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Post by Matt on May 13, 2006 11:52:52 GMT -5
Saw this last night and left very impressed. I had a little worry going in that there would a subtle political message thrown in, but thankfully there wasn't. It simply depicted what happened during those fateful 2 hours. It was an amazingly surreal experience watching the movie. The audience just sat in almost total silence and watched the events of 9/11 unfold again. Great decision not to have any big name stars involved, as it made the passengers look even more human and real. You can actually feel the emotion from them as they know they're about to die. Watching the film is an emotional experience, and if you can handle it, go see it.
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Post by gwffantrav on May 13, 2006 12:19:13 GMT -5
This is definitely on my must list when I have a day off. I look forward to seeing it...
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Post by Matt on May 13, 2006 15:09:40 GMT -5
you won't be disappointed
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Post by gatekeeper on May 14, 2006 1:48:06 GMT -5
The only thing is, There was a made-for-TV-movie done by the History Channel called Flight 93 and did the same thing.
It's been on a lot recently (I'm sure due to this new movie coming out) so, I'm not sure I'll go see it, because...................
I already did......for free on cable TV.
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Post by Matt on May 14, 2006 8:41:41 GMT -5
True, and at first I thought they might even be the exact same thing. I didn't watch the TV version, but I'm pretty confident the big screen version is better. Theater-released movies generally have a bigger budget, for one thing, which aids in being able to recreate everything even more accurately. Plus, this is a movie that works much better on a larger screen than on a TV.
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Post by stephenvegas on May 28, 2006 3:05:05 GMT -5
Saw this last night and left very impressed. I had a little worry going in that there would a subtle political message thrown in, but thankfully there wasn't. It simply depicted what happened during those fateful 2 hours. It was an amazingly surreal experience watching the movie. The audience just sat in almost total silence and watched the events of 9/11 unfold again. Great decision not to have any big name stars involved, as it made the passengers look even more human and real. You can actually feel the emotion from them as they know they're about to die. Watching the film is an emotional experience, and if you can handle it, go see it. Matt, I just saw United 93 today and I agree ONE HUNDRED PERCENT with what you said about it in your post. The movie made me really feel like I was reliving 9/11 all over again. United 93 really captures how people were at first uncertain and really confused as to what was going on as the events of 9/11 unfolded. I did not realize or remember that the first plane struck the World Trade Center just minutes after United 93 left the ground and that there was already some suspicion about what was going on aboard the hijacked planes while United 93 was sitting delayed on the runway for 35 minutes. I also did not know that one of the passengers, who became one of the heroes of United 93, actually had to run to catch the plane just before it took off. While not all of the events in the movie may have been completely accurate, the director (who also did the incredible "Bloody Sunday" back in 2002) apparently sought to make it as accurate as possible by getting relatives of the deceased aboard United 93 to describe everything they knew about the passengers and the director even had many of the FAA and military officials from that fateful play themselves in the movie! Finally, I fully agree that it was a good decision not to have any big name actors play the passengers on United 93 because it makes the moment when they heroically rise up to fight for their lives, and thus for their country, even more powerful. |
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Post by Matt on May 28, 2006 8:26:16 GMT -5
It's just too bad this movie had a limited release, while Oliver's Stone upcoming one, will get wide release and probably bastardize the whole story....
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