"World Trade Center" - movie

I know I've discussed this before -- but I just feel like it's too soon. I wasn't in NYC when it happened. I do have a friend who was involved (not in the Towers, but in another building on Wall Street), but I don't feel like I was more touched, moved, devastated than most any other person. I feel like it was such a massive, sacred thing - that making movies or profiting off of it is just wrong. As though "Schindler's List" had been made in the immediate future after the Holocaust, rather than so many years later. Profiting from such things doesn't seem right at any point, but at least "Schindler's List" served to educate a public that was largely forgetting, or hadn't been touched by the Holocaust.

What's your take?

[Stella]

Oh my, I completely agree with you. I hate that there is a movie about this. It just seems so... wrong. SO and I were just talking about this the other day when we saw a preview. It MIGHT be different if they were donating a large percentage of the profits, but they aren't, and to be honest, I don't even know if I'd feel okay about it then. That day was just too horrifying for the entire country that to turn it into entertainment for shock value just has some serious moral issues that I can't overlook. Sometimes, Hollywood just goes too far.

Okay, I'll step off the soapbox now, this just really really bothers me...

[Vanquisher]

I haven't seen it, but it does just give me the heebie jeebies.

On the other hand, I am so sick of 9/11 crap. Call me unpatriotic, whatever. I don't think you can compare the halocaust to 9/11. Millions of people were slaughtered, millions.

That day [9/11] touched me too, and it was a horrible murder of thousands of people, but there are thousands of people in the world who are still dying today. Where is the movie about that? Darfur anyone?

Plus, Nicholas Cage, c'mon.

[DCJenn]

Everything that I've read and heard says that it's a very respectful movie and that they do a great job of showing the good of human nature...

that said- it's WAY too flippin' soon. I mean come on Schindler's list was 50 years later and it still upset people who were involved.

and Heidi's right, there are a whole lot of people dying all over this country and around the world that we just don't choose to hear about.

It's not going to be on my Netflix list anytime soon, that's for sure.

Jenn

I just saw a review of this movie on GMA. He said it was more about heroism and hope that 9/11 itself. They also mentioned that the families of 9/11 would like people to see it so we don't forget.

I read a review of it in Newsweek, which had a similar theme. Problem is, if it's about heroism and hope, then they shouldn't call it "World Trade Center". The review I read did stress that it is uplifting, and it's not the 'conspiracy theory' type thing you'd expect from Oliver Stone .. but I still don't like it.

As for the part about families of 9/11 victims wanting people to see it, I'm sure that some families want people to see it, and others are appalled. I know that the widow of a man depicted in the movie was angry that he was in it at all. He apparently died right next to one of the real-life heroes in the movie, so those people felt the must be included, even though she didn't like it.

[Vishenka69]

I don't really have anything against the movie, as long as it's tastefully done (and I hear that it is) but I'm not ready to see it yet. The real news images from that day are still too vivid in my head. I think may be in another 5 or 10 years, I'd be able to appreciate it.

[Auspicious]

I don't know whether it's "wrong" but I know I won't be seeing it. I can't even see movies Like The Day After Tomorrow now, where natural disasters happen in cities, let alone a movie specifically about 9/11.

(I mean I could if I were forced to or something, but I avoid it if possible and it's neither art nor entertainment to me.)

I say too soon. I guess I think it's tacky but not wrong.

[pstone]

I can't imagine why anyone would ever see the movie. Never in a million years would I want to watch it glamorized, hollywoodized, and overdone.

I experienced it on the day it happened, why would you ever need more.

Seems to me that people like to get worked up, hold on to pain, and forget that life is like that; horrible, funny, sad, great, etc...

I think that my only beef with the whole 9/11 memorialized thing is that we only talk about the world trade centers. I know a lot more people died there than in pennsylvania or in the pentagon but i lost a friend in the pentagon and it seems like those lost there have already been forgotten. Do I want a movie about it.... No Its just so sad that Robert Heminway was forgotten so soon. His wife was quickly removed from military housing and was an Italian immagrant with no family because they made her mother move back a month earlier and they had two small children. Her mother died about 2 weeks after 9/11 in italy. SO sad.

/babble

[Meenah]

I guess I'm the lone star here, because I plan to see it. I am looking at it as a movie about the two men, their lives and families. I'll let you know what I think after the fact.

[Stella]

I guess this is why it still bothers me... because it's not all OVER with.

Chertoff said the plan was reminiscent of a plot by 9/11 coordinator Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who in 1995 had envisioned detonating bombs on 11 airlines possibly traveling over the Pacific Ocean.

The plot was "as sophisticated as any we have seen in recent years as far as terrorism is concerned," Chertoff said.

CNN terror analyst Peter Bergen said two factors pointed to the influence of al Qaeda. He said al Qaeda was "obsessed" with commercial aviation and that the timing of the plot was "very interesting."

"It's not clear when this was going to be implemented ... but we are coming up on the fifth anniversary of 9/11. They do want to make a big statement," he said on CNN's "American Morning."

I just don't have any desire to see a movie re: 9/11 when there are still too many terrorist threats going on today. I posted the link to this article on CNN on another thread...

[Ravenclaw]

Re: "World Trade Center" - movie

I know I've discussed this before -- but I just feel like it's too soon. I wasn't in NYC when it happened. I do have a friend who was involved (not in the Towers, but in another building on Wall Street), but I don't feel like I was more touched, moved, devastated than most any other person. I feel like it was such a massive, sacred thing - that making movies or profiting off of it is just wrong. As though "Schindler's List" had been made in the immediate future after the Holocaust, rather than so many years later. Profiting from such things doesn't seem right at any point, but at least "Schindler's List" served to educate a public that was largely forgetting, or hadn't been touched by the Holocaust.

What's your take?

I could have written that verbatim. I think it should be a national memorial day. I get so emotional on that day and the days leading up to it. It is way too soon for a movie and I feel like they are just exploiting tragedy to make a profit.