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Positive Experience/Entertaining? It looks like the same kind of fictional movie as A Perfect Storm. I also think it’s too soon for a big screen movie about 911.
Technically any good? Paul Greengrass is a solid director. While I thought Bourne Supremacy was a supreme disappointment, Bloody Sunday was brilliant. Well shot, well cut, well acted, well everything. Still, I’m concerned that it will end up being a ra-ra, America-is-great kind of movie that can’t possibly hope to be the true story of Flight 93 since no one knows what really happened since there are no survivors.
How did it leave me feeling? The trailer left me feeling like I felt after A Perfect Storm. There is so much conjecture that had to be done for that film, you could have easily had said aliens abducted George Clooney and friends and no one could prove the film wrong. This film suffers from similar limitations. Sure, we have the cell phone calls and the blackbox recording, but short of having a survivor consulting, there are just too many gaps to fill in to make this an accurate movie.
Final Rating? RTV (Rent the Video – I just don’t know how this could be a movie of any depth.)
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I met Paul Greengrass after I screened Bloody Sunday back in 2002.{quote] Your just a Pete, Huh? The film like all films about sensitive topics will be made eventually just like Francis Ford Coppola 79′ film Apocalypse Now.
PS Did you get your friend, Peter Rees, to ban 9/11 topics on the MythBuster boards over on the Discovery web site, Pete,? Maybe for personal reasons? It would explain alot why they are ban there now!
Whaaa?
I’m don’t even know who Peter Rees is, man. I’ve posted to the MB board maybe once or twice? Sorry, man–I think you think I’m someone else. I’d never have anyone banned for content from any site.
As for Apocalypse Now, that’s a different kind of thing, in my opinion. That was about a war–something our government did. This is a specific instance that we had no direct control over. I feel like it exploits the victims. I’m glad that some family members of the victims are cool with the film, but I don’t think I am.
Here’s a pretty good review of the film:
http://www.laweekly.com/film+tv/film/in-flight-movie/13303/
Thanks be to TimToon for the link :)
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