Ladder 49: Just got this film from Netflix

[PlatinumGold]

anyone have any opinons on this movie?

worth an evening watching it?

 

[ZOOYUKA]

Worth a watch. Mediocre at best though.

 

[RedCOMET]

Originally posted by: ZOOYUKA
Worth a watch. Mediocre at best though.

Yep. I mean the movie was enjoyable, but i wasn't crazy for it after watching it.

 

It's not bad. I can honestly say I enjoyed it.

 

[rh71]

It's good for testing your man card. Emotional++

 

[LeonarD26]

Watch it.... solid flick.

 

[Rookie]

definitely.

 

[YetioDoom]

Looks like we have a watcher!

 

[Tifababy]

I enjoyed it, but I don't see myself watching it again anytime soon.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Originally posted by: rh71
It's good for testing your man card. Emotional++

The ending, damn. I've never felt that much emotion (I usually laugh at endings like this), but I don't know. Having her see the red car pull up outside. Damn, that just got me.

 

[PlatinumGold]

I would never recommend anyone watch it.

This movie was definitely riding the coats of 9/11

 

[xXped0thugXx]

Good movie, watched it a few times. Made me want to join a fire dept.

 

[mrrman]

it was okay

 

[ThePresence]

I liked it.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Good movie!

 

[DainBramaged]

Well, if you already have it, watch it.

Next time ask us before you put it in your queue.

 

[Insomniak]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
I would never recommend anyone watch it.

This movie was definitely riding the coats of 9/11

Actually, the reason it succeeded was precisely because it DIDN'T turn out to be post 9/11 cheerleading. The problem is impreceptive folks like you automatically think anything dealing with law enforcement or firefighters post 9/11 is riding it's "coats". The case here is in fact the opposite. There are no terrorist attacks, there are no fricking politics, and I can't recall anyone saying the word "hero" once during the whole flick.

What they did was focus a film around the life of a singular firefighter. This case-study method does far more to create an honest film about something than to create some wam-bang media-child. Riding 9/11's coats would've dealt with Islamic Fundys firebombing New York, not a firefighter visiting one of his best friends in a hospital or having to weigh the options of transferring to a desk job for the sake of his forthcoming children.

God, in your rush to not be led anywhere by the media, you've let it blind you to perfectly respectable art-craft, which is arguably just as bad. This has nothing to do with 9/11, it's just an honest movie about underappreciated people in our society that happens to have been filmed and released AFTER a tragedy in which emergency response folks got overexposed in the media. Learn the difference.


It was far better than most dreck that came out last year. A very human film. Well worth watching.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
I would never recommend anyone watch it.

This movie was definitely riding the coats of 9/11

The movie was released three years after 9/11. How exactly is that riding the coattails of 9/11? Not to mention, there was no mention of terrorist bombings or 9/11 throughout the whole movie.

 

[Raptor9]

I thought it was lousy--but to each his own, right?

 

[AStar617]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Well, if you already have it, watch it.

Next time ask us before you put it in your queue.

Beat me to the punch

 

[Cuda1447]

Originally posted by: Tifababy
I enjoyed it, but I don't see myself watching it again anytime soon.

same