Posted on 04/17/2006 11:50:17 PM PDT by goldstategop
Universal's new movie, "United 93," is about United Airlines Flight 93, hijacked on 9-11 by Islamic terrorists shortly after leaving Newark, N.J., for San Francisco. The terrorists intended to fly the plane to Washington, D.C., and crash it into the Capitol. Instead, the passengers fought back and forced the plane down in Pennsylvania, thereby saving the lives of any number of people on the ground in Washington and saving America from a devastating blow to its image.
Incredibly there is some controversy about this film. Apparently many Americans are not "ready" to see a film about 9-11 "so soon" after 9-11.
If this is so, it is an ode to the weakening of the American people.
Five years after the most devastating attack on American soil, people are asking if Americans are ready to see a film -- not some fictional, politically driven, reality-distorting film by Oliver Stone, but a film based on the phone conversations of the passengers and flight attendants, on the flight recorder tape, and approved by the families of all 40 passengers -- one of the most terrible and heroic events in American history.
Did anyone ask in 1946, five years after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, whether Americans were prepared to see a film about the Japanese attack?
If anything should be controversial, it is Hollywood going AWOL while its country fights the scourge of our time, Islamic totalitarianism. For five years, America has been battling people who are dedicated to destroying every value that Hollywood claims to care most about -- freedom, tolerance, women's rights, secular government, equality for gays -- and Hollywood has yet to make a film depicting, let alone honoring, this war.
Finally, a major studio comes out with a film reminding Americans about the nature of our enemy, about what really happened (to the best of our ability to reconstruct) on one of the 9-11 planes, and the press wonders if Americans are "ready" to see the movie.
Universal invited me to see a preview, and unless they change it (or don't drop a few gratuitous, politically inspired words that appeared right after the film ends), I believe it is just about every American's duty to see this film. There is no gratuitous violence -- if anything, Universal went out of its way to prevent us from seeing the reality of the throat-slashing of passengers and crew -- but there is unremitting tension and sadness, since we all know what will happen to these unsuspecting people, and we know this is real, not fiction.
There is also American heroism. People completely unprepared for an airplane flight to become their last hour alive rise to the occasion and save fellow Americans from death and from the humiliation of having their nation's capitol building destroyed.
The only people likely to object to this film are those who don't want Americans to become aware of just how conscienceless, cruel and depraved our enemy is, or those who think that our enemies can always be negotiated with and therefore object to depicting Americans actually fighting back.
Teenage and older children in particular should see this film. If the younger teens have nightmares, comfort them. But young Americans need to know the nature of whom we are fighting. If they are attending a typical American high school or college, they probably don't know.
Congratulations to Universal Studios on making this film (presuming that, as assured to me, they removed the post-film politically inspired message). And shame on Hollywood for only making one such film in five years.
Perhaps if "United 93" turns out to be the unforeseen box office success that Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" was, the lure of major profits will exert more influence over Hollywood than even Hollywood leftists do.
In the meantime, go and see "United 93," to see why some Americans still take "Home Of The Brave" seriously; and to see why we have to win this war more than any since World War II. That's how bad our enemy is. You have an unfortunately rare chance to see that enemy at work when you see what happened to everyone who boarded United Airlines Flight 93 that left Newark on September 11, 2001.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
ok, enough song-and-dance... WHAT is this supposed political message?
LOL. Didn't see your post, King, when I posted. I wondered the same thing.
When is the release date?
I may to see the movie or I may not; I haven't decided yet. But considering I, like most Americans, have the actual events seared in my memory, I hardly need to see it to remind me that it happened.
Mind you, I'm not criticizing the movie or the fact that it was made. It just kind of rubs me the wrong way when someone tells me I MUST do something. I know a lot of people here are fans of Prager, but he's always been a bit too pompous for my liking. This is a good example....it's not so much what he says that irks me, but the way he says it.
I hate to be teased, is all :)
I believe that the TV commercial mentions April 28.
I would add one thought to Dennis' concern about "are the American people ready to see this?".
The American people were prevented by the nanny state, I assume, from seeing the true brutality as it happened. I shall never understand that; and I resent to this day the decision to treat American citizens as children --- while the rest of the world, including our enemy -- islam -- was able to see all the unedited images.
No one would have been forced to see it; they could simply avert their eyes. I still rage at that.
"I have mixed feelings in some ways because I don't want the victims' families to see their family and friends death be sensationalized or exploited."
All 40 of the victim's families approved of the making of the film so I have zero mixed feelings.
I don't intend to see this movie. The idea that I have to see a movie so I will never forget this tragic event is laughable. I will NEVER forget and I will not see this movie.
As I said on another thread: I would sooner crawl naked across a desert of salted glass than see this movie.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
I don't intend to see this movie. The idea that I have to see a movie so I will never forget this tragic event is laughable. I will NEVER forget and I will not see this movie.
I am not seeing it either. One, I have no desire. Two, it is too soon for me to see a movie that we actually lived. Maybe if they did a fictional movie on an airplane that was not connected to 9/11 then I would see it, but not now...maybe in 20 years. Who wants to see people going down in an airplane and "Let's Roll" is being said. No need I saw the real life version.
I haven't noticed a big rise in films that are about Christianity after "Passion" or "Narnia." I wonder if Hollywood is in the profit business anymore.
On some of the other non political boards I visit, I have come to a sad conclusion. There are a LOT of people who are accepting it, basically as common knowledge, that the government knew about 9-11, the WTC was brought down with explosives, muslims didn't do it, etc. It's unbelievable.
You know, sooner or later there will be a moonbat conspiracy version of this made into a film. It will blame 9/11 on a Zionist conspiracy with Haliburton, and the hijackers will be portrayed as "brave idealists" while the passengers will be portrayed as, I don't know, "little Eichmanns" or something. The mainstream media will proclaim this moonbat conspiracy film to be historically accurate and they will not ask if America is "ready" so see such a film. You know Hollywood is gearing up for such a film. The film about the Olympics massacre that showed the "human" side of the terrorists while condemning the Israelies is just the beginning.
I honestly don't know if I can go and watch a movie like this. I generally don't go for this type of movie as much as I want to support it.
I'm not going to see it because I already know how it ends.
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