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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 11:54 PM

    also

    sorry for the double post, but i forgot to mention the 9/11 connotation you've given it. is there some unwritten law stating it's not ok to make a disaster movie in New York? i won't pretend to say i was there on 9/11 or could imagine what it must have felt like, but the fact that some of the people who did experience 9/11 first-hand had to leave the movie tells me one thing, and it's not that they were trying to recreate it or play off of it in any way. it tells me this movie is actually realistic, and this is actually how people would probably act.

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