United 93

[timmystood]

Hey!

I just got back from seeing United 93... I had no idea what to expect but it was fairly good!! Has anyone else seen this movie - what did you think of it?

For those of you that don't know what it is about, it's about September 11th, when, as we all recall 4 planes where hi-jacked but only three of them reached their destination. This film follows the journey of the 4th plane in real time. Following the passengers, air-traffic control and other members.

It's a sentitive film that gets the audience thinking about what the time on that plane must have been like. It has no stars and really gets you thinking.

I relise some people may find this film a little too real and painful, and maybe it is too soon to make a movie over this awful attack, but I recommened seeing it - it really puts life into perspective.

 

[PlecMama]

I can barely make it through the trailer without crying, the tag line "40 passengers on flight 93 sat down as strangers and stood up as one." is enough for me. There's nothing in the world that chokes me up as heroism, courage and bravery. I don't think I'll be seeing it until it's out on vid and I can watch it at home.

 

[timmystood]

It's not as bad as it sounds. The director doesn't try to make it an epic action or an epic sob story. He just lays down the facts and portraits them the the audience. It's superb.
I really say you should see it. However, to be fair SuzieQPlecMama - you metion about heroism. They didn't really have much choice - many of them where on the phone to relatives who where telling them about 3 planes crashing into the trade centre and pentagon so they knew the hi-jackers where going to crash them into a building (the white house) so they could either sit back and die or try and over-turn the plane and land it (there was a pilot on board). I mean don't get me wrong - I am really really not saying they where not brave people or what they did and tried to do was extremely brave I am just saying I believe many of us would have done the same. The only warning about this film is that there is a lot of Air-traffic control language that we are expected to be able to understand and also after the ending nobody in the cinema wants to move because of the way the film ends. The credits start rolling and everyone just sits there thinking to themselves. It is a surreal feeling - this film is incredible.

 

[Chac]

Just came home from seeing '93

If that day played out as the film shows then the passengers on '93 are national hero's who saved possibly thousands of life & the moral of the entire US

Image what the destruction of Capital building etc would have done to the people of the US