About Cloverfield

So I've read a couple of reviews and people are complaining about how there isn't any characterization blah blah blah in the movie? Well, I'm pretty sure the point of the whole, "We're going to make it less theatric by making it seem like the video came directly from someone who recorded the situation from the point of view" thing kind of negates the need for any sort of characterization. Hell, we should be lucky for any characterization we get at all.

I mean, seriously. I'm sorry, but assuming I even had the willpower to record something like that, me and my friends aren't going to "grow" as characters for whatever audience may be watching the tape because we wouldn't have to, since it's supposed to be more realistic. And that means there isn't going to be a lot of common storyline attributes included because in real life, home videos don't characterize people like in theatric productions. Jeez.