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| james berardinelli
Posted on 04/25/2006 1:34:11 PM PDT by pcottraux
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To: Calpernia
Have you seen the movie? What changes?
41
posted on
04/25/2006 2:24:56 PM PDT
by
blu
(People, for God's sake, think for yourselves)
To: pogo101
A John Ford documentary, "December 7th, 1941," came out in 1943 and won an Oscar. "The Flying Tigers" starring John Wayne, came out in 1942 and featured news of the attack near the end of the movie (including Roosevelt's speech declaring war on Japan being broadcast over a radio). The first movie that I can recall being directly about Pearl Harbor is the classic From Here To Eternity, which came out in 1953, twelve years later.
Note: Some of the pilots who were in the real Flying Tigers were reportedly so embarressed by the movie when they were invited to the premiere that they were caught trying to sneak out of the theater...also, John Wayne reportedly got drunk with some pilots while on a tour in New Guinea and they left him out on the tarmac on a cot, stark naked. He woke up with a hangover, rolled over and went back to sleep (from The Internet Movie Databases's Flying Tigers page).
42
posted on
04/25/2006 2:25:02 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: SerpentDove
Well, I think the point isn't to make ANY commentary on the events. Just show it for what happened.
43
posted on
04/25/2006 2:25:48 PM PDT
by
pcottraux
(It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
To: blu
If there's ever been a dramatic treatment of historical events that didn't take some sort of dramatic license it's news to me.
44
posted on
04/25/2006 2:26:08 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: blu
I've not seen it. I just know some families involved.
45
posted on
04/25/2006 2:27:49 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Rummyfan
The only people who might have some validity in being uncomfortable with the film are the very close friends and family members of those who died on 9/11.
Anyone else not in that category saying that it's "too soon" is someone who would never be comfortable with a patriotic 9/11 movie coming out ever, and would rather just forget that it ever happened.
46
posted on
04/25/2006 2:28:14 PM PDT
by
jpl
To: Borges
Let's just hope it has no impact on trials.
47
posted on
04/25/2006 2:28:40 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: mystery-ak
What in the world????
HOW could the cockpit be intact?...it took a nosedive into the ground?
This has to be an untruth!
To: Vaquero
"...what we need is a MSM that shows the towers being brought down at least once daily. Show the grusome stuff..the folks throwing themselves off the towers in desperation."
Yes, exactly what the fanatical Muzzies want....more advertising.
/sarcasm off
49
posted on
04/25/2006 2:29:42 PM PDT
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: Gay State Conservative
On movies boards people say "Stone is a great director so there will be no politics involved." Yeah. Sure. I respond that if they hire Quentin Tarantino to do a "Barney" film, something is guaranteed to get massacred in the movie.
50
posted on
04/25/2006 2:29:42 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
To: Guenevere
>>>it took a nosedive into the ground
You know that?
51
posted on
04/25/2006 2:30:39 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: taxed2death
What if they (like this movie) help people to steel their resolve and recognize how depraved, evil and soulless our enemies are?
52
posted on
04/25/2006 2:31:58 PM PDT
by
Choose Ye This Day
(If low-skill workers were key to economic growth, Mexico would be an economic powerhouse.-Rich Lowry)
To: Calpernia
Look Calpernia....every account I've heard or read said there was only a crater & the plane had simply disintegrated, along with the passengers....
..not unlike what happened to the people riding the trade centers down.
To: jpl
"Anyone else not in that category saying that it's "too soon" is someone who would never be comfortable with a patriotic 9/11 movie coming out ever, and would rather just forget that it ever happened."
Not necessarily. I'd like to see the follow-up of the 911 attack... some real accounts of heroism like when the US troops and allies churned the Muzzy bastards guts into axle grease.....perhaps a few feet of footage of the Black Watch running out of ammo and chasing down some of the "insurgents" with their knives and eviscerating them one by one. Now THAT's entertainment!
:)
54
posted on
04/25/2006 2:34:21 PM PDT
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: DTogo
I would rather have the Flight 93 passengers. I think we all would have rather had the passengers. The only thing is, if we didn't have a Capitol building, the outcome would still have been the same for the passengers.
I'd rather have both and have dead terrorists.
55
posted on
04/25/2006 2:35:52 PM PDT
by
Sally'sConcerns
(Native Texan, now in SW Ok.)
To: Calpernia
But Greengrass and Universal Pictures knew the project would be controversial and had to be done with the full consent of all the families of those who died. In an industry best known for its ruthlessness and mercenary ideals, that was a revolutionary idea. So began a remarkable outreach campaign which not only won that consent but also turned it into co-operation. Contacts were made through an organisation representing the families and meetings were held with relatives.
Maybe you have different information...
56
posted on
04/25/2006 2:37:54 PM PDT
by
colorcountry
(Don't bother me,.... I'm living happily ever after.)
To: paddles
Didn't release of "The Fighting Sullivans" get delayed during WWII for much the same reason?I don't know anything about a delay, and since the sinking of the Juneau happened on Nov. 11, 1942 and the movie opened on Feb. 3, 1944, it sure doesn't look like there was any meaningful delay.
57
posted on
04/25/2006 2:39:17 PM PDT
by
Heyworth
To: Choose Ye This Day
"What if they (like this movie) help people to steel their resolve and recognize how depraved, evil and soulless our enemies are?"
I don't need to see the vid of the poor Thai chap getting his head slowly sawed off with a very dull knife... and hearing the death rattle noises coming from his lungs as they stopped and watched him in his death throes.....
over and over and over.
Once is enough for me to get the point across.
However......
I do like to put in the famous F-16 strike vid appropriately names "Awwwwww DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDEEEEEE" at least once a week for a good laugh.
Seeing those maggots getting immolated and bowled over by that 500 pounder never fails to get a chuckle out of me.
:)
58
posted on
04/25/2006 2:39:34 PM PDT
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: Guenevere
>>>>every account I've heard or read said there was only a crater & the plane had simply disintegrated, along with the passengers....
Yes, everything that has been released for our information.
Is this correct? What will happen if a trial reveals different information? Will the movie taint that?
59
posted on
04/25/2006 2:40:51 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: colorcountry
>>>>But Greengrass and Universal Pictures knew the project would be controversial and had to be done with the full consent of all the families of those who died.
You don't have to believe me. See post 26.
60
posted on
04/25/2006 2:42:32 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
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