United 93

[LHR02]

I saw it today at the first showing. I felt positively sick all morning just knowing I was going, but I can't explain why I felt I simply had to see it. It was the most difficult film I have ever watched, and frankly I ended up sitting there after it was over for 10 minutes or so trying to compose myself. I was not alone in that. Never have I been in any theater with such deafening 'silence' from the audience. Nor one with such chocked sobs at the close. I can not advise anyone on whether or not to see it.....I think it is important, and worth seeing surely.....but it's not a 'fun' ride that's for sure. It is filmed almost like a documentary, very 'tight and factual'. There is some violence and gore, but not overtly so. The real terror is more in the reliving I think. I've been out of the theater for nearly three hours and quite honestly have not stopped shaking yet. I am glad I saw it....and I don't think I'll ever see it again.

[spymoose]

Hmm, I saw it and even though it was obviously not pleasant I didn't find it to be all that great. They really didn't add much to the experience as all they really did was paste the events we are all aware of into a movie. The characters weren't really developed and like I said, you basically saw what you've read in the paper a million times. I suppose it was a well-done documentary, I was just expecting that for $10 I'd be offered something new, even if it was slightly fictional, in order to remind us of the horrors rather than seeing all the news reports rolled into one movie.