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What do you think of this? Flight 93 tonight at 9 EST on A&E

Eutrusca
30-01-2006, 15:47
Is this too soon after 9/11 or not? Are you going to watch it?

http://www.aetv.com/flight_93/index.jsp
Peisandros
30-01-2006, 15:56
It looks good to me. Being from New Zealand, can look at it from a different angle. For me, it isn't too soon after 9/11. I mean it's what, 5 years?
Edit: Of course, I can't watch it.. As it's on a US channel.. So nvm.
Eutrusca
30-01-2006, 16:10
It looks good to me. Being from New Zealand, can look at it from a different angle. For me, it isn't too soon after 9/11. I mean it's what, 5 years?
Edit: Of course, I can't watch it.. As it's on a US channel.. So nvm.
Heh! Will it eventually make it to NZ, ya think?
Psychotic Mongooses
30-01-2006, 16:33
Well, I'm sure it'll make great television... because that's what it is right? A dramatised version? Its not meant to be taken verbatim, truthfully right?

(kinda like that 'Over There' thing on Sky... or maybe its 'Over Here' I cannae remember too well)
Kryozerkia
30-01-2006, 16:52
Not at all, 5 years is a decent enough waiting period.
Eutrusca
30-01-2006, 16:53
Not at all, 5 years is a decent enough waiting period.
I tend to agree. I only hope they do the entire incident justice.
New Isabelle
30-01-2006, 16:57
I'm pessimistic about the whole thing. I would rather see a documentary with interview on it than a 'dramatized for TV' version. I'm afraid a lot of it will be assumption and hollywood. Someone let me know if its worth watching once you see it.:rolleyes:
Eutrusca
30-01-2006, 17:00
I'm pessimistic about the whole thing. I would rather see a documentary with interview on it than a 'dramatized for TV' version. I'm afraid a lot of it will be assumption and hollywood. Someone let me know if its worth watching once you see it.:rolleyes:
I hope to watch it. I'll post my thoughts here afterward. Kewl? :)
The South Islands
30-01-2006, 17:01
(kinda like that 'Over There' thing on Sky... or maybe its 'Over Here' I cannae remember too well)
Is that thing still on? When I went off to College, I didn't get the channel that it's on over in the US. When I went home for the holidays, I couldn't find it.
Frangland
30-01-2006, 17:43
Is this too soon after 9/11 or not? Are you going to watch it?

http://www.aetv.com/flight_93/index.jsp

i am now
Upper Botswavia
30-01-2006, 18:04
It is not 'too soon', it is just that I have absolutely zero interest in watching such a thing. There is enough tragedy in the news, without having to go out of the way to watch dramatized versions of tragedies, especially one that I have already lived through (I am a New Yorker, you see) at such close range already.

And for those who would argue about it being a tribute, etc... Come to NY. We have plenty of tributes. We are loaded down with memorials. There are ceremonies to comemmorate and walls of names and plaques and displays and candles and flowers... Personally, I can't wait for them to build the new buildings on the site. I think moving forward is the best we can serve the memories of the unfortunate people who were killed, and the rescue workers who tried to save them.

Also, I am afraid the movie will paint the passengers on the plane as some kind of noble heroes. I don't think that "being on a plane that was hijacked" is the definition of heroism. Running TOWARDS a building that is on fire and in danger of falling down to try and save trapped people IS heroism, but the folks on the plane, by and large, were simply victims. And that is tragic enough... I don't need to see the Hollywood version.
Ashmoria
30-01-2006, 18:08
ohforgodssake i couldnt even watch the challenger memorials, you think i could possibly watch a movie about 9/11

maybe in another 20 years....
The Black Forrest
30-01-2006, 18:18
Meh! Have no interest.....
Lacadaemon
30-01-2006, 18:20
Are they going to include the bit where the government shot it down?
Psychotic Mongooses
30-01-2006, 18:52
Is that thing still on? When I went off to College, I didn't get the channel that it's on over in the US. When I went home for the holidays, I couldn't find it.

Well, it only kicked off on Sky around the New Year so it drags on a bit. I don't follow it at all- I was watching a review program and they had Tim Collins on (you know the former officer in the British Army- head of the Irish Regiment, gave that rousing, moral speech on the eve of invasion?).

Yeah, he said it was absolute tripe, unrealistic and might have been good had it not been set in Iraq in the present day. Kinda put me off watching it- I would have been analysing every scene too much,
Carnivorous Lickers
30-01-2006, 22:58
My wife and I will be watching it. A friend worked for Cantor Fitzgerald and was killed that day, leaving behind a wife pregnant with their first child.
Its still fresh in our memories-I hope its been produced respectfully and accurately. I guess I wont know how I feel about it til I've seen it.

And-I'll have to tape "24" which is on at the same time.