Gothamist: September 11 Movie for Tribeca Film Festival's Opening Night

suz

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:13:32 -0500

Black box

e

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:15:42 -0500

how can a movie be made with no real evidence? there are obviosly no survivors to tell what really happened on that flight.

javster

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:24:25 -0500

Isn't this like the third Flight 93 film? The first one was more of a docu-drmatized film with the passengers real family members. the second one, the A&E movie of the week? Now we have a third one? I'll take three Long Island Lolita movies anytime over these...

watcher

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:29:09 -0500

Loose Change raises some interesting questions about what might have happened http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848&q=loose+change&pl=true

Jack

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:26:00 -0500

So it's unacceptable for vendors to sell WTC/9-11 stuff near ground zero. But it's somehow acceptable for a purely for-profit film like "Flight 93" to be screened mere blocks away from ground zero? I guess it's just too "nasty" to see someone setup a card table on the street. It's much easier to swallow if it's wrapped up in glitz/glamour and a red carpet... With cocktail partis afterwards... I hope someone is doing a sociological survey of post 9-11 stuff. Because THAT would really be interesting. PS: "Snakes on a Plane" will be awesome!

S

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:50:20 -0500

I can certainly understand why New Yorkers would be repelled by either movie... But you know who'll be watching it? Just about everyone else, particularly outside the US.

Em

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:43:15 -0500

I don't have any plans to see either movie maybe at some point on DVD. I don't feel like I did when seeing other "difficult" films where there was a really incendiary performance or something like that to draw me in. It's like they can make a multi million dollar movie about 9/11 5 years later but they can't get the construction going on the site.

John

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:07:09 -0500

IT'S JUST TOO SOON. I just can't watch it. Even if they went into this movie with the best intent in the world, I just can't bear to watch it.

Dirk

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:46:33 -0500

I'm going to see "Snakes on a Plane" instead....

Buckeye

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:16:23 -0500

i'm from ohio (moved to nyc a few months back) and saw the flight 93 trailer... i wouldn't see that movie if you paid me ~ too creepy, and i think most people feel like that, new yorkers or not. i can't imagine anyone would want to see it. and i have no intention of seeing the oliver stone movie, though i'd rather see nick cage/con air than nick cage/weather man - the latter was vomitous.

suz

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:13:37 -0500

Hello? No it was absolutely NOT determined, or even entertained (except by loons), that the terrorists crashed the plane prematurely. Why in Sam's Hill would they do that?????????????? As far as the feds are concerned, evidence shows that the passengers crashed the plane.

yale

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:13:29 -0500

the flight 93 teaser was fantastic, the trailer is awful.

Arc

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:57:13 -0500

hello? wasn't it determined that the terrorists of that flight intentionally crashed the plane themselves - and that the 'overtaking' of the plane by the passengers was a myth?

copyranter

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:43:08 -0500

Bloody Sunday was well done. It gives me hope, too.

Carrie

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:40:18 -0500

Has anyone had to sit through the trailor for Flight 93? I found it absolutely horrifying and unbearable to watch. I agree that this is too soon and the trailor is eerie. I doubt many New Yorkers will want to see these movies... too close to home.

Joe Apology

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:51:52 -0500

I think it's inevitable that movies like this are coming out. I think the documentary is a good thing too, as we can't supress things like that forever. Feeling those feelings again, however hurtful, can help the healing process. But as for the Oliver Stone movie, I just hope we see the Nic Cage of Adaptation and The Weather Man as opposed to the Nic Cage of Con Air or Face Off.

suz

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:08:04 -0500

uh oh! If Oliver Stone is doing a 9/11 movie, you just know conspiracy and cover up is going to enter into the storyline somehow. That man could find conspiracy in the gentle art of butter churning. I am still too raw to see any kind of movie about 9/11, so I will be passing on both flicks.

screw deniro

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:53:31 -0500

Because a homogenous neighborhood full of white investment bankers and lawyers needs all the help it can get.

Papercutninja

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:49:01 -0500

I just don't know if the public is ready for these movies yet. Also, Nic Cage stinks (in regards to the Oliver Stone movie).