re-evaluation after 9/11?
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Muttley007 — 16 years ago(April 27, 2009 04:29 PM)
I think its the greatest movie ever that represents the world as it is.
And never thought about the year of this movie being made until I saw this post.
So hollywood knew what was wrong and how to make it right..
The writer of this script is the ideal candidate for President( or at least for Ministry of foreign affairs.)
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mddelisle — 16 years ago(June 29, 2009 05:39 PM)
Quite interesting. Watching a few films like this put them under a different light after 9/11. We view it back then, thinking: No way will this crap ever come to our land. America is a superpower, impregnable and cautious.
After 9/11, you say: What could we have done?
Movies like this that were just entertainment, now seem somber.
The similarities are just so circumstantial. Yet you see them and think: Wow.
Back then I'd view this as 3/10. A new perspective puts this as 8/10.
You take a chance getting up in the morning, crossing the street or sticking your face in a fan. -
DevilsAndDragons — 16 years ago(July 21, 2009 10:20 AM)
We all sat and wathced this movie whether pre 9/11 or post and thought at one point, " not here not in our own borders".
What seemed impossible became probable. This movie is alone a good look at the system that allows harm and tries to understand it after the fact.
This movie also showed us mans" darker side,that when the chips are down and the cards are dealt will those who can do something help or harm?
This shows that our governemtn in all our power maybe got to big for our own good. We came from small country and grew to a super power-we lost sight of that and a finatic took advantage.
I dont know what scares me more-this movies almost pure accurate image of what can happen or the on point image of what has happened and what will happen if things remian unchecked.
The imprisonment of the Arabs in the NY area for striaght line fear has happened in this movie just like when WWII hit in the same with the Japanese, are we really to beleive it wont happen again?
No No NO it cant happen again or no that wont happen
Those same words are said before 9-11, now which one seems more real?
We all saw the horror of 9-11 but this movie almost seesm like a prohecy now. Do you think maybe the terrorist knew this too and played that card as well?
stupid was a crime most would get double life and the electric chair -
speedolitec — 15 years ago(August 07, 2010 05:47 AM)
I hate to say it and to even think it, but the reality is we haven't seen the end of things like this, whether it's something huge or something like the Times Square bombing that almost happened. It's almost mind boggling to me now that not even 9 years after the most catastrophic attack in America's history, people have already become so complacent. I hope there won't be another attack, but it's just naive to think that.
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speedolitec — 15 years ago(October 07, 2010 04:09 PM)
I saw it when it came out, and don't remember thinking that it was far fetched at all.
Well, I guess back then I was guilty of being one of the people who thought of terrorism as one of those things that happened in other countries. I suppose I was still too young and a little naieve about those things. -
Director-21 — 15 years ago(January 17, 2011 10:49 PM)
I've been active on IMDB for over a decade and the one thing I remember changing after 9/11 was the comments about the film.
Pre - 9/11 the user reviews section (did they even have a BB back than or was it just user reviews back in 1999?) was people calling the movie racist and intolerant because it dared to paint terrorists wanting to strike at the US as being fundamentalist Muslims.
Post - 9/11 it was just the opposite. Far right conservatives were frothing at the mouth about how much "liberal propaganda" this movie was; for daring to suggest that not all Muslims are terrorists or that rounding up every "A-rab" in the city wasn't the best way to fight terrorism. -
katsarewild1991 — 13 years ago(September 09, 2012 08:21 PM)
Well, the first time I watched this movie was today, which is will be 11 years after 9/11 in 2 days. The fact that it was made in 1998 is what remains in my mind, it was only 3 short years before one of the most horrific events in American history.
We are still living in an unstable society, full of paranoia and remaining anti-Islamic sentiment and a broken way of life. In a way, those terrorist did win, they took what our nation's way of life was about. Our economy changed almost immediately, we entered a recession, our military entered one of the longest wars since Vietnam full of endless controversies. Though we never had cities closed off like Brooklyn in the film, we felt and are still feeling the effect of those terrorist effects that happened in 2001, 11 years later.
But, to answer the OP's question, my opinion remains the same I guess since I already watched it after 2011. I was 7 in 98, so I wouldn't have understood it to this extent anyway.
However, I feel that there are Deveraux's in charge of our Military that have not been called out and captured. I saw some really dark moments, such as the Army's judgement that feels like it is really happening, despite my limited knowledge as a citizen. -
TMC-4 — 9 years ago(September 11, 2016 03:50 AM)