World Trade Center is set to come out in wide release August 9, 2006, a Wednesday, an indication of the distributors anticipation of a big turnout. What worries me about this movie based on the trailers compared United 93 is the vast differences in photography, directing, and casting suggests that World Trade Center is going to be a much more traditional, commercial, movie studio film that really doesn't breath much realism or life into the events surrounding 9/11 as United 93 which has a strong chance of getting nominated for an Oscar next year.

i did watched it. . the story is nice. the problem is that they only focus the story on the three rescuer. i thought it's all about the World Trade.

World Trade Center (2006) in its first two thirds of the movie has minor flaws in its delivery, but little do they detract from one of the most compelling emotional, dramatic endings to one of the most tragic of recent historical vents as portrayed on screen. This movie could have been truly a classic and timeless historical movie given a few changes, but it remains an excellent and sincere attempt at revealing the story of two men trapped underneath the collapse of the World Trade Centers, of their families, and of the attempts at a rescue. Unlike King Kong (2005), the cinematic weaknesses are easily overlooked as the story itself allows for such minor oversights. Strangely, unlike United 93 (2006) which seems to excell on the screen until the end and thus its somewhat of a downfall, World Trade Center is able to build from the shaky foundation of its beginnings until a powerful and solid ending is achieved.

I think you've already assigned this movie the dreaded pre-viewing King Kong pointless award for 2006. I understand how some movies look pathetic (Fantastic Four?) in trailers, but I guess I'm glad I'm ignorant of most trailers nowadays. I hope your review next week isn't a rehash of your "preview".

I saw an advertisement prior to the showing of The Descent for the National Guard that was impressive and quite vividly real. If only Oliver Stone could have used this photographic technique, like United 93 (2006) or even Black Hawk Down (2001). The trailers look more like something from Ron Howard's Backdraft (1991) which seems more like a spectacle. Unless the actual movie divergences from the trailer cinematic approach, I would experience this movie as a denigration of those victims and heros of 9/11. This Hollywood looking production could be looked as a mockery, commercialization of a tragic event like the critics were worried about with United 93 which fortunately went unproven.

Unless this movie departs significantly from the trailers, I am deeply concerned that this movie will be degrading and cheapen 9/11 survivors and memories. Unlike United 93, to produce a Hollywood looking production with the theatrics almost cheapens what these people went through. The audience response to this movie could be devastating. While it's not to soon to begin developing movies about 9/11, how they are done is critical. I can only hope the movie isn't like what I'm seeing in the previews.

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Originally posted by tabuno:
Edit: Or above you, literally. Hah. Hah.

I didn't repeat what you said, I more or less agreed with you and mark, while expounding a little.

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Commontone Posted 28 July 2006 09:25 PM

Yeah, Oliver Stone has really gone downhill since the days of JFK and Natural Born Killers. Those films and others like Platoon made statements; his recent films have been middling Hollywood fluff. Personally, I'm hoping World Trade Center brings him back some credibility, but from the trailers I've seen, it doesn't look promising. The acting snips I saw looked pretty standard and uninspired, and unlike United 93 the trailer really makes it look like a melodramatic tearjerker. I hope my impressions are wrong and it's just another mis-marketed trailer...

Right on. Couldn't have said it better.

Edit: Or above you, literally. Hah. Hah.

Yeah, Oliver Stone has really gone downhill since the days of JFK and Natural Born Killers. Those films and others like Platoon made statements; his recent films have been middling Hollywood fluff. Personally, I'm hoping World Trade Center brings him back some credibility, but from the trailers I've seen, it doesn't look promising. The acting snips I saw looked pretty standard and uninspired, and unlike United 93 the trailer really makes it look like a melodramatic tearjerker. I hope my impressions are wrong and it's just another mis-marketed trailer...

EDIT: How the hell did my post end up here? I'm responding to the two above, yet I'm sandwiched by them. Weird.

I haven't seen it, but I have a good friend who watched it. He wasn't even going to watch it because he thinks Ollie Stone has turned into a self-masturbatory filmmaking hack. (Hey, tabuno, you liked Alexander!) Anyway, my friend said he was shocked at how realistic, intense and thoughtful the film was. Apparently, at least two-thirds of the movie is just two guys trapped in the rubble, expecting to die, and trying to keep each other's spirits up. Maybe it will be decent.