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Date Posted: 08:18:26 05/26/06 Fri
Author: The Rhino
Subject: United 93 and 9/11
In reply to: Rocket 's message, "United 93" on 20:44:18 04/28/06 Fri

Sorry I'm so late to the game on this one but I feel like this is the best movie of the year thus far and one of the best I've ever seen. As the movie progressed I felt myself filled with anxiety. I knew how the film was going to end, obviously. But it didn't stop my legs from shaking. When the passengers finally get the courage to charge the terrorists, I don't recall a more emotional moment in a film. I wanted to get up and scream at the screen, rooting them on.

There's a documentary that we bought on DVD a couple of years ago called "9/11". It began as a documentary about rookie firefighters in New York City and what they had to go through after entering the firehouse. They followed one guy specifically for a couple of months. He began to grow a little depressed because he still hadn't had his "first big fire." As it turns out, his first fire was the World Trade Center.

The documentary then turned into one about 9/11. They have the only known footage of the first plane hitting Tower One. They were doing a drill on a neighborhood street and the camera turned to the sky after hearing the low flying plane. From his vantage point, he was shooting at the underbelly of the plane as it hit. They immediately headed back to the firehouse and headed to Ground Zero.

The footage that was shot from there included one of the filmmakers being in the basement of Tower One as it collapsed, standing next to the famous chaplain that died at the site, hearing the sounds in the background of jumpers hitting the ground (sounding like bombs as they landed), and the overall chaos that ensued from there. It is the definitive fly-on-the-wall documentary about that historic day. We had to stop the film halfway through and take a break because it was so hard to watch. It felt like being there.

Long story short, we bought 9/11 to show our kids later in their life so they would know what that day was all about. I plan on buying United 93 for that same reason as it seems just as important.

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Haven't seen this one yet, but... -- Dog of War, 18:24:37 05/26/06 Fri
- My feeling was just the opposite -- Rocket, 22:28:18 05/28/06 Sun
- I agree -- The Rhino, 14:41:24 05/31/06 Wed
I have that one too... -- CC, 05:57:07 05/29/06 Mon