World Trade Center

I went to see this movie today- had the day off for the hurricane that never was. I was rather pleased by this film. I have watched countless reenactments and documentaries about 9-11, and I always love to hear the stories from the people affected, like Stanley Praimnath http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Praimnath and Brian Clark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Clark.

If this movie was anything special, it was not because of the cast. They could have cast a bunch of nobodys in this film and it would have had the same impact on me. In another light, had they made a film about the JFK assassination or something even as recent as the Space Shuttle Challenger it wouldn't have impacted me the way that it did. (Okay- I hear what you're saying... Challenger was 20 years ago! But I am old enough to remember it and where I was when it happened.) But seriously... when 9-11 happened, I had lived here for less than 2.5 months. And I SO missed NY. To see what happened up there rocked my soul.

As soon as I saw the twin towers in the beginning of the movie, tears welled up in my eyes. What I liked about the film is it didn't show what happened that the whole world saw... it showed what these 2 guys saw. It really showed what lack of communication there was... when the guys were crushed, they didn't even know about the second tower. They were trapped under all that rubble when tower 2 came down and when WTC 7 came down and they had no idea what was happening. When they pulled Jimeno out and he said "Where'd the buildings go?" it was so sad!!!


As always, I will say that I am not a Nic Cage fan, and maintain that he is always the same person in every movie he does. Once again, if the movie is a success, it's because of the story itself... not because of the acting.

Dad

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097142/

I can honestly say now that with the exception of the new Superman movie, I have seen EVERY Kevin Spacey movie he has ever been in.

A little scenario about this film, since many people won't see it... Olympia Dukakis is married to Jack Lemmon. She has a heart attack and gets put in the hospital, so a busy, workaholic Ted Danson comes home to help his dad out while his mom is in the hospital. Dad starts to regain his independence and when mom comes out of the hospital, she feels threatened because he doesn't need her anymore. Then he's diagnosed with cancer and starts to split into another personality- a fun-loving man who lives on a farm. The doctor says to indulge him so the family start doing fun things with Dad- Family members being Kathy Baker and her husband (Kevin Spacey) and Ted Danson and his son, a 19 year old Ethan Hawke. Dad dies, everyone is very sad, but it makes Ted Danson realize that some things are more important than the work a day world.

This was an okay movie. Ted Danson was pretty good- he had a couple of powerful scenes. Jack Lemmon was fantastic. I have been wanting to see this movie since I acquired every KS movie available on VHS (in 1999) and I was told that "Dad" was out of print.

The DVD was in the $5.50 bin at Wal-Mart last night.

Pretty good movie. Typical for 1989, and it kind of reminded me of Rocket Gibraltar.