Movie Trivia: Cloverfield Storms Japanese Box Offices
I’m somewhat surprised, but not really, by the recent success of Cloverfield at the box office. No, not the American box office—the JAPANESE box office. I guess it shouldn’t come as that big of a surprise. I mean, let’s be honest; isn’t Cloverfield really just an Americanized stab at the BRM style of filmmaking pioneered by the Japanese?
BRM, for those of you unfamiliar with the term is Big Rubbery Monster, or the style of filmmaking made popular by Japanese studios with releases like Rodan, Mothra, and of course, the entire Godzilla family. And Cloverfield, despite the numerous tricks it used to bring the Cloverfield monster to life, is still basically a BRM movie. Though we’ve long since passed the point where we need guys in rubbery suits to play monsters, it’s still the same kind of monster.
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