Flight 9/11

In the long Hollywood tradition exploiting tragedies for the sake of money, making stuff up if they don’t know what actually happened and all around screwing up, Hollywood has made yet another movie based on the tragedy that was 9/11. For those of you who aren’t completely up to speed on all the facts of 9/11 (and it was already 4-5 years ago so I can’t blame you), Flight 93 was the plane hijacked that was going to fly into the White House presumably and crashed in Pennsylvania instead when the passengers revolted and overpowered the hijackers. “Flight 93” is a movie based on that very event showing us what the passengers went through and since Hollywood is full of good and honest people, I’m sure we can get an accurate account what they went through.

WRONG. Let me elaborate: No one survived that crash. Therefore, no one was there to testify how things actually went after the fact. No one can really tell the story. All we have, or most of what we have, is a few bits and pieces of information gathered by certain relatives of the hijackers who received phone calls from them during the hijacking. Other than that, we know not of what happened. Yet the people over in Tinseltown think they can tell the story. And I don’t care if anyone making this movie comes out and says “Oh, this is just an estimate of what happened. We don’t know what really happened.” I say this because the fact remains that they’re passing this off like it’s true. They’re gonna make things look more or less heroic than they actually were, they’re gonna get things wrong left and right and probably not many people who see the movie will realize this.

See, this is the same problem I had with “The Perfect Storm.” Before that ship went down, the only contact the crew had was a radio contact with another ship that had trouble making out what they had to say. The person who wrote the book it was based on couldn’t even have known everything that happened on that ship because they were never there when it happened. And that movie came out with not so much as a disclaimer saying that the movie might be wrong about something. Chances are, neither will “Flight 93.” Add on the fact that the people making this movie will definitely be in it for the money (If they give proceedings to the afflicted families or something, chances are it won’t be much in comparison), you’ve got Hollywood whoring out the tragedy of 9/11 again. Sick. Just sick.