MORE MOVIE TALK
You know what is really starting to piss me off - 9/11 movies. First they give us United 93 - only 5 years after the tragedy, and now Oliver Stone's World Trade Center is on the way (starring Nicholas Cage).
I hope this doesn't come off as being unpatriotic, and while I understand the power of movies to bring people together, etc., this is nothing that anyone should be making a profit off of.
posted by alt/tab @ 12:57 PM
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SEriously, should we put a time limit on it then? Should there be no profit made from "Titanic", "Pearl Harbor", "Munich", or any war movie ever made? What about made for TV movies that cover everything from Jon Benet Ramsey to Elizabeth Smart to the next Crime du Jour?
Fact is, a huge chunk of our tv and cinema is made from very real tragedies or adaptations of tragedies. Should we all ban the makers of these films from making a profit from it? Or is it just 9/11? And if it is not ok to make money from 9/11, then is it ok for a movie like "Platoon" to rake in profits?
I understand your point - and it's hard to articulate exaclty why the movie seems inappropriate, or how much time should elapse before hollywood starts in on something. perhaps it is because there hasn't really been any resolution to the entire situation... maybe the movie will serve a purpose somewhere down the line. it's just a gut reaction.
I reviewed the movie trailer briefly at my site and I did pan it a bit myself. I felt that the melodrama could get a bit heavy. After all, wasn't that day emotional enough? But I think Stone is trying to detach the raw emotion and re-attach strong dramatic emotion so that "World Trade Center" isn't just another factual retelling trying to only capture the rawness of the day.
Here's my take on it in full:
http://pumpkinkingofcommonsense.blogspot.com/2006/05/next-911-movie.html.
I must admit, the part of the trailer where Stone is filming inside one of the towers as it is coming down was bone chilling.
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