I have read various opinions about this movie and how moving & as close to the tragedy as some of us will ever get.  However my question is about Sept. 11th specifically.  Was anyone personally affected by 911?  Did you know someone at any of the 3 locations & if so how have you healed since then.  \n\nI ask b/c I have a friend who lived in Manhatten at the time and had an apt.  with a view of where the World Trade Center use to be and he was so devastated he had to move back to the state he's from.  I was right there the month before it happened and my brother was there 2 days before it happened but returned home beforehand.  I watched Flight 93 on A&E Saturday night (4-29-06) and that version was pretty well done yet I was profoundly affected by the true likeness in how it was presented. I plan to see the movie in the theater & I know I'll walk out never again the same.
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I had a friend who missed her plane that day American Flight 11, she still won't fly. After it happened me and my college buddies drove all night to get to ground Zero and help move rubble hoping to find survivors.\n\nI've healed pretty well since then i saw the film I though it was an excellent film and feel that all those who feel up to it should go see it.
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I have read the book and I just saw the movie last night. I am a christian; however, I have read scripture and other religously based works, both fiction and non-fiction regarding almost every known religion in the world. I am a christian by choice, not because it is the only religion I have ever been exposed to or know anything about. \n\nThat said, I loved the book and thought the movie was way underwritten. Definately worth seeing, but the screenplay was terrible and character development was absent. How, people knew what they knew and when they knew it was absurd. And the stupidity (you don't have to let everyone know about your change in flight plans immediately after you decide to change them. You don't buy train tickets on a credit card when your running from the cops....) started to get annoying. The movie sped up when it should of slowed down and left things in that could have been omitted. On the other hand it also had a kindergardenish way of over explaining when it should have moved on (like the mansion scene). This may be okay for those who haven't read the book or aren't aware of who Mary Magdalene was.\n \nI didn't think it was boring, but I'm into this kind of material a lot. As for the fictional/nonfictional status. definately fictional, and I don't say this because it conflict with the Holy Bible whose origins and completeness have its own host of questions. To me, it just doesn't make sense for God to leave a bloodline through Jesus.  It makes sense for Jesus to have a wife or a 'companion' as much as it makes sense for any Jewish carpenter to have a wife. Was this fact entirely omited during the assembly of the Holy Bible???? Possibly.  Just one of many questions. I think the Da Vinci Code is a 'what if' type of work that does not try to affend anyone, but have fun with this question.\n\nI'll tell you what....What if...through DNA testing they found out that Mohammed suffered from severe BiPolar disorder? Imagine the Hoopla that movie would stir.\n\nExplore life...spread peace.
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I really want to thank you for that movie. My husband is in Iraq and sometimes I want him back home so bad that I forget why he is there, but this movie brings it all into perspective. He is fighting for people like this little girl and all of the people who lost their lives on 9/11. Thanks again.
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I was working a shift as a producer at a News/Talk radio station when it happened.  I remember the news-wire machines all going crazy printing out information.  We had to break into regular programing to make the announcement.  I remember our phone ringing off the hook with people wanting to know why we were playing such a sick joke.  Sadly... we had to explain, it was no joke.  It is amazing how tragic events affix themselves to your memory.  It is pretty much the same thing in regards to 9-11.  I still remember where I was, what I was doing, and everything about that day.\n\nIt is terribly sad that Princess Di had to run from paparazzi.  If you ask me, there should be a law limiting how close these people can get to celebs, or people of prominence.  No picture is worth putting someones life in danger.
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To anyone who HAS NOT SEEN UNITED 93 and is opening their big mouth about United 93 and saying negative stuff about it:\n\nThis move WAS NOT MEANT TO ENTERTAIN! - If you have seen it you would know this. You dont know what you are talking about. \n\n10% of the opening weekend have been donated to the families of those who died on this plane, thats a lot of money, more than you donated I'm sure, which is probably nothing. I did my part by watching the movie, which 10% of my ticket sales will go to the families and the memorial fund, I know it is not a lot, but multiply that by every one else who did their part and went and saw the movie, and it totaled to $1.15 million, not to mention i told everyone I know to go see the movie too. A donation fund has been organized to accept donations from individuals and companies, with a goal to raise $30 million. \n\nAll of the family members approved the movie, and in fact helped by provideing detailed information about their loved one who died on the plane so they could accurately be portrayed, and not by some hollywood star either, they were layed by no name actors, just regular joes. \n\nThe movie was fantastic! And it reveals truths that needed to be revealed. It asks Americans the question, Are you going to forget? I hear people saying we need to forget about it and move on, what a ridiculous thing to say! Will you be saying that when we are attacked again, but this time with a small WMD that has been smuggled in throught the mexican border and detonated at the capitol, or a major metropolis? When 500,000 die because of this, will you be saying that forgetting about the first attack benefitted us? C'mon, get real! \n\nIts going to happen again, and it will be a lot easier for it to happen, if we keep trying to forget about the first attack and move on with our lives, eating at mcdonalds, watching seinfield, and driving our cars fueled by blood oil. \n\nI dont mean to offend anyone it just makes me so upset to hear such things said. I think you would be saying something a little different if it was your loved one who had died on that flight. You would want them to be rememebered and their memorial to be honored, you would not be saying forget about it, move on, its too soon, blah, blah, blah . . . Have some freakin respect. \n\nThose on that plane saved 1,000's of lives because of what they did, and this is their tribute, and a worthy tribute it is, and done by a fantastic film crew, director and cast. \n\nWhat a ridiculous thing to say. \n\nSo, if you would rather continue living in your bubble and watching movies like RV(?) which grossed $5 million more that UNited 93, or Stick it, Scary movie 4, Silent hill, and you feel these movies are so much more worthy of your money and recognition, then go ahead and continue to live in your safe little world, but dont knock a literal work of art like UNited 93, which any of those other movies dont even compare by a long shot.\n\nOh, and by the way, we do know a lot about what happend on that plane because of the 30 or so phone calls that were made by people ON THE PLANE to their family memebers, who openly told of their conversations, and by the 30 or so minutes of recording from the cockpit. C'mon, peoplea are saying we dont really know what happened on that plane!? Nonsense, we know a lot more than we know about what happened on the other planes.\n\nOne more thing, sorry so long, but making movies isnt all about the money. I know in most instances it is for the studio paying for the production of the movie, but many directors have this thing called, um, passion, they want to tell stories that need to be told, storeis that they belive in, and think others will believe in too. So I guess paintings from the renaisance should be burned because they depict the crusifixion of christ, and books telling or world war two should be burned because they tell of the halocaust (but we dont know what happened there either, right?!) So you a
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Others have pointed out that it has happened here, but I don't think that's what Prof meant.  I think he meant the type of bomber that runs in explosives exposed and goes boom.\n\nThat being said, I'd like to believe that it would never happen in the USA (which is where I am from), but then again I didn't think 9/11 could ever happen and it did.  I didn't think Columbine (A massive school shooting not far from where I was during High School) would ever happen but it did (And I know that it's a semi-regular event in other parts of the country, for some reason Columbine made big news though).  So I'd like to say it would never happen, but odds are it can and will at some point.\n\nI think 9/11 made the USA realize that we aren't invincible.  I never thought we were, but I feel the mortality much more now.
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Well, I visited France for about a month (visiting a former roommate).  I thought it was quite interesting.  More than just a different perspective on French culture, I found that it induced me to view my own (via tourists) in a very different way.  The WTC attacks happened while I was there, and I think that is one of the reasons why I have a somewhat different perspective on terrorism and Islam than most Americans...
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I SAW the plane go in that day. I was less than a quarter mile away and I watched it happen. I can assure you, it was a commercial airliner.  We were in an office building in Crystal City, just across the highway and we were watching the CNN coverage of the WTC on the Internet so when we heard the plane coming in (you get used to what planes should and should not be doing there, so close to National Airport) we all watched. We could see bits of clothes and things from people's luggage falling from the sky after the explosion.  This was no missile or bomb. It was a regular ol' commercial airliner.\n\nYou can't see the debris because it's too far inside. The Pentagon is not a single building--- it is a series of pentagon-shaped buildings, each one a little larger than the last, and built around each other. These are pretty big buildings and there's a good amount of space in between.  It's a long way from the innermost part of the inner ring to the outermost part of the outer ring. And when the plane hit, it went all the way through the first two rings and most of the way through the third.\n\nSo the reason you can't see the debris is because the hole the plane made is deeper than the length of the plane. If you imagine parking your car allll the way inside your garage, as close to the wall as you can get, then standing off to the side a bit. You can't see your car any more. Your car did not disappear--- it just is in a place where it can't be seen from where you are standing.\n\nSo don't believe everything you see on the Internet. Any whack-job with a video camera and Photoshop can build a conspiracy theory web site.
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Ok..............what ever happened to Titanic?!??!?!? \n\nI have only cried in a few movies\nLast Of The Mohicans\nThe Last Samurai\nTitanic\nFacing The Giants\nAnd Born Free(Im so excited I found another human being who has seen that!!!)
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Thank you.  I lost family members on 9/11.\n\nOn the whole, I agree with your sentiment and much of what you say.  I believe that people in our government were complicit with the attack on 9/11.  Israel kept their people out of the WTC on 9/9, 9/10, and 9/11.  The Egyptian president made 3 separate phone calls to Bush concerning the impending attack.\n\nIt is my feeling that most of the world knew about it except us here in NY (and the rest of the Amercan populaton).  If you remember the news broadcasts the previous summer, most of it had to do with shark bites and a boy who was too old for little league baseball.  No real news.  i was wondering why there was no actual news the whole summer.  I understood the morning of 9/11.\n\nThe Bush family does multi-million dollar business with the Bin Laden family.  why would they hunt down and kill a business partner? Not in their interest.\n\nI also am convinced that there was no passenger plane hitting the pentagon. If you see the actual pictures after the explosion you will undertand that the hole it made was much too small for such a larged winged missile to have hit.  Plus, the area of the pentagon that was damaged was closed for repair.  If I were a terrorist, I would aim for the area that held most of the high-ranking individuals.  if I were the in the White House, I would aim for the portion of the Pentagon that would do the least damage.\n\nAdditionally, I believe no one (including the attackers) had any idea the attack on the WTC would be so successful.\n\nI was told by someone whom I trust that he read that Bush had plans to go to war with Iraq before he even usurped the presidency.  I haven't checked it out, but it does make sense to me.  The fact that he went ahead with his plans despite world-wide protest indicates that he and the rest of the crew are single-mindedy carrying out their own agenda for world domination.\n\nAs I'm writing this I realize how radical it sounds, but it seems to be true anyway.
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i love final destination im like the biggest geek about it i saw the first one when i first got high lol the movies are super great and really freaky its like they way they die u wouldnt ever image it that way .like the airplane part in the first movie was so serious .but ya back to your question i thought the movie was good but i honeslty liked part 1 and 2 better but it doesnt matter i would watch part 3 any day .the part that scared me the most was either the roller coaster part or the part where the 2 girls gotburned in the tanning salon .damn it that movie was so f*cking  great i feel like watching it right now really really bad =] GREAT QUESTION
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The mark of the beast — sort of — flying over the sands of Daytona Beach this week incited a wave of excitement: the fearful kind.\n\nThe most memorable moment of Terica Washington’s 30th birthday Monday was looking into the sky and seeing an airplane towing a black banner with words written in white: “6/6/06 You have been warned”.\n\nShe was alarmed enough to call the FBI.\n\n“It made me feel really creepy, especially in this day and age,” said Washington, who works at Ocean Walk Resort. Noting that June 6 is a Tuesday, she drew the connection to Sept. 11, 2001, also a Tuesday.\n\n“I thought it might be terrorists,” she said.\n\nEmergency service agencies received several complaints about the banner. And the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office investigated it — and discovered Thursday the banner is promoting a new movie from Twentieth Century Fox. A remake of “The Omen” is scheduled to be released June 6.\n\nThrough a Fort Lauderdale promoter, the company producing the film released this statement, “This weekend, Twentieth Century Fox will introduce ‘The Omen’ to a whole new generation, telling spring breakers, You have been warned! from the sky. We’re thrilled that the college students in Daytona have responded so enthusiastically to the sky banners.”\n\nThe promoter was instructed to alert the local FOX affiliate, a News-Journal competitor, about the reaction.\n\nWashington, when told the banner was a film promotion, said she thought it was “tasteless to do it that way.”\n\n“If it’s a movie,” she said, “at least I’ll have peace of mind.”\n\nWayne Mansfield is the owner of Aviad, who owns the four planes flying the banners in local skies and Panama City, South Padre Island, Texas, and Lake Havasu, Ariz. He’s surprised his signs in the skies are creating such an uproar.\n\n“Everywhere we are, people are jumping up and down,” Mansfield said. “. . . Keep telling yourself, ‘It’s only a movie.’ ”
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I completely feel you on this...I've seen that movie myself, and a few others.  There are so many questions, I don't understand how people can just ignore it...and in fact get mad at you for questioning it!  Isn't that the point of democracy, being allowed to examine what's going on and make an educated decision?  Don't let the mean remarks that you will inevitably get bring you down...you are a thinker, and that is to be commended!\n\nEDIT: Nikki, here is the link:  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7218920724339766288&q=loose+change
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848&q=loose+change\n\nWatch that video. It will answer all your 9/11 related questions. It is an hour and twenty minutes long but it is a good film.
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Just saw the movie today. I am a Christian and wanted to see it so I knew more to answer the questions that I have been asked by friends. The hardest thing I find to comprehend is why are people being so blown away with it, when it is clear that it is a work of fiction? It is a fiction book, that has just been made into a fiction movie. Dan Brown himself states that the book was fiction and is not based on fact.\n\nJust goes to show how cunning and conniving the devil can be.\n\nAs for the movie, didnt really enjoy it. A bit over the top.
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One of the TV specials indicated that the WTC was designed to take the impact of jet plane.  However it was smaller one than what hit it.\n\nObviously each tower was able to absorb an impact above what it was designed for.\n\nThe near full load of jet fuel in the plane ignited and with the sprinklers not function due to the impact, the intense heat of the fire soften the structural beams.\n\nEventually the structure, already damage by the impact, failed because the reaming steel became too weak
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Is the story really true about the hotel and gas station?  Did they really have a video of what happened and did the FBI really come in and conviscate the videos?  I would like to meet the person who investigated all that to see if it is true.  You would think that someone took some video shots of what happened at the pentagon.    The object in that video doesn't even look like a huge jet liner.   The little hole in the Pentagon was not produced by a jetliner where are the jet engine holes in the wall?  If there are any video footage it will been tainted after the Gov. finishes with it. will the world ever know what really happened on 911?     Bush doesn't seem to be too concerned about Bin Laden, He even said so himself on National TV.   They aren't really looking for him.   If they were they would have found him.  There are too many people in this world that would love some reward money to tell us where he is.  Somebody knows out there\n\nhey rocknroll5  if they have all been released, where do you view them?