Anyone seen "Flight 93" yet?

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:01:53 -0400, "Peter R."
wrote:

t seems that everyone I knew in upstate NY,
including myself, at the time was a mere one degree away (

I live in southern New Hampshire. Our veterinarian's husband was on
one of the AA planes from Boston to the WTC. A neighbor's daughter
lives in New York and had to walk all afternoon to get home (she
stepped into a shoe store and bought a pair of sneakers). And (known
only through the newspaper, to be sure) a gal in the neighboring town
weeks later had a letter returned to her: evidently it was aboard one
of the planes and became debris; the return address on the envelope
was legible, so some kindly New Yorker put it in a larger envelope and
mailed it back to her with a note hoping that she hadn't lost anyone
on the flight.

But then I'm only 60 miles from Logan airport, so I'm bound to know
people who travel through there.


- all the best, Dan Ford

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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

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10,000 keyboards can create a reference work

On 2006-04-27, Jay Honeck wrote:
Actually, the only movie I've EVER walked out of was "Passion of the
Christ". I've always been able to sit still through any movie, no
matter how awful or disturbing, until that one.

The only movie I "walked out of" (not really walked out of, it was made
for TV and I changed channels) was "Threads", made in 1993 for the BBC.

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.

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On 2006-04-26, Flyingmonk wrote:
What'd you think of it? Should I go see it?

Personally, I'm not going to bother. I knew as 9/11 was happening, it
was only a matter of time before Hollywood made a movie about it - but I
did expect them to wait 15 or 20 years. I also predict there will be a
Hollywood movie about Hurricane Katrina.

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On 2006-04-27, Cub Driver usenet wrote:
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The problem with Wikipedia: it can't possibly work in theory. It only
works in practise.

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"Cub Driver" wrote:

On 27 Apr 2006 14:16:59 -0700, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

oncept of "saving" someone may have been contrived, but the combat
sequences were disturbingly real.

I didn't mind the Dirty Dozen them; there are lots of movies like
that, and I enjoy them.

It was the *unreality* of the combat scenes that bothered me. It was
the fantasy of a boy who'd never been in the army, never mind in a
war.

He took some very sensitive 1990s types and put them at Omaha Beach,
which was in fact populated by graduates of the Great Depression. He
had officers wearing their rank on the FRONT of their helmets (very
handy for German snipers). He had them sleeping in a church, in
France, in the rain, and waking up next morning without shivering.
(Evidently Spielberg has never slept rough, either.) He had a sergeant
armed with an M-1 carbine leave a Garand sticking in the ground to
mark a gravesite, instead of swapping that toy gun for the real one.
He had a soldier asking for "bandoliers" of ammunition (the U.S. Army
carried preloaded clips in canvas pouches). Etc. Etc.

Wow; you're even pickier than I am!

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.

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


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Intestinologists concur that the human gut does not contain any rational
thoughts.

What the human gut *is* full of is moderately well known.

"Cub Driver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:01:53 -0400, "Peter R."
wrote:

t seems that everyone I knew in upstate NY,
including myself, at the time was a mere one degree away (

I live in southern New Hampshire. Our veterinarian's husband was on
one of the AA planes from Boston to the WTC. A neighbor's daughter
lives in New York and had to walk all afternoon to get home (she
stepped into a shoe store and bought a pair of sneakers). And (known
only through the newspaper, to be sure) a gal in the neighboring town
weeks later had a letter returned to her: evidently it was aboard one
of the planes and became debris; the return address on the envelope
was legible, so some kindly New Yorker put it in a larger envelope and
mailed it back to her with a note hoping that she hadn't lost anyone
on the flight.

But then I'm only 60 miles from Logan airport, so I'm bound to know
people who travel through there.




A very close friend of my Dad has a son that is (or was) a pilot for United.
Supposedly, he was to be the pilot on one of the two United flights, but the
schedule got screwed up or he got sick or something. Anyway, he ended up not
being on the flight. And we are in Texas!




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

Agreed. That series was excellent.
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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.


If that is the case, it is worth watching just to encourage Hollywood
to have a little more integrity in the future.

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"?

The Monk