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cloverfield2008
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 		Fox News
That 9/11 thing again.. Come on already!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,323106,00.html

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purplerose
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 		Well, it is Fox news. (cue eagle crying in front of the American flag.)

edit:to contribute a little more, will disaster movies ever be just disaster movies ever again, or will there always be 9/11 comparisons?

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purplerose wrote:
Well, it is Fox news. (cue eagle crying in front of the American flag.)



They say something about the time warner center looking like the twin towers:

"Later in the film, the main characters go to the city's new Twin Towers, represented by the Time Warner Center. The structure looks so much like the World Trade Center that you have to wonder what these people were thinking. "Cloverfield" was truly made by California movie people. No one in New York would ever be this insensitive."

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cloverfield2008 wrote:
purplerose wrote:
Well, it is Fox news. (cue eagle crying in front of the American flag.)



they say something about the time warner center looking like the twin towers


Skyscrapers look like other skyscrapers. I know in this instance JJ himself drew comparisons to 9/11, but there's a difference between something invariably invoking memories of an incident and mocking/exploiting an incident.

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 		Fox news, they got nothing better to write about than 9/11 comparisions.

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 		I hate the 9/11 comparisons. Hell, I'm a New Yorker that was here then and I don't find it insensitive.

Oddly, the reviewer still liked the flick though.

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Fox News wrote:
"Cloverfield" was truly made by California movie people. No one in New York would ever be this insensitive."


Now that statement's just laughable. "We're Fox News, we know what you're thinking".

Get off your high horses you flashy, unneccesary news article bloodhounds, you so strapped for decent stories you need to attack a disaster movie? Rolling Eyes
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 		Wasn't Die Hard 4 a big terrorist movie that had blatant connections to 9/11?

Don't remember Fox kicking up much fuss then...

Must not be a fan of Lost (which I'm not either, but I'd not stick the boot into a monster movie).

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 		Cloverfield's only major competition at the box-office this weekend will be '27 Dresses'...which is a Fox movie.

Make of that what you will. Wink

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 		FOX is trying to rule to world! F*ck them Mad

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 		agreed jook, but first they want to dumb down the populace as evidenced by their canceling of any shows that require you to have 2 braincells to rub together.
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m0r1arty wrote:
Wasn't Die Hard 4 a big terrorist movie that had blatant connections to 9/11?

Don't remember Fox kicking up much fuss then...

Must not be a fan of Lost (which I'm not either, but I'd not stick the boot into a monster movie).

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The whole Die Hard series is one big slap in the 9/11 face of America. In the first movie you had a terrorist highjack a skyscraper which blows up towards the top of the building. (Very much like the towers.) In the second movie you had an airport hijacked by terrorists. (Very similar to the highjacking of the planes.) In the third movie, you have a terrorist threatening the whole city of New York. (Which is where 9/11 happened. Duh. lol) That whole series is a training guide for terrorists. Then again, so is Sesame Street. (The streets of America is filled with puppets and nice, decent folk who welcome every stranger with open arms and a song? These people are just DYING to have a bomb shoved up their butts. lol) These vultures in the media are just trying to find ANYTHING to talk about anymore because they will not cover the REAL news of America. (You know: Poverty, horrible education systems, lack of decent jobs, drugs, etc.)

It is a MOVIE! Get over it! People go to watch movies to take their minds off of things like 9/11 and all the nonsense of the world. It is called "entertainment" for a reason. If you want to get into movies which take too much advantage of the 9/11 tragedies, go look at the movies they made of flight 93. (At least 3 of them the last time I looked. 2 were TV specials and one was a full blown theatrical release.) I'm sorry, but THOSE movies came WAY too soon for me.

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 		That's funny, I don't remember them saying anything about WTC or United 93.... why were those okay, but a PURELY fictional movie isn't?

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 		I can tell you as someone that lives and works in NYC, and has lost a friend in 9/11...this movie does not invoke the same feelings.

If someone feels that they are connected, or that it brings back memories...fine. That's their opinion.

But there's a difference between fact and fiction.

I have a friend who lost his hand and he has no qualms about watching Star Wars with all of the limb chopping going on.

But that's just us, I guess.

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But Cloverfield also inadvertently disses New York for what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, by re-enacting scenes of buildings exploding and massive clouds of debris for fun and profit.

Does no one recall what was said following the World Trade Center disasters? There was such sensitivity about the huge human losses that images of the Twin Towers were erased from movie posters and excised from films.

Yet six years later, the "Cloverfield" gang is cool enough with it to show New York being pulverized. Very quickly and without warning, downtown New York is destroyed. The first bit of damage is depicted by a World Trade Center-like structure exploding and collapsing downward, sending off a cloud not unlike those my friends ran from that day.

Later in the film, the main characters go to the city's new Twin Towers, represented by the Time Warner Center. The structure looks so much like the World Trade Center that you have to wonder what these people were thinking. "Cloverfield" was truly made by California movie people. No one in New York would ever be this insensitive.


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But I suppose I'm being too sensitive.


YA THINK?!?

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