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Topic: United 93 (2006)
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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 04-28-2006 08:34 PM
I screened this thing last night and have some basic comments to make. Even though we all know how it ends, I will try to do my usual and avoid spoilers.
First and foremost, hold the damn camera still!!! I am so sick and tired of this bullshit "style" of cinematography where the director knows his movie isn't all that suspenseful and tries to make up for it by shaking the hell out of the camera in a lame attempt to try and get the viewers on the edge of their seat and tense because they can't see what's going on. Knock it off guys...if you have to resort to shaking the camera throughout the entire movie, you really shouldn't be making such shitty movies and you suck at your job!
Ok, now that the shaky camera issue is off of my chest, I will now post a review that a friend of mine wrote who screened it with me. I think it captures the essence of this movie.
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Last night, I joined a friend in a screening of that United 93 bullshit airplane movie.
For those of you that are going out to see this, LISTEN UP! Get to the theater exactly an hour and 10 minutes late. Then, and only then, will you be able to truly enjoy this movie. Seriously, I'd hate this movie if it wasn't for the last 20 minutes or so of it. The first hour and 10 minutes is mostly filled with bad actors playing as the people in the American Airlines airplane terminals, spouting out technical shit that 90% of the audience will not understand. Stuff like:
Angry guy with glasses: We've got a z9348t on lateral gfhv9495 intersecting guvjec its a perfect day for flying!
Fat Guy: Sir I think we have a hi-jack!
Glasses: What? Whatever you're lying
Fat Guy: I think it's true
Glasses: You're wrong
Fat Guy: Oh, ok nvm
Random people: HI-JACK HI-JACK HI-JACK
Glasses: HIJACKKKKSSS DO NOT EXIST
Random people: Z94t58 all the birds are squaking except one
Glasses: I'm too busy for this I NEED TO GO TO A MEETING
Bunny lady: Thirr(sir) there's a hi-jack
Glasses: Oh REALLY?
*CRAAAAZZZZY camera angles that almost made me vomit throught the ENTIRE movie*
HIJAACCCKK!!
I think there's another! Oh wait I'm wrong.
HIIJACCCCCKCCKCKCKCKCK!
...I'm not kidding either. It was that confusing. You think I am, but I'm not.
I think they even edited it out of place or something. At one point of the movie, I thought that the planes had hit the WTC because it shows smoke coming out of the towers, but then 5 minutes later they show the first one slam into it. What the heck?!
OH OH Then there's this terrorist with this insanely huge unibrow that I just couldn't stop staring at. He's like:
ALLAH!!!!!!
However, the last 20-30 minutes of the movie are actually pretty good. It basically re-enacts what happened inside one of the 9-11 airplanes (the one plane that fought back and crashed in a field). I must say that it's pretty realistic and crazy how it was portrayed. You know, it would have been really funny(and by that, I mean stupid) if they had some sort of Titanic-ish love story in there somewhere. However, it seriously would have been awesome if they somehow had some twist ending where all the passengers ended up living in the end, AKA Hollywood/Disney ending. But this movie was a documentary, not a parody.
Overall, this movie was pretty horrible(except for the last 25-30 minutes), yet it'll do amazing in the box office only because of those 9-11 fanatics.
The entire time I couldn't stop wondering why Quentin Tarantino was playing the terrorist pilot with Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) as his bomb wielding sidekick. Seriously check it out, the resemblance is creepy.
Bottom line - wait for this thing on DVD. Seeing it on the big screen will only give you a headache...plus you can't scan through all of the boring ground bullshit in the first hour if you see it in theaters.
First hour or so: 1/2 out of 5 stars
Last reel or so on plane: 4 out of 5 stars
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Aaron Mehocic
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Posts: 804
From: New Castle, PA, USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 04-29-2006 11:06 AM
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Overall, this movie was pretty horrible(except for the last 25-30 minutes), yet it'll do amazing in the box office only because of those 9-11 fanatics.
Couple of things I noticed as I read Brad's review was that I was thinking the same thing through much of the film, but probably not as harsh as he writes. Moreover, I don't think this film will become as "classic", or definitive statement about events on Flight 93 as future generations will reject it as too documentarian in its approach to the subject matter.
Not to bring up old wounds, but i remember walking out of Passion of the Christ thinking that I just saw what could have been the best film of the decade, not because of its subject, but how it was presented. I didn't get any sense of that from United 93.
Bottom line, it is a film for those that lived through 9/11. Thats all.
[ 04-29-2006, 12:15 PM: Message edited by: Aaron Mehocic ]
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