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GhostBusters - 11/9/2008 12:40:21 PM   
Aneirin


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Status: offline 		I was just watching the superb movie, GhostBusters 2 and in a shot there was the panorama of New York, and the Trade Towers, seeing them, my mind instantly went back to that fateful day of 9/11 and the memories of that day. It seems every pre 9/11 movie I see where there is the same panorama shot, my mind instantly goes back and I was wondering if this was the same for everyone else and perhaps it is that movies serve as a remembrance.

Is it the same for everyone else ?

P.s. maybe  I am sad, but I do like the Ghost Buster movies, and even when the movies first came out, I had a Ghost Busters tee shirt.


< Message edited by Aneirin -- 11/9/2008 12:42:46 PM >

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RE: GhostBusters - 11/9/2008 12:40:52 PM   
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RE: GhostBusters - 11/9/2008 12:51:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes, I am reminded of the sadness and fear I felt that day.

It also reminds of the numerous and legitmate questions that still remain unaddressed and unanswered.

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RE: GhostBusters - 11/9/2008 12:59:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am a mercenary soul. (well, my family works in flea marketing and in selling first edition books, ect, so it's built into me.)

when I saw my DMILs kitchen for the first time, with shelves upon shelves of turqouise and spice colored corningware, my first thought was, 'my stepmother would have an orgasm in here' (her booth specializes in antique glass and kitchen ware)

When I picked up a glass that had been in my kitchen for years and years - a molded mcdonalds collectable glass mug for the batman series - and relized that the twin towers was molded into the design, my first thought was 'Dad, come look at this'. It isn't on the kitchen shelf anymore.

Sorry to be so mercenary.

But, if you wanna cry about 9/11, i have a great recomendation. I have a CD a had a young friend make me, of country songs about this war. The only non-country song on it is there by my special request. It is a folk song called The Bravest. My Marine son will not let me play it when he is around, because it makes him cry. (it is specifically about the twin towers, and the NYFD)

a sample of lyrics from the song:
They must have seen it coming, as they turned to face the fire
They sent us down to safety, and they kept on climbing higher.
Now everytime I try to sleep, I'm haunted by the sound
of fireman pounding up the stairs
that we were running down.

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RE: GhostBusters - 11/9/2008 1:07:56 PM   
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RE: GhostBusters - 11/9/2008 1:19:31 PM   
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RE: GhostBusters - 11/9/2008 1:32:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Its always something I notice. Most pointedly in the episode of The Simpsons where Homer's car is clamped in New York oddly enough.

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RE: GhostBusters - 11/9/2008 2:19:17 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

Its always something I notice. Most pointedly in the episode of The Simpsons where Homer's car is clamped in New York oddly enough.

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The episode where Homer is waiting for Parking Enforcement Officer Steve... GRABOWSKI ?

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RE: GhostBusters - 11/9/2008 2:43:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		It happens to me everytime I take the train or drive into NYC and see any part of the skyline - doesn't even have to be where the towers were.  The odd thing is .. it's still incomprehensible to me that it occurred.  Sometimes I'll see a plane flying in a clear blue cloudless sky and my imagination pictures it flying into a skyscraper.  I know it happened, but somehow I still just can't process the horror it. 

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RE: GhostBusters - 11/9/2008 4:01:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		I was "trying" to watch "World Trade Center" yesterday...
couldn't get past the first 5 minutes....     

*sigh*

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RE: GhostBusters - 11/9/2008 4:14:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm always a little sad when I see them in movies. I take the moment to remember....
What really makes me angry is when a movie will be digitially altered to remove the Trade Centers.  I understand there are people that were never in any of the cities that were hit that experience PTSD - about that day - and the owners of the movie are trying to be sensitive to that - but really - its almost like we're trying to forget them.


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RE: GhostBusters - 11/9/2008 4:29:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have lived in NYC since March, visited several times in the past few year. Never could take myself to Ground Zero.
My son was here for a week and he wanted to see it......so I took him. Its pitiful that its still just a big hole in the ground.
It more like Ground below.

My sisters friend was married to Fireman who worked the area....New York was closed down so alot of so workers that had to cross over were stuck on the island. So my sister offered her phones and apt for several co workers.   The lady with the fireman for a husband she finally got hold of, he picked her up much later covered in dust and dirt, scratches ect.

Also her second friend's husband was a co-pilot for the plane that went down in Penn.

I look at movies, pictures ect and there isnt a time I dont look for the the towers in long shots of the city. I also noticed several regular programs, newer movies went back and edited the towers out.

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RE: GhostBusters - 11/9/2008 5:50:47 PM   
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RE: GhostBusters - 11/9/2008 6:11:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		nope this doesn't happen to me ...i get the opposite. watching movies like Trading Places or Coming To America, the sight of seeing twin towers doesn't trigger the images of 9/11 in my head. i can't explain why ...i'm simply weird i guess.

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RE: GhostBusters - 11/9/2008 6:19:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don't think your weird, I think different things trigger different people. Smells can do it, or pictures or music. Just depends on the person.

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RE: GhostBusters - 11/9/2008 6:24:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		The one and only time I ever saw the WTC and it made me stop and think was a youtube clip where someone had taken pictures of 9/11 and played with Pink Floyd's "Goodbye Blue Skies" in the background. The weirdest part is the beginning of the song, where the little girl says, "Look, mommy. There's no plane in the sky."

Hell, when 9/11 hit I was in basic training at Ft. Benning, and was too busy for it to have much of any impact on me. Hell, I'd never even seen the full footage until about a year later.

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