I'm starting to hear some good things about Cloverfield, but the Statue of Liberty treatment reminds me a bit too much of the end of Planet of the Apes and we've already seen the blowing up New York City thing in Independence Day. And not to make it personal but in my mind JJ Abrams is still not on my "friends list" until he patches things up with William Shatner over the next Star Trek film. Although that won't stop me from standing in line to see the movie on opening day of course...
P.S. Although I have to say that Cloverfield's marketing campaign is very blogger friendly which makes me happy!