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...their behavior is Noel Coward-sophisticate compared to what happens when the monster strikes. A horror/sf/disaster movie loses points every time you're forced to ask yourself, "Why are they doing something so stupid?", and the answer is, "Because they're in a horror/sf/disaster movie." And if you thought that Abrams - the creator of Felicity, Alias and Lost, and the writer-director of the spiffy if underperforming Mission: Impossible III - would produce a horror movie that was not just high-concept but high-IQ - you misjudge his faithfulness to a genre requiring that, in extremis, people act in a manner...
...Once the monster surfaces in Cloverfield, mobs of Manhattanites run for their lives across a bridge out of the borough. They. Are. Stupid! They, and you the viewer, are supposed to believe that this huge creature - whose stride spans several city blocks, and who could get across the East River in about three steps - is some sort of snob who wouldn't be caught dead in Brooklyn. (But his victims would. That tail whips out of the water and snaps the Brooklyn Bridge...
...greatest revenge. In this film, everybody doesn't have to get got. You're buying tiny bits, increments of what makes us all human. People become the bad guys rather gradually. I don't think they start off saying, 'oh, I know what I'll do.' You do incrementally stupid things that you figure, well, this helps my family, I can justify it. And you wake up one day and it's Tyco...
...press have to be smarter too. We were wildly stupid in the days before the New Hampshire primary, citing Clinton meltdown after Clinton meltdown - the tears, the flash of anger in the debate - that never really happened. We really need to calm down, become more spin-resistant, even if our sleep-deprived sources tend to overreact to every slip and poll dip in the campaign. If we are lucky, this will be a long and complicated race - which is exactly what this country deserves right now - and we need to watch it with our very best, most patient eyes, just...
...stance on the Iraq war gives aid and comfort to those who continue to believe devoutly in the military option, they are becoming fewer in number and even less influential. There is one appropriate answer to those who still insist on loving the military option: "Look again at Iraq, stupid!" Howard F. Sosbee, SCOTTS VALLEY, CALIF...