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Feb 24, 2010 8:14 PM
I worked at Blockbuster when 9/11 happened. The next Tuesday (New Release Day) there was a recall for a movie because of this trailer.

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Pretty crazy.
Feb 24, 2010 8:14pm
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Feb 24, 2010 8:25 PM
If I was in charge I would have pulled it. Given the emotion of 9/11 and with respect to the thousands of people who died in those buildings, I can see perfectly why the movie was recalled.
Feb 24, 2010 8:25pm
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Feb 24, 2010 8:51 PM
There was a story on this before the movie came out with the picture in USAToday I believe. Was the right thing to do.
Feb 24, 2010 8:51pm
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Feb 24, 2010 8:58 PM
no problem with it getting yanked.

i'm still numb when i think about that day. when i went to ground zero.... i can't explain how terrible i felt. it's the reason i want to live in NYC to see that place, that devastation and how they overcame it. amazing.
Feb 24, 2010 8:58pm
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Feb 24, 2010 9:01 PM
I mean, it's not like it crashed into it..I don't see anything to bad with it
Feb 24, 2010 9:01pm
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Feb 24, 2010 9:05 PM
DeyDurkie5 wrote: I don't see anything to bad with it
Maybe b/c 2,976 lives were lost in those same very towers, just 7 days earlier, in the worst terrorist attack on our country?
Feb 24, 2010 9:05pm
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Feb 25, 2010 3:56 AM
GoChiefs wrote:
DeyDurkie5 wrote: I don't see anything to bad with it
Maybe b/c 2,976 lives were lost in those same very towers, just 7 days earlier, in the worst terrorist attack on our country?
were those lives causes by this movie? no they werent. the other dozens of movies that feature the world trade center towers were not recalled.

im not saying that pulling it was the wrong thing, i just dont see the problem with it not being pulled.
Feb 25, 2010 3:56am
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Feb 25, 2010 9:39 AM
tcarrier32 wrote:
GoChiefs wrote:
DeyDurkie5 wrote: I don't see anything to bad with it
Maybe b/c 2,976 lives were lost in those same very towers, just 7 days earlier, in the worst terrorist attack on our country?
were those lives causes by this movie? no they werent. the other dozens of movies that feature the world trade center towers were not recalled.

im not saying that pulling it was the wrong thing, i just dont see the problem with it not being pulled.
Movies like Spiderman are set to take place in the present. By the time this ad was to be released, those towers no longer stood. You can't really have a movie taking place in the present with those towers in it if they no longer exist.

Also, the fact that 9/11 had happened just a week before the ad was to premier would have made it very distasteful to go ahead with it. It's one of those "it's still too soon" moments. If the movie were coming out today and taking place in 2000, then it would probably be an okay ad to run, but it wouldn't have been just 7 days after the towers were struck.
Feb 25, 2010 9:39am
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Feb 25, 2010 9:52 AM
The trailer sucked with or without the Twin Towers in it anyways.
Feb 25, 2010 9:52am
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Feb 25, 2010 6:06 PM
well the reason they told us it was being pulled was because it had a helicopter being attached to the two towers and it was to close to the real thing that happened on 9/11.

I was helping out a store when it happened up past pittsburgh a little ways and it was close to the airport and the whole way there you could see planes all the time and then driving up on 9/11 it was weird because there was no plains at all.
Feb 25, 2010 6:06pm
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Feb 25, 2010 6:31 PM
tcarrier32 wrote: were those lives causes by this movie? no they werent. the other dozens of movies that feature the world trade center towers were not recalled.

im not saying that pulling it was the wrong thing, i just dont see the problem with it not being pulled.
No..but at least the movie makers were smart enough to realize the emotion in America at that time. Had that trailer been released at that time..regardless of whether you see anything wrong with it or not..you know as well as I do that there would have been a HUGE uproar about it. And not in a positive way.
Feb 25, 2010 6:31pm
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Feb 25, 2010 9:57 PM
I've seen this trailer in the theaters. I can't remember if it was before or after 9/11.
Feb 25, 2010 9:57pm