Has anyone else seen the movie "World Trade Center"?

[CTyankee]

I am very impressed, even tho the movie does somewhat fit the formula of disaster movies. Oliver Stone was very conventional with this movie, which doesn't take a political swipe, altho I was hoping for one against Bush. He really concentrated on 2 cops in NYC and the events on 9/11.

I was particularly moved because my son, a law student at the time, was part of a volunteer effort to drive trucks and get supplies to the police, fire and military personnel who were going through the rubble. Only 20 people were pulled out alive.The shots Stone uses in the movie of all of the devastation are well integrated into the movie reenactments of the rescue efforts and the re-creation of the eerie landscape of Ground Zero just as the attacks take place, during and after.

The movie was a searing experience. I recommend it.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

1. I Look Forward To Seeing It. Thanks For The Review. n/t

[ThomWV]

2. Haven't and Won't

Too little ghoul in me.

[SharonRB]

3. We saw it the weekend it opened here

I think it was two weeks ago.

I agree that it was very well done and totally different for Stone. I recommend it.

[SunDrop23]

4. One man's opinion...I refuse to watch it.

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[Sherman A1]

6. Same here

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. I hate to see 9/11 packaged as entertainment.

[CTyankee]

21. My hubby said the same thing, BUT

what about Greek drama? Art has always reflected the tragedy around us (and in us), tried to interpret its meaning and, in many ways, save us. Time and time again poetry, music, drama and art have given us another, deeper, view of the tragedy of our time. WE must look upon film as the same "saving" art. This is what courses in "aesthetics" teach us, which is really about philosophy.

We MUST examine 9/11 artistically if we are to truly understand it.

[rubberducky]

7. I thought the movie was very well done, but.........

it`s real hard to describe something so devastating as a good movie. I felt like I was right back on that awful morning. The one scene I really wish they would not have put in was the person jumping from the towers. I also thought it was a damn shame that they chose to make that one marine a white man, when in reality he was black.

[Bill McBlueState]

9. they didn't know he was black

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-08-24-sept-11-rescuer_x.htm

Jason Thomas, the marine in question, chose not to go public with his story. Nobody involved with the production of the movie knew his skin color until well after production had wrapped up.

[Puglover]

8. I've had enough of

the WTC and 9/11 to last me a lifetime. I think I'll pass.

[MichiganVote]

10. Amen to that.

[Imagevision]

11. BUSH: "I don't know where bin Laden is" I have no idea and

really don't care" It's not that important. It's not our priority." - GW Bush, 3/13/02 ...

"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him."
- G.W. Bush, 9/13/01

[Lex]

12. The reality version was enough for me.

It'll be quite a while before I can watch the movie version.

[Bill McBlueState]

13. It was really amazing

It helped me to remember how we all came together after 9/11, only for Bush to squander all that good will on an irrelevant war.

Of course, this thread will be full of faith-based movie reviews, where people gripe about the movie without having seen it, or having even a rudimentary understanding of the plot.

[reichstag911]

14. Bravo, Bill...

...and have I mentioned I met Maggie Gyllenhaal? B-)



BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Bill McBlueState]

15. woo-hoo!

I hear she's gonna be on Letterman tonight.

:toast:

[reichstag911]

20. Yep!

I'm gonna have to catch a rerun of Bill Maher's return. :(

[William769]

16. I may watch it in 20 years.

But now? I don't think so.

[mike_c]

17. I have no interest in seeing it....

eom

[1620rock]

18. Hmm, I'll pass on this one also.

[stop the bleeding]

19. Too soon still

where is OBL again?

[karlrschneider]

22. No offense but it holds zero interest for me.

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[mnhtnbb]

23. I saw it. Story of 2 out of only 20 rescued alive from the rubble.

It focused on how these two men kept each other alive--and on their relationship to their families.

It was not sensationalized or pushing terror stuff.

[CTyankee]

24. Yes, it certainly does. It's too bad other other posters don't know that

Otherwise, I think they would understand it and go to see it. It is really an uplifiting movie.

I remember trying to get people to see "Schindler's LIst" and nobody would because they thought it would be depressing. I told them that it was uplifting at the end because it showed what one person could do to help and save lives.