugh, I feel sick" kinda ways).

I liked the movie. Too bad I missed a lot of it. I'll watch it again, but on DVD on my small 13.3" laptop screen.