I hear ya. I’ll probably still see it at home. vertigo is not something you want to taunt if at all possible.

Let me explain a bit better. Most movies are made in such a way that you ARE the omnipresent camera. Your brain will kick in the simulation of motion, because the simulations of sight and sound are so realistic.

Cloverfield is different. If you try to do this, your brain will think you’re, oh, I dunno, a mouse duct-taped to the top of a video camera being swung in all directions.

So, for anyone sitting in the REAR HALF OF THE THEATER (hint, hint), your brain will instead see what the movie actually simulates: watching someone else make a movie, badly. You aren’t live; you’re watching a recording. In this mode, you remain aware of the seat in which you sit, aware of the audience and the theater around you, and aware that you are watching an event which has already occurred.

So for you and your wife, sit at the very rear of the theater. You do need to see it in the theater; it’s just that good of a film.