IS IT TOO SOON FOR MOVIES CONCERNING 9/11?

[Chi-townChief]

Actually, it's too late.

[AD from SpringBay]

Only if the movies show the terrorists in a negative manner and as muslims.

[redlenses]

Why was this question not axed about "Fahrenheit 9/11?"

[ExGeeEye]

Better now than later.

Even better in 2002, but there's no point in fussing over it. That book has been written.

Unless someone can come up with a flux capacitor and 1.21 jiggawatts...

[TalBlack]

"I am somewhat mystified as to why not just the media but people in positions of authority want to deny United States citizens the ability to see what happened on 9/11 on a daily basis."


Nothing could be simpler: They don't want the sheep to get and remain focused and angry. Such people may tend to think in direct, cogent, self-protecting terms.

In WWII the people who made films as well as the people in gov't. had an American world view and a distinctly American response to attack.

Today, in our philosophically stratified society, much of which involves self serving belief and the Orwellian protection of outright lies the instinct is to protect the belief that serves the Self.

In a word: "Ego".

[holden]

Well, you remember all the hoopla the press brought against that Michael Moore movie a couple years back, right? At least Moore waited until after this "Flight 93" movie, right? /sarc

HF

[Skooz]

Why is it that someone must make a movie out of everything that happens in this country?

Real life isn't good enough for people?

The study of history (even recent history) is so dilapidated that the great unwashed won't bother to learn about anything unless it is condensed into a two hour sound bite, with actors pretending to be the people who actually lived it?

The reflexive habit of turning every tragic American event into a TV Movie of the Week melodrama is nauseating.

[Kakaze]

I'm one who thinks it's too late.

This should have been on constantly. Movies, biographies, anniversary shows, never forget.

The result of not showing it and ignoring it has been to desensitize the importance of the event. Because people no longer connect it to an event in their life time. Especially kids just entering their teens, who lets face it will have to continue the fight against islamofacism or become subjects not citizens.

Show it over and over otherwise we do a disservice to those who were slaughtered that day, and those who will be in the future.

If we forget & don't prepare the next one is OUR fault.

[BibChr]

Only too early for the liberal agenda. They'll praise Reagan when he's dead. When Bush is no longer an influence, they'll say nice things about him, too. If they can lose the war for us, they'll talk about 9/11 then.

I put my thoughts about this very thing in America at war, then and now .

Dan

[rockabyebaby]

The MSM should have been showing tapes of the 9/11 attacks daily, nightly, since it happened, at this point a lot of people (especially liberals) have wiped it from their memories, it really didn't happen, all the more reason to open the borders, let everyone in, hell, let's just make this one big freebee for everyone, come one, come all, give us your poor, your starving, etc. us hard working American CITIZENS will support you, (all together now sing this little diddy) everything's free in America

Sad but true.

NEVER EVER FORGET.

[7thson]

I disagree. Movies can be video history books. And not every history book is good or genuine just as all movies are not good and genuine. Good historical movie - Black Hawk Down. Bad historical movie - JFK. And anything else Oliver Stone made.

[ImpotentRage]

You're right! We should be seeing 9/11 images daily.

[submarinerswife]

The families of some 9/11 victims support this movie.

Rush talked about this movie on Monday. Debra Burlingame, the sister of a slain pilot(hope I have her name right), called Rush's show. She also supports the movie.

I am suspicious of all things Hollywood, but this seems to be an exception.

[Vaquero]

we should have reminders every day on the TV. We should have to see the people jumping from the towers...the planes colliding with the buildings, hear messages from cell phones...EVERYDAY!

this is what our illustrious media did for us after Pearl Harbor. But Hitler had attacked his ally Stalin and the left in the media and elsewhere went from being Axis supporters to Axis enemies and this allowed us to go to war and get the media blessing. Communism/Socialism ruled the day then and we fought the good fight.

We need to give the media an great enema.

[sono]

Did anyone ask Frank Capra if it were too soon to make "Why We Fight?" The entire issue is bogus ... America is still somnambulating ... Hopefully, "United 93" will be a wake-up call.

[the_Watchman]

Many of the complainers are the same people who feel that Mel Gibson was too soon with the "Passion of Christ"!

[7thson]

But some people got it when the planes crashed into the buildings. Some people understood instantly what it meant. What will it take to make everyone understand? Or am I asking the impossible?

I am reading John Adams right now and what amazes me is that little has changed over the past two hundred years. Jefferson, according to what the author wrote, seems a conniving nutcase. And nearly everyone was really onboard but backstabbing the country every chance they got. A totally different version of Hamilton than the one I got from the bio I read a couple years ago.

Back to the subject at hand, my question is can the American public every again come together as a majority and agree on anything? Or are we now all to fractured?