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Friday, January 18, 2008 12:00 AM

"Cloverfield"

Do we really need the horror of 9/11 to be repackaged and presented to us as an amusement-park ride?

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  • Saturday, January 19, 2008 03:42 PM

    RE: No Love for Chicago?

    Chicago was eaten by giant grasshoppers in the 1957 film "Beginning of the End." Some of the best effects shots ever, in any movie. Grasshoppers crawl on top of a picture of the Chicago skyline, so it sounds funny. But I wouldn't want to be chewed up by a grasshopper, would you? Icck, no.

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