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Will you see United 93?

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Will you see United 93?

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I doubt if I'll go see it. As a couple others mentioned in their posts, nobody really has any idea what happened in that plane other then what was picked up in a few phone calls. I'm just afraid Hollywood is gonna take it and put their twist on it. My heart goes out to the families of the passengers and if they feel it's the right thing to do that's fine. I'm just not ready for anymore Hollywood bullshit.
 
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Theater Pulls 'United 93' Trailer After It Upsets Patrons
Real-Time Film Chronicles Hijacked Flight On Sept. 11

POSTED: 12:21 pm EDT April 4, 2006

NEW YORK -- At least one New York City movie theater has pulled the trailer for "United 93," which chronicles in real time the hijacked United Airlines flight that crashed into a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11.

The AMC Loews Lincoln Square 12 theater on 66th Street in Manhattan said it made the decision after viewers complained they found it too upsetting.

"I don't think people are ready for this," theater manager Kevin Adjodha said.

"One lady was crying," Adjodha told Newsweek. "She was saying that we shouldn't have played the trailer. That this was wrong."

Universal Studios in Los Angeles, meanwhile, said it would go ahead with plans to show the trailer for the thriller, which is scheduled to open in theaters on April 28.

Adam Fogelson, Universal's president of marketing, said the trailer would be shown only before R-rated movies or "grown-up" PG-13 ones.

"The film is not sanitized or softened, it's an honest and real look" at the events of Flight 93, Fogelson told The New York Times in Tuesday editions. "If I sanitized the trailer beyond what's there, am I suggesting that the experience will be less real than what the movie itself is? We as a company feel comfortable that it is a responsible and fair way to show what's coming."

"United 93" is scheduled to make its world premiere on opening night at the Tribeca Film Festival in Manhattan.

The festival, which was created to help lower Manhattan recover economically from the attacks, begins April 25 and runs through May 7.

The trailer begins with images of passengers boarding the plane on a sunny morning, and builds to a disturbing scene that includes actual news video of a plane about to hit one of the World Trade Center towers. It then returns inside Flight 93 as terrorists begin hijacking it and a passenger calls his family to tell them of the impending disaster.

The Flight 93 National Memorial will receive a portion of the box office revenue from the movie. The Families of Flight 93 have said that Universal Pictures will donate 10 percent of the first three days' grosses to the memorial.

The hijackers crashed the plane in a field near Shanksville, Pa., as passengers tried to take control of the cockpit. The plane was en route from Newark, N.J. to San Francisco.

A made-for-TV film about the hijacking, "Flight 93," drew 5.9 million viewers when it aired on A&E in January, making it the network's most-watched program ever. The Discovery Channel also re-enacted the events in the documentary "The Flight That Fought Back."

The trailer currently is being shown on about 3,000 screens across the United States.

In place of the trailer, some movie theaters are showing a promotional spot about the making of "United 93," explaining the thinking and methodology behind it.
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Garamond, Times]United 93[/FONT]
[FONT=Garamond, Times]The filmmakers got it right.[/FONT]
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BY DAVID BEAMER
Thursday, April 27, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Verdana, Times]The calendar says it's April 25, 2006. At noon, my wife, Peggy, and I are walking around Battery Park--near the Tribeca area--in New York. It is our first time. The flowers are blooming; kids are fishing; people boarding the ferry to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Kids are laughing and noisy. The sun is shining. The vendors are hawking T-shirts, pretzels and some "designer" wares. And just up the street there is a hole in the skyline and in the ground.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Verdana, Times]In the park, there is a memorial with walls standing tall. Walls filled with so many names of those who gave their all in the Atlantic in World War II. How fitting that the names are here to honor those who gave their lives to enable this fun, this laughter--on this sunny day. The sights and sounds of freedom continue.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Verdana, Times]Fast forward--it is 10:30 p.m., April 25. We have just seen a movie premiere at the fifth annual Tribeca Film Festival. A film festival that has done so much to energize and revitalize the city, its people and especially the area that has that hole in the skyline and in the ground. This year the movie that had its worldwide premiere at the festival is titled "United 93." It is about the day when the hole in the skyline of New York was made--the day when a hole was made in the side of the Pentagon near Washington, D.C.--the day when a hole was made in a quiet mountain meadow in Pennsylvania. The day that our nation was attacked; the day when the war came home--Sept. 11, 2001. The day our son Todd boarded United 93.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Verdana, Times]Paul Greengrass and Universal set out to tell the story of United Flight 93 on that terrible day in our nation's history. They set about the task of telling this story with a genuine intent to get it right--the actions of those on board and honor their memory. Their extensive research included reaching out to all the families who had lost loved ones on United Flight 93 as the first casualties of this war. And Paul and his team got it right.[/FONT][/FONT]

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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Verdana, Times]There are those who question the timing of this project and the painful memories it evokes. Clearly, the film portrays the reality of the attack on our homeland and its terrible consequences. Often we attend movies to escape reality and fantasize a bit. In this case and at this time, it is appropriate to get a dose of reality about this war and the real enemy we face. It is not too soon for this story to be told, seen and heard. But it is too soon for us to become complacent. It is too soon for us to think of this war in only national terms. We need to be mindful that this enemy, who made those holes in our landscape and caused the deaths of some 3,000 of our fellow free people, has a vision to personally kill or convert each and every one of us. This film reminds us that this war is personal. This enemy is on a fanatical mission to take away our lives and liberty--the liberty that has been secured for us by those whose names are on those walls in Battery Park and so many other walls and stones throughout this nation. This enemy seeks to take away the free will that our Creator has endowed in us. Patrick Henry got it right some 231 years ago. Living without liberty is not living at all.[/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Verdana, Times]
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The passengers and crew of United 93 had the blessed opportunity to understand the nature of the attack and to launch a counterattack against the enemy. This was our first successful counterattack in our homeland in this new global war--World War III.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Verdana, Times]This film further reminds us of the nature of the enemy we face. An enemy who will stop at nothing to achieve world domination and force a life devoid of freedom upon all. Their methods are inhumane and their targets are the innocent and unsuspecting. We call this conflict the "War on Terror." This film is a wake-up call. And although we abhor terrorism as a tactic, we are at war with a real enemy and it is personal.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Verdana, Times]There are those who would hope to escape the pain of war. Can't we just live and let live and pretend every thing is OK? Let's discuss, negotiate, reason together. The film accurately shows an enemy who will stop at nothing in a quest for control. This enemy does not seek our resources, our land or our materials, but rather to alter our very way of life.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Verdana, Times]I encourage my fellow Americans and free people everywhere to see "United 93."[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Verdana, Times]Be reminded of our very real enemy. Be inspired by a true story of heroic actions taken by ordinary people with victorious consequences. Be thankful for each precious day of life with a loved one and make the most of it. Resolve to take the right action in the situations of life, whatever they may be. Resolve to give thanks and support to those men, women, leaders and commanders who to this day (1,687 days since Sept. 11, 2001) continue the counterattacks on our enemy and in so doing keep us safe and our freedoms intact.[/FONT][/FONT]

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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Verdana, Times]May the taste of freedom for people of the Middle East hasten victory. The enemy we face does not have the word "surrender" in their dictionary. We must not have the word "retreat" in ours. We surely want our troops home as soon as possible. That said, they cannot come home in retreat. They must come home victoriously. Pray for them.[/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Verdana, Times]Mr. Beamer is the father of Todd Beamer, a passenger on United Airlines Flight 93. [/FONT] [/FONT]
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008294
 
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i will see movie. i will be suspect of the poetic license that was taken, as well as the motive; however, it is unfair of me to claim grievance or disgust before seeing the movie.

again, i won't make a claim about the movie before i see it. i can always leave before the movie is finished. i -- and any moviegoer -- can also ask for my money back, even if i watched the whole movie.
 
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