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.
That describes the MSM, and just about every movie critic.
My dentist told me that just yesterday...
In other words, treat them like babies?
Yeah, having done my little autonomy thing, I think that the anti-American media and kulchur (or should that be "Kulchah"?) don't want us to see what the islamofascists have actually done because it justifies Guantanamo and interferes with their campaign to portray Dubya as a vengeful idiot instead of someone steadfastly defending us.
...it may not be your temper that you will find needs controlling
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Wow! I feel better already! I think. No, wait, I'm SURE!
"Does anyone know what "politically inspired words" appear at the end?"
No muslims were hurt in the making of this film ;)
If there aren't any queers or pro-abortion activists prominently highlighted, preferrably portrayed as victims of the VRWC, this movie will not get a mention at the Oskars. "Its just too soon"!
4 out of 5 dentists recommend seeing this film!
Well, you got me pegged.
The hygienist is ALWAYS nagging me about flossing more.
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That was one of my first reactions about hearing people complain about it. The most annoying one was in Hollywood with the pre-screening crowd saying "Too soon." Well, excuse me, but f*** Hollywood's opinion. If left up to them, we'd never have a movie about this, just more apologism for terror from Clooney and his ilk.
"A movie about the heroes of flight 93? Nah, that's too controversial. Let's do a movie about the abuses we insinuate are happening in Gitmo."
Liberals make me want to puke. They say it is too soon for a movie but we have been at war too long. Translation: I just want to see what makes me happy! Self centered pukes.
I knew that Mark Bingham was openly gay. I watched the TV program about flight 93 about 9 months ago wherein his mother made sure that all viewers knew that. I hardly think it is germane to the events of flight 93. There were many heros on that flight, and if some of them were "gay", so what? My point was in reference to the fact that Hollywierd seems only to honor films that put people's homosexuality front and center (Most recently Brokeback Mountain and Capote). If the movie does not in some way dwell upon and highlight Mark Bingham's homosexuality and make it a central theme of the movie, the chances of an Oscar for the movie are very slim.
Feel free to report me to the diversity committee.
If you actually took the effort to read my post you would see that I think the US media should show more images of terrorist violence. The comment you took out of the context of my actual statement pertained to the fact that despite my beliefs I can sympathize with victims' families who might be arguing against CBS showing their loved ones have their heads cut off on national television. People on this forum should take the effort to read any post to which they decide to respond.
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