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[dangermousie]

I have been reading the accounts on CNN of Flight 93 which extensively quotes actual recordings and I can't stop shaking. Except I am at work. Fuck.

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[winterspel.livejournal.com]

I've read the transcript. I wish there was something I could say, but there isn't. It's harrowing. *hugs*

[ladyaeryn.livejournal.com]

Me too. :( Eeesh.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who thinks it's way too soon to make movies of this stuff yet? Am I also the only one who is sort of offended that they are?

[calliopes_pen]

I agree with you on that. I think it would be too soon even 20 years from now. The events of that day are still too close to everyone.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

No, you are not the only one. I think it's crass and disgusting and horrible and I won't watch it no matter what.

[ladyaeryn.livejournal.com]

No, it strikes me as somewhat tacky too. For instance, look at the Oklahoma City bombing - that was 11 years ago and on a smaller scale, yet a lot of people would likely still agree that doing a movie on it, which hasn't yet happened, would be pretty tacky. (I know I'd find it tacky even now. Then again, considering where I live, we wouldn't exactly be getting unbiased polling results on a subject like that.) 9/11 is more recent and on a much larger scale than OKC, so I don't know how some out there are coming to the decision that enough time has passed to do films on it.

[malabud.livejournal.com]

Actually (and I hate to say this), they are making a movie about the Oklahoma City bombing. Or at least that's what it looks like. Check out this link at IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0440966/

I can't tell if it's just about McVeigh's life, or the bombing itself, or what.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I really hope that it's just about his life. In either case, yet another movie for me to skip (despite the fact that it is going to star Jason "Logan" Dohring).

[ladyaeryn.livejournal.com]

Ehhh. Well, if it is true, I can guarantee at least one person that won't be seeing it...

[grace-om.livejournal.com]

I can't read them. I've even been flipping off the news when they talk in too much detail about the testimony at Zacarias Moussaoui's sentencing hearings. I wasn't there, I didn't directly know anyone who was there, and it's still too damn painful. Why would anyone want to watch a movie about it?

[weissman.livejournal.com]

I agree with DM- The only way to be sure that you get your opinion across is to not go and see the movie. I certainly won't. I agree with the general opinion its way too soon and way to near to home.

I had friends that worked in the towers, my fraternity preseident, and two guys from my office were on the tarmac at Newark Airport when the planes struck. I stil have a hard time going to ground zero. It's like an empty feeling in the pit of your stomach.

Bob