tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post114626438318339703..comments2023-11-05T06:55:38.728-05:00Comments on As Little as Possible: Greengrass pulls it offJ.J.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07815005929352267468noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1147357409524741832006-05-11T10:23:00.000-04:002006-05-11T10:23:00.000-04:00Your advice to get off the roof was excellent. We ...Your advice to get off the roof was excellent. We could have been witnesses to a Capital or its surroundings disaster. Those on board UA#93 may have saved our lives also.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1147238962204200072006-05-10T01:29:00.000-04:002006-05-10T01:29:00.000-04:00really enjoyed reading your thoughts on the film.....really enjoyed reading your thoughts on the film...i think we had many similar thoughts.<BR/><BR/>Greengrass did a wonderfully fantastic job.<BR/><BR/>--RC of strangeculture.blogspot.comRChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11340006144797496514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146856057886258502006-05-05T15:07:00.000-04:002006-05-05T15:07:00.000-04:00saw it. loved it.HANDS is the "starring" passenger...saw it. loved it.<BR/>HANDS is the "starring" passenger -- unbelievable! (you know, HANDS from Boston Legal). Also, the original Baker, Chip Zien, is on board the flight. Crazy. What will we tell his kids? Daddy died in a baking accident, just like granddad? (sorry for the humor)Beedowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03867308133421862778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146593155146283752006-05-02T14:05:00.000-04:002006-05-02T14:05:00.000-04:00Loose ChangeIt's worth your time.<A HREF="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801&q=loose+change" REL="nofollow">Loose Change</A><BR/><BR/>It's worth your time.Mike zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18158138863301039389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146593056417481842006-05-02T14:04:00.000-04:002006-05-02T14:04:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Mike zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18158138863301039389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146591968545079602006-05-02T13:46:00.000-04:002006-05-02T13:46:00.000-04:00So you'd also advocate that World War II movies sh...So you'd also advocate that World War II movies should be avoided, unless all profits go to victims' families? Same for Vietnam movies? What about Hotel Rwanda? Should that not have been made because people were making money off a calamity? That, madame, is absurd. Let's all dismount from yon high horse. Fine, don't see the movie. But don't say it's a bloodthirsty profiteering venture without having experienced it. If you do, you'll see that it's a purer, much more elegant and respectful account than anything you get in "stories [that] exist in the news."J.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07815005929352267468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146521069069897902006-05-01T18:04:00.000-04:002006-05-01T18:04:00.000-04:00I saw Stick It this weekend instead. I hope to see...I saw Stick It this weekend instead. I hope to see it again many times, and I hope never to see United 93. <BR/><BR/>September 11th information and stories exist in the news; I don't like the idea of paying to see more. If the film is so must see, can't it be shown on PBS? No, that's silly. Let the movie makers profit from the tragedy. Unless the producers donate all the money to families of 9/11 victims (which could very well be the case, for all I know), I'd rather not pay to watch devastation. <BR/><BR/>Give me elite gymnasts over theatrical terrorists any day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146422126645851082006-04-30T14:35:00.000-04:002006-04-30T14:35:00.000-04:00I think you should see it, simply because I'd love...I think you should see it, simply because I'd love your thoughts on the Hornaday theorem. United 93 and The Passion of the Christ belong in the same genre I think: the "bearing witness to sacrifice" genre. They are for that, and nothing else. Granted, United 93 was made by a director who pieced together a very specific and balanced film world like a cosmic watchmaker, and then stepped aside and watched it tick away, and The Passion was editorialized by Mel Gibson's Hallmark-like flashbacks, but the economy and specificity of their visions is very similar. Both films were unlike anything I've ever seen. They speak in a grammar not often spoken at the movies.J.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07815005929352267468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146362892786004152006-04-29T22:08:00.000-04:002006-04-29T22:08:00.000-04:00Thanks for posting this. Hearing Bob Mondello's Al...Thanks for posting this. Hearing Bob Mondello's All Things Considered review and reading the almost unanimous praise the film has garnered, I have been wondering about real reactions to the film. I feel I should watch this film and yet I'm almost afraid to. (Angela will not go with me.) Your own reactions are compelling and I may see the film after all.<BR/><BR/>And gee, talk about pulling heartstrings! Mumma, you and I have shared a connection before (my little one still uses your blanket) and I did not know we shared this one as well: my own parents happened to be in the air when this happened, albeit at the moment it happened, they were landing in Lima, Peru where they were moving (and where they lived until just under a year ago). Naturally, I still panicked, thinking the worst. I only relaxed when I was finally able to find out from my cousin -- thank goodness for the Internet -- that they had landed safely. After nearly 24 hours of trying, my parents finally got a phone call through to us and the first thing my own mother said was that she wished that she were here in DC with us. And oddly enough, I remember saying, "You once said you were happy when I went away to college because Lima was no longer a safe place and you could relax. Well, Mom, I never thought I would say this, but today Lima is safer than Washington -- and I'm glad that you are not here to experience this with us."<BR/><BR/>(Sorry for cluttering your comments with a where-were-you? type moment, JJ, but I felt I had to share this with Mumma...:)Middentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13829095129849712488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146355818142884082006-04-29T20:10:00.000-04:002006-04-29T20:10:00.000-04:00Oh mumma, I love you.Oh mumma, I love you.J.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07815005929352267468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146319599927010402006-04-29T10:06:00.000-04:002006-04-29T10:06:00.000-04:00I think you and I have never come to grips with be...I think you and I have never come to grips with being in DC on and around the 11th --and what really had happened--and how to possible react to the unbelieveable-the day/evening---the smoke billowing from the pentagon is etched in my mind--how relieved I was to be in DC with youAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com