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This movie lost me in the first five minutes

posted 9 years ago by Mccadoo
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I've always meant to watch this movie, not a must see but back when it was released the promos looked interesting.

A week ago I was home sick, it was on cable, I thought great, finally get to watch it. Then in the first few minutes of the movie they actually had the incredible bad taste to use actual footage of the space shuttle Columbia breaking up on re-entry. That was it for me.

To use actual video of real live people dying in a movie? If Nicole Kidman's mother, father, brother, whatever, was murdered on video think she would object to it being used as a plot device in a cheesy movie? Pretty sure she would. Would any of you want video of one of your loved ones dying a horrible death used by Hollywood to further a plot line? If you say yes you're a lying low life or, if you're not lying you're just a lowlife.

It is the epitome of bad taste and a perfect example of how completely dis-associated Hollywood is with the real world. The shear narcissism and thoughtlessness of it would astound me if it weren't Hollywood that had done it. They live in their own little world and as far as they're concerned anything they want to do is fine and dandy, all those leaked Sony emails a few years ago proved that didn't they.

So I never did see the movie and I never will, and if anyone out there is thinking of defending this, or telling me I'm being over sensitive or that I'm a jerk or just out of touch or something, look in a mirror, because you're what's wrong with this world today, you and others who think like you. Oh, and also, kiss my a*@ss.

[–] Conundrum-NSA 8 years ago

I know this is an old post, but I also thought this was incredibly bad taste.

Welcome to the internet, everyone knows everything, and no one likes anything

[–] skat1140 8 years ago

Ever see a WW2 movie-- where they use real footage? Hiroshima, even. Or a natural disaster that incurred casualties. It's kind of the same thing.

I take your point, even more so since this movie was released in 2007, only several years after the actual event.

However, can we now watch it, in 2016? Most people nowadays will not notice that it's actual footage. (Sadly, they will barely even remember the Columbia disaster.) If they're impressed by the effect, they'll probably even assume "its CGI."