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Ladder 49: Just got this film from Netflix

Originally posted by: rh71
It's good for testing your man card. 😉 Emotional++
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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.
 
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
I would never recommend anyone watch it.

This movie was definitely riding the coats of 9/11
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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.
 
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
I would never recommend anyone watch it.

This movie was definitely riding the coats of 9/11
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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.
 
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