Anyone seen "Flight 93" yet?

I was a young teenager at the time, and it was a film about nuclear war
(which in 1984, seemed only too likely). I didn't sleep properly for 3
weeks afterwards, and every flash of summer lightning had me bolt awake
in bed thinking it was a nuclear detonation - I had nightmares about
milk bottles melting in the heat. I have since watched it all
the way through - unlike "The Day After", it WAS NOT toned down. It is
the most depressing movie I have ever seen.

Wow. And I thought "The Day After" was scary!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

You mean unlike "Titanic"?

Off Topic again, but everytime that I think about that movie, it reminds me
of a friend of mine that is...well...not the sharpest tool in the shed. As
he sat down in the theater to watch the Titanic, he commented to the couple
with him and his wife "This is based on a true story, I heard".

And they say the public schools system isn't in trouble

jf

"Montblack" wrote in message
...
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

Free tickets. We gave it an hour...


Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is only funny if you had seen all or at least
most of the previous Kevin Smith movies. Without understanding the inside
jokes I'll agree it was pretty weak.

It's not the case with United 93. A lot of the film takes place
outside the airplane, in the TRACON for example. Most of the people in
those scenes are playing themselves.

Way up thread I wrote that it's an extraordinary film. I was careful
not to call it a "movie". It's a different animal. I'm surprised they
were able to make it this way.

I don't have any hope for Oliver Stone's 9/11 movie, the families of
the dead men depicted are already protesting.

On 27 Apr 2006 14:18:53 -0700, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

It got a rave review in The New Yorker. I will certainly see it.

I thought that was the "Kiss of Death"?

My acid test is whether *both* The New Yorker and The Wall Street
Journal* rave about the film. Here's Joe Morgenstern in the WSJ today:

"Never has an audience brought to a motion picture what we bring to
"United 93" -- a sense of dread caused by an open national wound. We
are vulnerable to the formidable force of Paul Greengrass's
documentary-style drama from its first quiet moments, in the dawn of
September 11, 2001, and its first hushed words, spoken in Arabic by
one of the hijackers: "It's time." Each of us will decide for
ourselves whether it's time to see such a film, time to risk more pain
against the possibility of some catharsis, or at least some useful
vision of the events of that day. If the answer is yes, then this film
is well worth the risk. It's an anguishing, literally spellbinding
vision of what happened on the ground as the twin towers of the World
Trade Center were struck, and in the cockpit and cabin of the airliner
that was diverted, by a passenger revolt, from its flight path to the
U.S. Capitol."

There's more, of course, but I don't feel easy posting the whole
thing.
- all the best, Dan Ford

Wikipedia: the belief that 10,000 monkeys playing at
10,000 keyboards can create a reference work

"Flyingmonk" wrote in message
oups.com...

Cub Driver wrote:
On 28 Apr 2006 02:11:34 -0700, "cjcampbell"
wrote:

The thing is, by the time Hollywood is done with a story,

From what I've read, not the case with United 93.

- all the best, Dan Ford

Wikipedia: the belief that 10,000 monkeys playing at
10,000 keyboards can create a reference work

You mean unlike "Titanic"?

I believe that took two mentally handicapped monkeys 2 minutes to write.

The Monk

Richard Riley wrote:
It's not the case with United 93. A lot of the film takes place
outside the airplane, in the TRACON for example. Most of the people in
those scenes are playing themselves.

Way up thread I wrote that it's an extraordinary film. I was careful
not to call it a "movie". It's a different animal. I'm surprised they
were able to make it this way.

I don't have any hope for Oliver Stone's 9/11 movie, the families of
the dead men depicted are already protesting.

Tragic. Olive Stone has to be one of the lowest of the low.

"Jeff" wrote

And they say the public schools system isn't in trouble

Yeah, the trouble is, that is the type of person they are tasked with trying
to teach! g
--
Jim in NC

Jeff wrote:

You mean unlike "Titanic"?

Off Topic again, but everytime that I think about that movie, it reminds me
of a friend of mine that is...well...not the sharpest tool in the shed. As
he sat down in the theater to watch the Titanic, he commented to the couple
with him and his wife "This is based on a true story, I heard".

I wonder how many people believe that the purser shot himself in the
head, that Molly Brown acted the way she did in the movie, or even that
there was this old lady who claimed to be a Titanic surviver, or that
any of the main characters represented people who were actually aboard
the Titanic.

An author can write a book, "based on a true story," call it "A Million
Little Pieces," fill it with all kinds of distortions and falsehoods,
and the public will be furious with the liar. If a movie producer does
the same thing, millions of Americans will believe it is the gospel
truth.

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 05:59:53 -0500, "Dan Luke"
wrote:

Compared to the supremely ridiculous Pearl Harbor and Memphis Belle, SPR
did a pretty good job for a Hollywood war movie, I thought. I enjoyed it.

Oh sure! But Pearl Harbor was a fantasy, like the Dirty Dozen. One
didn't expect it to be real. SPR was hyped as realistic.

The best I've seen in a long time is HBO's Band of Brothers mini series.

Yes, absolutely, and what's astonishing is that Spielberg was
responsible for that as well!

You know, it might have been the old vet weeping by the graveside that
did in SPR for me. That was a flag. Whoops! What's this all about! The
horror of war, one more time? So I started watching for the
anarchronisms, like the captain's bars painted on the front of Hanks's
helmet.


- all the best, Dan Ford

Wikipedia: the belief that 10,000 monkeys playing at
10,000 keyboards can create a reference work