Does this movie seem like a bad idea to anyone else? Sure, there have movies about other historic disasters, but this just feels different.

First, it’s just too soon. After less than five years, September 11th still evokes strong emotional response. Perhaps this is a movie that could be made 10, 20, 50 years after the event, when there is a generation that doesn’t remember a time where you could go through airport security without taking off your shoes and throwing away your nail clippers.

Second, the events of September 11th is not a day anyone will soon forget. Unlike an event like Pearl Harbor, the world experienced 9/11 in real time. We all sat in front of our televisions in shock as we watched video of the planes hitting the World Trade Center. Over. And over. And over. Everyone will forever remember where they were when the planes hit the WTC. I think this may be the first tragic event where this is true . (Remember, people do not remember where they were when Kennedy was shot. They remember where they were when they heard Kennedy was shot. Even then, they didn’t immediately turn on the television and watch angle after angle of planes colliding with those buildings.)

Third, something I feel very strongly about. This is not (as the site claims) “the story of the fourth” plane. This is a story about what may have happened on the fourth plane. I feel that it disrespects the memory of the passengers of Flight 93 to pretend to know what happened. While we can deduce that some number of passengers did an extraordinarily brave thing, we just don’t know . “Let’s roll” is not a story. It’s a sound byte. We should honor their actions with a memorial, not a movie by the same guy who brought us The Bourne Supremacy.

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