Because that’s what the NIT WITS are doing too**.
So let us round up some of the “problems” people have with Cloverfield, bearing in mind that it is a MONSTER MOVIE set in New York.
The Camera Battery wouldn’t last that long.
Maybe he had spares. Maybe he picked up spares in the shop. Maybe its a really good DV camera.
ITS JUST A FILM, GET OVER IT.
How could you walk up from Spring Street to 59th Street on the subway tracks and not come across a train.
Dudes, people will be using the trains to evacuate, and probably cancelling the trips back into a monster ravaged New York.
Also ITS JUST A FILM, GET OVER IT.
Surely the head of the Statue Of Liberty wouldn’t bounce like that.
Sure is cool though right.
And ITS JUST A FILM, GET OVER IT.
The sound is far too good for a video camera.
ITS JUST A FILM, GET OVER IT.
What kind of creature has a life cycle which has little teeny aliens sweating off it?
Am I allowed to bring up the thorough preposterous life-cycle of the ALIEN from ALIEN?
And ITS JUST A FILM, GET OVER IT.
Why is is called Cloverfield.
OK, you’ve got me there.
*Though be careful nit-picking a giant monster, as it appears its nits are dangerously homicidal little aliens it its own right.
**THE FONT? The font on the tag? And the use of scare quotes? SHEESH!!!