Watched Cloverfield. I couldn’t get past the fact that they nearly got EVERYTHING wrong about the geography of New York City.
- Trailer has the ‘monster’ destroying Statue of Liberty
- Trailer then has monster destroying a building near the Empire State Building (34th St. and Fifth Ave.)
- In the movie, the camera pans to the other end of the street, and we see the Chrysler Building (42nd St. and Lexington Ave.). Note that they aren’t even on the same street in any sense of the word.
- Given these facts, the “apartment” that the protagonist is running out of is between 34th and 42nd.
- SPOILER: So thereafter the protagonist and his friends try to evacuate Manhattan by going to the Brooklyn Bridge, which is SOUTH *toward* the monster, and also about a walk of 40 blocks if not more. There would have been a much closer bridge (and tunnel) for them to leave (maybe 5 to 10 blocks)!
- Also, subway stations are not that small. More like 20x the size of the one seen in the movie. And Spring St. doesn’t look like that at all.
For a movie that tries so hard to bring up 9/11 references, this was really, really poorly done.
