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"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 04:48 PM

    @jargent

    >The thing would hit ground on Long Island, Brooklyn, hell, even Bayonne before heading up the East River.<

    Yeah, but why wouldn't such a creature be drawn to a place with the most amount of noise/heat/lights? Anyone could tell you that that is hardly Bayonne--though it could be Newark...:)

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