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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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Sunday, January 20, 2008 04:00 AM

@ birddulemerde

Molten aluminum does not glow orange. It's color is silver. You have never seen molten aluminum or iron, I have. You probably still believe in WMD and that Saddam Hussein was behind 911.

When I was a kid the chemstry sets had powdered aluminum and iron filings. Kids used to mix the two together to get some fun back before we had to protect kids from science. You know that a sparkler can reach 2000 degrees? Kids should know about stuff like that.

Until you show me a picture of molten aluminum glowing yellow orange I shall regard you as a government troll or a feeble minded believe everything the authorities say type.

You shouldn't bandy about the word science until you know what the word means.

Until you show me a plausible cause for molten iron coming out of the towers the scientific model of a thermite or thermate reaction is the only model which duplicates the data from those video clips. If it could have been done, I think we would have seen the government promote that model like they promote phony Bin Laden videos (who hasn't made any videos since he denied involvement in 911 because he is dead).

They stole the plot for the WTC airplane attacks from the pilot episode of Fox television show "The Lone Gunmen" which aired in March of 2001. I watched a tpae of that show an hour before it happened for real. I called bs.

Sunday, January 20, 2008 08:41 AM

I want that 75 minutes of my life back, please.

I feel like I must be missing something, because positive reviews are everywhere online. And after 14 pages of arguments about 9/11, I'm confused.

It's a monster movie whose monster isn't interesting. I think the producers need to reseal their xbox 360 games and return them, because that's where this monster ought to have stayed. Its random larvae that fall off are just corny.

I don't know what I should have expected, really. The entire premise is "This is just another monster movie, but have you noticed that people use cellphones and youtube now?" That really is it. There's nothing else.

I laughed out loud when the character said, "This is important. People will need to see this." Oh, please.

This movie fails even as a mindless monster movie. It's bad internet porn filmed during an earthquake. Someone shakes a camera for an hour, there are LOUD NOISES and then by the end, there's no one left, just puddles of bodily fluids. That's engaging entertainment?

By the time it cut to the millionth clip of footage from Coney Island with "I had a good day," I wanted someone to be punished for making a movie out of this much compressed failure.

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