Okay, this looks like it could be an interesting movie...

[Manedwolf]

A new angle on the giant-monster movie thing.

As if filmed with real, ordinary peoples' handheld camcorders in NYC, realism-style, not "glossy CG style". Think Godzilla meets Blair Witch 1, sorta.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/

That shot from an apartment building roof of a massive explosion in NY harbor is eerily believable, as are the peoples' reactions.

[Perd Hapley]

What's it called?  Rosie Forgot Her Meds?

[Sergeant Bob]

I hope the whole movie is not filmed like that. If we wanted realism, we wouldn't be watching movies about giant Rosie monsters eating NYC and Newark for desert.

[Manedwolf]

I hope it is filmed like that, myself. We already had a giant monster movie in recent years that was filmed in overly glossy CG from impossibly perfect CG angles. It was called Godzilla, and it completely sucked. Why would we need another one? I'd rather see the view from the ordinary people who have no idea what the hell is going on, not from the view of cardboard heroes.

I like the documentary film style, myself. Galactica has sure used it well. I love the uneven filmwork and zoom-ins with refocus during the battles, as if someone is in a cockpit with a camera trying to capture the action.

Someone, as an "amateur" thing, did a beautifully rendered Star Trek ship leaving its spacedock amid construction traffic as if filmed from another dock or ship, Galactica style, with the feel of a handheld camera and zoom-ins and zoom-outs. They added radio chatter, too, of clearances, orders, yard commands and all, which added another dimension. It was so much more believable than any of the cheapass glossy CG Paramount has done.

Here it is...the bit when it shows from outside the dock is in sort of BSG-view.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNON5tFk6jY

[AJ Dual]

I agree, it can be over-done, like any effect or style, but it does give a realistic WWII/Vietnam kind of docudrama feel to it. I also definitely like how it's applied in BSG as well. The zooms and unsteady "hand held" (ingenious algoritim invented for Firefly IIRC) camera work also do other great things like display scales. Such as tiny fighters and just how large capital ships are, istead of pure abstraction.

If there was some kind of SHTF, nuke, monster, or whatever, 99.9% of the population's view of it would just be video, "lucky" amatuer footage that gets aired etc. In "real life" the .1% that sees the big show up close and personal in equivalent IMAX quality and 5.1 Dolby generally won't be alive very long& 

So presenting the movie in such a "realistic" way can induce a sort of psycoholical claustrophobia. "What's happening?", "I need to see MORE! (so I know which way to RUN!)" etc.

[StopTheGrays]

I cannot get it to play. All I get is a --> ? <-- where the movie should play. I have quick time 7.2 and tried both firefox and IE7 and it will not play in either.

Never mind. I figured out how to view another way. Looks interesting, same people who did Lost do this then? Bad Robot?

[Balog]

Interesting. Any more info on what it's about, who's in it etc?

[Perd Hapley]

JJ Abrams made Alias, which I believe was also Bad Robot.  I think the guy from Alias is in the trailer, the guy who was Garner's smoochie-pie in the first season.