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[cleolinda]

'Ice Age' Debut Nets $70.5M in Cold Cash. Meanwhile, Basic Instinct 2 makes $3 million. Yes, "three," single digit. An interesting theory I'm hearing from a couple of different places: in a nutshell, why pay $7-10 to see Sharon Stone naked in a crap movie when you can get porn on the internet for free?

United 93 trailer hitting too close to home"I

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[leucocrystal]

United 93 trailer hitting too close to home? "One lady was crying. She was saying we shouldn't have [played the trailer]. That this was wrong ... I don't think people are ready for this."

I seriously doubt audiences are ready for it, either.  As far as I know, there are two different 9/11 films in the works -- United 93 (or as I think of it, The One Directed By That Guy Who Directed Bourne Supremacy, which is actually a plus in my book), and one to be directed by Oliver Stone (which is a major, major minus in just about anyone's book, lol).  One is more than enough, I'm thinking.

I think there are several reasons people just plain aren't ready yet -- but the main ones that jump to mind are (a) it's only been five years.  COME ON., and (b) we were overloaded by the media coverage of 9/11 unlike any other event in U.S. history.

I think WWII films differ from this sort of thing in regards to that latter reason -- they cover something that's mainly recalled only by the memory of the survivors.  9/11 on the other hand was something we were practically soaking in for days, weeks, months... to the point where people just didn't want to see anymore.  Most people just couldn't take another horrific image at that point.

Now, if you ask me, something that everyone had so much exposure to, such as 9/11, is the last thing you should be making a gritty and eerily accurate film about, especially when it's only been five years since it happened.  In short, I doubt it's going to matter who's behind the camera -- it's just the wrong choice right now, and will be for many more years.