Just read on Dark Horizons that Oliver Stone and Paramount is making a movie about 9/11. Universal also have one planned. How low can you get?
Bet they'll be conspiracy theories galore with the Stone version.
9/11 - The Movie.
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AndyDursin
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I can make myself sick just thinking about Stone's 9/11 (which is supposed to star Nicolas Cage, incidentally). Just imagine the "hyper-kinetic" editing, haphazard hand-held camera work, and disastrous narrative structure from his last bunch of turkeys. Then apply it to a story that will have hyper-kinetic editing, haphazard hand-held camera work, and likely a disastrous narrative structure...I hope the plug gets pulled on this before it gets shot.
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Carlson2005
I've read the script for the Stone version (or at least a recent draft), and it is surprisingly very good. The structure is pretty standard and there are no political aspects or conspiracy theories - just a survival story. There are a few things in it that will probably piss people off, but it seems pretty accurate. It certainly looks more promising than Ladder 49!
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AndyDursin
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The script is one thing, but I can't stand how he directs his movies now. The camera won't stop moving and everything is so poorly edited (ALEXANDER, ANY GIVEN SUNDAY -- which I liked for the most part -- etc.)...it's like he's on an acid trip (and probably is).I've read the script for the Stone version (or at least a recent draft), and it is surprisingly very good. The structure is pretty standard and there are no political aspects or conspiracy theories - just a survival story. There are a few things in it that will probably piss people off, but it seems pretty accurate. It certainly looks more promising than Ladder 49!
I just see this movie being an over-directed mess if his recent work is any indication.
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AndyDursin
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And if you do want to see the real thing, check out 9/11, the riveting CBS documentary, that Paramount released on DVD. Amazing footage, spectacularly assembled by a pair of French documentarians, who were following a company of firefighters at the time. The sequences showing what happened to the city and the men are nothing short of remarkable -- some of the most amazing footage you'll see about the attack. I can't imagine Stone's movie (which sounds like it's going to follow similar lines) could possibly, in any way, replicate the emotion of that real work.
I'm more interested in Universal's 9/11 movie -- FLIGHT 93 -- which Dark Horizons describes as a "$15 million film will be 90 minutes long and cover the flight in real time. It begins with the takeoff and hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 by terrorists, the discovery by passengers with cell phones that other hijacked planes had been steered into the World Trade Center towers, and the realization that their plane was being steered toward D.C. Pic culminates in the decision by passengers to sacrifice their lives to bring the plane down. Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania. "Flight 93" will be partly improvised with an ensemble cast, and [director Paul] Greengrass will use handheld cameras and other stylized techniques to give the film a gritty feel. A 40-day shoot is expected to begin October 1st."
I'm more interested in Universal's 9/11 movie -- FLIGHT 93 -- which Dark Horizons describes as a "$15 million film will be 90 minutes long and cover the flight in real time. It begins with the takeoff and hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 by terrorists, the discovery by passengers with cell phones that other hijacked planes had been steered into the World Trade Center towers, and the realization that their plane was being steered toward D.C. Pic culminates in the decision by passengers to sacrifice their lives to bring the plane down. Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania. "Flight 93" will be partly improvised with an ensemble cast, and [director Paul] Greengrass will use handheld cameras and other stylized techniques to give the film a gritty feel. A 40-day shoot is expected to begin October 1st."
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Carlson2005
Paul Greengrass is the moronic hack who ruined The Bourne Supremacy with all that shakeycam, let's point the camera in the wrong direction and shift the focus for no valid reason crap. He may have intellectual pretensions, but he's honestly a far worse filmmaker than Stone and even Bay - the guy's a Ken Loach-Michael Bay wannabe! That one just has disaster written all over it. And judging from his pro-IRA work in the past, I wouldn't expect much in the way of balance.AndyDursin wrote:"Flight 93" will be partly improvised with an ensemble cast, and [director Paul] Greengrass will use handheld cameras and other stylized techniques to give the film a gritty feel. A 40-day shoot is expected to begin October 1st."
The script I saw for Stone's pic, incidentally, is quite different from that doc: much of it takes place inside the building, with very few exteriors.
do we really wanna see a movie like GREENGRASS`s version? A movie which has absolutely no bright spots? May be good acting, but even my dentist is doing great work I don't want to sit on his chair every day!
that sounds awful and tasteless.
but nothing could be worse than a BAY version...
I swore myself after BB" never to watch a movie by him anymore, but somehow ended up in THE ISLAND... and now I promise I won't even watch a BAY movie on DVD anymore... ISLAND proved that he is absolutey unable to tell a story. What an idiot.
that sounds awful and tasteless.
but nothing could be worse than a BAY version...
I swore myself after BB" never to watch a movie by him anymore, but somehow ended up in THE ISLAND... and now I promise I won't even watch a BAY movie on DVD anymore... ISLAND proved that he is absolutey unable to tell a story. What an idiot.