Seems like I'm not the only one not interested in seing "WTC - the movie"

[LynneSin]

Seriously, five years was not a long enough weight. Even though this was based on a true story, there's just no reason to make this movie now unless you're a faded out director reaching for a last grasp of top director stature.

If you wanted to do a movie about these 2 men who survived amazing odds, why not do a documentary? I know I'm looking forward to the Spike Lee documentary on Katrina coming soon on HBO. I don't need a story glamourtized with the likes of Nicholas Cage in order to interest me.


Seriously, a un-reviewed movie about a bunch of dancers from two different worlds that was in 500 less theaters did better than WTC.

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/boxoffice/

[Ohio Joe]

1. Too soon for me as well

Though I know there are a lot of people that feel enough time has passed.

[AirmensMom]

2. I'm not the least bit interested in seeing it.

A longer wait won't change that. :shrug:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

3. I'm not interested

It seems like a cynical ploy to obtain an Oscar.

[Mutley]

5. Precisely.

:thumbsup:

[LynneSin]

6. That's exactly what I was thinking

Stone is outdated as a director. He's movies were significant in the 80s but he definately is not here in the '00. They said that WTC was nothing like an Oliver Stone movie which just goes to show the guy is grasping for straws here.

BTW, best cure for insomnia - last year's Alexandra, also directed by Oliver Stone

[Frank Cannon]

4. Don't know why ANYONE would want to see this

I mean, we all lived through it the first time, didn't we? And don't we all kind of know how it's going to end?

[Robb]

7. For what it's worth

...that's exactly what my mom said about seeing Stone's JFK. :shrug:

[LostinVA]

20. Good point!

[Frank Cannon]

28. That's funny, because that's exactly what my mom said too!

And she still hasn't seen it!

[blondeatlast]

8. A movie for those who didn't find the actual events dramatic enough?

No thanks.

I hope people continue to stay away in droves.

[LynneSin]

9. It would be interesting to see the demographics on that movie

Like what part of the country did it sell better and what areas did it not sell. I suspect those of us close to NYC probably had little interest in reliving it whereas the Heartland might find it an exciting movie to see

[MiniMandaRuth]

10. I'm not going to see it.

Well, 1), Nicholas Cage looks like the man with the eternal hangover and 2) It's too damn early too stir up feelings again.

[Kerrytravelers]

11. I wasn't interested in Flight 93, either.

And from what I've heard on the television, it's the CONservatives who love this. Apparently, there are many American flags being waves around. They must be mesmerized by the stripes. :eyes:

[Avalux]

12. I don't care either. Have no desire to see it.

Can't stand Nicholas Cage for one and from what I've heard of the plot, the movie could have been set in a fictitious scenario. Feel the same way about it that I do about Flight 93; won't give my money to those exploiting September 11.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. I'm really surprised they haven't made a movie about the OKC Bombing.

We have no desire to see World Trade Center. It's still too raw. I saw things on tv that day that scarred me for life. I'm not ready to relive it.
Duckie

[LynneSin]

15. OKC bombing - American Terrorists whereas 9/11 - foreign terrorists

God forbid they do a movie that shows even Americans can do acts of terrorism. This country has shoved it down our throats that only foreigners would be so bold to do harm to our country and yet they overlook the Timothy McVeighs of the world committing the same exact types of crimes.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

17. "Arlington Road" sort of is but it isn't

(I'm being a little cryptic because I don't want to spoil the film for anyone who hasn't seen it.)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137363/

[GalleryGod]

14. DVD

:shrug:

[idgiehkt]

16. none for me, please.

I can't believe they are cheapening it this way. Is the freaking white house behind this? Just in time for the November elections, get 9/11 all over the place again. ARGGGHHH. I can just see some sick fucker sitting at the planning desk pre 9/11 going "and the 5 year anniverary of this will end up being right before the 2006 mid-term elections, so it's perfect!"

[LSK]

18. seems I'm the only one not making post about not seeing this movie

Ooops, I just did!

:hide:

[LostinVA]

19. I loathe Nicolas Cage, and can't stand any movie he's in

Except for "Fast Times," but he has zero lines and is still a Coppolla... and it has Spicoli. Nuf said.

[idgiehkt]

23. good ol' Spicoli.

I dated a Spicoli once. Free homegrown for three years. Some of the best years of my life, those. He was hot, too, and a virgin when I found him (but not for long, lol).

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

21. I'm viscerally disgusted by this kind of jingoistic patriotic BS.

I don't need hollywood (shocking, right?) telling me how i should feel about this awful day I lived though.

[LynneSin]

25. I"m guessing it didn't play well in the NYC theaters

it would be interesting to see those statistics

[koneko]

41. I have to agree on that

I live right across the Hudson from NYC, and when I went into the city to see An Inconvenient Truth, it was one of the previews playing to a full house in the AMC 25 cineplex in Times Square. The reactions of the people sitting around me were palpable. I won't get into great detail as I don't want to sensationalize it, but let's just say that the reactions I could hear were not happy ones.

As someone who was living in Boston on 9/11, I can't speak from first-hand experience what it was like to be true eye-witnesses that day. Since I moved here last fall, I have heard some profound stories from people who were. And not one of the people that I've spoken with has indicated an interest in reliving it Hollywood-style.

That does not mean that there aren't any NYers who don't want to see it. I will wait till it's out on cable, if I decide to see it at all. Just based on the reactions of the people during the trailer, I would feel like an interloper who wanted to view their painful memories up close. And I just can't do that.

[mtowngman]

22. I'm not interested in seeing it

It seems exploitive (exploitative?). Someone could probably do a decent movie examining the big picture behind why we are so hated and how the fringe radicals got to the point of executing the 9/11 attacks, but this thing looks way superficial, like it should be on network TV.

[warrens]

24. The critics pounded it

Said it was just tripe and sentimental crap.

[Paladin]

26. What A Sad Goddamned Thread This Is

Speaking as somebody who HAS seen "World Trade Center," I think you people are screwing yourselves out of a terrific movie, well-written and acted, evocative and extremely moving, with little if any political cant, one way or the other.

How sad to encounter a bunch of Democrats, emulating the worst traits of the right-wingers with an "I haven't seen it, but I'm going to publicly shit-can it anyway" attitude. And directing these sorry, baseless comments towards a movie that celebrates the courage and sacrifice of working class, public sector employees---the kind of people who are the bedrock of the Democratic Party.

I don't really care if you don't see the flick, it's your loss. But you ought to check the nasty, Freeper-like sentiments, just out of a sense of self-respect. Shame on you....

[Floogeldy]

30. Thank you.

I abhor reactionary ignorance. :)

[LynneSin]

31. I don't know if the movie is Oscar-worthy or a rotton tomato

And personally, I don't care. I also don't think there are many others in this thread who really care about how the movie reviewed.

I'm not calling this a crappy movie but just a movie that personally I don't want to see and I think is in poor taste to actually make. This was 5 years ago and quite fresh in my memory. I don't need to pay $10 to have it glamourized starring Nicholas Cage and Maria Bello.

Instead I would rather watch a documentary about the events where they explore what happened and why. Perhaps if Oliver Stone wanted to do a movie on 9/11 he should done something similiar to what Spike Lee has coming out on Katrina. No glamour, no glitz, no big Hollywood premiere complete with Red Carpeting and Paparazzi. I would rather watch a documentary that can educate me about what happened and what is being done, not being done or could be done to prevent such a thing again.

[Floogeldy]

33. Perhaps Oliver Stone can do whatever the fuck he wants to do.

He impresses me more than someone who comments on a movie that they haven't even seen.

:smoke:

[LynneSin]

34. It's not about the content we're concerned about

It's about the fact that movie is just a little too close to home for some folks. It's just ill-timed, but that's Oliver Stone for you

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[Anarcho-Socialist]

44. What "Freeper-like sentiments"?

That's a nasty slur IMO.

[Orangepeel]

27. I saw it. It wasn't about the attack.

The attack happens in, like, the first 15 minutes. It is about first responders and their families and what they go through.

It wasn't the best movie I've ever seen, but it was worth seeing.

[Floogeldy]

32. Thanks

You would think one would watch a movie before he or she opened his or her big fat trap about it. Amazing.

;)

[pitohui]

42. sounds like a teevee movie of the week

"first responders and their families and what they go thru"

fine, they can make that any day of the week, why pick 911 except to exploit?

is "rescue me" set on 911? hmmm

[Orangepeel]

43. I dunno.

But I also don't know why stories that happened on and because of 911 can't be told. (and isn't Rescue Me a comedy? I haven't seen it so I don't know).

I didn't think WTC was exploitative (and I did see it), and neither, apparently, did the Port Authority cops central to the story. YMMV, of course.

[mitchum]

29. I'm not into tragic sentimentality. That day didn't change me one iota

[deadparrot]

36. I have no desire to see it.

I think it may be too soon. I'm not going to comment on possible ulterior motives of the film's creators; I just have no interest in seeing it. Maybe a long while from now, when it's on DVD. I'm certainly not going to fork over $10 for a ticket.

[reformedrepub]

37. I lived it

I dont need to see it.....

[liberaltrucker]

38. No way I'd see it

WAAAY too soon after the fact. Tora! Tora Tora! was the first
dramatization of Pearl Harbor-some 30 years later. Mr Stoned
should have better taste. Just MHO.

[Oeditpus Rex]

39. They said 'Never forget' over and over and over

As if we ever could.

Then they started trotting out the reminders, one after another after another.

As if we needed them.

[Broken_Hero]

40. I have zero interest

in this movie, or that Flight 93...might catch it on the tv, when they start putting it on the cable networks.