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"World Trade Center"

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I thought it was well done and very respectful of the living and the dead. Joe Morgenstern in the "Wall Street Journal" found it too narrowly focused but I disagree, believing that the tighter a focus in a story the more universal the truth becomes. Nothing is gratuitous here, just real people doing what they actually did. I don't know that I'd like to see it again, however.

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It seems to be a rewrite of a Homicide episode some years ago, with the magnificent Vincent D'Onofrio... - clarkjohnsen 08:16:33 08/14/06 (2)
...stuck under a subway train. Plus, he was called in two days before the shoot.
clark
- I will never forget that episode... - Harmonia 16:02:55 08/15/06 (1)
  ...one of the best written, best acted, best directed pieces of episodic television ever.
  D'Onofrio entered my personal pantheon of great actors during the first airing.
  Haven't seen WTC yet.
  - That episode was even -- although this may be a two-edged sword -- - clarkjohnsen 10:35:38 08/16/06 (0)
    made the subject of a one-hour making-of show on PBS! After which they aired the episode without sponsorship statements (i.e. spots). A first, surely, for a commercial TV show.
    clark
Good point. Two men struggling to stay coherent . . . - mr grits 18:45:18 08/12/06 (0)
but I wondered constantly about Cage having a free hand that never brushed away all the crap around his eyes.

Ex nihilo, nihil fit . . .
"Snakes on a Plane" - Vinyleer 17:30:32 08/12/06 (0)
The real snakes.
Led by the one and only "SNAKE"
I am going to see WTC this weekend...I doubt seriously that any NYer can be objective... - TWB 14:40:44 08/12/06 (2)
when it comes to this film. I'm looking forward to it as I'm an Oliver Stone fan...
- Re: I am going to see WTC this weekend...I doubt seriously that any NYer can be objective... - PhilNYC 08:44:52 08/23/06 (0)
  I'm a NYer; I have friends who were in the towers when they got hit (all got out). My wife was on Fulton Street, 4 blocks away, when the first tower fell. Saw this over the weekend. Bad idea, because it really re-awakened much of the depression and anxiety I was feeling right after 9/11/01...I got pretty emotional thru the whole film, and I physically couldn't stand up until most of the credits had rolled.
  I think it was a very well-made film. Maybe my opinions are colored by my hugely emotional feelings about the events that day, but the film IMHO really captured the courage of these men...and to me, this was spotlighted not merely by the time when the two officers were buried, but really moreso by the mere fact that with everything going on, they actually had the courage to go into the tower after it had been hit. The film captures this incredibly well.
  Am not usually an Oliver Stone fan, but I must give him kudos on this film for highlighting the heroics of these men and women.
- It still affects me (being a Southerner) when I see this stuff. Getting old, I guess. * - mr grits 21:32:08 08/12/06 (0)
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  Ex nihilo, nihil fit . . .

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