World Trade Center

DavidMn · #1 08-09-2006, 01:44 PM

So its out today. almost every reviewer I've heard loves it. I think I'm going to check it out Friday. Who else is planning to see it?

seeker007nmss · #2 08-09-2006, 02:51 PM

I really have no interest in seeing it. Maybe it is too soon, or I just don't like the idea of making money off it.

DrummerDeanna · #3 08-09-2006, 03:01 PM

I saw the trailer when I went to see The Devil Wears Prada and the damn thing made me BAWL LIKE A BABY!! I cried through the whole thing...

I'm afraid seeing the actual movie may be very hard - but I'm actually a bit interested...

mikeschmike · #4 08-09-2006, 03:46 PM

Knowing about all of the people making money off of this movie is enough to make me never want to see it. Not only that, Nicholas Cage makes me want to hit things.

cliffdweller · #5 08-09-2006, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by seeker007nmss

I really have no interest in seeing it.

Me neither, I think it looks like a **** movie. I love it when Hollywood tells me how I should feel about and/or commemorate events such as 9/11. They really have their fingers on the pulse of it all

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Oh and Mike, Nick Cage makes me want to hit things too...mainly his face

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BTFLCHLD · #6 08-09-2006, 04:06 PM

Did anyone see the MTV special for the movie on CBS last night prior to Big Brother and Supernova? They interviewed Oliver Stone, Nicholas Cage, and the fireman that the story is based on. I only saw the last few minutes, and then the announcement that the proceeding was a paid program. I think this is the first time I have ever seen this type of advertisement for a movie. I guess they are trying really hard to get people to buy-into this film being made in the first place?

DrummerDeanna · #7 08-09-2006, 04:12 PM

It's about two amazing men who SURVIVED! What's wrong with getting their story out??

And a lot of the actual firefighters and such are in the film - and I don't know - I think they're trying to do a good thing -

BTFLCHLD · #8 08-09-2006, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

What's wrong with getting their story out??

Are you directing this post to me?

SuzeQuze · #9 08-10-2006, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

It's about two amazing men who SURVIVED! What's wrong with getting their story out??

And a lot of the actual firefighters and such are in the film - and I don't know - I think they're trying to do a good thing -

The profits should be given back to the people victimized IMO.

seeker007nmss · #10 08-09-2006, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

Did anyone see the MTV special for the movie on CBS last night prior to Big Brother and Supernova? They interviewed Oliver Stone, Nicholas Cage, and the fireman that the story is based on. I only saw the last few minutes, and then the announcement that the proceeding was a paid program. I think this is the first time I have ever seen this type of advertisement for a movie. I guess they are trying really hard to get people to buy-into this film being made in the first place?

Oliver Stone is involved? Then have even LESS interest in it now.

eclipse · #11 08-10-2006, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by seeker007nmss

Oliver Stone is involved? Then have even LESS interest in it now.

I am SO with you...I just hate Oliver Ston'es movies...and I have seen too many of them to know- Too melodramatic-too long- too many cheesy slow-mo re-enacments (i.e. Born on the 4th of July...Hate it!!)

He really should have stopped at Wallstreet *(I am not even sure if that is the name of it...Michael Douglas is big time finance guy..that movie was great!

As far as just 9/11...I think I would just cry the whole time...( I know it is suppossed to be about survivors, but still, over 3000 didn't. I don't need anymore reality-just read the paper, or turn on the news...
I am looking for entertainment when I hit the movies these days...

strandinthewind · #12 08-09-2006, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by cliffdweller

Me neither, I think it looks like a **** movie. I love it when Hollywood tells me how I should feel about and/or commemorate events such as 9/11. They really have their fingers on the pulse of it all

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Oh and Mike, Nick Cage makes me want to hit things too...mainly his face

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YOU HATE EVERYTHING

I only wish Josh were here to join you

As for the movie, I read in Time Magazine that the people portrayed were elated that Stone told it as it was. So, the horses' mouths indicate this is a true telling of that horrid day.

In the end, throughout recorded history have depicted actual events and I see this as no different than any of those other ventures, other than many people can't stand any thought of this event other than horror.

Finally, how is Hollywood telling you how to feel? I do not get that comment. If you mean that you are supposed to feel a certain way while watching this - well isn't that what all plays and films do?

sparky · #13 08-09-2006, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by cliffdweller

Nick Cage makes me want to hit things too...mainly his face

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Me too. But you can always count on him to talk with a stuffed nose, and be a hangdog dreary and dopey guy, no matter the character. At least he is consistent. I don't plan on seeing the flick.

DrummerDeanna · #14 08-09-2006, 04:56 PM

aww...what's with the nicolas cage hate???

Ok..actually I can see why people wouldn't like him. As a person he kind of strikes me as an ass - but damned if I don't enjoy his flicks

estranged4life · #15 08-09-2006, 08:08 PM

in seeing this film. I think the best 911 related film was "9-1-1", the doctumentary by 2 French brothers who were originally filming a story about a rookie firefighter joining a NY firehouse and all the struggles that come with becoming a firefighter, to only have 911 happen as they were filming (The French brothers are the ones who filmed the first jet impacting the WTC, the only known footage of the first impact-They also were inside the buildings filming as people jumped to their deaths, the sound was sickening).

I would, however, like to see a movie about the conspiracy of the OKC bombing...It's been 11 years and us Oklahomans are still trying to figure exactly what the hell happened that April day & why the govt. keeps BS-ing the truth.