I actually went to see Cloverfield at the movies, a small part of that decision being the very early teaser for the new "Star Trek" movie attached... but I digress. It may well be that my ability to empathize with just about all fictional characters kicked in once things actually started happening, but in some ways that just made the end of the movie a serious "bring down" for me; I may have been hoping for a sort of "drop the camera and get away" conclusion.

I'm not especially familiar with monster movies or even scary movies, but was actually kind of surprised to hear the comparison to The Blair Witch Project. I haven't seen that movie either, though... which is probably a product of it being the hundred thousandth film among the approximately one million ostentatiously proclaimed to completely show up and humiliate The Phantom Menace.