I don't know about you, but I'm not ready
Published Friday, April 07, 2006 by Mike | E-mail this post
I am not ready to watch a film about 9/11. I'm not ready to watch Hollywood try to make a buck off people who aren't even 5 years dead.
United 93 is coming. A movie about the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11/01.
And the Families of Flight 93, Inc., an association formed by families of those who died, recently announced that the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania will receive 10 percent of all box office revenue collected from the first three days of the North American release of the movie.The first three days? Why not donate 10% of the entire gross? That strikes me as extremely odd, and almost reaks of a marketing ploy to get people in the seats those first three days. I'd rather just donate the entire cost of a ticket to the charity and not have to sit through a movie that will upset me.
Maybe the movie is great. Maybe it handles the situation with tact, and stays true to what we actually know (very little) about what happened on that plane. Still I don't want to see it, and I don't want to see Oliver Stone's upcoming "World Trade Center" movie either. I know how they end.