From the previews I've seen, it looks pretty good. Hmmmmm.....
Wow. That was quite an endorsement!
It stands to reason that this film will not be getting good reviews from the liberal press.
So far, I've heard nothing but good things about this.
I don't understand why anyone wants to go to a 9/11 film. I'd rather stay home and stick pins in my arm than re-live that.
Were you paid for that review?
Bozell has pretty high stock in my book, so if he says it's that good, I might just actually pay to see it. :)
I'm going to see it because of this recommendation.
Holy crap, could that web site cram in any more annoying advertising along with the story?
With all the flashy graphics we see during the intros on a lot of newcasts, I wonder what would be the result (beyond the initial liberal outcry) if a newscast had the testicular fortitude to have a brief image from 9/11 in their opening every night.
Food for thought........
Fer cryin' out loud!!! Could those vibrating banner ads be just a little more annoying?!?!?
If he managed to keep his own politics out of it and just told the story, maybe it's worth seeing.
This movie is getting nothing but raves from the "VRWC", amazing. It looks GREAT from the TV ads. Everyone is saying that fellow Pena is great. Nicholas Cage is always good, whether you can buy him in the role or not. I had real problems with him as the love interest in Moonstruck.
File under: it's a wiggly world.
Thanks for posting this!
I guess there's hope for anyone if Oliver Stone finally makes a realistic, honest movie without fat-fingered left-wing proganda all over it.
Thanks for posting this. United 93 was powerful; maybe this movie will help people remember why we are fighting the enemy.
Brent Bozell is the gold standard for media measurement. Here is his final paragraph:
"World Trade Center" pleads with us to remember that moment and to keep it alive. It is not appropriate for the very young, of course. It is appropriate, indeed necessary, for everyone else, just as it is appropriate, and necessary, for Stone's critics now to salute him, and thank him for the gift he's given his country.
L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center.
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World Trade Center Oliver Stone's 9/11 movie is filled with . . . religious symbolism.
The Weekly Standard ^ | 8/4/06 | Jonathan V. Last
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678283/posts
Posted on 08/05/2006 10:04:53 AM CDT by Valin
IT IS DIFFICULT, maybe even impossible, to render critical judgment on a movie such as World Trade Center. The normal aspects of appraisal are meaningless. It would be absurd to measure the film by its pacing or its cinematography. Ultimately, the only thing that matters is whether or not it feels right, and even that nebulous criterion probably has more to do with the viewer than the movie.
All of that said, Oliver Stone's World Trade Center is a solid piece of filmmaking. WTC is an important movie. There were three stories from 9/11 which needed to be told. The first, about the doomed heroics of Flight 93, was brought to the screen by Paul Greengrass earlier this spring. The second, about the FAA's struggle to clear the skies and land 4,452 planes in 180 minutes, has yet to be made.
But Stone has picked the most dramatically satisfying part of the triptych: The story of Will Jimeno, John McLoughlin, Dave Karnes, and Charles Sereika (see this fantastic Rebecca Liss piece for the full tale).
Jimeno (played by Michael Peña) and McLoughlin (Nicholas Cage) were Port Authority officers who went into the Trade Center to help with the evacuation. When the first building collapsed, they were pinned down and buried in an elevator shaft.
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