Just watched this film, and went thinking it was all too soon after 9/11, and somewhat insensitive and exploitative....how wrong I was, I have just sat through 2 hours of important, moving,sensitive and totally shocking cinema.

has anyone else seen it?

an excellent and vital piece of cinema

This film just fails to spark any interest for me. If it had been a documentary, then maybe I would be intrigued. As it is it just looks like exploitative, sentimental drivel - the kind that usually gets made as a TV movie.

All that despite the dubious 'reality' that the film is based on (see the 'went on far too long' 911 conspiracy thread for details)

I don't think I will waste cinema time going to see it, and will rent it on DVD when it is released instead.

Saw it the other nite, thought it was really moving and also terrifying. I'm glad i watched but i don't think i'll ever watch it again

I haven't seen the film and even though many critcs rate it, I also would find it difficult to engage in a film of the event when the actual real event isn't yet 5 years old and to many the "real" news footage of that tragic day are still fresh in many memories.
There have been many exceptionally moving and dramatic documentories that show real footage of the events as they occured, the one that stands out is the documentory made by the 2 French brothers who happen to be filming the New York Fire department on that day. If you have seen it then I think you will understand when I say that NO film dramatisation can possible accurately depict the events and emotions of the day more than this documentory.
The other problem with flight 93 is that we have only the US governments version of events of what happened, ie the heroic version. Don't forget how they lied about the Jessica Lych story during the Iraq War, even Jessica Lynch herself recently asked why the Pentagon had lied about her story.
I am not into conspiracy theories, but there are just too many question that still remain unanswered about flight 93 that suggest that the US government
may well be spinning their own story, after all it just imagine if the US said that they had shot down flight 93.

As I was caught up in the side-effects of 9/11, I thought I would want to watch it, however, I saw a trailer for it the other night, and burst out crying in TV tears.

So I won't be watching, bit too close to home.

It was made in Britain so is bound to be class.

The BBC's version was pretty good if anyone had seen that?

Will see it this week and really looking forward to it as the reviews have all been great :D

The families of those invloved had input and were happy with the outcome therefore I find it a bit distasteful that those who simply watched the events unfold on tv find it all too distressing/unpleseant to go and watch it.

I know everyone deals with tragedy differently but ffs....

The families of those invloved had input and were happy with the outcome therefore I find it a bit distasteful that those who simply watched the events unfold on tv find it all too distressing/unpleseant to go and watch it.

I know everyone deals with tragedy differently but ffs....

I have just watched a quick programme on Sky about United 93,where the families that were interviewed did approve of the film.
This is in no way direspect to those families of flight 93 but it is no suprise that the families of flight 93 would want to remember their loved one as heroes.
As I have stated before, I am not supporting a conspiracy theory but there are far too many inconsitancies with eye witnesses on the ground for the anyone to be completely confident that the official version of events was the true one. If you are not familiar with these then here are some that have been reported.
1) The US Millitary first claimed that flight 93 was crashed at 10:03 AM
even though the seismic boom was recorded at 10:06 AM (Sure it's only 3 minutes difference but remember we are talking millitary here, and in millitary terms this is a huge inaccuracy)
2)US Millitary at first denied reports that US fighter planes were in the vicinity at the time United 93 was downned. Several eyewitnesses on the ground reported seeing United 93 being pursued by fighter jets.
3)Wreckage was found some distance apart on the ground with the engine seperated from the main wreckage, this would indicate that the plane partly broke up before it hit the ground which is consistent with the plane either being bombed or hit by a missile.
US millitary explanation of this is that the engine must have fallen off.
4) The first accounts which the US Millitary put out only hours after the event was that the passengers took over the controls, the black box cockpit recorder indicated that the passengers never actually made it into the cockpit.
5)When interviewed on a visit to Iraq, Donald Rumsfelt refered to flight 93 as being shot down, later Pentagon spokesman said it was a slip of the tongue.

There are many more inconsistencies but just these main few should given even the most sceptical some food for thought.

I'd like to see it, but I dont have any one to go with (awww) and I'm not sure it's the kind of film to see on your own...