BOYCOT SEPTEMBER "911"

gtfpv · 06-04-2006, 12:01 AM

whatching the news today i felt sick to my stomach that hollywood has decided to "PROFITEER" out of the events of september 911. and made a blockbuster movie for entertainment. i think it is immoral and disrespectfull to all the victims of all race and religion that were involved and or/ deceased.
I HOPE AUSTRALIANS BOYCOTT THIS MOVIE. I WILL NOT BE SEEING IT.
if people see it or feel differantely to me thats ok . i just think americans will turn everything into a chance to make a movie . and in some cases it shouldnt be done.
it should never be forgotten . but not made into a blockbuster.

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apolloxbgt · 06-04-2006, 12:03 AM

Who is making the movie?If it sony (or one of there many studios) then it would be the Japanese making mony out of it,not the yanks.

FPV8U · 06-04-2006, 12:06 AM

I won't be seeing it either GTFPV.

saleen · 06-04-2006, 12:28 AM

We watch movies on WW2 though. More people were killed there that 911. I understand it must be hard for the families involved, but sooner or later it was going to happen.

Dave_au · 06-04-2006, 12:51 AM

Is that the one called United 63? One of the victims families was on TV saying the movie actually honoured those on that plane (which was the one that crashed after the passengers tried to retake the plane).

I think its a bit of a knee jerk reaction to try to boycott it - sort of like saying "I'm boycotting Shindler's List because it involves the holocaust".

Anyway, everything shown on commercial TV has a profit intention - that is, I really have difficulty noting a difference between all the coverage of September 11 through documentaries etc to showing a movie.

Afterall, from an idealistic point of view, it's the continuation of Free Speach, Capitalism and the free market economy.

ClevlndStemer · 06-04-2006, 03:15 AM

boycott this boycott that...bah
i guess i'll end up seeing it somehow

Racecraft · 06-04-2006, 06:22 AM

It depends on who funds it, directs and produces it.. If it is a one eyed version not for me thanks, but a true depiction of the event I don't have an issue with it.

Dodge · 06-04-2006, 06:40 AM

let them watch it after all it was the yanks who profited from the sale of wepons.

Deadman · 06-04-2006, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by saleen

We watch movies on WW2 though. More people were killed there that 911. I understand it must be hard for the families involved, but sooner or later it was going to happen.

That's right... So we can't watch movies about WW1, WW2, anything to do with the ANZACS, anything about HITLER (such as Downfall - a great movie if you haven't seen it), anything about the Iraq invasion recently (which will create movies down the line I'm sure)...

Oh, come to think of it - you shouldn't see Titanic either... People died on that.

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Originally Posted by gtfpv

I HOPE AUSTRALIANS BOYCOTT THIS MOVIE. I WILL NOT BE SEEING IT.

Really, gtfpv, think through what you said. How many movies have you seen about real life dramas or events in which people have died. It was bound to happen. Yes, 9/11 was a tradgedy, but come on... Have you seen any movie about any world war or real life event where people lost their lives? Or any movie or TV show that says "based on a true story" in which someone dies?? Why didn't you boycot those?

I'll go see it if it looks like a good movie, otherwise I won't. Same as any movie.

Falcon Freak · 06-04-2006, 07:16 AM

What happened on the 9th of November?

FF

AC/DC · 06-04-2006, 07:50 AM

Schindlers List
Pearl Harbour
Saving Private Ryan
PLatoon

What about a movie re the Killings of more than 100 000 people in Rwanda and the Tens of Thousands that were killed in Serbia...

Why do we have to make money off death ?

Why dont they take all the money and put in on a roulette wheel !

AC/DC

EFDream · 06-04-2006, 08:02 AM

I'll be seeing this one....I reckon it might serve as A) a Tribute B) a form of rembering the events. I see no need to boycott such things.......And as for people profiting....Everyone profits from Everyone else!

Fairlane · 06-04-2006, 10:15 AM

Im sorry, but how many got killed at Pearl Harbour, in December 1941 and look at how many movies have been made from that one (both good, bad and atrocious).

Its nature that eventually someone will make a film about it and in 20 years about 10 will have been made its just how it is unfortunately.

mcflux · 06-04-2006, 10:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AC/DC

Schindlers List
Pearl Harbour
Saving Private Ryan
PLatoon

What about a movie re the Killings of more than 100 000 people in Rwanda and the Tens of Thousands that were killed in Serbia...

Why do we have to make money off death ?

Why dont they take all the money and put in on a roulette wheel !

AC/DC

Well I have no qualms about boycotting Pearl Harbour! What a crap movie that was...

gozza · 06-04-2006, 10:37 AM

how bout they make movies of the US terrorising and sucking countries dry of resources

some people seem to think that 9/11 was the start of "terrorism"

im not saying what happened was right in anyway

im just saying the US has been terrorising countries for years

and no it shouldn't be made into a movie......its war on terror proganda....
fueling hatred

just like jar head.....gloryfiying being a marine...etc etc...killing people is ok...etc etc

im not syaing there the same sort of example...but both a form of propaganda

Shonky · 06-04-2006, 10:37 AM

Let us not forget Black Hawk Down, Three Kings, We were Soldiers... hell even Braveheart...

Lets just boycott every movie ever made of any real life event in which people died.

Im never watching Backdraft (not that its worth watching anyway..) ever again because Firefighters die every year and its dispespectful.

Im not going to watch Jag or NCIS or any of them because they have reference to Soldiers... Soldiers die...

Hell Im not even going to watch Babe... Pigs get killed for food all the time. Its disrespectful to make a movie about pigs.

Lets just sit back in our own little bubble playing Poitically Correct... fat dumb and happy and getting cranky about everything. Pfft.

Sourbastard · 06-04-2006, 10:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gtfpv

whatching the news today i felt sick to my stomach that hollywood has decided to "PROFITEER" out of the events of september 911. and made a blockbuster movie for entertainment. i think it is immoral and disrespectfull to all the victims of all race and religion that were involved and or/ deceased.
I HOPE AUSTRALIANS BOYCOTT THIS MOVIE. I WILL NOT BE SEEING IT.
if people see it or feel differantely to me thats ok . i just think americans will turn everything into a chance to make a movie . and in some cases it shouldnt be done.
it should never be forgotten . but not made into a blockbuster.

:

People profiting from death? That hasnt happened before!

Id show moral outrage buy even my hypocrisy has limits.

flappist · 06-04-2006, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by sourbastard

Id show moral outrage buy even my hypocrisy has limits.

Yeh right........

ON_DUBS · 06-04-2006, 01:02 PM

bit controversial.

sounds boring anyway

Laminge · 06-04-2006, 01:11 PM

Would the scenario be different if a % of profit went back to the lives that have been affected?

Paris Hilton · 06-04-2006, 01:20 PM

Oh noes 9/11.

I can't belive anyone cares.

250,000 people died in the Indonesian Tsunamis, and yet you say that and people are meh, then you mention 9/11 and people go crazy

Damn media.

DivHunter · 06-04-2006, 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gozza

how bout they make movies of the US terrorising and sucking countries dry of resources

some people seem to think that 9/11 was the start of "terrorism"

im not saying what happened was right in anyway

im just saying the US has been terrorising countries for years

and no it shouldn't be made into a movie......its war on terror proganda....
fueling hatred

just like jar head.....gloryfiying being a marine...etc etc...killing people is ok...etc etc

im not syaing there the same sort of example...but both a form of propaganda

If you think that's what Jarhead was about you really didn't get it.

Big Mike · 06-04-2006, 01:42 PM

Isn't it interesting that all the people who are against a movie being made about NineEleven are those not affected by the events in the slightest. On the flip side, family members of the deceased are in full support.

Isn't it interesting that nobody feels as strongly about boycotting crap by Michael Moore, who has become extremely wealthy (READ: PROFITTED) from his books and movies which often (NOT ALWAYS) twist actual events into complete bullИИИИ - and not light-heartedly either, rather a serious attempt at corrupting people into believing his crap. Want examples? Gladly, just ask me.

I pay to see very few movies. I am perfectly happy watching the epic adventure a month or two later on DVD, or six months earlier via torrent. Simply not watching the movie, regardless its cost, acheives nothing but reinforcing one's ignorance of the situation.

DivHunter · 06-04-2006, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by slection

Oh noes 9/11.

I can't belive anyone cares.

250,000 people died in the Indonesian Tsunamis, and yet you say that and people are meh, then you mention 9/11 and people go crazy

Damn media.

How many movies are being made about it?

But really it's a movie, get over it. Like people have said how many WW1, WW2, Korea, Nam etc etc etc movies have been made? How many movies based on actual murders and serial killers? Get a grip, it's a movie, woop di doo, you don't have to watch it and neither does anyone else but that doesn't give anyone the right to tell people not to watch it (or indeed stop anyone from making it unless it was a complete work of fiction and someone else had the intellectual property).

On a side note, screw Indonesia, Australia should support an independence movement on every island that was forcibly and brutally invaded by Indonesia. We did exactly what the US did in the middle east, traning our future enemy's elite when we should have been putting them down.

EFDream · 06-04-2006, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Mike

Isn't it interesting that all the people who are against a movie being made about NineEleven are those not affected by the events in the slightest. On the flip side, family members of the deceased are in full support.

Isn't it interesting that nobody feels as strongly about boycotting crap by Michael Moore, who has become extremely wealthy (READ: PROFITTED) from his books and movies which often (NOT ALWAYS) twist actual events into complete bullИИИИ - and not light-heartedly either, rather a serious attempt at corrupting people into believing his crap. Want examples? Gladly, just ask me.

I pay to see very few movies. I am perfectly happy watching the epic adventure a month or two later on DVD, or six months earlier via torrent. Simply not watching the movie, regardless its cost, acheives nothing but reinforcing one's ignorance of the situation.

Right there with you on that one.....

4.9 EF Futura · 06-04-2006, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slection

250,000 people died in the Indonesian Tsunamis, and yet you say that and people are meh, then you mention 9/11 and people go crazy

Damn media.

Tsunamis were a natural disaster. 9/11 was an amazingly executed plan to hit the western world right where it hurt. I mean - flying planes full of people into buildings??? That's so twisted, the mind boggles.

The difference should be obvious whithout having the media spell it out for you. I mean not to detract from the horror of the asian tsunamis but your question seems somewhat facetious.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Mike

Isn't it interesting that nobody feels as strongly about boycotting crap by Michael Moore, who has become extremely wealthy (READ: PROFITTED) from his books and movies which often (NOT ALWAYS) twist actual events into complete bullИИИИ - and not light-heartedly either, rather a serious attempt at corrupting people into believing his crap. Want examples? Gladly, just ask me.

I cant stand michael moore or what he stands for. Anti-corporattion, ant-government but its ok for him to splash out $5mio US for an apartment in NYC.... some of the stuff he did in bowling for columbine really really pushed my limit of comfort... farenheit was a joke... the big one was pretty cool tho...

Having said this, i do find his movies entertaining and will watch them when they get to DVD/Foxtel. But taken with a large portion of salt. I feel sorry for anyone who is swept of their feet by his unbelievably biased depictions of "fact".

GTFPV - i applaud your sentiments and agree that the events should never be forgotten... something like a movie can make for a sound tribute tho, a solemn celebration.

I'll watch the movie and go from there. I truly hope its not an over-americansed (or is that Americanized??) uncle-sam-is-our-hero type movie. I hope they manage to find a sound compromise between entertainment and respect.

crusher · 06-04-2006, 02:49 PM

Im gonna watch it. If it comes out on dvd that is. not gonna pay to see it at the movies. too expensive.

What a bunch of crap is being spewed forth. Its about people who had the balls to stand up and try to take back the plane. Good on em.

And nine eleven? Since when did all you blokes, who would all call yourselves aussies and proud of it, turn into yanks? September eleventh. 11-9. Sick of aussies turning into seppos. "Zee" instead of "Zed" really annoys the crap out of me. But whatever.

Dont wanna see it then dont. Let people make up there own mind about seeing it and dont pressure people into boycotting because you have a problem. People do that way to much. They have a problem so everyone must have a problem with it.

meh.

Mack 6 · 06-04-2006, 02:59 PM

I'll wait til the reviews about how the actual film is befroe I see it.
I can understand not wantingto see it becasue of the memories of the people that died, but it also may explain things a little clearer.

I'm hoping that it (in it's 90-100minutes) reveal how the plot was orchestrated and a bit of a background about the events that led to the day. Maybe it will help people to recognise similar circumstances and prevet a similar tragedy.

I think it should finish as the planes hit and not show any of the aftermath if they don't want to bring up bad memories.

BENT_8 · 06-04-2006, 03:02 PM

The film companies will try to make money out of anythingand the yanks are the worst of the lot
They always try to glorify their defeats as acts of terrorism yet they are responsible for the greatest act of terrorism known to man in their bombing of the japanese people.
The effects of the Hiroshima atomic bombing is still being felt half a decade on.
yes it was a retaliation but Perl Harbor was a military target but downtown Hiroshima isn't.
Where are all the movies about that

AC · 06-04-2006, 03:13 PM

I think if anyone were to depict this event is should the people who do Air Crash Investigations.
Anyone who has seen the program will know where im coming from.

It has been 5 years already and the commemorations at G/Zero are getting lesser and lesser attendance. My better halfs God Father lives a few blocks from there and has reported to us that attendee's last time were mainly family, locals and tourisits.

So i dont think it is too soon or too late to release such a film.
I mean theres already a few videos available to buy on DVD.

http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/785825
and
http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/221510

Im sure those are not the only two.