Hale-XF11
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Gotta cash in on tragedies while they're still hot.
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Peter Berg to direct Boston Marathon Bombing movie
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Gotta cash in on tragedies while they're still hot.
Subpar Spatula
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To be blunt the bombers are the most important aspect of this story. Without them this doesn't take place. You can focus on the victims but then you're not actually trying to understand or even show why these bombings took place. It's like doing a movie on BTK and focusing on his victims.
Yeah this is way too soon for a movie, if ever really. Like I get it if like 20+ years from now they do one as there would be a ton of people who weren't alive, or old enough, to know the events. Plus after time more information about the events, testimonies and what not can add new information and insight for even those who were around and aware of the events when they happened. But barely a two years after is kind of sick.
Even the 9/11 movies took 4 years after to have movies about them.
TheLostBigBoss
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20+ years?
We got a 9/11 film five years after the event, and ~3000 people died in some of the most horrific ways possible.
Yeah that shit did not need to be made, twice. Wait make that 3 times since there was also the Nick Cage film as well as the two planes films.
TheLostBigBoss
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Something loud and really close?
The one where the marketing slogan was literally, "This isn't a 9/11 movie!!!"
The Albatross
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As someone who vividly remembers that day, I have no interest in watching either of these movies. Best wishes to those looking forward to them.
Flight 93 was a competing made for TV movie that was announced and developed around the same time of United 93 and came out a few months before it.
Well even though that movie is fucking terrible, it at least it's not just a reenactment of the events for no good reason, but a look at how it affected people.
Miles Quaritch
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How long until we see a movie about the Charleston massacre?
I mean, it can't be far off. We've had movies about 9/11 and we're getting movies about Benghazi and now Boston. Surely Charleston isn't unlikely at this point.
I mean, it can't be far off. We've had movies about 9/11 and we're getting movies about Benghazi and now Boston. Surely Charleston isn't unlikely at this point.
Same here. Why would we glorify an event like this by bothering to make a movie about it?
A documentary? Perhaps. A dramatic movie? Tacky as hell.
TheLostBigBoss
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You just solved years of confusion.
For years I remember watching a movie where it ended with some farmer dude seeing United 93 crash, and then every time I see the ending of United 93 it just ends with an instant cut to black.
For fucks sake, three movies in development based on the bombing.
Americans sure love their tragedy porn.
Shining too much light on racial issues, not so much.
Americans sure love their tragedy porn.
Shining too much light on racial issues, not so much.
Discotheque
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Let alone 3. They all sounding like shit
He filmed that movie right next to my house in Mesa. The part where they get attacked on the freeway is the 202 in Mesa, Az lol.
old manatee
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I hope they do it from the perspective of the bombers so that we can still get an uplifting ending with Chariots of Fire playing.
That movie was such ass, couldn't even finish it. United 93 was actually pretty good though.
triplestation
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Christian bale and Tom hardy as the brothers pls
TheLostBigBoss
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This happens a lot, it's why you saw two astroid movies at the same time, studios compete with the same concept trying to get most of the pie (or a piece of it)
triplestation
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I bet u 20 peice chicken nuggets shia lebouf will be cast as Boston marathon
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