Cloverfield

A pretty simple idea, but CG has only come on enough for it to be possible fairly recently, and I enjoyed the film quite a lot. It’s a film that people have been very eager to watch without any spoilers whatsoever, so if you’ve not seen it and want to preserve that, skip the rest of this paragraph. Sure, there were obvious characters and some daft moments, like military guys not confiscating a camera right away and monsters that only showed up at convenient times, as well as a plot driven by a pretty unlikely rescue mission that was just a bit too cheesy for the medium, but there was a lot of very natural acting, extremely clever effects work and some great comic moments. Well worth seeing.