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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 02:01 PM

    Did none of you see "The Host"?

    Seems to me that this movie is an expensive American knock-off of last year's wonderful low budget Korean flick "The Host" - I can hear the meeting now... "Let's make the charming and sympathetic Korean family who personally fight and finally, sustaining heartbreaking losses defeat the sea monster and make them American yuppies - that way it's more fun to put them through all this schlocky terror. And obviously we do it in New York cause we can tap into the whole 9/11 thing. Just like Godzilla and Tokyo after the bomb!" High fives ensued all around...

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