Scary Movies are Dead

Not nearly as scary as Helicopter Zombie.

(Starting out again in John McCain Mode)
My friends...I've been to 'Nam, I've been to Congress, look at my wife...I've seen some scary shit. What's left of Hollywood doesn't scare me. {cue applause}

Perhaps it's the socio-homogenization of our culture that Hollywood, seeking to emulate and/or please makes a weak movie. Maybe there are no true emotions left to tap that we are left with sheer amplitude, of reaction that has replaced fear.
Boy am I jaded, and misogynistic. Probably a few of you chose to see Cloverfield expecting it to be just another Day Of The Douchebags. You'd be right.
Quite frankly, Hollywood should stick to Jud-Apatow projects until he's completely drained of ideas because he may be the last screenwriter who understands how people talk. The necessity of disaster films post-9/11, either by replication of the actual event, or emulation of the experience of the camera-wielding hipsters running through crumbling skyscrapers is a pertinent question.
One thing they did get right. In the midst of an impending apocalyptic frenzy, one's first priority should be to preserve the lives of as many pretty girls as possible. Gotta repopulate the planet, right? Or space station...Area 51..whatever you got.