world trade center movie

[trucks 0]

Ill eventually see it, just not going to go to a theatre to see it, wait til it comes on TMN. I have mixed opinions on it as well but from what Ive read the movie isnt political or anti-Middle Eastern, just tells the story of two men who managed to come out alive after being trapped underneath the rubble and keeping each other alive. I think it will be a pretty touching story, I just wish some of the profits were donated to a charity or the victims families because as many people have said it does kind of look like a way to make millions although Im sure those werent Stones intentions when he signed on for the film.

[Patrick67 1]

I'll see it out of curiousity.

But to the ppl saying it's a film about hope, the makers should be donating all the proceeds to charity instead of stocking their own pockets. That would be class act, and a real sign of hope.

I get a bad taste in my mouth, thinking about people making money of the tragic events surrounding 9/11. :(

[Thockey17 1]

I get a bad taste in my mouth, thinking about people making money of the tragic events surrounding 9/11. :(

Guess you werent around NYC after it happened.

[kosydar 0]

I get a bad taste in my mouth, thinking about people making money of the tragic events surrounding 9/11.  :(

Guess you werent around NYC after it happened.

I don't see this movie as any different than people making bumper stickers, t shirts, and country songs.

[KYHockey3 0]

i went to nyc the spring break after 9/11 and ppl were selling pictures and tons of other things of 9/11

[defence18 1]

I will most definately not see it for a long time coming. 9/11 is a very sensitive issue in my household. My father works in the city and was 2 blocks away when the South (the first one that fell) tower fell. He was covered in ash. He had to take his shirt off and wear it as a bandana around his mouth so he could breathe. He stopped to help a co-worker locate his daughter that may have been in the towers (she was fine). He made it out of the city, but not until 5pm. I do not now, nor probably ever will know what he saw that day. The closest he's ever come to describe it has been the phrase "massive loss of life" and he said that with his eyes welling up once and only once. I need no reminder of what happened. I don't see it as a memorial to those who died, and I don't necessarily see it as a way to simply make some money, although I'm sure Hollywood didn't simply glance over that aspect either. There's more I want to say, but I can't really find the words now, but that is my initial response.

[bigd19 0]

Flight 93 was absolutely terrible. That said, I have no interest in seeing WTC. Unless I hear from someone who has similar taste in movies that I should see it, I doubt I will. Sitting through 2+ hours of a movie which will likely turn out to be a sermon of the director's views on 9/11 and the Middle East doesn't sound too appealing.

Seriously we dont want to hear your opinons.

[Chadd 916]

Flight 93 was absolutely terrible.  That said, I have no interest in seeing WTC.  Unless I hear from someone who has similar taste in movies that I should see it, I doubt I will.  Sitting through 2+ hours of a movie which will likely turn out to be a sermon of the director's views on 9/11 and the Middle East doesn't sound too appealing.

Seriously we dont want to hear your opinons.

I'd rather hear from Kosy that read a post like yours.

[kosydar 0]

Damn son, why the hostility? Did I have sex with your mom or something?

[hockeymom 2]

At first I was absolutely convinced I did not want to see this movie. But now I honestly don't know. I do like the idea of telling a story of this magnitude through the lens of a few people; but I'm a bit afraid to see it.

If it is well done, I'm not sure I'm quite ready to be pulled through that emotional wringer again.

If it is poorly done, I will be ticked off by it for not measuring up to the same emotions.

I saw the trailer tonight and thought it was very powerful.

Guess I'm waiting to hear more of the reactions of people who have seen the movie in order to decide.

[All Torhs Team 0]

I havent seen it, but know alot of females that have and they alllll cried through the whole thing.

[Drury23 0]

Saw it the other day. Really touching. I believe everyone must see it.

''We are the United States Marines. YOU, are OUR mission.''

[EBondo 233]

I definitely recommend seeing it. When you are watching the movie, you don't care whether they made the movie for the money, or the message. It doesn't matter, the message gets across. The way they kept each other alive for the time spent underneath the rubble, with some true accounts, and some fiction, it's still a very powerful movie.

[hattrick74 0]

saw it last week and IMO it was top notch. i am all the way out in California so i don’t have the personal ties to 9/11, but to see what the people around the WTC went through was just astonishing, this wont ruin the movie, but the scene when nick cage and the group was walking through the tunnel area when the 1st tower collapsed was amazing, not to mention to see the true heroism of the marines who went searching (did that really happen) when the movie was done i had such a sense of pride and gratitude for what the firefighters, cops, and people who were all involved.

[gotdangles16 0]

yes the marine thing was real

only thing is sgt. thomas was black not white

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/14/...D8JGFMKO0.shtml

[hattrick74 0]

  yes the marine thing was real, only thing is sgt. thomas was black not white

i am surprised their hasnt been more of an uproar about that,

[Langenbrunner15 0]

A lot of people who go to work or have family that commute in and out of NYC don't need to see it...They lived through it. It took my mom 8 hours to get home that day, and we are thankful every day because she was one of the lucky ones.

I think I said it in another thread, but it is far too early for this kind of a movie. Peoples emotions are still way too fresh for it.

Theo- My grandma, aunt and uncle, and little cousin(2 at the time?) all saw it from their window, they were living a blcok away.

I want to go see it, I think it's a bit to soon, but I want to see how "directors" see these things.

[RadioGaGa 162]

I think it's a story worth telling. Undecided whether or not I'll see it (I honestly don't see many movies)...but I don't think you can say it's "wrong" to tell the story...

Besides, we don't know what Stone is doing with the money...A huge chunk could be quietly going to a 9/11 charity for all we know.

[DarkStar50 679]

I doubt I will go see the movie in the theatre. I could see the smoke from WTC all afternoon that day. I knew 2 young guys in their early 20s who died in the Towers. From all accounts I have heard, the movie has been well done.

Just to give a different perspective on making a movie of this event, Hollywood has made movies of WW II, Korean War, and Vietnam War. Deer Hunter was out about 2 years after Vietnam War ended. I don't think its right to single this movie out as a money grab on the tragedy that families suffered if you won't condemn movies of previous wars. Either you put movies like this all in the same category of a money grab on someone else's personal tragedy or you don't. It is ok to feel either way. I just want people to think about the bigger picture of the types of films Hollywood makes. This has been done before. It is just the first time that for so many of us it is a personal event in our lifetimes that we are re-visiting.