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.

And it doesn't have Jesus and Mary Mag running off in a yellow sportscar like "Rescue Me". As far as I know.

I saw Little Miss Sunshine today, and it was just great. But here's a thing about people at the movies that makes me nuts: (I assume) Because the movie was billed as a comedy, and because Steve Carrell is known as a comic actor, people started laughing at scenes of him that were NOT AT ALL FUNNY. They were the opposite of funny. And yet? Guffaws from elsewhere in the audience. WTF, people.

I have a theory that laugh tracks running under unfunny "jokes" on TV have messed up many a sense of humor.