Flight 93

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sherita

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Very affective and quite emotional, I got a bit teary. Just wish someone would make a film about the 500,000 plus civilians murdered in Iraq since that crazy war.

A film about Fallajuh and what weapons were used there would be interesting but unlikely.
 
United 93 was on a couple of nights ago. Just watched Flight 93 and I have to say it wasn't as good as United 93. The acting was hammy and over sentimental.

But what is most surprising is that the two films contradict each other. It seems that if you compare the sequence of events between the films, they are different. They also each contradict the sequence of events in documentaries of the same day.

Anyway, if you have to choose one, choose United 93 for the better viewing experience.
 
United 93 is powerful stuff. I remember seeing it for the first time, and when the passengers first rush the hijackers, with the big guy at the front steaming into him with a kick, I was out of my seat shadow boxing, I tell ya. The music during that final few minutes is awesome. It's a hard film to watch, but compelling at the same time.
 
I've never seen either and have no interest in doing so. The problem I have with these kind of films is its fiction pretending to be fact. Nobody knows what really happened on that plane. Ant recordings just tell part of thhe story. The rest is scripted drama and therefore misleading.
I felt the same with the TV drama based around Hillsborough.
When you are dealing with significant historical incident's I think known facts should be preserved and not corrupted by dramas and books,

As a kid I loved history but now I see how much of what I was taught can't be proven as correct, but it's taught as though it was.
 
yep, you are totally right. Some of the film was based upon a conversation between a passenger and his wife IIRC and other from the cockpit voice recorder. Artitistic licence does the rest.

Would be very interested to see a film whereby hijackers attempt to take over a BMI Baby plane full of pissed up football supporters whose team has lost. total carnage probably, which illustrates a valid point the films try to make, in that ordinary joes like most of us on this forum took the fight to highly trained terrorist hijackers. I think they are purely morale boosters.
 
I watched this last night and I really enjoyed it. I watched United 93 last year but I was slightly disappointed by it, maybe I just need to watch it again though.
 
The last half hour is some of the most powerful and claustrophobic cinema I have seen and effectively brings home the sheer horror of what those poor innocent people went through. Harrowing but brilliant stuff.
 
Flight 93 is just some TV movie Fox made for a cable channel.

United 93 is a proper movie that had a theatrical release and was made by acclaimed British director Paul Greengrass. I know which one I prefer.
 
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