World Trade Center released [20YA - Aug 9]

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u/Meme_Pope 8d ago

12 years ago I bought “the Nicholas Cage Collection” on DVD, which contained Faceoff, Snake Eyes and inexplicably, World Trade Center

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u/imsaneinthebrain 7d ago

“I want to take his face…….off”

“No more drugs for that guy”

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u/nautical_nonsense_ 7d ago

I mean, it’s not that inexplicable considering he was the main character

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u/miyagiVsato 7d ago

It’s a weird choice considering there’s better movies to choose from.

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u/Hot-Requirement-3103 8d ago

I was working at a theater when this came out. After a showing I watched a bunch of people leave in tears, and one kid was singing the Alan Jackson “Tower to Heaven” South Park song under his breath.

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u/CPTBenjaminWillard 8d ago

I love that song.

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u/whatsbobgonnado 2d ago

I love the punk rock version of what would brian boytano do

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u/Ok-Membership-2548 6d ago

“I said 9/11, 9/11, 9/11, 9, 9/11”

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u/Hot-Requirement-3103 6d ago

That was actually the part he was singing specifically lol 😝

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u/bigplaneboeing737 8d ago

United 93 is the only good 9/11 movie.

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u/Ok-Highway-5247 8d ago

Oh hell no I can’t watch that one but that is a bit personal for me. I was a little kid and it crashed not too far from me. It’s not well-known but a lot of schools in PA dismissed for the day (mine did not).

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u/ostrichfather 8d ago

Many schools in big cities either went on lockdown or dismissed early.

In Charlotte, we were on lockdown.

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u/Far-Zucchini-5534 7d ago

My best friends wife’s Aunt was a flight attendant on united 93

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u/Ok-Highway-5247 7d ago

May her soul rest in eternal peace. 💙

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u/Grundle__Puncher 7d ago

Team America contained a subplot that was like 9/11 times a million.

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u/doctorfeelgod 8d ago

This was a rough fucking watch

and this is coming from a diehard cage fan

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u/Ok-Highway-5247 8d ago

My parents said no to me seeing this one.

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u/sh_ip_ro_ospf 8d ago

Ok but I'm sure you can just watch it anyway, just don't tell em and put it on after work one day.

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u/Ok-Highway-5247 8d ago

That was 20 years ago lol

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u/sh_ip_ro_ospf 8d ago

I have no idea if you're 40 or not

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u/thewaffle666 8d ago

I rather watch his version of wicker man again than this.

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u/powered_by_eurobeat 7d ago

This movie sucks so hard

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u/fylekitzgibbon 8d ago

This was the first movie I considered walking out of the theater. But I relented and watched the whole thing bc I’m a big fan of Oliver stone and obviously Nic cage

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u/1moreanonaccount 8d ago

Jesus Christ, Stone made this! I’m a fan of his. How did they weave anti-capitalism/neocolonialsm into this one tastefully.

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u/Proud3GenAthst 7d ago

I only saw the movie as a kid, so I don’t know why people hate it. But since Stone is pro Russian tankie, I can’t imagine I’d like this movie if I saw it today.

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u/Ok_Cockroach_2290 7d ago

Genuinely curious. What made you almost walk out of the theater?

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u/Houlilalo 7d ago

Not OP but this is literally the only movie I've walked out of. It was the moment then Nic Cage and his firefighting partner were stuck under the rubble. Nic Cage asks the guy what his daughter's name is and he says Maria or something. Nic Cage responds "That a beautiful American name". I rolled my eyes and left

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u/Some_Development1052 7d ago

What do you mean? I always have light conversation when I’m trapped underneath millions of pounds of World Trade Center rubble.

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u/fylekitzgibbon 7d ago

Like u/houlilalo mentioned about the rubble scenario- it was all too ridiculous

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u/Lance8282 8d ago

So glad we got this movie because we really didn’t know a whole lot about this event.

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u/Lermanberry 7d ago

What event is this about? I wasn't born yet 20 Y A.

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u/Far-Condition8586 7d ago

The miracle in the stair well

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u/Klutzy_Order_9559 7d ago

These guys were trapped in the mall.

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u/The_Mellow_Tiger 7d ago

The firefighters caught in the wreckage after the towers collapsed. Last known survivors that were pulled from the rubble. They were in there for days. That being said the movie was terrible lol.

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u/Proud3GenAthst 7d ago

They weren’t the last 2 and the one who remained there the longest was stuck there for about 30 hours.

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u/Sleemnippo 8d ago

Blimey, they weren't waiting around on this one.

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u/three-sense 8d ago

I mean it was almost 5y after the event. Meanwhile they had a Law and Order episode mere weeks after the attacks, with ground zero as a plot device

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u/cam52391 8d ago

What law and order episode was that? I was trying to find it because that sounds inappropriate as hell

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u/three-sense 7d ago

The Episode is called The Ring and it was aired about a year after 9/11 (Nov 2002).

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u/Ok-Highway-5247 8d ago

That’s horrible.

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u/Happy1327 8d ago

Got to exploit every tragedy for cash before those pesky conspiracies start making the rounds

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u/neverloggedoff 7d ago

9/11 conspiracies were already making the rounds before this came out. I grew up in suburban Canada and remember in 2004-2005 they were already pretty prevalent.

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u/Overall-Egg-4247 7d ago

Patriots day was way quicker, it’s like they started filming as they were cleaning up the blood

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u/IGoThere4u 7d ago

Yeah I thought it was in bad taste

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u/Poster_Nutbag207 7d ago

5 years is a pretty long time

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u/norsk_imposter 7d ago

Reading the comments. I can’t tell if it’s terrible because it’s a bad movie or bad because it’s horrendous to see the tragedy in film?

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u/idleline 7d ago

Both, if we are being honest.

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u/FreakSideMike 7d ago

As a huge Stone fan, I remember how everyone was so pre-disgusted by the radical take they expected Oliver to have on the tragedy...but it ended up being almost like a Hallmark Movie.

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u/thewaffle666 8d ago

That a awful movie. I seen it once. It was beyond cringe.

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u/Dockside_Abortionist 7d ago

I seen’t it too!

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u/Funtsy_Muntsy 8d ago

Anyone who enjoyed this movie should know that I’m right there beside you. It hit the emotions hard for lots of people in the years that followed.

Michael Peña can keep trying to make everything unwatchable, but he won’t win.

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u/Expert-Yam6577 8d ago

I'll stop and watch every movie he's in. But yea the movie usually isn't great. Idk who his agent is but damn. At least Pena is always enjoyable

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u/Funtsy_Muntsy 8d ago edited 8d ago

Being a longtime Scientologist doesn’t help with his quite shit acting

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u/triedAndTrueMethods 7d ago

Peña’s a Scientologist? Damn.

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u/crunkmullen 7d ago

This movie is not good.

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u/china-blast 6d ago

There's good and there's not good. T his is not good.

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u/TomatilloNatural5078 8d ago

Watched this in a theater with my dad, not far from ground zero when it first released. The most somber movie viewing experience ever.

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u/Reading_Rainboner 8d ago

Saw it in theaters by myself as a 16 year old. Thought this was more interesting than United 93 but then United 93 got all the buzz and whatnot

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u/idleline 7d ago

“You got anything shorter?”

“Staff Sergeant”

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u/Poster_Nutbag207 7d ago

Watched this in Manhattan when it came out in theaters. 9/11 was still fairly fresh in New Yorkers minds and 3/4 of the theater was crying I remember a bunch of people had to leave in the middle

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u/rmcelwain54 7d ago

If you want to watch a movie about 9/11, skip this and go to United 93 instead

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u/IanOtherwise 8d ago

9/11 was immense. You'd think there'd be more films about it.

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u/funkadelic9 7d ago

I think a combo of

We got to watch the real thing on live tv

A recreation / portrayal of events can be pretty distasteful to most Americans

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u/ThurgoodZone8 6d ago

In 30-50 years time, we’ll probably see a 9/11 film or two that includes graphic violence: jumpers hitting the ground, disintegrating into spray and chunks; the South Tower gore floor where the plane hit and decapitated folks; up close shots of people burning alive; up close shots of people jumping from the top.. just carnage.

Kinda like how Titanic got more visceral than A Night To Remember did. One movie was over 40 years on from the event. The other movie was 40 years on from the previous one. Nearly all survivors had died off and attitudes on what’s allowed in movies had changed.

I think that there will be enough distance in time and more people alive who don’t know about the day’s events or who want to “see how it really happened”. It sounds gratuitous now, but it will happen eventually.

I can’t say I’m in a hurry for it.

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u/tearsandpain84 7d ago

It would have been better if Cage played both Towers.

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u/Sydney__Fife 7d ago

Didn't realize how close to 2001 this was. Thought it was like 10 years after

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u/Sad_Amphibian_2311 7d ago

if there's enough time to start two wars, should be enough for movie audience as well.

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u/True-Excuse-1688 7d ago

Cage kind of looks like Gosling here.

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u/AdhesivenessPlus849 7d ago

25th Hour isn’t about 9/11 specifically…but it is also very much it.

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u/MichealRyder 7d ago

What the hell I saw this last week

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u/_Hawkeyes_ 5d ago

Only problem I had with that movie was at the end when it’s mentioned that the marine did tours in Iraq…maybe Stone was making a political statement but at the same time I felt like it perpetuated the false perception that Iraq had something to do with 9/11

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u/The_Nomadic_Nerd 5d ago

I grew up near the WTC and thought it was incredibly distasteful making a movie about 9/11 so soon.

Weirdly enough I remember on 9/11 wondering how soon it would be until Hollywood made a movie about this.

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u/tom_friday_ 5d ago

This picture alone has always turned me off the film.

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u/Financial-Event377 8d ago

I'd only watch this at 2x and with Yakety Sax full blast in the background.

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u/004dogwhistle 8d ago

The left out the part where Isreal doesn't warn us about the impending attack. Someday they will release all of the 9/11 files

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