Memories of 9/11?

Question

The sudden onset of movies regarding 9/11 are disturbing to me. I am not saying they are bad movies and I agree they tell the stories of heroes during that tragic day. Me personally I am not ready to see these movies due to the horrific events that happened. Since 9/11 happened only 5 years ago how do we know that these movies aren't being made for the sole reason of greed not the heroic stories that happened that day?

Answer 1

I agree, it is too soon for a 9/11 movie. It has been almost 5 years since the event and the pain is still fresh in the minds of all who experienced it. The public is not ready, it's too raw, you need distance when you're recounting such a traumatic event like that. It could be a ploy for Hollywood to gain money, and Hollywood values greed over grief, but I heard that the families of the heroes of the movies like Flight 93 and World Trade Center wanted the movies to be done and they pushed hard for that to happen. Still, I think it is way too soon.

Answer 2

I personally think that movies are to be made on 9/11 events using all possible resources available now. These projects already started a bit late due to the sensitivity related with the memories of the deceased.

However, say after some 50 or 100 years from now the next generation of this world would get some graphic idea about how things happened, even if they may not be reproduced as 100% accurate.

The gruesome (horrible, grisly, disgusting) images of the day may be avoided in movies by way of superimposing some suggestive images as these would be difficult for even sane person to absorb without having some negative impact on their psyche.

Answer 3

If you don't want to see them, don't go. But people are going to keep telling these stories anyway, whether they do it to make money, or because the stories affected them, or they think they are good stories, or for whatever reason, just like stories have been told about every horrific event that has ever happened in history. I'm not sure that everyone can agree on when it is appropriate to start going to movies or reading books about horrible things that happened in history. But there sure have been a lot of books and movies made about the Civil War, or about the Holocaust, starting from soon after those events up until the present.

Answer 4

It's a critical election year. If you pay close attention, you'll notice that each of these films carries an underlying message supporting one ideology or another.

So it's not necessarily greed - it's slimy politics.

One way to tell what's going on with the movies without seeing them is to identify which pundits complain about which movies. If a neocon trashes a movie, the underlying message is liberal. If a liberal trashes a movie, the underlying message is conservative.

Political opponents always do this sort of thing in election years. They don't care about taking advantage of such tragedies. They just want to get elected.

Answer 5

I will probably see the movies that are coming out... but I also think they are just putting them out for the money, because they know people will pay to see them. I remember everything from that day... I was only a couple miles away, across the Hudson in Jersey. I remember watching the smoke rising from the towers and I remeber the terror of trying to reach my brother who worked nearby when all circuits were busy and no calls were going through.

Answer 6

I think every bad thing is caused from some type of greed.I didn't know anyone who lost their life that day but I cried for days .I am not ready to see anything like that and don't know if I ever will.If we could rid the world of greed can you imagine what it would be like? WONDERFUL !!

Answer 7

It's to soon to come out with a movie like this. It's almost reliving it again. The director should of waited at least 10 years.

Answer 8

watch UNITED 93...........that movie gave me goosebumps.......i didn't cry .......i just felt what perhaps millions of other ppl would have.....the shock of something that raw and unbelievable on 9/11........u dont for a sec feel u are outside that airplane.....u feel u are one of the passengers on that fateful plane ........i think that movie showed in a very respectable manner the heroes that may have been on that day ......it also casted the real ppl who were there in the air traffic control room and on ground......so it was not some pretty hollywood movie ......menat to cash in......it was a tribute to the heroism of innocent ppl who tried their level best to save themselves in a situation which was bleak and totally uncalled for .......... of course we will never really know what actually transpired on that day in the minds of those who died.........however watch it .....

Answer 9

It depends. I wrote and produced a play about 9/11, two years after that dark day.

My audience thanked me, saying it was healing for them to watch it.

Answer 10

I agree, I think it is just cashing in. I don't care how the writers/producers/directors etc try to justify themselves, it is in poor taste...then again, this IS the movie business!