***World Trade Center***

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Run, don't walk to see this film........

Without question, the best Oliver Stone film ever....

I kid you not........

Incredible film..........

:cry:


:patriot:

[nytemare]

1. I cried through most of it.

The sound effects in the theatre were quite jarring, and real.

At the end, I was quite pissed that we became so concerned with Iraq when Bin Laden is still floating around.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear nytemare..........

I cried through quite a lot of it......

And I saw it at home.......no surround sound either........

Just extremely well done movie-making.......

:hug:

[nytemare]

3. It was well done.

I found myself happy for the two they got out, and angry at the lack of justice after the whole ordeal.


:hi:

On a side, I hope you had a good holiday.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I had a terrific holiday.......thanks!

:hi:

[nytemare]

5. Good!

:D

[kid a]

13. at home?? is it on dvd? nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. My dear asSEENonTV!

Yes, I did see it at home, just tonight!

It just became available on DVD, just before Christmas.......

:hi:

[Common Sense Party]

6. It was a fantastic film.

So was United 93, in a much different way.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear Common Sense Party........

Really, it was.......

I can't watch the film United 93 yet.......That's a bit too hard, still...

[Common Sense Party]

26. It was hard, maddening, infuriating, and painful...

Yet necessary, for me. I think our country is losing the anger over what happened--and didn't happen--that day.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

8. Even better than JFK?

Because that one was a classic, IMO. :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. My dear Starbucks Anarchist!

That was also a very good film....

But IMHO, this one was waaaay better.......

Oliver Stone concentrated on two families here........

And he interwove their stories with the larger one of the attacks....

It was extremely effective! Very moving.........Very gripping......

I give it my highest recommendation!

:hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

10. I'll have to check it out.

Thanks for the tip. :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Ah, you're most welcome!

You will not be sorry......:hi: back atcha!

[LibraLiz1973]

35. got the DVD for Christmas. I LOVE JFK

It's one of the movies where I cry at the end EVERY single time

[Starbucks Anarchist]

38. Easily one of the best films of the 90s, IMHO.

[wildhorses]

12. thanks for the recommendation--

just sign me

always looking for a good film:P



:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. My dear wildhorses!

Be sure to have lots of kleenex along! I did get pretty weepy.....

But it is not to be missed....truly!

:hug:

[Writer]

16. I was in Manhattan on Sept. 11th...

and to this day cannot watch footage - or an adaptation of footage - from that day.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. My dear Writer..........

Then you should most definitely stay away from this film.......

I am sorry.......that must have been horrific in the extreme...:hug:

[calimary]

18. Sigh... I can't, either. Not because I have as legitimate a reason as you

do, though. I just have no desire to see ANY 9/11 stuff. Too painful. I already know how it ends. I'd just rather not.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. My dear calimary........

This one doesn't end with the bombing....

That's where it starts.......

The ending here made me cry, and in a good way.......

Let me just say that this film celebrates the good in humans......

Our families, both personal and working..... :hug:

[calimary]

20. Fair enough. Still just a little too gut-wrenching.

It's just not something I want to relive. At least for now.

I'm glad it was meaningful and moving to you, though.

:hi:

[reformedrepub]

21. I was trapped in an adjacent building for

almost six hours...I got hit on the shoulder by flaming debris from UA 175....havent seen the movie yet.

[Writer]

22. Do you think you'll ever want to see something like that?

I hate that these movies are coming out so quickly because a mythos forms around events and people - many of whom are still alive today. Like that "Path to 9/11" travesty on ABC.

[reformedrepub]

23. I dont know

maybe, later on down the road. I know so many people who were killed and went to so many brothers and sisters funerals.....

[Writer]

24. That's the gritty reality of all this that no movie can capture.

I remember going through Penn Station and seeing some Boston cops who had come down for services... all of their badges had black bands.

[reformedrepub]

25. The worst part

was being down at the site for days and days and NEVER pulling out a survivor, just bodies and parts of bodies...

[pokerfan]

39. The S&R dogs at the WTC got depressed

along with everyone else so a rescuer would cover themself with some debris and pretend to be a survivor so the that the dogs would have something to get excited about.

[ThomCat]

34. Damn. I hope no serious injury from that.

I hope you live in Manhattan somewhere. Because otherwise, once you finally got out I know you must have had a hell of a time just getting home. :(

[ThomCat]

27. As someone who was here on 9/11 I won't.

I will not watch anything about 9/11. I don't want to know how the media portrays the events of that day. I want my memories of 9/11 to remain first hand, or second hand through friends who survived. x(

[Richardo]

28. .

:patriot:

My thoughts exactly.

[ThomCat]

30. I guess a bunch of us feel that way.

That's good to know. There are some things that shouldn't be turned into a movie for at least a generation.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

29. My dear ThomCat...........

Of course, and I understand as much as one who wasn't there can...

My heart goes out to you, and to all who experienced that day first hand...

:hug:

[ThomCat]

32. Thank you.

:hug:

I saw it. My roommate survived it. She survived tower 2 only because people picked her up and carried her out, and I spent that entire day on the phone calling hospitals trying to find out if she was alive, and reassuring her family that she must be. I think I know a lot of people who won't watch that movie for many years.

[Midlodemocrat]

31. I lost friends in the towers that day. I won't go see it.

The memories of the towers coming down are too raw for me to see them essentially romanticized in a film.

Too many funerals; too much death.

[ThomCat]

33. Far too many funerals.

There is a street near me that is now named after someone I knew. :(

And too many survivors who were permanently hurt/disabled and essentially thrown away afterward. x(

[LibraLiz1973]

36. It was a fantastic movie

You really felt for those men

[CaliforniaPeggy]

37. My dear LibraLiz1973.............

My feelings exactly!

Thanks for coming by tonight......:hi:

[Melynn]

40. I saw "World Trade Center"

I thought it was a good film. Don't know if it is Oliver Stone's best. I liked "Platoon", "Wall Street" and "JFK" too.

I was surprised that WTC didn't do better at the box office. I guess some people don't want to revisit 9/11.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

42. My dear Melynn...........

Well, of course, everyone has different opinions...

I know some folks don't want to revisit 9/11........just look upthread...

For me, it was his best...but that's just me!

:hi:

[Bake]

41. I gotta differ, Peggy!

I was rather disappointed by the story. And what was UP with that former (?) Marine who was on a mission from God, anyway?

IMHO, it was a weak story not very well told.

Bake

[CaliforniaPeggy]

43. My dear dbaker41!

No worries! I did kind of wonder about that Marine too......

That was a weak link, IMHO.......

But otherwise, I loved the story.

I loved how the story went back and forth between the trapped guys and then back to their families.....

You are always more than welcome to differ with me!


:hi:

[Bake]

44. Please! Call me "my dear Bake!"

Nobody calls me dbaker41 ...

Bake

[CaliforniaPeggy]

45. Ah, my dear Bake!

I go by the username, till I hear/see differently!

Sorry, sweetie!

Is that all better now?

:hug:

[Bake]

46. All my FRIENDS call me Bake!

:hug:

Much better!

Bake

[CaliforniaPeggy]

47. Glad I'm counted among your friends, my dear Bake!

And you are among mine!

:hug:

[Theres-a]

48. He was real

I googled him after seeing the film,he is real.Apparently he was not consulted in the making of the film,and is working on a book with the paramedic,who was also not thrilled with his portrayal.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

50. So, he was real? Wow.......

Thanks for your input!

:hi:

[Theres-a]

49. Watched it last night.

Even better was the documentary aired on 9/11 this year.I can't remember the title,but it's available at netflix.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

52. My dear there-s a!

I'm not at all sure I could watch a documentary........

I found this one hard enough to see......

But I did enjoy the way Stone wove the overarching story of the attacks with the families' stories......

[Taverner]

51. Sorry, I just cant watch any movies about 9/11

WTC...United 93...none of them

I just don't want to relive that day, sorry.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

53. My dear Taverner!

I understand completely, you know I do!

I suspect that this day will always be a difficult one for us who lived through it to revisit.........:hug:

[Taverner]

54. Yes there's certain things I can't rewatch.

A good friend of the family stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. You may have heard of him, "Dutch" Schultz. We all went to the premiere of "Saving Private Ryan". Dutch couldn't watch the opening scene or the scene where the French family was trying to get their daughter to safety. He left the theater during both of those scenes, a 80-something year old man, sobbing uncontrollably.

I wasn't there on 9/11, but I can relate - its a little taste of what he must have felt.