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when i saw this thread originally i didn't click on the trailer, b/c i just didn't want to watch it. i get upset very easily. so then today i went to see "devil wears prada" and nicely nestled between "john tucker must die" and some ashton kutcher movie is the WTC trailer. no warning. i wanted to leave but i was in the middle of the row, i tried to cover my eyes but i could still hear it. it's horrifyingly accurate and real. i remember that day. we all do. i think it would be appropriate to make it in 50-60 years when the people who do remember it first hand are old, and the kids can't really understand. but that trailer brought back every memory from that catostophic day... and i just wanted to see a movie about jimmy choos. i'm not saying they shouldn't be able to advertise their film, but shouldn't they warn people? and why put it before a comedy? anyone else been forced to see this trailer on the big screen?

I skipped United 93 and I will skip this one as well. I think about this horror daily and I don't need to see it in the movies. That being said, I'm sure it will be the "Number One Movie In America" the week it's released.

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TheQuibbler, that should be "malnourished."

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yeah, you're definitely right that there are too many people burrying their heads in the sand who have forgotton... and they do need to wake up. i guess it's a line you have to trot between hurting people who still have those wounds open and others that need to be reminded of those wounds (if that's coherent). anyway if it opens one persons eyes then it will have been worth it, but i wonder if those persons will be affected or just see it as another blockbuster? that would be a real shame. just based on the trailer i don't think it will be as much of a loving tribute as united 93, which was done with respect and dignity. there's something almost crass and opportunistic about this. but like i said, i hope it helps someone remember what we've lost.

Exactly. In the end, 9/11 changed nothing. NOTHING. A movie chronicling the event certainly won't either.

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Come to think of it, you're right. What I should have said is... 9/11 changed nothing... for the better. We're still a selfish, self-absorbed, egocentric, materialistic, self-congratulatory, intolerant, hate-filled society.

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Never thought I'd see it happen, but it looks like Oliver Stone has lost his edge. If the trailer is any indication, it looks like an overdose of saccharin and schmaltz. And this from the Director who gave us Natural Born Killers!

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Updated On: 7/4/06 at 08:32 AM

Well... I don't, so...

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I think what's meant by "nothing's changed" is that people don't care any more about reality than they did before 9/11. Yes, parameters have changed (like those eroding rights,) but the tendency of most Americans to not pay attention - or care - seems to be very much the same.

I've concluded that all the corniness and/or silliness of the movie is coming from the random and bad looking moustaches (sp?) on almost every male character shown. Cage is not only a horrible actor, but his moustache is terrible too.

I found the trailer's style very PEARL HARBOR, and even more pointedly so with the close-ups of Cage looking tough, then sensitive, then shell-shocked, then grime-splattered and stoic -- heroic. Ugh. It looks slick, it looks well done, i.e. it reeks of state-of-the-art exploitation.

But I'm in the minority -- and got beat up at this board -- because I thought UNITED 93 was one of the most exploitative and unnecessary films ever, lacking a strong point of view, new information, and anything approximating an artist's sensibility (the terrorists came off as the most developed characters, and actually got more screen time.) Using superior resources -- editing techniques, earsplitting sound effects, actual players as themselves -- to replay known events did nothing to bring us closer to 9/11's tragedy.

"So we'll never forget" rings hollow as a motive in an era that uses 9/11 as justification for everything from pre-emptive war to demonizing our robust press. I think we need 9/11 stories that dare to look beyond heroics, that burrow deeply inside the causes and myriad effects, in a context of history and societal changes, not big budget extravaganzas offering facile portrayals of doomed people.

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Updated On: 7/4/06 at 02:33 PM

natural born killers blew. a hollow satire made as indulgently and as pretentiously as possible.

and yet, for some reason, it's one of the most entertaining badly-made films I've ever seen...

I cannot disagree. It make take a generation for a more complex examination of any of these times. Perhaps only the theater can be more textured.

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