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OK, so I’m going to be a little biased about this film. I’m a couple of degrees of separation from someone who died on Flight 93. I’m also biased because I met Paul Greengrass after I screened Bloody Sunday back in 2002. He was a very approachable, cool guy and I liked him quite a bit. The thing is, Bourne Supremacy was not that good. Like, it was surprisingly bad, actually.
However, I find myself really thinking this movie will be bad. At the very least I think it will be a bad experience for me. I am concerned it will be shallow, portray only how brave and wonderful the passengers were and not how the terrorists were people, too.
I think it’s still too soon for a big screen 911 movie because we get 911 thrown in our faces every damn time we turn on the news. I’m not kidding, either. Bush mentions 911 every time he needs more money or more of our rights taken away.
I suspect Flight 93 will bomb at the box office because people just don’t want to see a movie about this. In fact, according to this April 24, 2006 article at Variety.Com, most men surveyed are saying they are interested in seeing it above all other films this weekend, but everyone else surveyed say they’re definitely not interested. I’m thinking the guys are talking tough but the film will do nothing at the BO. We’ll see, I suppose…
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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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