- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
It's interesting to see both sides of this argument: the non-New Yorkers who think most of us are still wringing our hands and milking 9/11 for all it's worth (and who secretly or not so secretly get a thrill out of seeing New York get nailed), and the New Yorkers who are just tired of seeing fictitious versions of New York getting blown up in movies over and over again, after having seen some *actual* horrific stuff a few years ago.
I'm a New Yorker too--I was born here I've lived here all my life. I knew people who died on 9/11, and and I too am tired of seeing trailers for movies that show some sort of post-apocalpytic Manhattan. And it's unfortunate that "I Am Legend" and "Cloverfield" opened at roughly the same time because it does feel like overkill.
It's not like other movies haven't shown other cities getting slammed. Baltimore gets blown away in "The Sum of All Fears" and the rubble of Las Vegas is under 80 feet of sand and debris in the latest "Resident Evil" movie.
But let's face it: New York makes an awesome setting for this kind of stuff. It just does. Aesthetically, symbolically, it really works.
If it bothers you to watch a movie where New York City gets destroyed, do what I'm doing: choose not to see it.
