Anyone seen "Flight 93" yet?

What'd you think of it? Should I go see it?

The Monk

That's a difficult question. It is a very well made film.

It's also an extraordinary experience (words used carefully here). I
still shake when I think about it almost a month later - I saw it in an
audience test.

Given the choice, knowing what I know now, I would not have seen it. I
would have mailed a $20 bill to the producer and thanked him for making
it. It is soul-changing. In a good way, but it's still deeply
painful.

Given the choice, knowing what I know now, I would not have seen it. I
would have mailed a $20 bill to the producer and thanked him for making
it. It is soul-changing. In a good way, but it's still deeply
painful.

That's EXACTLY the way I felt after seeing "Saving Private Ryan".

I still wish I hadn't seen that movie, even though it was very well
done.
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On 26 Apr 2006 19:28:56 -0700, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

That's EXACTLY the way I felt after seeing "Saving Private Ryan".

That doesn't bode well! I walked out of SPR toward the end, after one
stupidity too many.

However, Steven Spielberg researched SPR by watching other war movies
and combat photographer footage. We can assume that the makers of
Flight 93 didn't research it at screenings of The High and the Mighty.


- all the best, Dan Ford

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That's EXACTLY the way I felt after seeing "Saving Private Ryan".

That doesn't bode well! I walked out of SPR toward the end, after one
stupidity too many.

Really? I thought "Saving Private Ryan" was extremely well done. The
concept of "saving" someone may have been contrived, but the combat
sequences were disturbingly real.

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.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I didn't see "PotC" because I anticipated it being gruesome. I've only
left a handful - one was "The Last Temptation of Christ." The most
recent was The Constant Gardner. I couldn't believe it got
nominations, and The World's Fastest Indian didn't.

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.

I much prefer the unreality of a James Bond flick to the boneheaded,
constant inaccuracies that Steven Spielberg put into SPR.



- all the best, Dan Ford

Wikipedia: the belief that 10,000 monkeys playing at
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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What'd you think of it? Should I go see it?


Are you referring to the film "United 93", which premiered yesterday?

I don't think I'll see it. I mean, how can they recreate what happened
except in the most general sense? At most, the movie is a guess based on
cockpit recorders and a cell phone call or two.

Do you really want the story these victims of 9/11 to be based on a guess?