Flight 93 better than United 93

I am quite shocked to hear your opinion, but it says much about most of the consumers today.

FLIGHT is a manipulative product that plays the whole set of emotional standards like a piano.
This would be okay for the typical TV-soap-audience - but is is inexcusable in face of the background of the story.

UNITED is a raw and existential glimpse into the face of reality.
It makes me sad that most people are so disneyfied that they don't feel it deep inside their hearts.

If you cannot stand the impact of UNITED - no problem.

But please stop comparing the two films then.
It is a slap in the face for the real victims of that day.

Both movies are good, but i prefer Flight 93 myself since the emotional break we all had that day was felt much stronger because we have the passengers fears of not knowing what was going on and the fear of their familys for losing them. I cried from the moment the first call was made after the highjack until the end of the movie, and i did not on united 93. I need to cry in movies like this, if i do not then it is not that touching as it should be.


But that's my opinion

"Flight 93", in my opinion, was nothing more than a soap opera. While the production values for this made-for-TV movie were good, the acting wasn't all that great and the events portrayed were embellished for story telling. There are a lot of factual inaccuracies. For one...the TV reports shown in the scenes showcasing the families never happened. No one in the media knew that United 93 was hijacked while it was still in the air. The hijackers looked more hispanic than they did Arabic. There is only one reference to Allah in the entire movie. Had this movie been a piece of fiction we would have never known why the planes were being hijacked and rammed into buildings. The driving force behind "Flight 93" is the conversations between the passengers and their loved ones on the ground. It works for a while but after about a half hour of it you start wishing they would just charge the cockpit and be done with it. When they finally do charge the cockpit it is both melodramatic and anti-climatic.


"United 93", on the other hand, is the definitive 9/11 film. It captures the horror and confusion of that day. The military as well as the civilian government had no clue what was going on and seemed powerless to do anything. The movie shows this and then contrasts it with what is going on onboard United 93. These passengers know that they are a part of a suicide mission and decide to do something about it. The acting is very natural and makes it feel like we are actually there on the plane with the real-life passengers of that day. The final scene in which the passengers try to re-claim the plane from the hijackers is one of the most dramatic and powerful five and a half minutes in cinema history.

"Oh, *beep*! I picked a cute one!" --Penguin, "Batman Returns"

You people need to separate good movie making from personal emotions. It's obvious a lot of you feel strongly about 911 (rightfully so) so it was easy for the movie makers to manipulate your feelings and get the reactions they wanted out of you.

When it comes to the actual quality of the movie it simply isn't that good.

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I completely agree! I can't believe that a television movie, made on a quarter of the budget of Universal's United 93, could be so much better.

The casting seemed to be much better, I immediately warmed to the flight attendants and principle passengers.

There are only theories as to what actually took place on the plane. The phone calls made by the passengers only revealed some of the story.

An example of the different interpretations is that in United 93, the stewardess the hijackers attack to move toward the cockpit is brutally killed. In Flight 93, she is not, and is released toward the back of the plane.

The fact that Flight 93 focuses on the stories 'on the ground' with friends and families is the unique selling point for this film. It took me on an emotional roller-coaster no other film has done for quite some time.

I have since bought Flight 93 on DVD.


Fantastic film, truly enjoyed.

gameguru, UK.

I haven't seen "United 93" but watched this film last night on A&E, and I was pleasantly surprised at how restrained it was; it so easily could have devolved into histrionics, but I found it very believable. The terrible stress that people were under came across with a lot of realism. I also enjoyed seeing lots of actors from the Vancouver contingent, many of whom I'd enjoyed in "Da Vinci's Inquest," "Intelligence" and other great Canadian TV shows. Overall, very well done.

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