OT: United 93 -- WILL YOU BE SEEING IT?

[rtprod]

Hi everyone,

I saw it at an early press screening, and it's mind-blowing.  Absolutely brilliant.

However, I keep hearing more and more from many friends that they have no interest.  The stock line, and I'm hearing it about 90% of the time, is, "I don't think that I could see that."  This doesn't bode well for box office hopes if my litmus test holds any merit across the population. 

So the question is:  WILL YOU BE SEEING IT?

rt

[slayers_creek_oth]

Yes I'll be screening it Thursday morning.....good is it? 

[JCinNYC2006]

I'm not sure yet.  I have to get past this frustration and confusion about the need to know what happened on that flight, and what it's based on.

What did you like about it?

Juan

[rtprod]

It's very, very "good" and for different reasons.  First of all, it's a tightly-wound exercise in filmmaking, and Paul Greengrass knows what he is doing with his camera and editing.  Secondly, it's a valuable document.  In the end, it's a pretty terrifying experience.  

rt

[wtbgirl]

As a New Yorker, honestly, I can't handle watching it in a theatre, even though the film focuses on the flight bound for Washington.  Two of my friends died in the World Trade Center - it was torture trying to watch that TV documentary on PBS a few years ago - and to this day I hate looking at that huge construction pit that was the WTC.  

Maybe I could watch it by myself in my apartment.

[rtprod]

Juan,

I was blown away by specific scenes in this film, the rising dread as air traffic and norad discover what's happening on Sept. 11 nearly real-time, the complete helplessness of the passengers and the pandemonium that breaks out in the cabin, with a plane being flown at super-speed and far too low, utter chaos erupts when the hijack finally happens (an hour into the film) and the final attempted passenger coup...well, just see it.  It is a classy film without an ounce of sensationalism, it simply mounts a terrifying episode with filmmaking economy and the emotions on that plane are just primal.

rt

[chefjudy]

umm, probably not in the theatre, I have an aversion to flying anyway so when I find out a movie has something bad happening to the passengers (like turbulence or crashes etc) I tend to not want to see them - add to that the horror that plays in my mind regarding those terrorist-flown planes and what happended to all of them - let's just say, I'm real uneasy about seeing it visually.................

[EnnisDelMar]

Sorry about your loss Amy.

Yes I will be seeing it, I actually don't really know everything about this particular story, and am interested in knowing more.

[JCinNYC2006]

Sorry to hear that you lost two friends Amy.  I only knew one person who died; we'd been out of touch but it was still shocking.

Interesting to be going back and forth between this thread and the one that's currently on Michael Moore.  Maybe a documentary would have me more interested than a movie where it's assumed that some of the story is embellished for dramatic effect.

Juan

[wtbgirl]

Thanks Brandon - it's OK, it's been some time, and I've made as much peace with 9/11 as I'm ever going to make.

I think United 93 is actually a good story to tell, I don't find the fact that they made this film offensive in any way, honestly, I hope it does do well - it has gotten good reviews, and I think the passengers deserve their story to be told.  

For me, I think it's just one of those things I need to see alone, at home.