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Flight 93 on A&E
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31 Jan 2006 05:53:17 -0800
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fruitbat...
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Was this made just for A&E, or was it a rebroadcast of a previous TV
movie? I don't know if it has been covered here before...
A friend asked me to record it last night, and I ended up watching
about 5 minutes of it... It was about 20 minutes in, when a mother who
apparently was the husband of some other main character first saw the
reports on TV about the attacks on the WTC. I was mildly appalled!
The fake news anchors on TV (voice only) had no emotion whatsoever, and
absolutely NONE of the solemnity or gravitas that I remember seeing and
hearing from the actual reporters on 9/11. I know it's a low-budget
movie, and fake-newsperson-dialogue might seem like something petty to
nitpick, but the dialogue dominated the scene for the few minutes I
watched, and it was SO poorly done that I found it disrespectful. They
sounded like they were commenting on a sporting event, not reporting on
a tragedy.
cloud dreamer...
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I'm watching it now and I have no idea what you're whining about. The
jouranlists sound exactly as I remember it. I was watching the
broadcasts before the second plane hit and the two or three stations I
was jumping between sounded no differently. You have to remember that
they had no idea what they were witnessing. To look back with 20/20
hindsight and make such a ridiculous assertion is very short-sighted.
BC...
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I just happened to catch it. Surprisingly good -- a very solid,
tension-filled flick. The incidental music and filming technique
seemed taken from Battlestar Galactica (the new, killer version.)
It brought back lots of old, bad memories from 9/11: the entire
Federal government going into hiding for most of the day (In
Boston, a functioning government was seemingly only
represented by reports of Guiliani's comments and an
unenlightening speech by our then governor Jane Swift); and
Steven L....
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Ah, a fellow Massachusettsite.
The thing I remember most about that terrible week, was a spokesperson
for MassPort (which runs Logan Airport where the hijacked planes took
off) being questioned by the press:
"How could your security measures have been so poor?"
"Our security measures have always worked very well--until now."
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banal, useless noise of information coming from our TV news
sources -- a friend and I ended up watching a Spanish channel
that had the journlistic wherewithal to present stuff that the US
stations wouldn't -- flight paths of the hijacked planes, number
of passengers and such. We didn't understand Spanish, but
the charts, pictures and videos were self-explanatory. The
movie also reinforced the feeling that I had then about how ill-
prepared and slow the response was overall at the federal and
military level.
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Boo, A&E. Booo.
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