I just came back from seeing United 93. I was not sure what to expect... I had not read any reviews. I went in not sure what I'd get out of it either.
I know some people will have not seen it yet, so I will avoid to the best of my ability to not reveal much of the details, and focus mostly on my reaction to it.
I was surprised that people had brought popcorn into the movie. I didn't think this was the kind of film you wanted to snack through. People were chatty prior to the movie beginning, but it either stopped as the movie began, or I just didn't notice it after that.
My heart was pounding through every second of the movie. You know what's going to happen, you start to remember how felt on September 11, 2001. It eats at you through the whole movie. At various points in the movie, you hear small talk between flight attendants, the pilots, and passengers talking about kids at home, and things like that, and while this was a movie, it was also real life, and these actors are portraying real people who were killed, and you know the children spoken of lost a parent, and the husbands and wives spoken of were widowed.
Lots of things went through my mind watching it. Watching air traffic controllers monitoring the hijackings, the hijacking of United 93 occur, the passengers eventually deciding to take back control of the airplane... I found myself engrossed in all of it. It was simple and to the point... how an otherwise normal day became everything but normal.
The movie inspires rage and a whole bunch of other emotions. I sat there as movie ended, and didn't leave until the credits had finished. I heard one woman declared at the movie's end that she didn't like it. Since I've been back, 3 or 4 people have asked me what I thought or how I liked it. The thing is, it's not a movie that you can walk away from and "like it." It's one of those movies you got to see whether you want to or not.
As you watched the revolt on board United 93, you want to cheer them on, but you can't. Not because you know you're in a theatre, but because you are so captivated by what is unfolding. I imagine for many people, that moment will remind you of how you felt when you first heard about the plane that did not reach its intended target.
I hope this movie reminds people that we are still a nation at war. I hope this movie awakens the same rage and resolve people had after 9/11. I hope you all see this movie.
UPDATE: Lefty bloggers desperate to make a quick buck off of "United 93"????
Posted by Matt at April 30, 2006 10:14 PM
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Matt, I saw the movie with my daughter Friday night. Sitting among a Northern California audience, the tension in the air was thick in that theater. My heart, also, was beating. I was on the edge of my seat. The movie was awesome, poignant, intense in its minute-by-minute factual account of the experience of America's first post-9/11 heroism. When the movie ended with silence and a blackened screen and the credits rolled, you could hear the quiet noises of people crying. When it was over, the audience filed out of the theater as if they had been to a funeral - and they had, indeed, witnessed a funeral. We were shaken to the core. It's a must see. Our enemies are alive, well, and very disciplined in their goal of destroying the entire Western Civilization and totally intent on seeing the rule of Allah and the Islamic Crescent Flag waving over every country on this planet. They are willing to die for it. Are we willing to live to fight this evil enemy?
Posted by: bethtopaz at May 1, 2006 12:13 AM
I'm glad it provoked a reaction in you Matt. Though I'm sure you knew it would. I have yet to see it, and again I don't think I'll see it until DVD. I will see it though.
Posted by:
Gozer at May 1, 2006 01:28 AM
I'm not sure how I feel about the making of this film at the current time. I'm a little bit worried that it will belittle the sacrifices made by those aboard every other jet that was hijacked on september 11. But what worries me more is that people will again start to believe that there was a link between september 11 and the current Iraq war, as the last paragraph of your post seems to imply.
Posted by: mbmbmb at May 1, 2006 01:40 AM
I'm not sure how I feel about the making of this film at the current time.
Yeah? Well, how'd you feel about Michael MooreOn making a propaganda film, at the time he did F911?
I'm a little bit worried that it will belittle the sacrifices made by those aboard every other jet that was hijacked on september 11.
I'll bet you're more than a little bit worried that it will wake America up again to the dangers we face from the threat of Islamofascism.
But what worries me more is that people will again start to believe that there was a link between september 11 and the current Iraq war, as the last paragraph of your post seems to imply.
C'mon, moron, what really worries you is that people will again realize that the war in Iraq is merely a battle in the GWOT, not the Bush/Cheney/Halliburton war for oil that you and your cabal believe it is.
mb, you aren't fooling anyone here, except maybe Barney. Go back to Kos...
Posted by: keefer at May 1, 2006 08:14 AM
My wife doesn't really want to go see this film, although she realizes the threat we face. I'll probably wait until it comes out on DVD, because I want to see it. I'd rather see it in theatre, but not without my wife. We'll see...
Posted by: keefer at May 1, 2006 08:18 AM
Do all far left wing fanatics like mbmbmb still believe that al Qaeda isn't in Iraq?
Posted by:
CJ at May 1, 2006 08:20 AM
mbmbmb,
There is a link between 9-11 and the current Iraq War (or what more accurately should be called the aftermath of the Iraq War).
On 9-11, terrorists made another of a series of attacks against the US. They had attacked us in 1993 when the bombed the WTC the first time. They attacked us again then they bombed our embassies in Africa, then again when they struck at the USS Cole. Each time, our response was ineffectual and the terrorists were emboldened.
The current admininstration saw that in order to effectively fight terrorism worldwide, we must counterattack on a number of fronts: We must disrupt their financial networks, and we have. We must track down and neutralize terrorist cells whereever we find them, and we have. We must initiate regime change in those countries who actively support terrorism as an official policy, as we have in Afghanistan and Iraq. Because we saw the damage that can occur when terrorists use a Boeing 757 as a Weapon of Mass Destruction, we knew that we must prevent countries from providing WMD to terrorists, so Iraq was disarmed. Libya saw the light and quickly followed suit, voluntarily and peacefully. The administration recognized that the best chance to prevent newly liberated countries from going back to a culture of terrorism is to encourage the formation of democratic governments where the people have a say in the government and are not terrorized by their leaders. We are doing this in Afghanistan and Iraq.
You see, Iraq is the central front on the Global War on Terror. Even the terrorists admit this. They know that if they lose in Iraq, their chances for overthrowing democracy and instituting Islamic goverments worldwide is doomed. That's why success in Iraq and Afghanistan is so important. As a result of our actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Syrians have withdrawn from Lebanon. Libya has disavowed WMD and welcomed UN inspectors to verify their disarmament. In other Islamic countries, reform is slowly, but surely, occurring.
We must continue to use diplomacy when we can, and military force when me must. If only the left would set aside their hatred for the President, recognize the successes we have had, and support the efforts of our men and women in uniform in sowing the seed of democracy, the fight against terrorism worldwide would be won sooner, our troops can come home, and we can achieve long-lasting peace.
Posted by: A-10 at May 1, 2006 08:31 AM
Do all far left wing fanatics like mbmbmb still believe that al Qaeda isn't in Iraq?
No, they just believe we put 'em Iraq. Just like we put 'em everywhere else in the world...
Posted by: keefer at May 1, 2006 10:51 AM
Towards the end of the movie I had to move to the edge of my seat and tears were just streaming down my face. There was complete silence in the movie theater afterwards. I was surprised at how many people jumped up to leave. My friend and I just sat there in stunned silence for awhile and then began to talk about how we felt about the movie. We were still there when the clean-up crew came in and we still weren't that motivated to get up and leave.
This is a must-see movie and if the families of the victims can see it and recommend it, so can we.
I agreed with your last line:
"I hope this movie reminds people that we are still a nation at war. I hope this movie awakens the same rage and resolve people had after 9/11. I hope you all see this movie."
Posted by:
Chatterbox at May 1, 2006 11:20 AM
"I hope this movie awakens the same rage and resolve people had after 9/11."
Yeah, cause rage is such a great quality to have when you're armed with the world's most destructive weapons aresenal.
Haven't seen it yet, but will. Looks like a great film.
If only the leftist elites in Hollywood could put their blind devotion to terrosits aside to make such a film... er, wait a second...
Posted by: Tom Shipley at May 1, 2006 11:35 AM
I don't think anyone has declared Hollywood is devoted to terrorists, Tom. Find me such an assertion and I will denounce same. What is said is that Hollywood, among other insitutions of the Left as we know it in this nation today, is willfully blind and insouciant to the real threats of the modern world while they declare illusory threats like from Bush or Israel or neo-Nazi cabals (if these are distinguishable in their world). Now, we could of course make the case for Michael Moore being pro-Saddam but that is a tired hobbyhorse. Also, in trumpeting your strawman, you might check out some of the interviews with the director as regards his experience with the Hollywood cultural leaders as regards this picture. Not exactly Jimmy Stewart.
Posted by: megapotamus at May 1, 2006 01:02 PM
Actually Tom, the writer and director is British who suffered through the terrorism of the IRA. Caught parts of an interview with him on...The Rush Limbaugh Show. Will wonders never cease.
Posted by: A-10 at May 1, 2006 03:02 PM
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Matt, I saw the movie with my daughter Friday night. Sitting among a Northern California audience, the tension in the air was thick in that theater. My heart, also, was beating. I was on the edge of my seat. The movie was awesome, poignant, intense in its minute-by-minute factual account of the experience of America's first post-9/11 heroism. When the movie ended with silence and a blackened screen and the credits rolled, you could hear the quiet noises of people crying. When it was over, the audience filed out of the theater as if they had been to a funeral - and they had, indeed, witnessed a funeral. We were shaken to the core. It's a must see. Our enemies are alive, well, and very disciplined in their goal of destroying the entire Western Civilization and totally intent on seeing the rule of Allah and the Islamic Crescent Flag waving over every country on this planet. They are willing to die for it. Are we willing to live to fight this evil enemy?
I'm glad it provoked a reaction in you Matt. Though I'm sure you knew it would. I have yet to see it, and again I don't think I'll see it until DVD. I will see it though.
I'm not sure how I feel about the making of this film at the current time. I'm a little bit worried that it will belittle the sacrifices made by those aboard every other jet that was hijacked on september 11. But what worries me more is that people will again start to believe that there was a link between september 11 and the current Iraq war, as the last paragraph of your post seems to imply.
I'm not sure how I feel about the making of this film at the current time.
Yeah? Well, how'd you feel about Michael MooreOn making a propaganda film, at the time he did F911?
I'm a little bit worried that it will belittle the sacrifices made by those aboard every other jet that was hijacked on september 11.
I'll bet you're more than a little bit worried that it will wake America up again to the dangers we face from the threat of Islamofascism.
But what worries me more is that people will again start to believe that there was a link between september 11 and the current Iraq war, as the last paragraph of your post seems to imply.
C'mon, moron, what really worries you is that people will again realize that the war in Iraq is merely a battle in the GWOT, not the Bush/Cheney/Halliburton war for oil that you and your cabal believe it is.
mb, you aren't fooling anyone here, except maybe Barney. Go back to Kos...
My wife doesn't really want to go see this film, although she realizes the threat we face. I'll probably wait until it comes out on DVD, because I want to see it. I'd rather see it in theatre, but not without my wife. We'll see...
Do all far left wing fanatics like mbmbmb still believe that al Qaeda isn't in Iraq?
mbmbmb,
There is a link between 9-11 and the current Iraq War (or what more accurately should be called the aftermath of the Iraq War).
On 9-11, terrorists made another of a series of attacks against the US. They had attacked us in 1993 when the bombed the WTC the first time. They attacked us again then they bombed our embassies in Africa, then again when they struck at the USS Cole. Each time, our response was ineffectual and the terrorists were emboldened.
The current admininstration saw that in order to effectively fight terrorism worldwide, we must counterattack on a number of fronts: We must disrupt their financial networks, and we have. We must track down and neutralize terrorist cells whereever we find them, and we have. We must initiate regime change in those countries who actively support terrorism as an official policy, as we have in Afghanistan and Iraq. Because we saw the damage that can occur when terrorists use a Boeing 757 as a Weapon of Mass Destruction, we knew that we must prevent countries from providing WMD to terrorists, so Iraq was disarmed. Libya saw the light and quickly followed suit, voluntarily and peacefully. The administration recognized that the best chance to prevent newly liberated countries from going back to a culture of terrorism is to encourage the formation of democratic governments where the people have a say in the government and are not terrorized by their leaders. We are doing this in Afghanistan and Iraq.
You see, Iraq is the central front on the Global War on Terror. Even the terrorists admit this. They know that if they lose in Iraq, their chances for overthrowing democracy and instituting Islamic goverments worldwide is doomed. That's why success in Iraq and Afghanistan is so important. As a result of our actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Syrians have withdrawn from Lebanon. Libya has disavowed WMD and welcomed UN inspectors to verify their disarmament. In other Islamic countries, reform is slowly, but surely, occurring.
We must continue to use diplomacy when we can, and military force when me must. If only the left would set aside their hatred for the President, recognize the successes we have had, and support the efforts of our men and women in uniform in sowing the seed of democracy, the fight against terrorism worldwide would be won sooner, our troops can come home, and we can achieve long-lasting peace.
Do all far left wing fanatics like mbmbmb still believe that al Qaeda isn't in Iraq?
No, they just believe we put 'em Iraq. Just like we put 'em everywhere else in the world...
Towards the end of the movie I had to move to the edge of my seat and tears were just streaming down my face. There was complete silence in the movie theater afterwards. I was surprised at how many people jumped up to leave. My friend and I just sat there in stunned silence for awhile and then began to talk about how we felt about the movie. We were still there when the clean-up crew came in and we still weren't that motivated to get up and leave.
This is a must-see movie and if the families of the victims can see it and recommend it, so can we.
I agreed with your last line:
"I hope this movie reminds people that we are still a nation at war. I hope this movie awakens the same rage and resolve people had after 9/11. I hope you all see this movie."
"I hope this movie awakens the same rage and resolve people had after 9/11."
Yeah, cause rage is such a great quality to have when you're armed with the world's most destructive weapons aresenal.
Haven't seen it yet, but will. Looks like a great film.
If only the leftist elites in Hollywood could put their blind devotion to terrosits aside to make such a film... er, wait a second...
I don't think anyone has declared Hollywood is devoted to terrorists, Tom. Find me such an assertion and I will denounce same. What is said is that Hollywood, among other insitutions of the Left as we know it in this nation today, is willfully blind and insouciant to the real threats of the modern world while they declare illusory threats like from Bush or Israel or neo-Nazi cabals (if these are distinguishable in their world). Now, we could of course make the case for Michael Moore being pro-Saddam but that is a tired hobbyhorse. Also, in trumpeting your strawman, you might check out some of the interviews with the director as regards his experience with the Hollywood cultural leaders as regards this picture. Not exactly Jimmy Stewart.
Actually Tom, the writer and director is British who suffered through the terrorism of the IRA. Caught parts of an interview with him on...The Rush Limbaugh Show. Will wonders never cease.