I just don't think it looks like a good movie. Personally I'd rather watch a documentary rather than a fictionalized account of something like that. It leaves me wondering if they thought the real story wasn't good enough.
... So, you see a movie and think about what people on the Internet say about it? I doubt they give as much weight to your opinions as you do theirs...TCTTS said:
This movie was phenomenal.
Finally saw it tonight, and I could not help but think throughout just how dumb and idiotic the "too soon" posters in this thread come across. This film could not have been made with more love, reverence, and respect for the individuals involved during that hellish and heroic week, and making money off of the victims was CLEARLY the last thing on anyone's mind involved with the production. In fact, I'll echo Wahlberg's sentiment in that it wasn't made soon enough.
As someone who watches/listens to the news continually, and kept up with the events that week daily, there was SO MUCH I didn't know that this movie taught me. Not only that, but it only confirmed what I suspected - that I'd come away with so much more respect and adoration for those involved, simply because no other medium allows you to get to know the characters like this. But what I didn't expect was just how patriotic I'd feel, and how poignant that message of "love" was toward the end. It made me want to do my part to take on any threat to our freedom I can, and that's something no newscast, article, or book could have done to that effect.
I'll concede that Wahlberg's character was somewhat pointless, and that Lionsgate/CBS Films are chickensh*t for "needing" a star like Wahlberg in such an inconsequential role, but that's a small gripe, and it didn't take away from the experience at all. In fact, I was shocked at just how absorbed I was, even knowing the outcome. That, and the seamless use of all the real-life footage was just amazing. This practically was a documentary.
Anyway, go see this movie if you haven't already, and don't listen to all these morons negatively commenting without having actually seen it for themselves. They're clearly terrorists, and must be defeated (kidding... kind of).
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... So, you see a movie and think about what people on the Internet say about it? I doubt they give as much weight to your opinions as you do theirs...
Sick burn.Quote:
Way to bring it back with another wall of text about how awesome this movie is.
The movie itself is/includes none of those things.Quote:
I just don't like the genre. If I want to learn about an event, I'll go read about it, not go watch a super condensed, usually heavily compromised version of a story put through the studio process. Additionally, the promos include "they messed with the wrong city"... I really can't think of anything more ridiculously trite than that.
Never claimed that it did.Quote:
This kind of film doesn't bring these events into the national consciousness in any truly meaningful way, and certainly no more than the news does.
What are you even talking about at this point?Quote:
To think a Hollywood film is going to be less biased than the news is silly. They're both going to end up editorialized.
There might have been no element of surprise...but as he was timing his escape from the SUV, my heart rate was through the roof. I knew exactly what was going to happen but I could barely breathe at the same time. That scene was INTENSE.jjmanzano said:
It was okay. There was NO element of surprise since it was such as recent event and it was fresh in our memories.
That said, Jin Yang stole the show!
TCTTS said:
This movie was phenomenal.
Finally saw it tonight, and I could not help but think throughout just how dumb and idiotic the "too soon" posters in this thread come across. This film could not have been made with more love, reverence, and respect for the individuals involved during that hellish and heroic week, and making money off of the victims was CLEARLY the last thing on anyone's mind involved with the production. In fact, I'll echo Wahlberg's sentiment in that it wasn't made soon enough.
As someone who watches/listens to the news continually, and kept up with the events that week daily, there was SO MUCH I didn't know that this movie taught me. Not only that, but it only confirmed what I suspected - that I'd come away with so much more respect and adoration for those involved, simply because no other medium allows you to get to know the characters like this. But what I didn't expect was just how patriotic I'd feel, and how poignant that message of "love" was toward the end. It made me want to do my part to take on any threat to our freedom I can, and that's something no newscast, article, or book could have done to that effect.
I'll concede that Wahlberg's character was somewhat pointless, and that Lionsgate/CBS Films are chickensh*t for "needing" a star like Wahlberg in such an inconsequential role, but that's a small gripe, and it didn't take away from the experience at all. In fact, I was shocked at just how absorbed I was, even knowing the outcome. That, and the seamless use of all the real-life footage was just amazing. This practically was a documentary.
Anyway, go see this movie if you haven't already, and don't listen to all these morons negatively commenting without having actually seen it for themselves. They're clearly terrorists, and must be defeated (kidding... kind of).
Have you read all of his comments? That's just how this guy isPatAg said:TCTTS said:
This movie was phenomenal.
Finally saw it tonight, and I could not help but think throughout just how dumb and idiotic the "too soon" posters in this thread come across. This film could not have been made with more love, reverence, and respect for the individuals involved during that hellish and heroic week, and making money off of the victims was CLEARLY the last thing on anyone's mind involved with the production. In fact, I'll echo Wahlberg's sentiment in that it wasn't made soon enough.
As someone who watches/listens to the news continually, and kept up with the events that week daily, there was SO MUCH I didn't know that this movie taught me. Not only that, but it only confirmed what I suspected - that I'd come away with so much more respect and adoration for those involved, simply because no other medium allows you to get to know the characters like this. But what I didn't expect was just how patriotic I'd feel, and how poignant that message of "love" was toward the end. It made me want to do my part to take on any threat to our freedom I can, and that's something no newscast, article, or book could have done to that effect.
I'll concede that Wahlberg's character was somewhat pointless, and that Lionsgate/CBS Films are chickensh*t for "needing" a star like Wahlberg in such an inconsequential role, but that's a small gripe, and it didn't take away from the experience at all. In fact, I was shocked at just how absorbed I was, even knowing the outcome. That, and the seamless use of all the real-life footage was just amazing. This practically was a documentary.
Anyway, go see this movie if you haven't already, and don't listen to all these morons negatively commenting without having actually seen it for themselves. They're clearly terrorists, and must be defeated (kidding... kind of).
You and I normally have similar takes on most movies, and I'm not against making movies about differebt tragic events that occur. Some are good, some are bad, the genre itself doesn't make it bad.
I saw the trailer before the Deepwater Horizon movie(a movie about a tragic event that was actually pretty good imo) and it rubbed me the wrong way. Just felt like a money thing/exploitation. Maybe it was the voice over, or how it was cut. I don't have any connections to the events. Not sure why you felt the need to be a complete dick about it. Say hello to your mother for me.
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Ha, so let me get this straight... I'm a dick for actually making the effort to SEE the movie, and then claim that it's NONE of the things that everyone who HASN'T seen it claims it to be?. This is such a bizarre thread. My post was in response to the all the people who haven't seen it - like yourself - who keep insisting that this movie is simply, and objectively, something that it's not. If that makes me a dick, then so be it. But I'm not going to back down from the ignorance on display in this thread. Just because a trailer rubbed you the wrong way doesn't make the movie itself what you claim it to be.
learn the posting style of the board, dude.GeorgePlimpton said:TCTTS said:
Ha, so let me get this straight... I'm a dick for actually making the effort to SEE the movie, and then claim that it's NONE of the things that everyone who HASN'T seen it claims it to be?. This is such a bizarre thread. My post was in response to the all the people who haven't seen it - like yourself - who keep insisting that this movie is simply, and objectively, something that it's not. If that makes me a dick, then so be it. But I'm not going to back down from the ignorance on display in this thread. Just because a trailer rubbed you the wrong way doesn't make the movie itself what you claim it to be.
coolschmendeler said:learn the posting style of the board, dude.GeorgePlimpton said:TCTTS said:
Ha, so let me get this straight... I'm a dick for actually making the effort to SEE the movie, and then claim that it's NONE of the things that everyone who HASN'T seen it claims it to be?. This is such a bizarre thread. My post was in response to the all the people who haven't seen it - like yourself - who keep insisting that this movie is simply, and objectively, something that it's not. If that makes me a dick, then so be it. But I'm not going to back down from the ignorance on display in this thread. Just because a trailer rubbed you the wrong way doesn't make the movie itself what you claim it to be.
TCTTS said:
Ha, so let me get this straight... I'm a dick for actually making the effort to SEE the movie, and then claim that it's NONE of the things that everyone who HASN'T seen it claims it to be?. This is such a bizarre thread. My post was in response to the all the people who haven't seen it - like yourself - who keep insisting that this movie is simply, and objectively, something that it's not. If that makes me a dick, then so be it. But I'm not going to back down from the ignorance on display in this thread. Just because a trailer rubbed you the wrong way doesn't make the movie itself what you claim it to be.
Seems like we should make a bigger deal out of Texas Independence?Squirrel Master said:
Sidenote, but I've always thought its pretty cool that Boston has its own regional holiday for Patriot's Day - schools are out, the marathon happens, and the Sox play a Monday day game. We don't have anything that really compares down here.
TCTTS said:
Do you really think the only reason they made it was for profit? A movie that honors the heroes and lives lost can be its own form of respect and reverence.