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United 93...sounds like compelling viewing

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zippitippitoes · 07/05/2006 13:44

\link{http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1769591,00.html\thoughtful review here}

I'm not sure when it's on general release?

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zippitippitoes · 10/05/2006 11:19

some time next month...Smile

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lilibet · 04/06/2006 15:27

We saw this last night

Compelling is the right word. It is such a sad film as you know the end but sit there hoping it will all be different.

Four of us went and we were all very affected by it. I can't urge you to see it too much. A lot of the people in Air Traffic Control play themselves which I think must have been extraordinairily hard and of course we now know that there were four planes but at the time after the fourth they didn't know that was the last one, there might have been another one coming. It must have been a truly dreadful place to work that day.

Go and see this!

twinsetandpearls · 04/06/2006 15:34

One of the actors was talking about it this morning with Andrew Marr on BBC this morning and it sounded very thoughtful and not at all the shameless exploitation of a disaster that I had expected it to be.

spacedonkey · 09/06/2006 10:06

I must admit I thought/feared it would be an exploitative Hollywoodization, but in the Indy's Review of Reviews all the quality papers gave it top ratings!

Coolmama · 09/06/2006 19:53

DH and I were talking about whether to go and see the film ( he was in NY on 9-11 Sad) and although he is in two minds, I have to say that I want to go purely because not going is almost like not acknowledging what they did - it's like attending a memorial and by going to see the film, I feel that in some way I am honouring their memory - make sense?

sansouci · 09/06/2006 22:48

We saw it in London last weekend. It was fascinating & horrible. What was going on on the ground was v. interesting but watching the passengers was horrific. I cried & cried afterwards & was distressed at the voyeuristic aspect of watching the suffering of the passengers. However, I felt strangely "better" about 9/11 after seeing this film. Is this what is called "closure"?

JanH · 09/06/2006 23:05

\link{http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1784076,00.html"For one moment it was possible to dream that the ending would be different"}

Comments by relatives of some of the passengers (Guardian Sat 27/5).

Tinker · 17/06/2006 18:24

Saw this last night. Fantastically gripping.

mogwai · 24/06/2006 17:43

I also saw this last night. At the end, my neck and shoulder muscles were tense, my heart was racing and I was breathless.

I've never had a physical reaction to a film before.

My husband agreed with me when I said, on the way home, "I feel like I was on that plane just now, and I escaped and they didn't"

A tremendous memorial to those who died

mousie · 06/07/2006 14:51

I saw it last week -well, half saw it. I left after half an hour because I felt sick and faint. It was a hot day/ cinema - but the subject matter was so intense - the real time aspect incredibly chilling. A brilliant film though I won't be going back to finish it which feels both cowardly and correct.

emsiewill · 06/07/2006 15:19

I saw this a couple of weeks ago, ended up watching it completely alone in a large cinema. It was absolutely gripping, moving, thought provoking, and quite scary to watch alone. I would urge people to go and see it.

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