Anyone seen "Flight 93" yet?

"Jay Honeck" wrote:

It got a rave review in The New Yorker. I will certainly see it.

I thought that was the "Kiss of Death"?

Why did you think that?

It got a rave review in The New Yorker. I will certainly see it.

I thought that was the "Kiss of Death"?

Why did you think that?

Traditionally any movie that gets a bad review in the New Yorker
usually does extremely well at the box office, and vice versa.

Of course, this is true of many critics, not just The New Yorker...

Critics are, by definition, critical. When you're a hammer, everything
looks like a nail.
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On 27 Apr 2006 14:18:53 -0700, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

It got a rave review in The New Yorker. I will certainly see it.

I thought that was the "Kiss of Death"?

My acid test is whether *both* The New Yorker and The Wall Street
Journal* rave about the film. Here's Joe Morgenstern in the WSJ today:

"Never has an audience brought to a motion picture what we bring to
"United 93" -- a sense of dread caused by an open national wound. We
are vulnerable to the formidable force of Paul Greengrass's
documentary-style drama from its first quiet moments, in the dawn of
September 11, 2001, and its first hushed words, spoken in Arabic by
one of the hijackers: "It's time." Each of us will decide for
ourselves whether it's time to see such a film, time to risk more pain
against the possibility of some catharsis, or at least some useful
vision of the events of that day. If the answer is yes, then this film
is well worth the risk. It's an anguishing, literally spellbinding
vision of what happened on the ground as the twin towers of the World
Trade Center were struck, and in the cockpit and cabin of the airliner
that was diverted, by a passenger revolt, from its flight path to the
U.S. Capitol."

There's more, of course, but I don't feel easy posting the whole
thing.
- 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, Cub Driver usenet wrote:
Wikipedia: the belief that 10,000 monkeys playing at
10,000 keyboards can create a reference work

The problem with Wikipedia: it can't possibly work in theory. It only
works in practise.

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

Not showing here in the Philippines yet, but I suppose I could buy a
pirated DVD from a street vendor downtown. (No, I do not really buy
pirated movies, but I can almost guarantee that I could get a copy if I
wanted one.)

The thing is, by the time Hollywood is done with a story, what with
adding non-existent love interests and plot twists, combining some
characters and creating new ones, editing the story line and
rearranging the sequence of events to make it more of a story, adding
new subplots and maybe finding some greedy businessman that they can
blame the whole thing on, making sure everyone expresses politically
correct views, and then maybe changing the type of airplane and/or
whatever, the whole incident would be virtually unrecognizable to
anyone involved.

There will be an airplane. It will crash. It will have terrorists and
some of the people will have the same names as those on United Flight
93. That is about all you can guarantee.

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

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

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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.

- 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"?

I believe that took two mentally handicapped monkeys 2 minutes to write.

The Monk

You mean unlike "Titanic"?

Off Topic again, but everytime that I think about that movie, it reminds me
of a friend of mine that is...well...not the sharpest tool in the shed. As
he sat down in the theater to watch the Titanic, he commented to the couple
with him and his wife "This is based on a true story, I heard".

And they say the public schools system isn't in trouble

jf