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Originally Posted by Hardknock
The fact that Universal is making any money on this at all should have the public up in arms!
True or not, they're making a mockery of all the people who died.
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Yeah! And the same with the Holocaust! Damn you Stephen Spielberg and your mercenary Schindler's List!
/sarcasm
First off, Universal donated 10% of the opening weekend's take - when the average film takes in about half its total income - to victims of 9/11.
Second, the USA has a history of rewarding handsomely those who can artistically portray events in our history.
I'm fully against Bush, big business yadda yadda. And I have to say, this happened. It's real. The paranoia within these events practiced by Americans is revolting. That's more about what I would be up in arms about. These attacks were a huge blow to several large industries and have made air travel unprofitable and nearly untenable.
And after seeing United 93, I also have to say there's a lack of choice in this poll. The movie did not portray the passengers as heros. It was a potrayal of what may have happened, supported by cell and air phone records, tracking data, recall, and other evidence. There was no celebration of Todd Beamer or any nationalistic nonsense.
I'm appalled at supposedly rational people coming up with nonsense about this not happening. The current administration is an ass over tea kettle train wreck, let alone able to pull off a massive conspiracy in alignment with big business.
If you believe in this stuff, I don't want to know you, I don't want to be aligned with you, and I don't want to come to your parties.