Posted by Rosie55 at 12.41.160.162 on June 03, 2002 at 15:03:33:
In Reply to: I kinda disagree posted by sean on June 03, 2002 at 14:53:54:
: : I really liked him as Ryan too. I loved Liev Schriber (sp) too..
: Yeah, I usually don't like him all that much either, but he was cool, and I really liked that he, not the main character, was the real bad-ass.
: : I did think that they lost some of the impact of the nuclear bomb though. It was like it was a regular bomb, which would still suck.. But nuclear bomb being dropped anywhere with that concentration of people would be a much bigger deal than I thought they made of it..
: I'm not sure about that ... I don't think they did a good job of showing the full scope of the destruction, but I thought the explosion itself was a great scene -- certainly the best in the film -- and that the most realistic thing that the film did was show the way various people -- doctors, etc. -- are put into a position by events like that where they simply MUST keep going and not reflect on how insane what's actually going on is. Based on 9/11, this is actually a pretty realistic thing, where the people who were paralyzed by fear and all of that were the ones sitting at home watching it on TV, not the (majority of) people actually on Wall Street, and certainly not the people whose response was most important (firemen, doctors, etc.).
I agreaa that those aspects were well represented.. I meant the environmental aspects.. The actual explosion was great, I agree. But a nuclear bomb obviously involves radiation and that was barely touched on. There was only a passing mention of the direction of the winds and the radiation content. There were so many after-effects of the bombs we dropped on Japan. Things no one could have predicted. People who were thought to be safe from the effects of radiation were not.. and they didnt even realize they were ill until years after... Its just such a scary subject and an important one. I just felt that the whole aftermath of a nuclear bomb was under-represented.