I never cry at movies, I did at UNITED 93

Rating: 8/10 (29 April 2006)

The song line "Im the kinda guy who laughs at a funeral, If you understand you soon will"normally describes me. Not Today.
I am so shaken I can barely write
BUT
If GW Bush doesn't want me to see a movie
I'm GOING OPENING DAY- FIRST SHOW!
United 93 (2006)
I arrived just as it was starting, I missed nothing. The Alamo Village
The theater was crowded. I sat in between a lot of apparently retired people.
They used a lot of that shaky, hand-held "nypd blue" camera work . At first I was analyzing the film-making, not the film. I ruin everything for myself.
No big stars. No effects that I noticed, at least nothing felt like effects.
TITANIC puts you on that boat and sends you DOWN. It shook me it was so emotional.
SAVING PVT RYAN. The first 20 minutes. What can I say- it puts you ON THAT BEACH and wont ever say "its just a movie" I was shaken and teary eyed.
Very few movies make me cry. Most tear jerker's annoy me. Maybe make me laugh.
I saw "Crash" with my friend Ginger. She cried, I saw it as an annoying emotional con game.
"Jack the Bear." A few teary scenes
"The Mighty" had be BAWLING! (I don't think I could EVER watch it again)
" A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (the old 1940s one.)
The Sesame Street Episode where they tell Big Bird that Mr. Hooper died.
The old "Brians Song"
Maybe a few others.
This movie.
The final scene.
It puts you IN a plane seat. On THAT flight. You think, (or someone like ME thinks) "Hey Look- he dropped the detonator - go NOW! NOW! NOW!"
(spoilers)
I fantasized being the guy punching the hijackers.
Thats what guys like me do. We watch action movies/ war movies. etc and pay attention like its a training video- I'm gonna have to DO this for real sometime later- right? HAHAHA!
They go after the first guy... I pounded my first into the theater seat and blurted out "Fn A Right!".
The old guy next to me grunted at me "d--n straight"
They charge down the aisle. "Its about time!!!"
They get the bomber. "HOO YAH!"
The second one- a scrawny little punk with a knife. I could beat the S--- out of that -----.
I scan my "friends" on screen. Hmm  HE could take him
"HE" tried, and failed- but the next one in line got him. I'm a liberal, and I wanted to cut his --- yeah.
"Yeah- give him a good one for me!"
SMASH THAT DOOR! BATTER IT DOWN!
Don't quit now! You can do this.
YOU"RE IN!!!
"F----N A!!!"
Grab the controls. Aww the poor Arab is upset you grabbed the controls
Yeah that's it! You can DO this!
That's how movies end right? The Americans always win in the end right?
Right?
We all know how it ended.
But I didn't know nothing.
The credits rolled. I was tearing up. I looked at my aisle neighbors. Can we get a group hug?
We sit, ALL OF US, for a long while after the credits have stopped.
Somebody- not me- got it together to get up.
At some point I get up. Tears flow down my face- I cant stop it..
This isn't me.
Matt K-------i is a callous tough guy I don't CRY!
I go into the lobby.
TV news lights are blasting in my face.
They see me, a big manly man, in tears, "Hey  THAT'S TV!"
I don't know what I said. I was sobbing like at a funeral.
Please don't laugh at me.
Can I have a hug?