I’m not sure my delicate psyche could take another hit. I think I’ll just put a Hopey-Change bumper sticker on the truck and join the approved masses.

Bishop on July 27, 2009 at 11:42 AM

Netanyahu cited assimilation and intermarriage as the main reasons for the statement on Thursday. He cautioned American financial supporters of the IDF Nahal hareidi program to work especially against assimilation in their communities.

The message we need to send about United 93 is that we aren’t satisfied with watching fake heroes – we have real ones, and we want to see more of them….

I heard the Rush Limbaugh interview with the director of this movie and I thought it was interesting that Rush had to ask him what was his point of view of terrorism and terrorist. Hmmmm…shouldn’t that have been obvious from his movie?

Still feeling there’s something wrong with this film…

We went to see the movie today (Sunday), yet this isn’t a review. Indeed, it’s impossible to “review” this movie, because it’s not a movie in the normal sense of the word: there is no plot per se, no story,……

But I couldn’t cry during United 93: there was simply no time . . . I walked six miles to see it. It was worth every step….

What would you do? In that place in your mind, that you usually don’t discuss with people at parties, what choice would you make? This is certainly not about those mundane everyday choices like what you want for dinner, what fabric softener you shou….

A Better Review of “United 93″ Than I Can Do

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On the morning of September 11th, a planeful of people whose flight had been hijacked by Jihadi terrorists realized what was at stake, organized themselves, and acted. Instead of dying like sheep as their plane was crashed into the Capitol or White …..

The short review? A must see. Period. To me, this movie represents several things. First, it’s LONG overdue. The cries of “too soon” shouted at movie screen previews several weeks ago are ridiculous. If anything, it’s almost “too late”. Our……

United 93 should win the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay Adaptation. The film is brilliant. Like Joe Friday, the film tells the facts, just the facts. You are left to judge the facts on their…

Jennifer and I just got back from seeing United 93. I’m not normally an opening weekend movie goer. Heck, I’m not typically a movie goer, period. But this is different. America has forgotten what that morning was like, and this movie brings…

I just got done seeing United 93. I don’t mind telling you that I hate them. I truly hate them. If I could get my hands on a jihadist right now, I would easily and gladly kill him. I never……

Just saw the movie United 93 tonight – I’ll do a full review later, but I still need to process it.

All I want to say right now is that this movie hits like a haymaker – and that’s why the movie was so good. It’ll make you tense, shocked, and tea…

Proving that Hollywood and the Elite Liberals in this country are full of hooey, Flight 93, opening in only 1795 theaters, grossed an estimated $11.6 million this weekend beating out Disney’s “Stick It” for 2nd place below Robin Willi…

I just pray that no other American has to watch as that green, grassy field approaches before everything goes dark. This is not just a reminder, folks….it’s a warning. It’s not a matter of “if” anymore…. but of “when.”…

So when the hijacker pulled out what looked to be a three inch blade, I was truly disappointed. It is widely known the hijackers had nothing more than boxcutters and fake bombs. The problem is, boxcutters are exactly that–meant to cut boxes and not at all threatening looking. I can just see the director when they started with boxcutters, saying something like “Gee those things just don’t look threatening enough. Somebody get me a three inch blade.”

So for me at least, taking any liberty with the details leaves me to wonder what other liberties the script takes.

But the biggest thought I came away with from watching the first local showing (My plates say LS ROLL, the frame says “My other hero is a Beamer, Todd”) is that a much more relevant movie could have been made starring James Woods AS HIMSELF.

Why? Because, although not widely known, James Woods was flying first class some weeks before 9/11 and sat amongst a group of men whom he believed were there to plan a hijacking!

So when this actor who clocks in with Stanford Binet around 160, went to the authorities, they of course did not listen. How you write off the good faith beliefs of a well-known, highly articulate, intelligent professional is the real story of incompetence at the highest levels of law enforcement that allowed 9/11 to happen.

For scene segway, go to Minnesota and the frustrated local FBI agents who weren’t even allowed to apply to a magistrate for a search warrant because ever since the cross-dresser ran the place, all decisions were and still are, made at headquarters.

Sure, the reality was the flight controllers were caught off-guard. And maybe that’s high drama. But no matter how hard you root, that ending is a foregone conclusion.

Now the Woods movie? The happy ending? It would be the epilogue where all the dead wood from all the worthless law enforcement bureacracies that allowed this tragedy to happen are listed as having been fired or force retired.

Sadly though, as far as I know, that epilogue, as of today, would be over quicker than the popcorn subliminal the theater snuck in during the movie previews.

The dead wood never did go up in smoke. Heads never rolled. Maybe a movie about the incompetency of law enforcement at the highest levels that allowed this to happen would be more useful than Flight 93 in preventing anything remotely like this from happening again in the future.

While it was odd for me to watch the terrorists reading the Koran and praying and preparing to do what they did, but it is certainly realistic. Is was intense, misplaced religious zeal that led to the hijackings. That honesty was necessary in the movie.

Greengrass’s film is appropriately respectful and painfully honest. The audience applauded afterward in the theater I watched it in.

If you haven’t seen it, I encourage you to.

One other strikingly tense moment was when they flashed between the muslim hijackers praying on the plane, the terrified Christians reciting the Lord’s Prayer, and Catholics reciting the rosary in a battle of religions.

This was an outstanding piece of work.

Go. See. This. Film.

Allah is collecting bloggers’ United 93 reviews here…….

Me and jay-Lady and the red-headed (non-step)child went to see United 93 Friday night. It was the quietist audience I have ever heard, even compared to when I went to see The Passion of the Christ. Go see it. It……