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I am so totally going to offend everybody from New York City and everyone who knew someone on the planes hijacked on 9/11 with this, but oh well…

So… am I the only one who finds the United 93 (formerly Flight 93) trailer annoying on an historical accuracy level? Not that they got anything really wrong about the events themselves, just that they seem to have decided that terrorists hijacking a plane with box cutters (aka razor blades) made the passengers on the plane look way too cowardly.

So instead, the hijackers are wearing explosives.

Seriously, how is that supposed to improve the audience’s perception of the airline industry if two men can walk onto a cross-country flight wearing large explosive devices? I mean, yeah, security before 9/11 was lax, but Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick… nobody’s gonna let a freaking explosive though when someone’s wearing it.

I’m sorry, but it’s just one of those things that gets to me. Yes, what happened that day was terrible, inexcusable, and the people on United flight 93 are to be commended for their bravery, but when 3 planes are hijacked and smashed into buildings by people wielding box cutters? Dude, that’s just kinda sad. Not that turning the box cutters into explosives is any better of a scenario, because that just means the security people were complete dumbasses. Really, there is no good way of depicting the events of what transpired on those planes without making someone look stupid, because either 40+ passengers were intimidated by 2-4 people with razor blades, or airline security let 16 people in different airports slip through with bombs around their waists. I just don’t think a really rousing film about courage in the face of terror can be made about the flights themselves. Certainly there were a huge number of courageous acts performed in the aftermath, but when you get right down to it, fear enabled those hijackers to do their job, and dressing the hijackers up in explosives doesn’t help make the people on the planes look better, it just makes the folks on the ground look worse.

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