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May 19, 2006
no thanks
I can tell you how I won't be spending 10 bucks in August -- watching conpiracy theorist Oliver Stone's "true story of courage and survival".
Here is the so-called controversial and upsetting trailer for World Trade Center -- the movie!!!
Well, those are the PR savvy warnings the film's producers are issuing.
If you watch it, as I did, you might find the most upsetting and conversial thing about the 9/11 trailer is seeing a national tragedy commercialized with "big name" actors like Nicolas Cage and scrambled egg face, Maggie Gyllenhaal.
And no, I've no interest in seeing United 93 either, but at least they had the good sense not to throw in Vin Diesel as Todd Beamer, Tom Hanks as the affable Jeremy Glick or Lindsay Lohan as Sandra Bradshaw.
More:
Ann Althouse isn't impressed either.
Posted by Moxie at May 19, 2006 3:11 AM
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Mr. Stone said some interesting things when the post-9/11 Afghan campaign was underway......
http://tinyurl.com/nl6g4
STONE: "They control culture, they control ideas. And I think the revolt of September 11th was about 'Fuck you! Fuck your order—'"
[He went on to say that the Palestinians who danced at the news of the attack were reacting just as people had responded after the revolutions in France and Russia.]
Posted by: reagan80 at May 19, 2006 4:54 AM
I've seen several hostile comments on blogs about UNITED93 and having seen the movie, I'm a bit curious. UNITED93 is a pretty darn good recreation of the events it covers.
Now a 9/11 movie from Stone makes me wonder how JFK getting shot will matter.
Posted by: Walter at May 19, 2006 4:15 PM
A few years ago, Stone was going to immortalize Arafat.
I know you're against abortion, Mox, but would you reconsider some retroactive exceptions?
Posted by: Aarons cc at May 19, 2006 4:16 PM
I totally agree re the obvious, cynical pr maneuverings behind the soppy, sentimental Oliver Stone trailer . . . It's all heart-string music and scene-chewing closeups of shop-worn celebrity actors looking concerned. I wasn't moved at all except to be annoyed but had an opposite reaction to "United 93, which I made a point of being the first on my blog-block to see:
Posted by: Sissy Willis at May 21, 2006 11:00 AM
Two men saw something else?
Obviously they discovered Bu$Hitler's plot... they found the hidden explosives. Wasn't it weird there was a shadow of a jet? You'd think Oliver would believe the giant missile theory.
Sorry, can't help but being cynical about Messr. Stone.
Posted by: Knievel at May 22, 2006 12:19 AM
"Tom Hanks as the affable Jeremy Glick"
That line is classic. It reeks of Moxcasm.
Posted by: tony at May 24, 2006 6:27 AM
"Because I think America has done reprehensible things and is responsible in some way and so I think the delicacy with which it's dealt allows that to sort of creep in,"
Remember who said this about 9/11? Perfect casting by Stone. A pox on both their houses.
Posted by: Defense Guy at May 24, 2006 9:12 AM
