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Max
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08-12-2000

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 - 3:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
Just wondering if anyone's planning on going to see this. The ads have been running here for a few days as it opens soon.

There seemed to be so many outcries over the United 93 film and people saying that it was too soon and so forth, but I haven't heard the same thing about this one, which I would think would impact a LOT more people.

Anyway, just wondering what y'all think. :-)

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 - 3:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I saw an interview with the actors and the people that they portrayed in the film. They said it was an inspiring film. I saw the previews at the movie theater and cried all the way through the preview. I don't know how I'd be at the movie. I'm thinking of seeing it though.

Faerygdds
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08-29-2000

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 - 6:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Faerygdds a private message Print Post    
To be honest... I'm waiting for this on DVD... I don't think I'm prepared to see it on the big screen, but I do want to see it.

Gradstudent
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07-10-2005

Wednesday, August 09, 2006 - 11:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Gradstudent a private message Print Post    
I saw it tonight at the 10:05 showing - hardly anyone was there, but that didn't really surprise me much.

I don't know how I feel about the movie. It was good, in a sad kind of way. (I don't care for Nicholas Cage, so I think that kept getting in my way, though.) It kind of reminded me of Ladder 49 - did anyone see that?

It was very touching, and parts of it were very hard to watch. I wish I had waited to see it on DVD.

Sorry, folks...I will never make it as a movie critic.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 7:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Gradstudent, good review. I'd kind of like to see the movie in the theater, but I too am not a Nicholas Cage fan. Someone on a talk radio station here said Cage never has any expression in his face. Same look all the time. That may be why -- or at least part of the reason. Wish it was a different actor in the movie.

Gradstudent
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07-10-2005

Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 10:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Gradstudent a private message Print Post    
Color,

When I saw Flight 93, one of the selling points with me was that they used unknown actors so that you didn't see "actors" on the plane...you saw "people". I wish they had used that concept with this one. It's hard to get away from the fact that you are watching Nicholas Cage, which in turn makes it hard to remember that you are watching a story based on fact about Officer McLoughlin. (I just didn't find Cage to be believeable.)

The story itself is really incredible...how these two men helped to keep each other awake and alive while buried under the rubble of the World Trade Center. Their story is also included in the book "102 Minutes" - which is a heartbreaker.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 11:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Grad (no more "student" -- ha ha!), I also saw Flight 93. A number of the cast in that movie were those who experienced the real thing. As you said, recognizable (celeb) faces would not have worked. Couple of times during scenes on the plane, I found myself wondering which were "actors" and which were not. Then it would hit me again and again -- all on the plane were actors.

Legalboxer
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11-17-2003

Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 9:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Legalboxer a private message Print Post    
saw it on friday at the 5:30 showing - a decent turn out .. i also had seen flight 93 and think its one of the best movies ever made for TV or otherwise (hope it wins the emmy) but i dont think i can compare the two since it was a different approach and storyline .. World Trade Center seemed more normal in that :come on, you can make it" kind of way ... there were a little in the movie that i didnt know that i wont share here since not every one would want to know what happens but overall it was like 9-11 again, i wasnt surprised at how things occurred on 9-11 and i wasnt surprised during the movie but i do think it was the kind of movie where you could treat it like a movie while also knowing its real life survival. i think after seeing the real life people, it was easier to see the actors since i could see resemblances.

there was only so much to fill in 2 hours and they did a good job with that small storyline which had such a bug impact... so glad that maverick marine never hestitated to go look for people.

would like toe where that paramedic is now too

Gradstudent
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07-10-2005

Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 10:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Gradstudent a private message Print Post    
I wish they had put a little more about the paramedic's story into the movie. A small part of his story is also included in the book "102 Minutes", and I liked him so much.

Newman
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09-25-2004

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 2:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Newman a private message Print Post    
Agree. Wish they had spent more time on the rescue. That's the incredible thing. How do you extricate them with thousands of pounds of concrete all around?

I don't know how you would show that, but that's the magic of moviemaking!


Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Sunday, August 27, 2006 - 3:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
I enjoyed it. Not as bad as I've heard.

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Tuesday, September 19, 2006 - 12:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
I saw this Saturday night. It was a good movie but it wasn't great. What I liked best (besides Nicholas Cage) was how they didn't show the planes hitting the towers or the towers falling down but instead you got it from the view of these guys who didn't have a clue what was happening. I laughed and I cried and the audience clapped when they showed the list of names at the end.