September 11th...movies?!

[Azrael]

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Az makes another news thread.

Basically, Hollywood is now getting the jump on making movies based on the Sept 11th terrorist attacks. We could see something in theaters as early as next year.

I was mildly surprised. I figured Sept 11 movies would still be years away, but it looks like we're going to see it fairly soon. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this - it is one incredible story, but is it too soon? Either way, I hope it doesn't get the Titanic/Pearl Harbor treatment.

Would you go see a September 11th movie?

[Shinigami]

I do hope they make a musical.

[stillbornsinger]

If its done tastefully, I think it could be a really awesome movie...

Its a story that should be told, I don't know if most Americans would be able to sit through it though without crying.

I wonder though if the motivating factor in making this movie will be mostly the dollar amount, as I'm sure it would break some records or would it be to remember those involved and what it meant to us as Americans.

I'll buy a ticket.

[Pierrot le Fou]

9/11 the Musical
Lyrics by Karl Rowe

Tower One is falling down,
Falling down, falling down,
Tower One is falling down,
My dear Bushie...

Tower Two is blown away,
Blown away, blown away,
Tower Two is blown away,
My dear Bushie...

Build them back says Tom DeLay,
Tom DeLay, Tom DeLay,
Build them back says Tom DeLay,
My dear Bushie...

But first we'll kill some Arab folk,
Arab folk, Arab folk,
But first we'll kill some Arab folk,
My dear Bushie...

Bomb their cities into smoke,
into smoke, into smoke,
Bomb their cities into smoke,
My dear Bushie...

Take away our freedoms please,
Freedoms please, freedoms please,
Take away our freedoms please,
My dear Bushie...

Smirk to put us all at ease,
All at east, all at ease,
Smirk to put us all at ease,
My dear Bushie...

etc.

[Kusoyaro]

It's ridiculous. Why would they make a 9/11 movie? We ALL know what happened, shitdammit. I personally don't need to watch a Hollywood version of the thousand homevids I sifted through after it happened. Pshh.

[Jiant Flying Panda]

Well. If it films the events leading up to 9/11 then i guess it'll be okay. Like some sort of documentry.

But if they are gonna make some ghey action movie then that should be Film Taboo.

[Citizen]

This thread goes to show how little I paid attention to September 11th. When I saw it, I didn't even realize that it meant movies about the 9/11 attack. Thought it was something about movies coming out on September 11th.

Anyways, let them make their movies. Doesn't bother me, and people will go to see them. I doubt they could do a worse job than was done with "The Passion".

[Pierrot le Fou]

If you think that's bad, the Japanese government is planning to have a general election on September 11th.

"Let's honour the dead by blaring political messages over loudspeakers for 24 solid hours on a weekend in order to piss off people trying to sleep in on a Sunday morning."

Bastards.

[Rogue_7]

Oliver Stone's flick will surely be massivly controversial, and rather pointless as it rehashes what we all watched on the news a few years ago. Now I am curious to see how Paul Greengrass's movie does. His is going to be about the passangers on the plane that rebelled against the terrorists. Not much is known about the event, so he has a broader canvas, and he is a pretty damn good director. He did Bloody Sunday and Bourne Identity, so he can do both docu style fiction and action.

[Excel-2008]

I've seen about 15 combined movies about President Bush, 9/11 and terrorists in general in my local video rental outlet. What's one more going to add to the wildfire generated by opportunist filmmakers?

[Citizen]

If you think that's bad, the Japanese government is planning to have a general election on September 11th.

"Let's honour the dead by blaring political messages over loudspeakers for 24 solid hours on a weekend in order to piss off people trying to sleep in on a Sunday morning."

Bastards.

Are you angry at them for annoying people, or for doing it on September 11th? Or both? Pretty much all countries, in general, have a history of not being gung-ho about any disasters that didn't affect them, short of wars and genocides. Why should they hold off a political election for America's tragedy?

But yeah, they are bastards for doing it on a Sunday.

[Larrikin]

It would be an awesome action film...

15 years down the road after all the facts are discovered, and theres some sort of conclusion to the events going on.

I mean it wouldn't make much sense to make a movie about the beginning of the war and then have no ending.

[Marblehead]

I hope Bruckheimer produces it. That way it'll suck ass and nobody will ever think of exploiting the event again!!!!

[Pierrot le Fou]

I just hate election trucks. It has very little to do with 9/11 or whatnot, it was just the Sunday that was picked to do it on (elections are always on a Sunday here). It's just odd to see 9/11 pasted up everywhere in Japan, with politician's faces under them. Y'know?

[csrjjsmp]

Fahrenheit 9/11 was a 9/11 movie and it was popular enough.

[Bobbybirdtree]

I don't see what they could do with it. Most of it would be fictional seeing as it would have to take most of the time on the planes, which they have no idea about what happened on.(unless they make a short boring film about pedestrians) I don't think i would bother seeing it anyway because it just doesn't sound like something to make a movie about.

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

Death to America.

[Annoying MSN Person]

Meh.
Oh yes, I said meh.

Please, flame me for this, but 11/9 doesn't reign supreme as a day of absolute shock.

I'm not so callous as to rate tragedy on a scale of blood, but worse acts of atrocity are carried out by Western countries every single day. Oh no. It happened in your own country. Should you be immune to the effects of what is going on in this world? I'm am not condoning it. I'm a tad of a pacifist on the entire matter. That just helps me to see that you have been serving it on such a regular basis to so many people. Eventually those ants were going to overpower the elephant.
Look at the news. It seems that disasters merit more attention if white people are involved. It takes 20 times the number of other deaths to merit the same amount of attention. The London bombings got every channel here showing live news feed. The bombs in the Eygptian hotel shortly thereafter got less than 1/8 the attention. Can you keep a count of how many suicide bombers there have been in the Palestine/Israel conflict? (Argh, another FUCK UP of US international relations if ever I saw one.)

So go ahead. Immortalise your tragedy. Bury your dead. You deserve that. But don't try and act as though this event is the be all and end all when it comes to horrific events inflicted on others. You've got state sponsered terrorism down to a fine freaking art form. Afganistan, the Gulf War, Vietnam, Bosnia, numerous Juntas, support of so many South American dictators I've lost count. (Just as long as they aren't commies. I get the distinct impression you are not too fond of them). You have enough weapons to kill everyone on Earth several times over. You are the big dog. No one loves you.

Argh, and more ranting. I've heard many say they want justice, retribution for what happened. How about you join up to that little ol' world court? How about you stop giving your enemies the shining example of military prisons like Guantanamo Bay as a reason to still loathe you?

And anyway. Any movie they make should star Barney.
Who can play a better George Bush?

[csrjjsmp]

Look at the news. It seems that disasters merit more attention if white people are involved. It takes 20 times the number of other deaths to merit the same amount of attention. The London bombings got every channel here showing live news feed. The bombs in the Eygptian hotel shortly thereafter got less than 1/8 the attention. Can you keep a count of how many suicide bombers there have been in the Palestine/Israel conflict? (Argh, another FUCK UP of US international relations if ever I saw one.)
Is it unreasonable to care more for your own countrymen than for total strangers?

[Ayame]

If the movie honor the dead/the policemen/The firefighters thats was affected by the incident I think it's quite ok. But really, I no right to say anything about this, Sweden is indeed very far away.

[l337m45t3r]

Actually September 12th freaked me out more.

What happened was that myself and a few others were doing Work for the Dole on 9/11. (A program where people have to do various things to keep their unemployment benefits. I lucked out and got the Multimedia Project rather than say weeding the cemetary.) Anyhow, we were doing our usual thing untill someone came bursting in all "Guys, you gotta see this! Check it out!" and we're all "What?!" so we walk into the next room where the tv is on showing the attacks.

Now right next door to us is a muslim primary school. Yep, you guessed it. The next morning when we came back we saw that someone had tried to burn it down.

That freaked me out cause, it was a fucking Primary School! Some bushtard actually thought that little arab kids were going to blow up America? What were they doing to do, give Cheney the Mother of All Kanchos?

[Ayame]

Meh.
Oh yes, I said meh.

Please, flame me for this, but 11/9 doesn't reign supreme as a day of absolute shock.

I'm not so callous as to rate tragedy on a scale of blood, but worse acts of atrocity are carried out by Western countries every single day. Oh no. It happened in your own country. Should you be immune to the effects of what is going on in this world? I'm am not condoning it. I'm a tad of a pacifist on the entire matter. That just helps me to see that you have been serving it on such a regular basis to so many people. Eventually those ants were going to overpower the elephant.
Look at the news. It seems that disasters merit more attention if white people are involved. It takes 20 times the number of other deaths to merit the same amount of attention. The London bombings got every channel here showing live news feed. The bombs in the Eygptian hotel shortly thereafter got less than 1/8 the attention. Can you keep a count of how many suicide bombers there have been in the Palestine/Israel conflict? (Argh, another FUCK UP of US international relations if ever I saw one.)

So go ahead. Immortalise your tragedy. Bury your dead. You deserve that. But don't try and act as though this event is the be all and end all when it comes to horrific events inflicted on others. You've got state sponsered terrorism down to a fine freaking art form. Afganistan, the Gulf War, Vietnam, Bosnia, numerous Juntas, support of so many South American dictators I've lost count. (Just as long as they aren't commies. I get the distinct impression you are not too fond of them). You have enough weapons to kill everyone on Earth several times over. You are the big dog. No one loves you.

Argh, and more ranting. I've heard many say they want justice, retribution for what happened. How about you join up to that little ol' world court? How about you stop giving your enemies the shining example of military prisons like Guantanamo Bay as a reason to still loathe you?

And anyway. Any movie they make should star Barney.
Who can play a better George Bush?

Well said.

[Ayame]

Now right next door to us is a muslim primary school. Yep, you guessed it. The next morning when we came back we saw that someone had tried to burn it down.



Thats sick. idiots.

[Jancen]

I'm actually suprised that there hasn't been a made for TV movie yet.

Whats the world coming to if you can't take a tragic event and make lots of money from it!?!

[InsertWapNameHere]

I'll be surprised if there's ever even one movie based on the 9/11 attack that doesn't suck. This honestly seems like it will be another fad, only it might not last as long as most others. It really gets under my skin when talentless directors make subpar films that get more recognition than they should, especially when they're based on tragic events.

[Sector]

And after this 9/11 movie, they will make one for the London attack as well just to have a sequel to it. Hollywood sure ran out of ideas in film making.
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[l337m45t3r]

And then they'll make something up for the inevitable attack on Australia so they can complete the trilogy.

No doubt we'll destroy them with rocket propelled crocs or cute them to death with koallas.

[Beebs]

I'm not American, but I feel it's a little too early. Perhaps when the U.S. has a relatively minute presence in Iraq and a CNN news day can go by without mentioning it, it would be a better time to start rehashing the attack that started all of this. I'm of the opinion that the average Western mind is numb and de-sensitized from all of the tragedy and confusion in the world today from Iraq and terrorism in general. The director would be wasting their time if all they wanted to do was remind Westerners why we are where we are today. The exhausted use of the words, "nine eleven" on TV have been and will be doing that for while to come.

Regardless, if nothing else, I'd buy a ticket simply to see how they handle the controversy surrounding what exactly hit the Pentagon. Given the "cloak-and-dagger"-type mysteries surrounding it, I'd bet they'd simply focus on the New York attacks and perhaps the plane that is believed to have been brought down by the passengers.

[Ichisan]

I think this is definitely one case where truth was more impressive than any fiction could be. We all saw the towers getting blown up. We felt shock, fear, sadness and horror. What is some fake substitute movie experience compared to that?

And yes it is far too soon. The dead are barely cold in their graves.

[Trump]

I would probably not look forward to this type of movie. It just isn't something I want to dwell on. Sure, it was horrible and hit close to home in the states, but why would I want to watch a movie on it? And besides, everyone is FAR too concerned with the past and just needs to get over it. Sure, learn from the past but godddamn it... move on!

[Iekleane]

If this movie also puts into light some of the acts of racism caused by the attacks then I beleive it could be atleast somewhat truthful but if they just show the tragedy of the towers and nothing that followed after then they're are just kicking a dead horse in the name of profit and care nothing for the event itself.

[Tungtvann]

Well, the thing about a 9/11 movie, is that there is no happy ending, there is no-one who saves the day. We all know what happened, and we have all seen it in real life as it happened on the news.

[MFDub]

If there was a good 9/11 documentary, cool. I could deal with that. But, I'm sorry, a movie is completely pointless and could, possibly, be insulting to some of the families who lost people in the attack. There is no need to dramatize the events. The drama is there. Some random dude with a camcorder could capture the drama. So why go through all the trouble of writing up a script and changing events so that they better fit into a story? Just make a good documentary and get the real drama, emotion and story.

[Mojinr]

Too soon? I thought they were doing this a bit late. Once the media had spun 9/11 into "The Tradegy That United America" I figured TV movies and Blockbuster hits would follow weeks or months afterwards. It actually took years.

[Chuplayer]

What a load of shit. I'm so sick and tired of getting 9/11 crammed down my throat all day, every day. It was bad. It's probably the worst thing of our times. I don't mean to disrespect the victims and all, but I'm sick of it all. I just don't want to hear about it constantly.

I can see the movie playing up the whole "firemen are heroes" deal. Firemen are heroes, but the only tasteful tribute to firemen I've seen since 9/11 was a short tribute to them and the towers in one of the first four issues of GI JOE: Frontline. That's right. The only thing to get the tribute right and not be all contrived and shit was a comic book. Amazing, ain't it?

And I'm sure these movies will omit the whole thing about bombs going off in the lower levels.

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

What a load of shit. I'm so sick and tired of getting 9/11 crammed down my throat all day, every day. It was bad. It's probably the worst thing of our times. I don't mean to disrespect the victims and all, but I'm sick of it all. I just don't want to hear about it constantly.

I can see the movie playing up the whole "firemen are heroes" deal. Firemen are heroes, but the only tasteful tribute to firemen I've seen since 9/11 was a short tribute to them and the towers in one of the first four issues of GI JOE: Frontline. That's right. The only thing to get the tribute right and not be all contrived and shit was a comic book. Amazing, ain't it?

And I'm sure these movies will omit the whole thing about bombs going off in the lower levels.

YOU,s ir, officially made my day.

GI Joe, HAH! :D

[csrjjsmp]

I can see the movie playing up the whole "firemen are heroes" deal. Firemen are heroes, but the only tasteful tribute to firemen I've seen since 9/11 was a short tribute to them and the towers in one of the first four issues of GI JOE: Frontline. That's right. The only thing to get the tribute right and not be all contrived and shit was a comic book. Amazing, ain't it?
Why wouldn't you expect GI Joe to get it right? He is the real American hero.

[Hito]

I have one word that should be said to the makers of the film. I think this ONE word sums it all up well.

"No."

[Marblehead]

I hope they put Adam Sandler in it. That'd make it awesome...

[Citizen]

StuffWell said.

Not really. The entire post was fueled by biased hypocrisy. Oh well.

[Roxie]

Meh.
Oh yes, I said meh.

Please, flame me for this, but 11/9 doesn't reign supreme as a day of absolute shock.


:rolleyes:
So not the thread for this. Hello.
No one is even remotely comparing tragedies here. That post was so far from the point, it's sitting on the f'ing moon right now.

I'm sure there's a more appropriate thread for this kind of conversation (not that's it not interesting, compelling, and all, BUT) to take place, but this one Bubbles, just ain't it.

"No."
I couldn't have said it better myself.

[Quartermaster]

Starring Alec Baldwin.

[Marblehead]

and Ashlee Simpson in her debut role! :eek:

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

and Ashlee Simpson in her debut role! :eek:

Obviously, she'll be playing the terrorist who can't read her lines, so she has to pre-record her voice and play it when they're shooting her scene.

[Quartermaster]

I hope she does a jig.

[MeneerDijk]

I think making a movie about september 11 is a bad idea unless you make it into a documentary. I don't think a dramatized depiction of the whole tragedy can be objective enough to record history. I fear it's going to be a piece of propaganda fuelling more hate instead of healing wounds. There already is a documentary on 9-11 made by Jules and Gédéon Naudet. simply called 9/11 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312318/) It sent shivers down my spine when i saw it.

[Myrsilus]

I think making a movie about september 11 is a bad idea unless you make it into a documentary. I don't think a dramatized depiction of the whole tragedy can be objective enough to record history. I fear it's going to be a piece of propaganda fuelling more hate instead of healing wounds. There already is a documentary on 9-11 made by Jules and Gédéon Naudet. simply called 9/11 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312318/) It sent shivers down my spine when i saw it.
Mm, exactly what I am afraid of. There is already enough hate going around in the states, and I don't think we need a movie about 9/11 encouraging some idiots to cause pain to innocents.

Still, it can't be avoided at this rate. These people trying to make 9/11 movies don't care about the safety of the people that might be affected by producing 9/11 movies. It's all about money.

[Kash]

If this movie also puts into light some of the acts of racism caused by the attacks

How about if they include the racism that caused the attacks?

[Rogue_7]

or how about including the warped and twisted dark ages style theology that caused the attacks?

[NeoXC]

It would make a great action movie. I'd like to see Arnold Schwarzenegger be the star on the flight that "faught back". They should call the movie..."The Last Action September The 11th" or "True Lies Part 2"

[Wysen]

9/11 Hollywood style, huh... well, give me a call Hollywood, I have the perfect cast in mind for your type of movie.

Staring:
Jeff Goldbloom as the Scientist that works on the 3rd floor of WTC and his ex-wife, Halle Berry who works on the 75th floor.
Will Smith as the Hot Shot Fighter Pilot who is scambled to intercept the passenger planes.
Bruce Willis as the run down alchoholic firefighter who's called to the front lines to save people in in the burning towers.
Orlando Bloom as the sword wielding blacksmith trapped on the 92nd floor north tower, in order to get out he must jump over to the south tower.

That combination is blockbuster gold. Hollywood, just give me a call at 555-2453. Your people can call my people, we'll work out a deal.

(just my way of saying I think it's a bad idea)

[Roxie]

Orlando Bloom as the sword wielding blacksmith trapped on the 92nd floor north tower, in order to get out he must jump over to the south tower.

(just my way of saying I think it's a bad idea)
Anything, anything, involving Orlando Bloom is a genius idea. He is so damned HOT!!

[Xephon]

I don't think they should really be making movie but this sounds like it could be a good movie. Greengrass is a good action movie director and he's a Brit so, most likely, he won't be making a movie that humps and wanks the Stars and Stripes the entire time. Hopefully he keeps politics out of it and focus solely on the people on the plane and what they did. If done right, it can be a very real, disturbing take on how that flight, maybe in real-time, went from being normal to one of the downed planes that day.

[Annoying MSN Person]

THE VITAL SCENE:

George W. Bush, beloved Leader.
Reading "My Pet Goat."
http://s89194761.onlinehome.us/mypetgoat.jpg

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

THE VITAL SCENE:

George W. Bush, beloved Leader.
Reading "My Pet Goat."
http://s89194761.onlinehome.us/mypetgoat.jpg

Smurf-tacular.

Next thing you know, his answer for the Columbus Spacecraft would be "Three Blind Mice".