United 93 -- see it!

Jay Honeck wrote:
Why??? One thing that is for sure is that airline passengers will NEVER
let some ragheads take over a plane ever again.... September 11 was
their first any only time to try that tactic... They will think of
another way to kill us that is for sure and then you can be afraid just
like they want you to be.

Yeah, I wouldn't want to be the idiot that tries to take over an
airliner again. He'd be ripped from stem to stern.

The movie is simply very, very good. I highly recommend it, although
it's very sobering.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"


I saw the movie on opening day and the theater was half empty. Most of
the people there were old people and adults.

While I would say the movie was good, it is far from great and its
$11.6 mil opening means it is a movie failure; either that, or people
just don;t want to relive 9/11.

You will notice a couple of things in the movie that for me made it
unrealistic:

1) absence of any children and young adults except for one girl who is
given a cell phone by a fellow passenger to call home

2) while people were praying, the screaming and "Oh God, I don't want
to die" pleas were omitted largely

3) the group of men that planned the counter-attack to retake the plane
seemed larger than life and NOT real people- as if when disaster struck
it was "HEY, LET'S TAKE THE PLANE BACK ASSAULT PLANS" supported by a
bunch of other adults. I know it's a hero film meant to make the nation
feel better knowing that Americans fought back... just like Pearl
Harbor but the movie comes off as too weak in some areas and too
self-assuredly strong in others.

The most shocking parts in the movie to me was the point where the air
traffic controllers lost the second aircraft's position below radar and
then watch as it slams into the second tower and the scenes in the
cockpit as the passagers struggled to gain control as the ground rushes
up at them- and then black screen.

I know that for the sake of the audience and the victims' families the
panic and fear were toned down and as I said before I don't recall
seeing any children or young people. I'm sure the flight had them...

The more disturbing film, "The World Trade Center" opens Aug 9th and is
told from the ground from the Port Authority POV based on two real men.
Judging by "Flight 93" I'm not sure if people will want to see that one
either as preliminary reviews all say there WILL be crying in the
theater and not for the weak hearted.

After seeing "Flight 93" I'm not sure I'm going to the second film. A
third Pentagon strike film is in the works as well based on another
true story...

Rob