I just saw a commercial for it, and was trying to sort out my feelings. Which are mostly that I don't know if the movie being made is a good thing or a bad thing or some complicated mishmash of good and bad, but I know I don't want to see it. So I won't.

Because I don't find, for instance, Schindler's List or Life is Beautiful to be exploitive.

I sure found Life is Beautiful exploitive. And noxious. Basically unforgiveable.

Well, I like "Rescue Me" and Leary and Tolan have been writing about 9/11 the whole time.( But I'm also a sick fucker who laughed because they only found the cousin's thumb and somebody made a joke about it.) But, in actuality, of course that show is about the aftermath, anyway. What it means to be a survivor...what a hero is, well, in between the nudity and jokes about transvestites.(Ok, so I'm not quite a poor man's Corwood. Arrest me.) But I still agree that building towers and blowing them up in your movie seems crass, but I'm not sure why that feels different except that everything Oliver Stone is a lot Too Much.

I won't go see World Trade Center because it's Oliver Stone, and I detest Oliver Stone. I have zero confidence in him to tell this story with the kind of sensitivity it requires, now or 50 years from now. I do plan on renting United 93, for whenver it will be that I may feel up to watching it without having a panic attack.

Everyone has their comfort level with this type of stories. I deliberated quite a bit before going to see Hotel Rwanda, and while the movie had its flaws, I was ultimately glad I went to see it.

I won't go see World Trade Center because it's Oliver Stone, and I detest Oliver Stone.

Well, there's that, too.

It's still too soon for me, but there are personal reasons for that. I think, in general, it's too soon for these movies, but for anyone who may find them cathartic, all to the good.

I just ... I can't watch the commercials without wanting to cry, because I still remember that day very, very clearly.

I won't go see World Trade Center because it's Oliver Stone, and I detest Oliver Stone.

I'm with you there, too. I don't like his movies, as a rule, and this is a subject that really requires delicate handling.

Stone is my reason, not the timing. Some of the great war movies were made very close to or during the wars they were chronicling. United 93 was made because Greengrass was deeply moved by the heroism of the people on the that flight. Sure, it was funded by cynical folks who only wanted to make money, but since that is true of every single movie ever made, it doesn't seem to be a reason not to see the film. The wrier and director had honorable reasons. However, It's too soon for ME to see either of them.

I just ... I can't watch the commercials without wanting to cry, because I still remember that day very, very clearly.

One of the shots in the commercial for the movie is Nic Cage -- I guess he plays a police officer -- in the lobby of a building, looking out the glass of the doors with a completely stunned expression as that first wave of dust/debris/smoke rolled by when the first tower went down.

And all I can think when I see it is, That's not real. And I feel sick in the pit of my stomach.

Well, I won't be going to see it either, just because it's Oliver Stone. However, I don't necessarily think that just because a movie is made soon after an event it should be exploitative. Movies aren't just entertainment. Sometimes they're not even entertainment. Sometimes they're just to teach, or commemorate. I personally think that for these events a documentary might achieve that more tastefully, but I haven't seen the film, so...

I think part of it for me is that I've ODed on those visuals. I liked Three Kings, for instance, and that was very close to its time--and a war movie which normally freaks me out.

The towers? I've seen them fall a hundred times. From many different angles. I watched until I was so sick I couldn't turn away. I saw the people around react--I saw the horror of hundreds if not thousands. I listened to tales of heroism, choked at the tears of survivors.

Oliver Stone has nothing to add.