World Trade Center: Movie Review and so Much More

MY MOVIE REVIEW

First here's a short movie review. Normally, I loathe movie reviews, doing them, reading them, and what have you. But without giving away the plot of the movie, here are some thoughts on World Trade Center…

I just got back home from Oliver Stone's impressive new film, World Trade Center. So I thought I write down some thought, you could call it a movie review if you wanted to I guess. I give the film 3 and half stars and a B+, one and thumbs and my blessing. I thought it was a harrowing account of a specific story; probably the best way to tackle such a horrendous incident.

SO MUCH MORE

The following was written before the movies release…

August 9th marks the debut of Oliver Stone's new movie "World Trade Center," a film that everyone seems to have an opinion about, myself included.

For what it's worth, most of the reviews I've seen for this movie have been positive if not downright glowing. I think the majority of the critical landscape feel that it's okay to make a movie about 9/11. Oliver Stone isn't even the first one to do so, shockingly enough. That distinction goes to Peter Greengrass, the dude who made The Bourne Supremacy. His film United 93 took a look at the plane that crashed in the fields of Pennsylvania after passengers overtook the terrorists.

I still haven't seen that movie but rest assured it's not for the reasons that a lot of people haven't; I just didn't get around to it. There is a large group of people who feel that it is just way to soon to start pumping out what I'll call 9/11 or World Trade Center Art.

If film is considered, in the traditional sense, an art form then we should look at these movies from that angle. I don't think there was a large conservative outcry when artists, grieving relatives and solemn mourners alike started to create impromptu paintings in the subways and on city walls in New York. "It's too soon," people say. "Don't these movie folks have any respect for the dead?" To which I would respond, how long should we wait?