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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?
By Stephanie Zacharek

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  • Friday, January 18, 2008 04:44 PM

    Hmpf. _Well_...:)

    >Apparently, according to filmmakers, not only do cities not get destroyed, unless it be NYC, but no one falls in love or gets up to hilarious hijinks anywhere else on the globe, either.<

    Um, the first attack in the Spielberg WAR OF THE WORLDS took place in Newark, New Jersey, thank you. And LA got tore up nicely in both THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW and VOLCANO (the latter a few years back.) Relatedly, it always amuses me (as a NJ resident) that whenever NYC gets blowed up in the movies, everyone assumes that all of New Jersey (including those parts a good 200 miles away) and upstate New York have met the same fate. ;)

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