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Yes. It's mental. I'm still not sure if I mean that in a good way or a bad way, though.
'Cloverfield' was ok, although the main characters were your classic, well-off (ie: rich parents), trendy, loft-dwelling media types - which sort of affected my ability to care if they died or not.
I really liked 'No Country For Old Men', just because it was nice to see the Coen brothers go back to doing a more mean film - a lot of their more recent stuff was more whimsical and didn't sate my appetite for the darker stuff. The complete lack of any score whatsoever made it so much more tense than one of those movies where the music telegraphs the fact that 'some bad shit' is coming up.
I watched a documentary called 'The Bridge' yesterday, wherein a group of filmmakers set up cameras to monitor the Golden Gate Bridge and they filmed about a dozen suicides (apparently, people jump all the time) and then tracked down the family and friends of those filmed, to find out who these people were, rather than just have them as another statistic. It was interesting to find that such a broad cross-section of people felt the need to end things in such a dramatic fashion, all with such different reasons for arriving at that point. They even interviewed one guy that jumped, has second thoughts on the way down, and somehow survived. A morbid curiousity.