World Trade Center

[Mutley]

Has anyone seen this?

It includes Nicolas Cage as the main actor/character and is based on 2 of the 20 people who got dragged out of the rubble after the buildings collapsed, it's based on a true story and mainly focusing on their families.

It's really emotional and even though it doesn't show any direct clips of the disaster, it is well edited and produced, to bring back those terrible memories and thoughts.

A good film and a nice tribute.

 

[Slacker]

I thought it was pretty meh, especially compared to United 93.

 

[Mutley]

Haven't seen United 93.

 

[Slacker]

It's a lot better. Totally differnet (other than the fact that it's about 911) but yeah..

 

[smwScott]

I haven't seen WTC ... but it looks awful. I'm generally a fan of Oliver Stone too, he's made quite a few damn good movies ... but this just looks like generic sappy "tug at emotional heartstrings" style dribble. If you make a movie about 9/11, a very powerful topic, and still need to use melodramatic music and cliched dialogue to have an effect on your viewers, you messed up. Not only that, but casting a big actor like Nicholas Cage was a big mistake, completely distracting. Finally, how the hell do you make a PG-13 movie about 9/11?

United 93 is the only way to make a 9/11 movie. Accurate, dramatic, realistic, believable. Doesn't pull any punches, doesn't use typical "disaster movie" techniques to involve the audience. Just throws the camera up like a fly on the wall.

Hamburg Cell was also a fairly good movie. It focused on the life of one of the hijackers on United 93.

 

[Slacker]

I haven't seen WTC ... but it looks awful. I'm generally a fan of Oliver Stone too, he's made quite a few damn good movies ... but this just looks like generic sappy "tug at emotional heartstrings" style dribble. If you make a movie about 9/11, a very powerful topic, and still need to use melodramatic music and cliched dialogue to have an effect on your viewers, you messed up. Not only that, but casting a big actor like Nicholas Cage was a big mistake, completely distracting. Finally, how the hell do you make a PG-13 movie about 9/11?

United 93 is the only way to make a 9/11 movie. Accurate, dramatic, realistic, believable. Doesn't pull any punches, doesn't use typical "disaster movie" techniques to involve the audience. Just throws the camera up like a fly on the wall.

Hamburg Cell was also a fairly good movie. It focused on the life of one of the hijackers on United 93.

Actually the "tug at the heartstrings" stuff sort of worked for me. It was the fact that it was just sort of...slow and monotonous.

And I hated the blatant whoring of the marines at the end. "YES SIR, WE'RE HERE FOR YOU!" *points directly and camera*

 

[Mutley]

Nicolas Cage was distracting, I agree, more of a promotional tool. All you saw was his face coverd in rubble in a dark whole, which any stunt double or what ever could of done.

The PG13 was dissapointing, it could of been alot better but I still liked it, it was emotional, the family point of view.

 

[Shift]

I haven't seen this film and most certainly WONT see this film. It looks utter garbage it looks completely sugar-coated and 'americanised' as my mates would put it. I agree with the above comments, you simply cannot take such a sensative and indeed powerful setting and turn into 'pulling the heartstrings' crap. Yes, I saw Nicolas Cage and knew it would be crap, he really should not be in that sort of film.