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Jan 28, 2008 22:05

I am pleased with Cloverfield. Walking home I see the housing projects near the railway overwalk, and feel a touch of alarm. Same goes for an open park. I realize that it has managed to partially recode my perception of "urban environment" so as to include "danger!"

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bloodykitty January 29 2008, 11:14:02 UTC
i got through 25 minutes before the motion sickness drove me out.

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Movies can be groundbreaking, but G-d help us if we deviate from heteronormative heroic narratives hundun January 29 2008, 20:35:27 UTC
But if we must keep them, why not have the insert-girlfriend-here die early on, and have the hero have to rescue his brother?

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Re: Movies can be groundbreaking, but G-d help us if we deviate from heteronormative heroic narrativ plaidalicious January 30 2008, 02:42:05 UTC
I actually like that plot, they'll never use it.

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