The World Trade Center - the movie Opening August 9, 2006

[whistle]

-- I don't want to relive that moment again, but I also don't want to ever forget!

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World Trade Center (2006)
Directed by
Oliver Stone

Writing credits (WGA)
Andrea Berloff (written by)
John McLoughlin (true story) ...
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Genre: Drama / History (more)

Tagline: The World Saw Evil That Day. Two Men Saw Something Else. (more)

Plot Outline: Two Port Authority police officers become trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center. (more) (view trailer)

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Status: Completed
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Status Updated: 17 February 2006
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Cast overview, first billed only:
Nicolas Cage .... John McLoughlin
Michael Pena .... Will Jimeno (as Michael Peña)
Jay Hernandez .... Dominick Pezzulo
Armando Riesco .... Antonio Rodrigues
Maria Bello .... Donna McLoughlin
Maggie Gyllenhaal .... Allison Jimeno
Donna Murphy .... Judy Jonas
Patti D'Arbanville .... Lynne
Brad William Henke .... Jerry
Lucia Brawley .... Karen
Wass M. Stevens .... Pat McLoughlin (as Wass Stevens)
William Mapother .... Private First Class Dave Thomas
Michael Shannon .... Dave Karnes
Frank Whaley .... Chuck Sereika
Stephen Dorff .... Scott Strauss
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[SpiralHawk]

1. Who plays Geroge "My Pet Goat" Bush?

It's an easy role.

All you have to do is sit on your pampered preppy ass and do NOTHING after having been told TWICE that the USA was under attack.

Bush went AWOL on 9/11 -- just like he did with the Texas Air National Guard.

When the nation is in need, you can always depend on him to wimp out

Bush's Pentagon had a frikking hour to prepare after the planes hit the WTC towers in New York, but he and his appointees (that's you Rum Dumb) couldn't even muster a pea-shooter to defend themselves and the nation's capitol.

Pathetic.

That's what you get when you allow a DESERTER to steal the presidency.

[whistle]

3. I don't know, that is another reason I want to see the movie....

...to find out who played that original role on September 11, 2001

[rosesaylavee]

4. Don't see his character in the list above -

maybe his role is portrayed as SOCK PUPPET and no one's taking credit? Art imitating life again.

[KansDem]

10. The lowdown is that the producers got Knucklehead Smiff...

...to portray Pres. George W. Bush.


Sir, we are under attack...
Sir?...
SIR!...

Just had to hammer out the details of the contract...

[rosesaylavee]

16. AMAZING resemblance - how did they do it?!

:rofl:

The big dummy...

[blonndee]

2. Boo! I won't see it in the theater, nor will I rent it.

I think it's way too soon and I don't like the idea at all. But you're certainly entitled to your opinion!

[phylny]

17. I agree. My husband and I just discussed the same thing.

The man who wrote the book that the movie is based on (and who Nicolas Cage is portraying) lives in our neighborhood, and there is local interest to see the movie, but we won't go.

[uppityperson]

5. I don't want to see it, I will never forget it.

how could I forget it? Anyone who tells me I will is either insulting me or ignorant of how strongly this affected me. (Substitute "many of us" for "me" if you want)

[NYCGirl]

6. Strangely, arch-conservative douchebag Cal Thomas LOVES this film!

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/oliver-stone/cal-thomas-cat-on-new-stone-911-flick-olivermeet-oscar-188742.php

From Thomas' Review:

I have a long list of favorite patriotic movies, including “Victory at Sea,” “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “Sands of Iwo Jima,” but Oliver Stone’s “World Trade Center” is right up there with the best of them. It is one of the greatest pro-American, pro-family, pro-faith, pro-male, flag-waving, God Bless America films you will ever see.

What? Oliver Stone, who hangs out with and praises Fidel Castro? Oliver Stone, who indulges in conspiracy theories and is a dues-paying member of the Hollywood left? Yes, THAT Oliver Stone….

Whatever one thinks of Oliver Stone, the man knows how to make movies. This is one of his best. It deserves an Oscar in so many categories. It also deserves the thanks of a grateful nation. Go and see it beginning Aug. 9 and make him a large profit so he might consider inspiring us again, as his predecessors so often did during Hollywood’s Golden Age.

[pinto]

11. Yeah, saw that yesterday in my local paper...

Sounds like a "movie" movie. Stone can do that real well.

[blonndee]

13. "inspiring us again"

sounds like "whip up anti-Arab sentiment and chickenhawk warmongering again" to me.

[CTyankee]

18. "pro-male"???

What about 9/11 is or even should be "pro-male," any more than it should be "pro-female?"

Why does mysgongynist stuff have to be introduced into this subject? This is about people, isn't it?

[readmoreoften]

7. My favorite 9-11 movie is

911revisted. Which can be seen on www.911revisted.com. The first 11 minutes are really slow, replays of news media footage. The rest of the movie puts that footage into context with the help of physics professors and engineers. I'm not in love with the editing, but I'd give it 4 out of 5 stars.

I won't see Stone's movie.

[whistle]

23. Thanks for that link, I had not yet seen it....

[chelsea0011]

8. It will be a difficult one to sit through. The preview alone makes you

weep.:cry: :cry: :cry:

[JAYJDF]

9. So explain to me again just why I should see this movie.

What would I be going for? Will I expect to find the who done it? Will I just enjoy the destruction? Or am I to expect to really be entertained? Put Busch on one of the planes in the cockpit and I'll watch.

[reichstag911]

12. I can't wait to see it.

Even if he sometimes stretches the strict historical truth at times for cinematic purposes -- most notoriously in JFK -- Oliver Stone is one of the must-see filmmakers on my personal list. Maggie Gyllenhaal are personal favorites, also. As for those who say it's "too soon," I don't really understand that. During WWII, theaters were regularly showing...jingoistic WWII films. Was that "too soon?" Or is it just because Oliver Stone might put a little political subtext into his film?

[blonndee]

14. I doubt it. Look at the excerpted review on the post above.

I'm among those who say it's too soon, AND I don't think that the jingoistic movies during WWII were anything more than propaganda, as it sounds as though this might well be. I expressed my opinion before I read this review. I think at this point it SOUNDS and SEEMS to be exploitative, and I personally don't like the idea of the film at all.

But unless this guy totally didn't get it, it sounds like so much rah-rah USA to me:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1704666&mesg_id=1704734

[reichstag911]

25. "Rah-rah America"...

...coming from Stone would surprise me. I read about the film's real-life models, Jimeno and McLoughlin, in 102 Minutes, and it was an intense vignette.

[Bill McBlueState]

20. is that you on the left? n/t

[reichstag911]

24. Yep...

...and Peter Sarsgaard, Maggie's fiance who took the pic, complimented me on my shirt. :smoke:

[Bill McBlueState]

27. well, you can call me jealous!

:loveya:

[reichstag911]

28. Of me for having met...

...Maggie (or Peter :eyes:), or of them for having met me? B-)

[reichstag911]

29. OOPS!!! I meant to write...

..."Maggie Gyllenhaal and Nic Cage are personal favorites, also."

[Roland99]

15. Paramount has been having screenings for many rwingnut personalities

and it's getting rave reviews.

Even from asshats like Brent Bozell.
http://www.mrc.org/press/2006/press20060717.asp

[whistle]

19. Thanks for all of your comments and thoughts, I'll let you know

...what my impressions after I see the movie following its opening.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

21. Oliver Stone has become a rightwinger in recent years

as much as the freepers act like he's some leftist icon, the movie will play to their sensibilities.

i saw the trailer and couldn't help but think-"what's nicholas cage doing with those firefighters?"

he's one of those actors who always play one personality-himself. I don't buy him as anyone other than nicholas cage in the trailer.

it looked like standard hollywood drivel-lots of slow motion scenes of 'noooo!!!!!!" to sad music.

i'll make a big prediction-cage's character will die. just a hunch

[reichstag911]

26. It's not a "character";...

...McLoughlin and Jimeno were two survivors rescued from the rubble at Ground Zero. :eyes:

[Rex]

22. It only took 5 years for us to get jaded enough to accept the

total exploitation of 911.

[Slaughtermeyer]

30. Source for online 9/11 documentaries

An excellent source for online 9/11 documentaries is www.universalseed.org

[Slaughtermeyer]

31. I will pass out anti-Bush flyers on opening night

I will pass out the following flyer at my local theater when it opens:

http://www.911blogger.com/flyers/BushKnew.pdf

[DanCa]

32. I wont watch this

I don't like watching people die.

[reichstag911]

36. "Watching people die" is not the point;...

...it's about two that actually survived, but...whatever...

[Nevernose]

33. My granddad hated WWII movies "Patton? Bastard! His guts and OUR blood!"

He wouldn't watch WWII movies, relly freaked out over just the commercials, in fact, and only barely tolerated even Depression-era movies.

I guess I feel the same way about these 9/11 movies and docudramas. Maybe they'll be good for my kid to see, since she was only five and too young to know what happened, or even my grandkids. I have faith in Oliver Stone as a director, too. But even though I've never even been to New York City, the horrors I saw on TV are too vivid for me to voluntarily view again. I go to the movies to escape or to learn, not just to see a retelling of people suffering and dieing.

[blogslut]

34. from what I've gleaned

It's supposed to be the story of these two men and how they survived after the towers came down. While I don't think politics plays into the screenplay, I'm sure the hero/insurmountable odds/human drama/go America factor is high.

Stone is very good with the visuals. The answers, not so much. I wouldn't want to date him.

[reichstag911]

35. OMG!

You look for answers from people you date?!? All I've ever found are more questions! :crazy: