Well, I had to do it! Just got back from seeing Cloverfield! (I'm not a film snob either, lol!) It really does play on post 9/11 anxieties, several early scenes of clouds of dust and debris billowing through the streets of lower Manhattan looked eerily familiar. All in all, it was a pretty effective film, I was pretty much on the edge of my seat throughout. The camcorder effect, which often didn't show us what was happening, or only partly, worked well at increasing the confusion and fear. There was just enough character development to make us care about happens to them. The creature was a bit of a disappointment, I think it would have been more effective if we never actually got a good look at it. Anyway, it was fun!
The trailers shown: A teaser trailer of Star Trek showing the enterprise under construction. -Hellboy II, looks pretty bad. -21 with Kevin Spacey about that ring of card-counting math wiz MIT students in Vegas. Wasn't there a TV show about that? There must have been others but I can't remember them.