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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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  • Friday, January 18, 2008 11:53 AM

    Hmm

    Is Stephanie Zacharek Rudy Giuliani's pen name? He likes to dress up as a woman, maybe he writes as one also?

    I'll admit, I was semi-recently a little bit ticked off about a movie exploiting real tragedy to make a buck, but hey, that was Pearl Harbor, and I guess I was the only one who gave a damn.

    No matter how much handwringing you do, in 50 years, they're going to make a crappy romantic love triangle movie about 9/11 with Ben Affleck III. With modern medical science, you'll live to see it.

    First catharsis, then commercialization. It's the American Way.

    On a side note, I wish everyone wasn't so busy clawing for their own sanctimonious high groung over 9/11, and crying about how *their* suffering is so significant. I wish my fellow Americans would show just a little bit of backbone.

    If they had just a little spine, the Bush-Cheneys of the world would have a harder time wiping their asses with the constitution.

    PS Spielberg's War of the Worlds SUCKED.

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