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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 09:52 AM

    To Zandru

    quote: Face it, if this were a healthy society, we'd have gotten over it long ago.

    Kinda hard to get over it when the smell of burning bodies hung in the air for weeks afterward, and some of those bodies were your friends.

    But, I guess out on Old 66, near the intersection of I-40 and I-25, it was always just another image on TV. Why not rip off the very specific image of the buildings collapsing for a cheap low-grade sci-fi flick? It seems for a lot of Americans outside of New York and Washington, it was never real anyway.

    You are callous and lacking in basic human decency.

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