Flight 93 - movie

[Denise]

I saw the movie on Friday night. I originally was not going to see it because I thought it would be all too "Hollywood-ish" and I also didn't think the surviving relatives were approving.
But after finding out that these relatives were VERY supportive, that no famous faces are in the movies AT ALL, that a part of the ticket sales go to the memorial fund, that some of the real people behind the scenes are in it, well, I was still hesitant, but went with a good friend.
I thought it was just incredible and a huge tribute to the bravery of those involved.
Just my thoughts. I know there are mixed feelings about it but I loved it.
I thought I would cry my heart out, but I got just a little teary during the phone conversations onboard, but for the most part, I just had a huge knot in my stomach throughout it all. I've never left such a silent theater when it was all over. I'm glad I saw it.

[Lin]

Denise - I still cant think about going to see it. It's hard watching the commercials. I know that they are heros, they were able to stop the attackers from making it to the intended target. It may take me awhile before I can see it. My heart breaks for them.

Lin

[Dee]

I guess this is a different Flight 93 than the one that premiered on A&E in January. http://www.aetv.com/flight_93/index.jsp

You can view clips here (http://www.aetv.com/flight_93/f93_preview.jsp), but going by what I just saw I'm glad I missed it. If I had seen it I think I would have been so enraged I would have thrown a plate through my TV screen.

[Denise]

Dee it IS a different one than the AE movie on TV right now. I haven't seen that one, nor do I care to.
I know that this movie is a tough sell - extremely controversial - is it too soon? or will it ever be okay to make this kind of movie? etc....
Lin - I honestly did not want to see this at first, feeling the same as you. My sister-in-law would've been on AA11 had she not gotten a promotion to a different department just weeks before. So many people have similar stories. I was one of those that was glued to the radio, tv, in tears, for weeks - with such a sad heart for all those involved.
It is a personal decision, for sure, and everyone will feel differently.
For me, I feel honored to have seen such an awesome tribute to those involved. I have no problem with others that may think otherwise - honest.

[Wildflower Fever]

Dee it IS a different one than the AE movie on TV right now. I haven't seen that one, nor do I care to.
I know that this movie is a tough sell - extremely controversial - is it too soon? or will it ever be okay to make this kind of movie? etc....
Lin - I honestly did not want to see this at first, feeling the same as you. My sister-in-law would've been on AA11 had she not gotten a promotion to a different department just weeks before. So many people have similar stories. I was one of those that was glued to the radio, tv, in tears, for weeks - with such a sad heart for all those involved.
It is a personal decision, for sure, and everyone will feel differently.
For me, I feel honored to have seen such an awesome tribute to those involved. I have no problem with others that may think otherwise - honest.

I'll always remember the day because I flew on September 10th, and was to fly back on September 11. Obviously flights were affected that day, and my company imposed a 2 week flight ban for its employees for liability and respect reasons. I remember waking up a little late that day, and had to meet with a coworker in his territory (St. Louis), just as the alarm started, he called my cell and told me to turn the TV on. I saw the 2nd plane hit, and in real time saw the 1st tower collapse. I rented a car that day, and drove the 10 hour drive to Minneapolis. It was such a surreal, slow, yet calm drive home. I just remember looking at the landscape that sometimes irritated me (as a city kid with sometimes unfair notions about rural areas), and for at least that day feeling more connection to MY country. Of course "fearless leader" squandered that feeling for me quite quickly with his actions and exploitations of this event, but nevertheless it's a eerily warm memory that will always be engrained for me. I don't know if it's too soon, but all events good and bad in our history will be made into films, and they will always be a bit controversial.

[Dee]

I remember that September 11th day vividly. It was coolish but sunny with clear skies, and I had taken my camera up to Parliament Hill to play tourist, and photograph some of the many statues there.

As I was over by the East Block building, there was a scream of sirens and a black car came screeching to a halt in the driveway nearby. I thought nothing of it, except perhaps this was some over zealous security guy or something.

After I left and was on my way home, I walked down a pedestrian mall (Sparks Street) and as I passed the open windows of a pub there, I noticed people gathered around a television. What I saw next I can only describe as surreal.

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After I got back to the condo where I was living, I put on CNN and sat stunned seeing video of these planes slamming into the Trade Center towers, again and again as they kept repeating the footage.

Finally I had to give myself a shake and change the channel. But in my mind, I could still see the images of that day for many days to follow.

So my answer to the question will I go see Flight 93 is a definite no.

[Melba]

And it was pretty good...it was hard to watch. Tazz and I both had knots in our stomachs and were in tears in the end. We felt that depression all over again just like on that day when we stood in front of the TV and watched those buildings fall to the ground. I think stories need to be told no matter how hard it is to tell......there is always something that can be learned from them. We intend to go to the theatre to see the other one.

Denise, I have left a movie theatre that was dead silent before....after watching "The Passion of the Christ". We left that theatre with a big knot in our stomachs and were just in awe at the reality of what probably transpired.


I know we can all remember where we were when we heard about the events of Sept. 11th. I had a foreign friend that was visiting from Poland and was supposed to leave to go home the next day. Needless to say, she was delayed for a week and it was a strange experience for her. She was in Chicago. Just days before that, we had visited her and were in the Sears Tower (which was a little taller than the Twin Towers). I looked back on that and thought about how awful it would have been to be up there like that.

[Dar]

I had not intended to, thinking it was just too soon and would stir up all the emotions from that day. But there was a small 'making of flight 93' preview at the theater the other night. In it many of the relatives of victims from that flight were interviewed about the film and they all expressed happiness and satisfaction with the prospect of their loved ones being remembered and celebrated in this way. They hope that it will serve as an inspiration to all of us to feel that if we were in a similar situation we would step forward as so many of those passengers did, to sacrifice themselves to prevent so much more death and destruction. The overall impression I got from the relatives was pride.

[Irish Beth]

Like most people, I was at work that day. The TV in the kitchen was on and there were always 5 or 6 people gathered around at a time. The rest of us were at our desks with our radios turned on.

What unbelievable horror. Once flight 93 turned away from Cleveland and headed toward Pittsburgh, our mayor was advised to evacuate the US Steel building (tallest building between NY and Chicago). Once they started that evacuation the rest of city started to evacuate as well.

I remember driving out of the city feeling like I was in a Grade B horror flick "Godzilla attacks Pittsburgh". People were running down the streets, most everyone had a cell phone to their ears. What I remember most of all is the look on everyone's face - disbelief, horror, fear - all at once.

The jury is out for me, don't know if I will see it or not. Most likely will waif for the DVD so I can watch in private.

[Denise]

Dar... I saw that same preview, plus relatives being interviewed on the Today show and Larry King... and that is what swayed me towards seeing it also.


... and I agree with Wildflower Fever:

]...all events good and bad in our history will be made into films, and they will always be a bit controversial.[/COLOR]

[SongDragon]

I remember being in shool, and I suddenly was wondering when my father was flying. He went back to Las Vegas on the tenth, I believe, but I was still so scared. Something was wrong in the school nearing late morning, but we didn't know what it was. We were middleschoolers, how should we know?

Finally my technology education teacher told us as much as he could, and took us down to the telecom room where we watched the news in silence, the shocked silence that is so hard to create in sassy, sarcastic teens.

If I see this movie it won't be in a theatre, it will be at home, either alone or with my sister. I hope it really is a tribute to the heroes on that plane. I'll cross that bridge as to whether to see it or not when I get there. It shows how controversial it is just to note that no one in my school is disussing it for fear of bringing up a controversial issue.

~Song

[GodSistah]

I saw the A&E version too. I didn't think it was so bad. Not great either, but not in bad taste. It did make me cry though.

At the same time, as we go further along in the Bush era, I find myself more and more questioning whether the military really shot it down. :confused:

~Andrea~

[Wildflower Fever]

I saw the A&E version too. I didn't think it was so bad. Not great either, but not in bad taste. It did make me cry though.

At the same time, as we go further along in the Bush era, I find myself more and more questioning whether the military really shot it down. :confused:

~Andrea~

Thank you for saying what I wanted to say as well, I was too caught up in PC. I'm not implying I have basis to think that, but it is possible. I don't want to discount the people we believe to be heroes, but in these times more things need questioning, at least. As tragic as these events were, how much more tragic would it be if we stop questioning those in authority? OK, now I'm rambling, and also referring to what I see as a cloud of imcompetence and outright deceit brought forth by our current administration. When do you stop second guessing this man? I'm afraid I'm not capable.

[dutchcloggie]

I was working as a reporter for a Dutch TV station in The Hague. As The Hague is the diplomatic capital of The Netherlands, all embassies, consulates and international political bodies have their offices there. It happened at 3pm Dutch time, 3 hours before we were supposed to have out daily news broadcast. Everything went out of the window at at 6pm, we went on air with a brand new broadcad,t produced in 3 hours time by a dedicated team of reporters. We were the first ones to break to the news to pupils and staff of the American School in The Hague. They had not heard yet when we arrived at the school for a reaction so our reporters became the bearers of the news and they treated it with great respect and tact.

I myself was outside the American embassy, getting reactions from staff. Then the news came through that the Pentagon was hit as well and that a plane had crashed, presumably on the way to The WHite House. It all felt completely surreal as I stood there with all the other reporters. We were all scared and confused, not knowing what was going to happen next. We all felt trapped in Independence Day, waiting for the invasion of the UFOs.

Only after we got calls from all national newscasters, requesting some of our material, did we all realise that as a small, non-commercial, underfunded broadcaster, we had created something really special.

The day was a strange mix of emotions and excitement. Excitement in the journalistic sense of the word. As a reporter, you wait for the day when the editor says: Everything is going to change and we have 3 hours to come up with something totally new, get in your cars, get a camera crew and get working!!

Of course it was a terrible thing to happen. I cried at the end of the day. From all the stress, the adrenaline and for my friend who had managed to get one of the last flights out of the USA before the planes struck.

I am still reluctant to say that day was the most exciting, impressive and rewarding moment of my career as a broadcaster but that it was also the scariest day I have ever had. The uncertainty of what will happen next, ANYTHING can happen next....

I feel sorry for those who lost family in the tragedy.

[KiwiSoupGirl]

This is one Kiwi girl who will be going to see the movie. I remember the day vividly, and the grief and pain of what happened. Actually, it is not something I will ever forget - or want to. I still feel grief for those who were lost, and compassion for those who lost loved ones. But mostly, I feel utter and terrible sadness for beautiful America - almost like a virgin who lost her innocence in the most horrible of ways......

A New Zealander was on Flight 93, and was (we were told) instrumental in bringing that plane down. If he can have the courage to assist his own demise in favour of the lives of others, then I can sure have the courage to go along and pay tribute to all of them by watching the re-enactment. For me, it is similar to attending the funeral of someone I never met, but admire greatly. It hurts, its painful, but its the absolute least I feel I can do.