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World Trade Center

Yes, I can't wait

0 votes

I'll get around to it

2 votes

I'll buy or rent the movie when it comes out

3 votes

I have no intention of watching the movie

11 votes

Kong76 Aug 09 2006 10:46 AM

Feel free to add discussion in addition to answering

Kong76 Aug 09 2006 10:48 AM

Maybe I''m a wuss, but I ain't ready for this movie.

Johnny Dickshot Aug 09 2006 10:51 AM

Couldn't have any less interest. Would rather sit through a chick-flick festival. Would rather watch a blank screen for 2 hours.

Willets Point Aug 09 2006 10:53 AM

Article on the film in the Onion.

Edgy DC Aug 09 2006 10:55 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 09 2006 11:00 AM

A big problem I have with real-life disaster pcs is that, by titling the flm Titanic, Pearl Harbor, or World Trade Center, is the implication that your story is the definitive summatoin of the experience. That's, orf course, impossible and insulting. You want to tell an individual's or group's story, call it Pete and Danny's World Trade Rescue.

MFS62 Aug 09 2006 10:58 AM

I'll see it, but I won't knock down anyone in a rush to the ticket line. Later

Benjamin Grimm Aug 09 2006 11:13 AM

No strong feelings about it. I won't pay to go see it, mostly because it's an Oliver Stone movie. If it's eventually on HBO I might watch it. But I might not. I didn't click on any of the poll choices because none of them involved maybe watching it when it's available for free. (Or, in the case of HBO, on a channel I'm paying for regardless.)

ScarletKnight41 Aug 09 2006 11:14 AM

I'm not ready for 9/11 based infotainment. I'm going to pass.

Frayed Knot Aug 09 2006 01:46 PM

I'm just curious to see who Stone blame the attacks on?

Vic Sage Aug 09 2006 02:31 PM

its apparently a rather apolitical approach, and has been lauded by some conservative groups for its patriotism. i'll wait for NetFlix.

Elster88 Aug 09 2006 02:32 PM

Rent-by-mail.

soupcan Aug 09 2006 02:37 PM

ScarletKnight41 wrote: I'm not ready for 9/11 based infotainment. I'm going to pass. It seems silly to say 5 years later but I agree with Scarlet. I'm not ready. Not sure when I will be. I see that gaping hole in the skyline from 2 blocks away for at least 5 seconds everyday and I always think about that day for those 5 seconds when I do. Thinking about it for 2 hours is not an appealing thing to me. I wish the ads and commercials weren't EVERYWHERE I look these days either

seawolf17 Aug 09 2006 02:43 PM

ditto Soup.

Centerfield Aug 09 2006 04:14 PM

I'm with Scarlet, soup and seawolf. My stomach gets knots every time I see an ad for it. If that makes me a wuss like KC, at least I'm in good company.

Nymr83 Aug 09 2006 05:36 PM

i clicked "no intention" but i suppose when it is eventually on tv i will watch it. its not that i'm "not ready" for it, i'm just not interested in it and i probably go to 1-2 movies a year in theaters, its gotta be something special to get me there and this aint it.

RealityChuck Aug 09 2006 06:38 PM

I refuse to watch anything by Oliver Stone. Did so once, but only because my daughter rented it for school (History of Vietnam).

cooby Aug 09 2006 07:26 PM

Chuck, how was that?

dgwphotography Aug 09 2006 07:56 PM

I have no interest in seeign this movie. It just seems to be too soon.

Vic Sage Aug 10 2006 10:57 AM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Aug 10 2006 01:06 PM

Dismissing Stone out of hand is, IMO, a mistake. His films can be truly dreadful, but can, on ocasion, be amazing. His filmic vision was forged in his violent experiences in Vietnam. While only a few of them deal specifically with that war, ALL of his films have a high level of violence, and sometimes violence is the very subject of the movies. And his view of it is interestingly ambivalent. He revels in it, and despises it, too. And the politics surrounding the war radicalized him about government and power and capitalisim, and its potential for evil. His biopic of Ron Kovic would seem autobiographical for him, as well. But what makes him interesting is his abilitiy to fuel his angry, violent skreeds and fun-house mirror vision of "history" into wildly visual, viceral experiences. Sometimes the heavy-handedness swamps the movie, but sometimes it comes just short of killing it and acts succeeds, instead, in heightening the film's impact. Love him or hate him, his talent and point-of-view are unique, and he hasn't yet become a hack for hire. feature films written and directed by Oliver Stone (unless otherwise noted): Seizure (1974) - his first feature; an awful Canadian horror film Midnight Express (1978) (screenplay only) - Stone's adaptation turned into a great film, directed by Alan Parker The Hand (1981) - 2nd feature; a slightly better horror film (but still not good); script is an adaptation of book and rip off of "Hand of Orlac" Conan the Barbarian (1982) (co-screenplay only) - helped out on Milius' screenplay; actually a pretty good adaptation Scarface (1983) (screenplay) now-classic adaptation, directed by DePalma Year of the Dragon (1985) (co-screenplay) adapted with director Michael Cimino; underrated, violent crime story 8 Million Ways to Die (1986) (co-screenplay) many writers mangled this crime drama directed by the late, great Hal Ashby Salvador (1986) - he wrote, produced and directed this, the first of his original, political, personal movies... his breakthru film (artistically, not commercially). He produces all his films hereafter. Platoon (1986) - his personal account of the vietnam war was the blockbuster that made him a Hollywood force. Wall Street (1987) - "greed is good"; Stone takes on 1980s-style capitalism run amok. Talk Radio (1988) - worked with Eric Bogosian to adapt Bogasian's play; powerful. Born on the Fourth of July (1989) - back to Vietnam, worked with Ron Kovic to adapt Kovic's memoir. Overblown, heavy-handed epic. The Doors (1991) - original script for hallucinagenic music biopic; Like most of his films, it's overblown and heavy-handed, with some interesting imagery. JFK (1991) - adapted Garrison's book into another hallucinagenic, overblown, heavy-handed look at our "history", with even more spectacular visual panache. Heaven & Earth (1993) - the 3rd in Stone's vietnam trilogy, this sad, emotional story is told from the vietnamese perspective. underrated. Natural Born Killers (1994) - Stone worked with Tarentino on this over-the-top violent comic farce, about the impact of media violence. disturbing black comedy is an example of what its criticizing. Nixon (1995) - see: overblown, heavy-handed, imagery, "history", etc., yyybbb ... but surprisingly more sympathetic to its subject than i thought it'd be, and more moving than usual. But he's done nothing since this one of particular note, ending a 10-year run as one of Hollywood's biggest filmmakers. Freeway (1996) (co-screenplay) Stone co-wrote and produced this twisted, comic version of "little red riding hood"; now a cult movie. Evita (1996) (co-screenplay) - came on board to help old friend Alan Parker with the script. Nothing could save it, though. U Turn (1997) (direction) - stone just directs this nasty, little modern film noir. Any Given Sunday (1999) - Stone fukks up football. oy. Alexander (2004) - catastrophically awful bio epic of gay warrior king. World Trade Center (2006) (direction) - ? Shorts and documentaries: Last Year in Viet Nam (1971) - short film Mad Man of Martinique (1979) (direction only) - another short film Persona Non Grata (2003) - documentary on Palistinian conflict. Comandante (2003) - documentary about Stone's meeting with Fidel Castro. Looking for Fidel (2004) (TV) - a followup documentary on Fidel

Willets Point Aug 10 2006 11:05 AM

Even though I linked the Onion article it always makes me bristle a bit when folks comment that Stone's newest film will have some crazy conspiracy theory. I think JFK is the only of his films that relies on conspiracy theories yet he's been stuck with the tag. Kind of like the phrase "going postal" label stuck because of one murderous postal worker even though surveys show that the majority of postal workers are above average in job contentment.

TransMonk Aug 10 2006 01:01 PM

I never realized Stone did Talk Radio. I watched that again this past weekend...great movie for it's time.

ScarletKnight41 Aug 10 2006 01:16 PM

The sappy Coldplay song on the commercials doesn't lead me to believe that this will be at all well done.

Edgy DC Aug 10 2006 01:38 PM

Meanwhile, breaking news that says British and Pakistani authorities have stepped in to prevent the sequel.

Johnny Dickshot Aug 10 2006 01:54 PM

Crushing blow to the beverage industry

metirish Aug 10 2006 02:09 PM

This article says the movie is fiction. http://www.slate.com/id/2147350/?nav=tap3

cooby Aug 10 2006 02:15 PM

What's happened today is pretty frightening, too.

Vic Sage Aug 11 2006 08:42 AM

we should move this thread to the Movie forum

Edgy DC Aug 11 2006 08:42 AM

Yup, yup.

Vic Sage Aug 21 2006 08:53 AM

i ended up seeing it, and it's pretty effective, and restrained, too... for a Stone movie.

Edgy DC Aug 21 2006 09:11 AM

You saw a lot this weekend.

Vic Sage Aug 21 2006 10:14 AM

i took last week off, and ended up going to various movie malls, slipping from 1 screen to another. I saw LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE and TALLADEGHA NIGHTS, then the next day i saw SNAKES ON A PLANE and WORLD TRADE CENTER. also watched some dvds... SECOND HAND LIONS was excellent.