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Well the movie just came out and got 3 1/2 stars. I'm really glad the story is on film, I'm really glad they say it is a good movie. I still don't think I can bring myself to see it. The only way I could is on dvd and by myself because I know I will cry like a baby. I'm tearring up thinking about this. Being a witness to the whole thing, I have the images and all those feelings burned into my mind. It was such a scary day. I spent the day taking care of old people that were freaking out because their apartments face Manhattan. Then I came home in the "snow" which turned out to be burnt files. Only to find my pregnant wife missing...she was fine, she walked pregnant accross Manhattan. Then for weeks after my neighborhood was a parade of funerals. Marine Park is all city workers. Firemen, police etc. Every day I came home to hundreds of cars parked everywhere just to go to the church which is one block from my house.
Damn, sorry for reliving this, my point is...is anyone going to see it?

Yesterday I watched the trailer and the film seems to be quite good. I'm sorry you had to go through all of that Philly.

There are still things about what happened that day and many things said afterwards that don't make sense to me... too many things without a convincent and clear explanation.

I've said this before and I'll say it again: 9/11 and the long string of events it has spawned have not played themselves out yet. Therefore, any artistic interpretations are just way too premature. The war on terrorism, terrorism itself, Bush still in office, the mettle of Homeland Security, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, etc.....none of this is over yet. Everything is still too fresh IMHO.

My town is full of alot of financial types, many of whom never came home. My kids play with other kids who no longer have fathers. My mother's neighbor lost her sister. And an old friend of mine from my old neighborhood lost his sister too. And then there were all the clients I had in the Twin Towers. Hell, I was in there a good three weeks before they fell. Still have my guest pass. And then there were the class trips I took while in grade school to visit the Towers.

This is all pretty personal to me and I don't know if I think there will ever be a suitable time for these kind of movies. But I hear the film is very, very good and Oliver Stone is one of my directors so this is one 9/11 related I will see. But I'll do it like Philyl will, on DVD and in the privacy of my own home.

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Too soon for me too. I really don't want to revist that day in this way. I'd much rather think of it in bits & pieces as usual & not see the whole string of events play out again. I wouldn't say I'm avoiding 9/11 or anything - it's simply an awful day with way too many unfamiliar feelings of helplessness, fear and cynicism that I don't want to wholly revisit.
I was on my way to NYC that morning & would rather not think of my adventures with airports, planes and panic.

I think it's probably a good movie for people who may not have a personal connection or closeness to that day. It may remind them that you can never be too safe & never forget what happened. We certainly are back in our old complacent lives again aren't we? That day really impacted on me, how fast things can & do fall apart - even in my sheltered upstate life. Imagine if it were something much, much bigger? That's what makes me uneasy.

I love Oliver Stone & I love big disaster movies - but this will be one I'll have to check out sometime in the future.

I bet people who lived through Pearl Harbor felt the same way.

I agree that it will be painful but I will see it. The movie is seen through the eyes of firefighters in N.Y.C. the true heroes of 9/11. If the movie glorifies Giuliani/Bush in any way, shape or form I WILL walk out. I'm going to see the movie with my older brother who is a firefighter here in Boston and who was ready to go to N.Y.C on 911 to help.

Everybody knows that 911 was self imposed by the vast, Jewish, Right Wing conspiracy in cooperation with George Bush and his administration so they could justify starting wars in the middle east in order to secure foreign oil reserves and fund Bush and Cheney's cronies at large defense companies and oil services like Halliburton...

ooh, wait... I seem to be chanelling Stella by accident.

My bad. Nevermind.

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Silly boy, I don't think the jews are responsible for 9/11 I think George W. Bush is.

I guess Osama Bin Laden was just another pawn in Bush's devious scheme? Poor Al Qaeda, bending to the will of the U.S. president.

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<br>I guess Osama Bin Laden was just another pawn in Bush's devious scheme? Poor Al Qaeda, bending to the will of the U.S. president.

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