United 93

FlintMI said:
To see a film that will see major release and remind people of the sad fact that United was the airline chosen to commit this horrific act is going to hurt them for a little while. If even one person doesn't book a flight on United, perhaps spooked a little -- and rightfully so -- after seeing this movie, United loses revenue, and really needs it right now.
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This may have been the case had the plane gone down through some mechanical failure of the plane, much in the same way Alaska Airlines had a problem several years ago. But because the plane was taken over by radical Islamic extremists can't really be placed at the feet of United.
 
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I think it's fine that they are doing the movie.
Knowing Hollywood and concessions that were probably made through production, he fact that there's a movie at all is at least good to stimulate discussion. We all need to remember why things have occurred, why things aren't over, and why things look to get worse (see Iran and nuclear weapons).

One of the very few things that may have come from this- just try to stand up on an airplane these days and announce a hijacking. There would be a mad rush to see who'd be first to beat the ever-living (you know what) out of them. I hope I'd be first.
:nads:

Until then, I'm buying rounds of drinks for Iraq veterans.

Jeff Patnaude
 
Yas Kassana said:
They're not muslim, they about as christian as GW Bush. They can call themselves muslims but they're not.
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Let's steer away from politics here if you don't mind.

Proud American,

Jeff Patnaude:kali:
 
Regardless of where you come down on this movie, you might find the following link interesting. Time Magazine took "An exclusive look at the controversial new film, one of a spate of new movies that immerse us again in the tragic events of Sept. 11"

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1181589,00.html

an excerpt:

"At 28 minutes past 9," says Greengrass of Sept. 11, "none of us were wondering What are we going to do? We were watching telly, wondering What the f___ is going on? The people on United 93 weren't doing that. They were looking at four guys. They knew exactly what was going on." Knowing of the World Trade Center attack, they could surmise that their own flight might be the next weapon.

United 93 is a meticulous reconstruction of that morning. Greengrass worked closely with the victims' families, who had already heard the black-box recordings, and the actors, who were improvising. Few events, either on the plane or in the air-traffic control centers, are underlined for effect. As Bingham's mother Alice Hoagland notes, "What happened on board Flight 93 has so much drama and pace, it needs no embellishment."
 
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JPatnaude said:
Let's steer away from politics here if you don't mind.

Proud American,

Jeff Patnaude:kali:
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So i'm a proud brit. What's that go to do with anything? Iran and Nuclear weapons - yeah and Iraq had WMDs.
 
While your post may be true the fact of the matter is this is DVXuser.com and it's primary goal is to bring together people on the issue of "filmmaking"

if you read the rules it states "
Please don’t post any messages on the topics of—politics, religion, or explicit sexuality -- Not that we don’t find these topics interesting—we do, but they’re not appropriate for this filmmaking forum."

that sums it up right there.

Digigenic,JPatnaude, and Yas all come close if not make political and/or religous statements. Like I said I don't have any problem with any of these topic but the isn't the forum for them
 
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SilverWolf, you have tried to keep this apolitical, for which you should be complement. :thumbsup: Unfortunately, there are some that find it impossible to refrain from injecting their political views. I'm afraid you may be fighting a losing battle on this one, and that's too bad. I went from originally not caring about seeing this movie to having changed my mind, now feeling the need to see it, based on the non-political posts in this thread.
 
Muslim / Christian / Jewish. They were radical terrorists who follow the Islamic faith. Altough it may appear a senstitive remark; let's not sugar coat it by pretending they were not RADICAL MUSLIM TERRORISTS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamist_terrorism

... but relax my filmmaking brethren; we all know that not all of the people of Muslim faith are radical terrorists.

That being said:

Let's keep politics 100% out of this equation. You wan't to start your own forum and discuss politics then so be it; but not here.

If this thread starts spiraling into those waters we'll have to close it. (And this coming from somone who wants to talk politics; yall know I have an opinion)

Thanks !
 
if it's a tribute to the horror that occured in nyc, than why are they not donating all profits to a charity -- budget was 76mil donate anything above that. they shoud eat the costs of marketing. we all know how creative these producers are when they want to hide the cash.

let them put the money where their mouth is heading. tribute my arse.
 
I don't think it has to be a tribute. But I do hope it is respected and treated with some dignity. It is still a film, it is a business.

Unfortunately, there is not some philanthropy organization or non-profit film studio in the business of making films for free. Of course they want to make money. Someone had to ante up the ducket's for it and they want a return on their investement.

Thats okay.

Let's hope the filmmakers, the artists, not the prodcuers, are the ones that are treating it right
 
I saw some kind of public service announcement/commercial on TV the other day with Paul Greengrass and the victim's families talking about this film. A lot of the families interviewed for the piece wanted the story to be told.

Of course, I know it could have been some marketing to put out the fires, I just thought it was interesting. Greengrass was saying how he knew he wanted to make a movie about this event and some other stuff. It seemed like it was to smooth things out and show that the "families" were behind it 100%.
 
If this film is edited anything like bloody sunday, where the video and audio fade out and than there is silence and than cut into something else. I'll walk out. I turned off Bloody Sunday for that reason. Honestly, the editing REALLY bothered me. An editor once said, "your job is to make it seem like there was never a cut, and when you've done that. You have done your job."
 
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