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Nicolas Cage Weekend
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Tuesday, September 5, 2006
2:22:00 AM EDT
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Nicolas Cage was incredible as always! I am so in love with this man!!!
Since I'm so crazy about Nicolas Cage, we also went to see The Wicker Man. His acting was good, as always, but I hated this movie! I was really disappointed by it. I did not like the story, or the ending at all!
I didn't want to be traumatized by The Wicker Man, so after the theater I stopped by the video store and rented Matchstick Men, which someone had recommended to me. I enjoyed it. It was better than I was expecting it to be, so I'm a happy little girl again. :)
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Nicolas Cage Weekend
We went to see the World Trade Center movie. It was my second time watching it. For some reason, it affected me more this time than the first time. It's just so unreal, that something like that could happen to us, that it did happen! I could watch that movie a hundred times or watch the news footage a thousand times, and it will always break my heart and make me cry. The movie showed what it was like to be inside the towers shortly after the first attack. It's based on the true life stories of two Port Authority Policemen, John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno, who went inside to help people escape from the Towers, but then they got trapped under the rubble after the first tower came down. It was so real, and so heartbreaking, especially when the movie showed what the families of these men went through not knowing if their loved ones were dead or alive. It's a miracle that these two men survived, and it was amazing to see how they were rescued, and how everyone worked together.
Sitting there watching this movie made me so sad because it just made me think of when I used to work in the Towers, at my first financing job, and it also made me think of when my mom used to take us there when I was growing up. It was a part of my childhood, and my young adult life, and I'll never forget it. I'm proud to be a New Yorker, and I feel fortunate to have grown up in NYC and to have my own memories of The WTC, which will always be with me. I have gone back to New York a couple of times since 9/11, but I didn't get to go down to see where the Towers used to be. I don't know when I'll be able to go back again, but I know that it will be hard to see a part of my past that is no longer there.
Nicolas Cage was incredible as always! I am so in love with this man!!! The World Trade Center movie was very well made, heartfelt and touching. I would definitely recommend it.
A lot of people have criticized it, because it "seems too real," well you know what? Those people need to wake the hell up, shut the fu%k up, and get their heads out of their asses because IT WAS REAL!!! So real that almost 3,000 people were killed on that day! Honestly, I don't know what gets into some people, or why people think that by closing their eyes, looking the other way, or denying something, they can pretend that it didn't happen.
Since I'm so crazy about Nicolas Cage, we also went to see The Wicker Man. His acting was good, as always, but I hated this movie! I was really disappointed by it. I did not like the story, or the ending at all! I didn't want to be traumatized by The Wicker Man, so after the theater I stopped by the video store and rented Matchstick Men, which someone had recommended to me. I enjoyed it. It was better than I was expecting it to be, so I'm a happy little girl again. :) These are some of my favorite Nicolas Cage movies:
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I really like Cage too.
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This just reminded me that I taped 6 hours of the news on 9/11. I still have that tape. I was taping when the second plane hit. I haven't seen that movie but I want to now. Thanks for sharing. Hugs and GBU, Shelly
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I've loved Nicolas Cage every since Vally Girl LOL
We saw World Trade Center this past Monday I cried so much
I used to be able to look out my window and see the WTC I still haven't gotten used to not seeing them anymore
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Now I know why I like you so much, Mandy; I'm a Nicholas Cage fan too. My favorite all time scene with him is in Gone in 60 seconds when they are getting ready to start stealing the cars and he's dressed in that jacket and he tells Donnie to put on "Lowrider" and makes those moves. (be still my heart)
I can't imagine the horror of 9/11 living in the City of New York or close by as well as people who had visited there or worked there like yourself. I know my sister and her family live in a suburb area of Washington, D.C. and she described to me their fear (and her young daughters' fears) around the time.
betty
9/15/06 3:31 PM