FLIGHT 93 too soon?

Just got a DVD copy of FLIGHT 93, a dramatization of the the 9/11 flight which crashed in a Pennsylvania farm field. During the first showings of the trailer United93_Splash_01.jpgfor this movie, audience members cried out, “Too soon.”

Too soon?

It’s been five years.

Wanna wait ten, twenty.  Maybe 50.

After watching this movie I can only say, “Too late.”

At least it dispels any theories that the hijacking were caused by a collective hysteria about passengers not getting enough peanuts from the stewardesses.

Yawn. I fast-forwarded through the film like a porno addict seeking the hardcore scene. My thumb reduced the 110 minutes to about ten minutes. The hijackers are thin. The Americans are a little chunky. There are a series of emotional goodbyes via cell phones. Fast-forward. Tears, fast-forward. Attack on cockpit. This we can watch. Plane flipping over into field. bad special effects.

I was in New York on 9/11

I saw the second plane hit from my rooftop.

Read https://www.mangozeen.com/a-day-far-from-normal-short-story-by-peter-nolan-smith.htm

It was a bad day and this film doesn’t make it any better.

I don’t think they will be making any musicals about 9/11.

Or comedies.

But you can never tell with Hollywood.

They write history the ood old American way.

They make it up.

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