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Many would rather this film not exist. If so, you could storm theaters and burn every print, or just, you know, don't give it your dollars.
Images from 9/11 have already been used with "taste and discretion," as Ms. Zacharek suggests. "World Trade Center" covered its $63 million budget, barely. "Flight 93" made about $30-$40 million.
"War of the Worlds" did $600 million worldwide.
Maybe people can swallow in fictional, over-the-top, roller-coaster ride forms what they can't face in reality? Maybe this is one reason for monster stories, to deal with embedded fears, to make them larger than life, then blaze them down with tanks and guns?
Roller-coasters, at their best, are scary.
