9/11 movie trailer

Yeah...but on the other end of the emotional spectrum: 7/27/07 is the open date for the Simpsons movie.

I saw this on the news the other night:

They showed clips of family members who sat around in the room listening to the 911 calls their loved ones made who were trapped in the Twin Towers.  You should have seen the xpressions fo the those people.  It was so sad.  Seeing it gave me chills- I was on the trainer and was almost bawling.  I'm not sure if I'll see the movie- I mean, who really wants to re-live that?  It was such a tradgey.

Next thing is that they'll make Hurricane Katrina into a movie.  Wanna take bets??

Yeah, this is interesting.  The 9/11 movie really smacked of "cashing in" to me, but I didn't feel the same way about Hotel Rwanda or Schindler's list.  I wonder if that's because the point of those two movies seemed much more about the message than just retelling the story?  honestly, I don't know...I wonder how survivors felt about Schindler's list?

Saw the trailer twice now in the theater.  Gotta say I have never heard a theater that quiet after a trailer.

Is it cashing in?  I don't know, but I don't think so.  I've read that the filmmakers talked to every flight 93 family and every family approved of making the film. 

It looks very very intense.  Would I see it?  Probably.  Although 9/11 was a horrible massacre, the people on that plane possibly prevented the destruction of the representation of the federal government.  The country did change after 9/11, but can you imagine what would have happened had the capitol gone down?  martial law, etc.  The flight 93 passengers were heroes.  Hopefully the movie is done in such a way that honors their memory.

Not to be pedantic, but the events depicted in Hotel Rwanda took place in 1994, ten years before the movie was made.

That being said, would I be ready for a 9/11 movie even in 2011? I don't think so...

Yeah, but I meant in the sense that African genocide continues to this day.

That, of course, is sadly true...