These are the sort of movies that always play to the positive aspects of the theater experience, as they make going to the cineplex truly worth it.
Don’t mistake my rejection of Netflix as a distribution platform for Cloverfield’s latest round of excitement as a dismissal of the platform on the whole.
I’m still a proud subscriber, and even if the new film winds up on the platform, I’ll still watch it.
But the Cloverfield universe is, and always should be, a thrill-a-minute experience that looms larger than life over the audience it’s being shown to.