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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 09:32 AM

    Not suprising

    Being 'about' 9/11 could be fine. The original Gojira was about Hiroshima/Nagasaki. And it's no coincidence that so much anime at some point features the slow-motion destruction of a city. (Although less so now than 20 years ago, it seems.)

    I expect the film to be crap, because all of Abrams' TV shows have an intriguing set-up and then pointlessly unravel into nothing.

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