I am not feeling particularly well, but I am going to try to brave the crowds for the opening night of the film tonight. It’s interesting that it currently gets an extremely high 94% on Rotten Tomatoes’ tomatometer of critical approval. No matter where you are on the political spectrum this film seems to be succeeding – a rather remarkable achievement in these polarized times.
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After two years of Syriana, Paradise Now, Good Night and Good Luck, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Day After Tomorrow, The Constant Gardener, American Dreamz, The Smartest Guys In The Room, Why We Fight, and even crap like Love Acutally, and other leftist America hating drivel – I heartily welcome this film.
Let’s not forget the moral equivalence “Munich” and the current disappointment (financial) of “V for Vendetta” as two other films on the wrong side.
Roger:
Did you see how the L.A. Times covered the film the other day. They did a feature on the Arab actors and the difficult choices they had to make because they were concerned about portraying Arabs in a negative light.They didn’t want the suicide bombers portrayed as carrictures, they wanted them to be portrayed as complex human beings. Yeah, I agree, lets not focus on the heroic actions of the passengers, lets focus on the complex emotions of the terrorists. They were repeating their coverage of the film “Munich” and trying to foist the emotions and political slant of that film on to “United 93″.
I dread the thought of seeing the film, because I frankly don’t know if I can take that kind of emotional intensity.
I understand a percentage of the opening weekend’s profits are going to a fund to build a memorial to the passengers of Flight 93. Call me a wuss, but I’m going to donate what I would pay for two tickets to the film directly to the fund.
God bless all of you going to see it, but I need to be functional next week.
I don’t want to see it, it sounds far too depressing. Who would pay to get depressed?
I didn’t watch Schnidler’s list until six or seven years after it came out. I was never in the mood. I mean, when ARE you in the mood to see a film about the Holocaust? The only reason I eventually saw it was becuase I caught the last half-hour on the History Channel and decided to rent it and see the rest.
The whole thing sounds very depressing.
There are plenty of movies that could be made about the WOT, but the only ones I would go see are of the Rambo variety. The invasion of Afghanistan would make a great movie, and so would the attack on Fallujah. But 9/11 itself? No way, too depressing.
“I mean, when ARE you in the mood to see a film about the Holocaust?”
Joe Schmoe, I WROTE a movie about the Holocaust – Enemies, A Love Story/
Yeah, Roger I got it from Netflix after you mentioned it a while ago. It was depressing! I did not finish it. The scene where he meets his wife, who he thought died in the camps — I turned it off after seeing that. I could tell that the movie had some very profound things to say about the human condition, but it was just too depressing.
Your temperament is obviously quite different from mine. The Holocaust is one of the most important stories of human history, one that needs to be told, and heard. But I am not the person to tell it, and I can’t stand hearing it either.
How can people watch this stuff? Back in the late 80′s there were a bunch of TV movies about similarly tragic events, but on an individual level. I atched one and swore never to subject myself to such depressing fare again. I think it was about babies that were accidentally switched at birth. The parents learned of the switch at the same time they learned that one of the kids had a fatal disease. Who can watch this stuff? Life has plenty of tragedies already, no way am I going to pay to experience someone else’s tragedies secondhand.
Joe Schmoe, apparently “Schindler’s List” is easier to take when you make out through it. At least that’s what Seinfeld did.
I have aggressively avoided about 99% of the drivel produced by Hollywood over the past several years, and 100% of the anti-Bush drivel. Hubby and I will be in line for “United 93″ at noon Saturday. There will be nothing easy or comfortable about it, but unlike all the tripe Hollywood is trying (and failing) to force-feed us, this one has history, truth, patriotism and heroism on its side.
It’s our little way of sticking it to The (Islamist) Man. Not to mention the Cloonies and Moores of the world.
Wait! Peg, what did you say about us Moores???
Take that back!
Oh, that’s right, there’s the black sheep of the clan, Michael. You’re right about him!
Sorry, John, you would have no way of knowing that any reference I make to anyone anywhere about a Moore is always about THAT Moore. He who blackens the name for all.
We saw “United 93″ yesterday and were quite astounded. It’s one thing to more or less know those events; it’s quite another to view them in such a stark, riveting and powerful documentary-like way. I actually can’t wait to see it again in the theatre, before buying it on DVD for the interviews and making-of extras (I hope, I hope).
The movie beautifully portrays the pure evil and the true heroism of that day. The rendering of the chaos at the control towers and military command centers also seems as realistic as could be. The acting by unknowns, some of whom portray themselves, is superb.
At the end, you will be uplifted.
See it!