I voted DVD, but I will probably never watch unless I have to. It was too depressing an issue to begin with. It was heartbreaking enough when it actually happened, I don't want to relive those emotions again. I can't imagine what it most of have been like for the people who worked there and their loved ones, and frankly I don't want to. I hope no American's ever have to experience that again. I'm am highly sensitive to emotional issues and refuse to watch "War" movies or anything like that. I can't stand watching people act out an event that cost so many lives for no good reason. I think people should watch it if it will help them understand what happened, or if it helps bring some sort of closure, but I don't need any of that. I saw enough of it in the massive amount of hours dedicated to it in the days, weeks, and months in the aftermath on national and local news networks. I will forever remember the day and the instant I turned on the TV saw that one of the WTC towers had smoke coming out of it, the reporters questioning whether it was an accident or not, then seeing a second plan hit and instantly knowing it was no accident and some maniacs did it on purpose as the Katie Couric scrambles to confirm a second plane hit the building and get an instant replay of it several times. Then hearing that possibly 50,000 people might have just died when they eventually collapsed and the horror in knowing that everyday working American civilians were targeted. Thank god it was far less than that, but it was just a horrible event I don't want to see in an entertainment movie.

I'm surfing the internet during my break and I found these two articles about the movie including an interview with McLoughlin and Jimeno (yeah, I cried again.) Here are the links if you want to read:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14095532/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14098265/

I was just in NYC on the weekend, and I visited Ground Zero for the first time. I was in NYC in 2000, and it was such an eerie feeling visiting it again with no buildings there.

I personally don't think I'll see it. I think it's a little too soon, seeing how the US is still fighting the war on terrorism. I won't be seeing it in the theatres... it's a guaranteed cry, not that I mind crying in a theatre.

Two statements stood out to me just on the first page of one of those articles:

"Stone never shows the planes crashing into the Twin Towers. He's letting us know, right from the start, that we will see history unfold as it happened on the ground, from the perspectives of ordinary men and women."

"It has no interest in the terrorism. It's explicitly about heroism."

Alot of people feel that way. But hopefully one day people will get over their fear and give the movie a chance. BTW, I love your avatar.

People automatically assume that this movie would be about politics and whatnot. But it's not. It's just the story of those two officers and their families and I know Oliver Stone did a kick *** job with it.

I am really disturbed at the idea of people profiting commercially and personally from 9/11. I know this isn't completely rational, but it feels different to me than movies about other tragedies. Partly it is because this tragedy wasn't an accident (like the Titantic) but was purposely planned and perpetrated by terrorists. Whether the movie is intended to be about politics or not, there is no way to make a movie about 9/11 without giving them publicity that I don't feel they should have. But I recognize that I also probably feel this way because it is so soon after it occurred and because 9/11 was so outside the realm of my safe little world.

I just have this picture of Oliver Stone sitting around his gigantic Hollywood mansion, saying to himself "Hmmm, 5,000 people died in unfathomably horrific circumstances...gosh, I could make some money off of this!" I was sickened by the news coverage in the days/weeks following 9/11 and I'm appalled at this movie. I'm disappointed that Nick Cage is in it, because it may mean that I'll have to boycott his movies from here on out (I never cared much for Oliver Stone anyway, so no loss there).

- Barbara

I will see it at some time....probably at home and on dvd or satelite. It will create quite a bit of mental anguish, I know even the trailer makes me cry.

Having suffered the loss of my young son I do know that telling the story over and over is theraputic and the wish to remind people so that the losses are not forgetten....the people, the good that they did, are never forgotten is huge.

I will not judge anyone for seeing the movie or making it.....nor will I judge those that choose not to.

L

I won't watch it just because i am not interested. I had enough of 9/11 when it HAPPENED. Leave it alone, people. Some people think that would be a bad idea, and that people would just forget about it, but would one ever really forget about that? I'm guessing no.

I was the first person to vote for seeing the show in the theatre on this poll... and I intend to see it this weekend.
I can't believe some of you think it is "too soon".... its been 5 years. I could understand if they had made the movie and put it out a year after this happened, but come on... someone will ALWAYS say it will never be a good time, it will never be long enough.
I think this movie will give a completely different perspective on what happened that day... things that no one, besides those actually at ground zero, can possibily know about. This isn't giving publicity to terrorists... this is a movie about the human spirit, heroism and survival. I think it would also be important to remember that if the men and families whose stories are told in this movie didn't want it to happen, it wouldn't have.
Yeah, its gonna be a tear-jerker, whether you were there or knew someone who was killed that day, or just watched on TVa 1000 miles away.
But its gonna be a good movie; I, personally, don't believe that Nicholas Cage makes bad movies anyway.

Very well stated

I actually wrote a similar response to this thread this morning (although longer, as I know my posts tend to be ), but I decided not to post it because I figured I'd get a lot of flack. The short and sweet of it: I don't think it's too soon, but if anyone does, then they don't have to see it--it doesn't mean the movie is a bad idea as a whole.

I really just don't have much interest in seeing it. I'd rather go see the horrible "scary" movies coming out, like The Descent But I'm not against it any way. If the heroes and families upon whom the movie is based are supportive of it coming out, I would think anyone should be, but as always, JMO

Ya know Jill, I think we think alike about a lot of things LOL
Thats what I think, if you don't want to or can't handle seeing it, don't. I think that for those who have a problem with the amount of money being donated, then go see it so that more money gets donated... Higher ticket sales=bigger donation. So instead of complaining about *only* 10% over 5 days, go help the cause and see the movie this weekend.
My hubby doesn't want to see it, but he doesn't usually go for the drama flicks... he wants to see Pulse this weekend (I think that will be too scary for me! LOL). I think I'll win out, and we'll see Pulse next weekend.

My biggest problem was in the trailer to this movie it said something like, "the event that defined a generation." I hope 9/11 doesn't have to define my generation. It was a terrible, violent event. Yes, there was heroism and people rising to the occasion, there always is. I'd rather see a fictional move about the human spirit rather than suffer through the violence of this day again. I don't think this movie can be compared to the movies of WWII: it was a completely different era, movies were done differently (not very much violence directly on the screen) and the whole nation was united behind a single cause with a clear enemy. 9/11 changed all that, but it doesn't have to define me and I don't plan on seeing it. Just me though, maybe to others it is easier to make it through.

Nope! I can't have all that dredged up again.

I saw the movie last weekend, and it was great!
My husband even liked it, even though he doesn't usually like drama's.
I can say: you don't see the towers getting hit, and you don't see them fall. This movie is truly a from the ground perscpective - it is what these men heard and saw that day.
I highly recommend it... very good movie, very tastefully done.