9/11 special on TV. Impactful. Surreal.

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zod

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I can't watch any more. My hands were literally shaking watching it. Living in NYC, it is still surreal. My head began to swim when the firefighters couldn't go out the main exit of the Tower because there were debris... and people... still falling and jumping from the higher floors.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

This sucks.


I will be immensely pissed if all that replace them are a couple of 60 story towers and a memorial.
Bullsh!t. Build high, build tall, build proud. 150 stories. Two of em. I just hope (but doubt) it will be as easy it is in Field of Dreams. If you build it, they [businesses] will come.


/flips off terrorists.
 
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AbsolutZero

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Yea, weird seeing their faces. The sounds of people falling made me sick. Good job CBS and corporate sponsors, no commercials.
 
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Spagina

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Yeah, it's graphic listening to the bodies continually falling off the top floors. Whenever they show the lobby scene, you consistently hear one loud crash after another and everyone just stops. It's freaky.
 
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chrisjor

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I agree, this did not need to be done. We are all very aware of what happened. Hope this renews your sense of outrage if nothing else.
 
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<< Yea, weird seeing their faces. The sounds of people falling made me sick. Good job CBS and corporate sponsors, no commercials. >>





as it should be; they are using the airwaves for free.
 
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zod

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Exploitive?
Hey, I am as Rage Against the Machine, fight authority, don't believe the press/government/man as your average ATOTer, but this is how it was.
 
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PistachioByAzul

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Just more insubstantial sensationalism. Yeah, it brought tears to my eyes, and I stood up and started singing the star spangled banner. Please, this is why we're so stupid, we've confused entertainment with reality.
 
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<< Yay, more exploitive melodrama. >>



Not hardly!:|

I'd give any amount within reason for the DVD of that....unbelievable! God give us strength.....
 
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<< Just more insubstantial sensationalism. Yeah, it brought tears to my eyes, and I stood up and started singing the star spangled banner. Please, this is why we're so stupid, we've confused entertainment with reality. >>



Sensationalism means someone is profiting off of this, I don't see that in this case. I see this as a documentary on suffering and frailty of those who are traditionally "strong" and non-emotional.
 
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mattyrug

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I'm taping that so I could watch something else (six feet under) at 9pm, so I figured I'd click back over to HBO, and they had Gladiator Days:prison Murder on. Talk about sensationalism, they showed that poor guy who got stabbed like 50 times, WAY more than they should've. then guess what? They showed it in Slow Motion, with some sickening Nazi Metal Music playing over it. No warning that they were gonna show anything that graphic. :Q
It used to not bother me, but for some reason (ever since seeing my dad, dead, and not looking his best) I just can't take it. DON'T watch that HBO Special! It's almost as bad as that Russian Soldier Video that was floating around.
The few minutes that I saw of it looked pretty good though, and I HATE the News!
 
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That had to be the single most amazing thing I have ever and very well could ever see on TV.

I am still in awe of the whole thing and to see it from that angle is amazing.

I felt a total chill each time I could hear the jumpers bodies hit the ground.

 
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Pr0Hawk

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Yeah, I couldnt stop watching it. The parts where they were in the lobby and you could hear the bodies crashing down.....that was just awful.....

But it was a well done documentary. I was glad they didnt ruin it by putting in commercials.
 
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Pastfinder

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Yeah, it's graphic listening to the bodies continually falling off the top floors. Whenever they show the lobby scene, you consistently hear one loud crash after another and everyone just stops. It's freaky.

I second that. The most interesting/surreal movement in my opinion was right after each of the towers came down, light turned to darkness and silence decended on the lands...
 
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Mrburns2007

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I thought it was good to get the perspective of the firefighters which it did. I'm glad to see them get some attention that they deserve.
 
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PistachioByAzul

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Sensationalism means someone is profiting off of this

I don't think necessarily, but still, that we get off on the kind of feelings melodramatic stuff like this evokes could be regarded as a subversive kind of profiting.
 
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wviperw

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Wow. That totally brought back the whole entire deal to my mind. I had a lot of stuff to do tonight, and I saw it on TV, and sat down and couldn't get back up for another 2 hours. Absolutely unbelievable.

The only thing I didn't like was how in the interludes it would say "this program was brought to you by NEXTEL" a million times. Talk about ruining the moment...
 
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