Are movies based on "Sept. 11" disrespectful to the victims and their families?
410902
no everyone needs to quit complaining, thats all america does is complain now
1136240
hey charly---you're a wanker.  get bent.\n\nyou remind me of the girl that crawled out of the well in the movie "The Ring".   that had to be about the creepiest scene in the whole movie---almost.  when she crawled OUT of the TV set to get the last victim---man, that messed me up.\n\nyou're just like her--you're bending and contorting and jerking in every shape imaginable to create some sort of 'victim' status to the as$hats at Guantanamo.\n\nif you're 'bored' and 'need something to do' why not try to assign the same level of compassion to the real victims, the folks who died on 9-11?\n\nwhat a loser.
1164417
I agree 100%.\n\nI was living just outside Philadelphia when 9/11 happened.  I had several friends and family members in NYC - one of which we lost (a 30 year old brother in law who was giving a speech on the top floor of the building at a conference).  It was only a stroke of luck that kept my own husband out of NYC that day.\n\nAt that point we got a glimpse of the kind of horror that the civilians in the middle east have been suffering - explosions in restaurants, schools, hospitals, temples - it is mind numbing.  I caught my heart in my throat for weeks after 9/11 everytime I heard an airplane or helicopter over head (we lived near and Air Force base).  I have little children of my own - and my heart goes out to the families that must live through the violence.\n\nWhat is so upsetting to me about the war in Iraq is that it feels unnecessary to me.  We stormed into Afghanistan, hot on the heels of those who had done us wrong and liberated a community that had been terrorized by the Taliban for years.  We had reacted to tragedy decisively and with class - in myopinion - helping others along the way.  It felt great to be American.\n\nThen this stuff with Iraq -  I mean, lots of people say that Saddam Hussein is a terrible man, and that maybe.  But we don't really have a right to bomb the crap out of another country (out of another group of people) just because their leader doesn't do things as we do, do we?  The war on Terror had become a horror.  I watched, dumbfounded, as we bombed the living daylight out of that civilization.\n\nIf we feel that we have a right to bomb other because we disagree with their leaders, then we are being repaid in kind when they bomb us because they don't agree with ours.
117025
I think it is another biased movie that the makers want to try and push a conspiracy. You can look at any of the facts out there, and twist them any way you want to prove your theory. If I had the time and money, I could put together a movie proving that JFK is still alive and caused the attack on the WTC.
930397
You know, I wonder how many people actually pay attention to history.  It's been this way since the beginning of time.  Humans are just horrible.  Nobody made the Muslims the threat, they made themselves the threat.  Sorry, but we didn't just make a movie about 9/11.  It really happened.  People really died.  Do you watch the news?  Very few countries in the world aren't fighting some kind of war.  We don't have to make up any kind of controversy.
996456
Melissa, \nJust for your Information, those are VERY Bogus anti-American films from someone out of England.\n\nThey assume that the USA put a missile through the Pentagon?  How stupid is that?\n\nNext they take words from politicians out of context.  Fairly common for Liberals anyways.\n\nIf the president FAKED 9/11, then there are 3000 fake dead people?\n\nThere are so many people who HATE the president SOO Much they would destroy this country to make sure that a democrat gets in charge?\n\nPay attention people.   Even Osama Bin Laden said he did it.\n\nStop giving aid and comfort to the enemy!
196938
(I have rearranged the paragraphs from theage.com's article cited below).\n\nPavel Hlava, an immigrant construction worker from the Czech Republic, shot footage of the first plane hitting the north tower as a 4WD vehicle he was riding in entered the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel en route to lower Manhattan. \n\nThe footage, obtained by The New York Times, was taken by a Czech immigrant construction worker whose son at one point came close to accidentally erasing the rare, chilling footage, the newspaper reported on its website today. \n\nThe only videotape known to have captured both planes slamming into the World Trade Centre, and only the second image of the first strike, has surfaced on the eve of the second anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks. \n\nFederal officials investigating the Trade Centre collapse are trying to obtain a copy of the hourlong tape, which could cast light on the cause of the north tower's collapse by helping to determine factors including the exact speed at which the first plane travelled, The Times said. \n\nThe only other known footage of the first plane's impact came from a French film crew making a documentary about a probationary firefighter. \n\nHlava, who made the tape looking at the camera's relatively low-resolution LCD display, told the Times he did not see the first plane as he focused on the towers. \n\nBut the tape shows a whitish object hitting the tower, followed by dust spurting from the tower's side and a silvery, expanding cloud. \n\nPassing through the tunnel, Hlava, his brother and his boss heard a radio report that a small private plane had hit the World Trade Centre, straight ahead outside the tunnel. \n\nThat hardly prepared them for what they saw when they emerged: the north tower, looming over them, bursting with flames. \n\nAs Hlava continued filming, the second jet shrieked behind him. He caught the plane as it crashed into the south tower, exploding into an orange fireball and sending papers flying in every direction. \n\nLater, after crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, he focused on the buildings again as the south tower tilted to one side and collapsed. \n\nHlava and his brother, Josef, unsuccessfully tried to sell the tape in New York and in the Czech Republic, the newspaper said. \n\nHlava said through a Czech-language translator that language difficulties hindered his ability to sell or release the tape to the media. \n\nHe also said that so much time had passed that he had doubted there was still interest in the tape. \n\n"All his friends, they told him, 'Hey, you made a mistake. You waited too long'," translator David Melichar told The Times. \n\nHlava's boss, who was driving, also had strong objections to selling the tape, Melichar said. \n\nHlava and Melichar's numbers are not listed and attempts by The Associated Press to reach them were unsuccessful. \n\nIn the weeks and months after the attack, the tape sat in Hlava's apartment in the Ridgewood section of Queens. \n\nOn one occasion, Hlava said he noticed that his son was playing with the video camera and erasing the tape. Hlava snatched the camera away before either of the plane impacts were erased. \n\nA friend of Hlava's wife obtained a copy of the tape and traded it to another Czech immigrant to pay off a bar tab. \n\nAnother woman learned of the existence of the copy and brought it to the attention of a freelance news photographer who took the tape to The Times.\n\nThe photographer, Walter Karling, who now describes himself as Hlava's agent, said it had not been sold to any television station. The Times said it had not paid for the tape. \n\nKarling's number was not published and he could not be reached for comment by The Associated Press. \n\n\n- AP
405642
I think that movies and books like The Exorcist give people the wrong idea about such things. They may be loosely based on some real events, but I think that the popular books and movies distort the reality and give the wrong impression.
789847
The sad thing about this movie is, that it had to be made.  You would think 9-11 would have been a wake up call, yet for some reason ppl decided to cope by making conspiracy theories up
627470
Yes!!!!  The idea of the movie industry making money about such a horrible tragedy is a tragedy all its own.  Also, it is definitely too soon to relive those moments.  I still go into shock when I see anything on the news depicting that horrible day!
883047
The movie media has always been used for propaganda.  Some push overt messages, others, subtle messages.  And "Unholywood" is very liberal at this time; and liberals hate religion.  These sound like the subtle sort.\n\nWhat's particularly despicable of this in this movie is that it will be viewed by many, many children, who will be subconsciously imprinted with this negative image of religion.
1031449
was this sort of on, sort of not on, the news tonight?  All I saw was them talking about an "incident" and not saying what it was.  \n\nWhat you describe is a horrific crime and brings shame on those men's families, combrades, country, and flag.   But the answer to the question is that everyone is capable of their very own acts of evil.  \n\nThe question here may be partly one of respect.   If you think you're part of the best nation on earth, what is everyone else?   If you can dehumanise the "others", regarding them as less than you, you can justify anything. That is not a uniquely American problem - aggressor nations very often commit horrible violations, with attitudes like that never far away from the action.\n\nBut it's also about self-respect.   If that were you doing that, could you look yourself in the eye afterwards?   Of course not.   So how can they?   People who have pride in their good qualities are less likely to descend to such horrible depths.\n\nNot much of an answer, more of just a train of thought.   Not much shocks me these days, but that does.   If I believed in hell, I reckon I would believe in it for that.
616745
I agree with you totally.  I think why we don't do it now is because in today's world it would be "politically incorrect" to do it. That is why I don't like that stuff on here where they are posing as Moslems and spreading hate and threatening to blow us up.  We dont need another 9/11
1119210
If the terrorist did what they did and americans can place the blame on a specific people,and also say that they will never forget,why can't I recognize the people who benifited by what was done to my ancestors and i say that I'll never forget.  If I had a problem with whites it would be justified.But because I know it was done out of fear I can accept it a little better.Fear of loosing what I think belongs to me will make me do stuff with out thinking of the reprocussions.Life is what it is.We did not create it so we can't really direct it,but to gether we can change it.Education is the key in creating Knowlege,Knowledge is the key to freedom.
358236
No it is a very moving movie about a story that needs to be told.  The people on flight 93 were recognized for all their courage and bravery and it was never to soon for that
1071171
Not many people are alive today that were at Pearl Harbor and I believe that the last survivor of the Titanic died recently.  \n\nThe first movie about the Titanic didn't come out until 1943.\n\nI think the fact that 9/11 was a terrorist attack on our own homeland soil is the reason it is such a touchy subject.
1080440
With all due respect, I am a person of colour and have had a reputation as a Left Wing Radical, back in the days, so it is no small matter that shocks me to here you suggest that '911' is something for Anglos to get over!\n\nFurther I cannot imagine it rational to suggest that anyone mere "get over", the violent loss of any life.  The loss of lives are to be take as both lessons, and mantles that challenge us to make the world a place where we all can walk as noble men and minds and yet do so respecting the lives that went into giving us the advances large or small that we can continue the struggle from.  And when I speak of that struggle, I do not mean any Black, White, or Asian, but the struggle of humanity itself!