'Cloverfield' brings home video to monster movies (The Current Online)

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Here is a disaster movie told by the victims that brings a few fresh things to the genre. Too often a monster movie will simply be an excuse for a director to destroy the world in a burst of visual decadence. Also common to disaster movies is preaching; from the atomic parables of 1950's Godzilla to the glory days of disaster flicks: the Vietnam-torn 1970's, screenwriters have a nasty habit ...

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