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While there isn’t a person in this country that doesn’t know what happened on September 11, 2001, most of the somber spotlight tends to fall on the collapse and tragedy in the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The other two incidents, the crashing of a plane into the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania crash, often seem to be overlooked. Today many films are being made about the events of that day and what happened in New York, but Paul Greengrass decided to push the focus to Flight 93, which was intended to hit Washington D.C. but crashed in Shanksville,...

Al Gore’s global warming documentary is finding an audience – in its second weekend in theaters, "An Inconvenient Truth” led all films in box office gross per screen. The movie was shown in 77 theaters and took in $1.34 million – enough to put it at No. 9 in box office gross for the weekend – for an average of $17,615 per screen.

This e-mail is riveting as it relates the perspectives of a seasoned, commercial pilot. / jpm Susie and I just got back from seeing "UAL Flight 93", it was absolutely gripping, and as a former airline pilot who was flying a trip that morning on a Boeing 767 from Cincinnati to Orlando it was almost too horrific to watch...it was very disturbing! For you pilot types, the attention to detail, the cockpit, the preflight, the crew, pilots and flight attendants boarding the aircraft and making small talk was OH, so real and routine...just another day in the office! Likewise the...

Media spin doctors have done their best to turn patriotism into a dirty word, yet even movie critics--some of the most agile redefiners of culture around--have been humbled by the true patriotism on display in United 93. Praise has been nearly unanimous for this painstaking recreation of United Flight 93, the one hijacked plane on 9/11 that didn't reach its target. And if the movie has been appreciated more for what it isn't--exploitative, inaccurate, sensational--those reviews still carry an unspoken acceptance of what it is: a testament to a group of ordinary Americans who became, in effect, the first foot...

President Bush hosted a special screening of United 93 at the White House on Tuesday night. The film was attended by families of some of the 40 passengers and crew who were killed when their plane crashed on September 11, 2001. First lady Laura Bush was also at the screening. Directed by the British film-maker Paul Greengrass, United 93 is a real-time drama based on the events surrounding the fourth plane to be hijacked, which was believed to have been brought down after members of the crew decided to storm the cabin. The film has been a surprise box office...

<p>Well, yesterday was just fantastic and I hope I can do the evening justice with my limited writing ability(I was a Math major!).</p> <p>First, I must truly thank the MANY of you who responded to my post announcing my excitment about dining and viewing movie United 93 with POTUS and FL Laura Bush. Your many kinds words were very moving and I appreciate each and every one of your prayers, well wishes and thanks/praise for my father and the 39 others who stood up in the first minutes of the war on terror. I will try to respond to each of you but I the list is long and I my time is limited...family, job, yadda, yadda, yadda. But please do not think for one moment your time and consideration is not appreciated.</p>

I finally had time to go check out United 93 last Friday and checked the local theaters to see which one I would go to. To my amazement, it was not showing at a single theater in the 5 counties around Albany (the capital) New York. Is it normal that a movie would be pulled from every single theater so soon after release?

US President George W. Bush has hosted an "emotional" White House screening of the film United 93, with relatives of some of the passengers who died aboard the September 11, 2001 flight attending. "It was a very emotional night, because you had family members and a handful of the families had not seen the movie before," White House spokesman Tony Snow told reporters today of last night's screening. "At the conclusion ... it has a very powerful ending, and it's dead silent as the credits roll" except for "the sounds of quiet sobbing in the room", he said. "It was...

Well my good friends George and Laura have yet to see the movie United 93. To see it they have invited 2 people from each of the families of those that died on 9/11 aboard Flight 93. After a late lunch/early dinner with the President and First Lady but only one of us will be able to view the movie w/ them. Since my mother has not seen it yet - but is ready to now - she will go in with them to view it...and I will get an up close and personal tour of the White House. This,...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-based Islamic lobby, says the movie "United 93," which recounts the hijacked flight that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9-11, defames Muslims. Bushra Khan, office manager for CAIR's Arizona chapter, said she's concerned "United 93" is prompting the kind of anti-Muslim anger seen immediately after the attacks on New York City and Washington. "This film is undermining the complacency that we have come to expect from infidels," Khan said. "I got an e-mail last night from Osama. He says he is considering legal action to stop further showings of the film." Khan showed a...

The first thing that really hits you as you watch the movie “Flight 93” with gut-wrenching apprehension is the confusion. More frightening than anything is the realization that the government is so uncoordinated, unconnected, and confused that any terrorist, including one sitting in a cave, can bring this country to its knees. There were more than 4,200 planes flying across the skies of America on Sept. 11, 2001, and all the terrorists had to do was grab four. The most shocking truth is that the Federal Aviation Administration, the vaunted and powerful NORAD, the White House and the Pentagon, all...

A Washington-based Islamic lobby group is spreading word of an incident it says raises concerns of a backlash against Muslims prompted by the first-run film "United 93," which recounts the hijacked flight that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9-11. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said a middle-aged couple in Scottsdale, Ariz., who had just seen the movie approached three young Muslim women wearing head scarves Apr. 29, reported the California Aggie, the campus newspaper at the University of California, Davis. The young women, at the Desert Ridge Marketplace, said the couple asked them if they were Muslim. The couple, indicating they...

I have just seen "United 93," and it is obvious that many Americans have not only forgotten what happened on 9-11, but don't want to be reminded of it. The film is a powerful and disturbing experience. But what rivets the audience is the realization that this is a true story, not a work of fiction, not make-believe. It happened, and there is no reason to believe it can't happen again. Continues...============================================================= United 93 -- the movie Is it too early -- too soon -- for a review criticizing this movie? Some are calling the 2006 docudrama, United 93, 'too...

Has any one seen this on www.jihadwatch.com? Spencer does a great job refuting this writer...

When promotional trailers for the first of the big studio 9/11 movies began to roll in New York City theatres, audiences protested. "Too soon!" they shouted at the screen. Theatre managers responded by pulling previews for United 93. The film premiered on schedule on April 26; reviews have been largely positive as far as the movie goes, though have almost universally warned of its visceral emotional impact. One review that struck me in particular came from Robert Wilonsky at the Dallas Observer who wrote: "United 93 wants you to do more than remember — it wants you to remember how...

On May 19, the film "The Da Vinci Code" will open nationwide. I do not wish to repeat the number of blasphemous and heretical statements suggested by this abomination, for this is not the reason why I post. I am writing because knowing these falsehoods, we have to say that we do NOT want to make this type of film to become dominant in America as our entertainment. I am aware of boycotts planned against "The Da Vinci Code". And while we think that such tactics are effective, we know the opposite is true. By creating controversy, we are just...

The premiere of Universal Studios new movie “United 93” was held at the historic Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on Tuesday night. The sky was overcast and threatening, the sidewalks were crowded with media and observers, the streets were clogged with taxis and buses and catering trucks, and the equal-parts anticipation and dread were so thick you could cut them with a knife. The obligatory red carpet awaited those famous enough for a perp walk alongside the paparazzi, and the Tribeca Film Festival coughed up it’s glitterati for the event. Robert DeNiro, Julia Stiles, Tom Selleck, Ethan Hawke, Tony...

Moments before storming the cockpit and crashing into a Pennsylvania field, several of the brave passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 said the Our Father prayer. In the film portrayal of the event, United 93 director Paul Greengrass intersperses this scene with shots of the hijacker pilot praying in Arabic. As the Muslim terrorist gets closer to the intended Washington target, one can’t help but fear (despite already knowing the outcome) that the terrified passengers gathered in the back of the plane will be no match for the death-seeking terrorists. That changes when Todd Beamer shouts his immortal words “Let’s...

'UNITED 93' vs. 'MUNICH'Paul Greengrass--thank the stars--is no Steven Spielberg by Mia T, 5.09.06   hereas both 'United 93' and 'Munich' derive their initial tension not from uncertainty but from what we already know, one movie remains scrupulously true to the facts--art in the service of history--while the other quickly devolves into a verisimilitudinous contrivance in the service of a director's political agenda. Paradoxically--poetic justice in its purest form, some would say--the honest movie is the one that ultimately delivers the powerful political message. Spoken by its heros--our heros--as they prepare to rush the cockpit, shortly before the plane...

By bringing the story of Flight 93 to the screen in the aptly named United 93, Paul Greengrass has done far more than simply tell a tale of heroism and horror. He has reminded us of the nature of our enemy and ourselves—and of this generation’s fight for freedom. Filmed in a documentary style, United 93 begins marching toward its crescendo by offering snapshots of modern American life. We hear fragments of conversations about vacations in Europe, business in New York, family in California. Laptop computers and cell phones serve to underscore how self-contained, detached, even myopic these unsuspecting heroes...