Post 9/11 too much for me

Rating: 5/10 (24 June 2005)

I felt convoluted somehow watching this picture. I also believe Spielberg is draining away his abilities to do movies and of course he is going to come back like a quick flash of lightning with War Of The Worlds (maybe). What I figured from the start after they were talking about Hanks character being a terrorist that I figured this movie would be post 9/11 and even though it wasn't towards the end I still thought it had a lot of elements containing 9/11 that wasn't very necessary. I don't know when they will ever do a movie about the events of 9/11 but I can assure you by watching movies like this and Strip Search with Glenn Close...hmmmm I just know a movie about 9/11 is coming but my thought is why? Why not make the film here in a couple of years and get it out of directors minds. I figured they have more stories out there now that as Hollywood stands right now in sequelpalooza as some people are saying. Why remake and not create originality when there is a lot left. Why isn't Spike Lee doing more movies that reflect and mean something(which I do have to say 25th Hour was pure Lee genius). Why is Oliver Stone doing crappy movies like Alexander when he can be doing Stone movies like JFK and Platoon....I would personally love to see Stone do a movie about Marilyn Monroe's death or O.J. Simpson..you know Stone breaks down walls or is it just the fact like right now in the case of Spielberg that our directors that have been entertaining us for years is just simply getting old and expired? Clint Eastwood is still rocking it and he has a movie right now in pre-production that I'm dying to see so I'm just discombobulated and I will be til' I start seeing movies get on the right track!