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Film: United 93 - Flight 93

This isn't the only 9/11 coming out in the near future, and find it disrespectful to be capatilizing on a tragedy that occured only five years ago.
 
The correct title is "United 93".

There are some rumours (aren't there always?) that the title was changed due to some a potential confusion with the god-awful HBO TV-movie "Flight 93".
 
makes sense. i'd totally forgotten about that other movie.

it will be kinda surprising if people rush out to see this. it's not like Pearl Harbor, where there are generations who have no recollection of what happened during WWII, necessitating a glossy Bruckheimer postcard to teach history. 9/11 is still very present in memory, culture, and/or politics for many people. what sense is there in dramatizing it?
 
I saw the preview today .. I don't think I could really handle sitting in a theater watching that.
 
Eh, okay, please don't find me rude, or .. anything.
This is just my opinion:

What is the point in this movie?
The trailer exploited the film in being random people getting on a plane, dramitizing their hapiness, and everything is perfect, and right with the world, then somone taking over the plane, and everyone freaking out on the plane, and on base, or whatever.
"What should we do? what should we do?!?! :O *suspense music* We do as they say"
"WHAT! We'll all die!"
"it's the only way..."
blah blah blah.

I respect the tragedy that befell us around 5 years ago, but COME ON! .. ugh.
and knowing this film, people are going to find it GREAT because it's a peice of history. it happened, it's real, and the movie [although going to be a waste of probably 2-3 hrs] shows plane + hijacker + twin towers = EXPLOSION.

I didn't get all I wanted to say, but I think you got the idea.
:/
 
I dont see anything wrong with the timing of this. Moves of WWII were made in a shorter time spand from the events.

But i personally have no want to see this. I mean what can you really show that will be entertaining.

i def wouldnt give my $7 to support it.
 
wtf:
"From the Acclaimed Director of Bloody Sunday and The Bourne Supremacy"

for a 9/11 movie???? I'm not saying those movies were bad or anything, but surely, for a project like this they could have found a much better director.
 
I had a hard time believing 9/11 was unfolding before my very eyes. Hell, I don't know if part of me has ever come to grips with it, and I lived far, far away from the event. It was simply the most horrifying event I have ever witnessed.

It was like watching a movie...but not. Definitely not.

Now there's a Hollywood movie of it.

Baudrillard, eat your heart out...
 
121 said:
wtf:
"From the Acclaimed Director of Bloody Sunday and The Bourne Supremacy"

for a 9/11 movie???? I'm not saying those movies were bad or anything, but surely, for a project like this they could have found a much better director.
The "Bourne" movies aside, I think the rationalé is that he has credability when it comes to recreating/dramatising emotive historical events, having directed not only "Bloody Sunday" but also "The Murder of Stephen Lawrence."

For what it's worth, if he's given freedom on the script and final edit, I'm sure he'll do a reasonable job. Still an exercise in cynical money-making though.
 
I fine the title 'United 93' pretty funny and i'm surprised they didn't have the plane making some heroic emergency landing and everyone walking off fine.
 
I actually find it amazing that they've called it 'United 93'.

It was, after all, a United Airlines plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. I never thought United Airlines would allow their name to be used in this way. Y'know, the image of safety being so important in the airline industry??? I'd have thought they'd want to put as much distance as possible between themselves and the memory of that event.

I wonder if the film will deal with the probability that it was shot down?
 
at least one theater in ny won't be showing this film. too many people crying/breaking down.

i'm not so sure how i feel about this. this event is still clearly etched into our minds. wasn't it spielberg who did "shindler's list"? see, i don't think he was really trying to make a buck (ohh, btw, i never saw it, so i'm not completely sure if my point will get across). but this?! feh. perhaps if it was the victims' families wanting to show what truly happened.

less than two years ago, i watched a several part documentary...goign back a couple of decades and showing ALL of the events leading up. it's too hard to watch. dramatizing seems to just add insult to injury. but ::shrug:: i dunno.
 
On a side note, they probably didn't show this in the US, but here there was a documentary on a few weeks ago called 'The Jumping Man' or something like that and it was about people who jumped from the Towers before they fell, with a focus on one guy especially. They were trying to identify who he was from the videos and pictures that were taken when he jumped.

Anyone else watch it?
 
tambourine-man said:
I actually find it amazing that they've called it 'United 93'.

It was, after all, a United Airlines plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. I never thought United Airlines would allow their name to be used in this way. Y'know, the image of safety being so important in the airline industry??? I'd have thought they'd want to put as much distance as possible between themselves and the memory of that event.

I wonder if the film will deal with the probability that it was shot down?

In all likelyhood it was shot down, but you can bet your ass this movie will show the passengers purposely crashing the plane. If the government indeed shot down this plane, and all the evidence points to this happening, as a plane just doesn't explode in mid-air and crash in the middle of Pennsylvania, what is the purpose of this movie? I can't believe the family members of the victims would go along with this project, but they probably received a hefty chunk of change and assurance that this will be nothing but a puff piece. Nevertheless, I expect this movie to do very well at the box office.
 
according to the featurette found with the trailer here, the family members of those lost are supportive of the film.

but now that i've seen this little commercial, it's attempt to guilt trip me into watching a film has put me off big time.

fuck em, i'm gonna wear my I plane ny shirt tomorrow.
 
This isn't the only 9/11 coming out in the near future, and find it disrespectful to be capatilizing on a tragedy that occured only five years ago.

much greater tragedies (WWII, Vietnam or even the iraq wars) have been turned into hollywood crap and (with more recent events) shitty video-games and few people ever bothered complaining, since, after all, "it's just a film/game"? so why the fuss about this one? it seems a bit inconsistent.

then again, if you're consistent, i can see your point. i just don't believe most people moaning about this one are.
 
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