Posted on 05/02/2006 12:15:38 PM PDT by Coastal
The movie "United 93" depicts what David Beamer, father of United Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer, calls the first "counterattack" in the war on terror after Sept. 11, 2001. Beamer rejects the notion that the movie is coming out "too soon" after Sept. 11. He wrote in The Wall Street Journal last week that if anything is "too soon," it is "too soon for us to become complacent."
You won't hear family members of the 33 passengers and seven crewmembers complain that writer-director Paul Greengrass exploited their loved ones. The film depicts the victims from a respectful distance, with no designated star passenger.
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The movie is totally neutral about good or bad. It lets the actions of the participants speak for themselves.
The audience is smart enough to figure out the good and bad all by themselves.
And yet, a few years later, we have illegal aliens demonstrating in our streets, opposing secure borders, and McCain and Kennedy wanting to give these criminals citizenship.
Haven't seen the movie yet, but I plan to. This was a good article, and there is another excellent one by Mona Charen. Sorry, don't have the link, but all should read it.
Well it's true, very few movies affect me emotionally - but this one - boy, I just don't have the words. I literally felt the urge to do harm. Lots of it.
Found the link:
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/charen050206.asp
Is that right? Disgusting!
The same review as everyone else. Saw it opening day, total silence during, at the end, and while exiting.
They did an excellent job of putting you back when it was happening, one unbelievable crash at a time, each building collapsing, and how you felt when you heard each event.
Unbelievably, I had forgotten several events, such as the immediate landing of all planes over the U.S., over 4,500, and no flights for quite awhile.
I will own the DVD when it comes out so I can NEVER FORGET whenever I want.
Yes, I was pretty angry as well. When the lights came up, nobody said anything, but I was pretty hot. My brother, who is a fairly liberal guy (without the associated mental disability that normally goes along with it) didn't say a word. When we got outside, he said "It sure makes it a lot easier to hate Muslims..."
I said "No, it makes it a LOT easier to hate Islamofacist scumbag terrorist Muslims."
I know enough American Muslims personally to know they generally do not support those hideous activites shown in the movie.
I went by myself today. I wasn't the only one in the theater crying angry tears when it ended.
I've already posted on other threads. Saw it on Saturday with my husband. It is a MUST SEE movie. The theater was full and it was totally silent when it was over. Everyone left with the utmost respect. I think the director did a great job and should be thanked again for making a truly intense and powerful movie without running amuck in Hollyweird crap.
9-11 is the only time in my memory where the crazed left actually took a breath and backed off. I mean even the ACLU was for suspending certain liberties on 9-12. There are some lines you do not cross, even if you are an otherwise run of the mill moonbat. Politicizing that morning is one of them. I'll never forget the fear and uncertainty of that day. I was driving to work. Got to work. Digested 15 more minutes and went to school to get my kids and go home.
Nope, Todd was not wearing the baseball hat, this write got that part wrong!
I love that no one on the flight had more status in the movie than anyone else. I loved that everyone on the flight was made to be important and there were no main characters.
It was an excellant movie with no political slant and totally based on the truth of what happend that horrible day.
I highly recommend seeing it and suggest all American's do!
One of many scenes that got me was the departure lounge. It looked so normal, not a pre packaged Hollywood set. The people looked like the same you would see in one. No indication that anything out of the ordinary was going to happen. It struck me hard that it could have been any of us.
I agree with you on that. However, I do predict that all subsequent 9/11 films are going to do exactly that. I base that on who is directing them. I am so glad this movie came out first.
It didn't last long though. And it isn't that they actually loved America any more after the attacks----it's just that they knew better than to spout their knee-jerk America-hate so soon after that day.
United 93 beat RV in yesterday's (Monday's)box office. Yesterday it was number one.
<< My parents, my wife and I, and a friend and his wife all went on Sunday. The lady's wept, and my jaw is still so sore I can barely chew from clenching my teeth in anger during the last 20 minutes. >>
Exactly my reaction. I became very emotional at several points -- but during the climactic scene, and for hours afterward, I was just filled with rage -- not just at the terrorists, but at the lefties who are defending and abetting them.
FYI = "United 93" on Monday became the leading movie in the United States per "BoxOfficeMoJo.com", the leading movie web site. I hope it continues that path. Every American should this movie. It is a "critical path" item in the war against terror.
I'm hoping it will grow a bit more this week as word of mouth spreads.
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