A Screaming Comes Across the Sky
posted September 11, 2008 7:03 AM
From a press briefing on May, 17 2002 by (then) National Security advisor Condoleeza Rice, about the events of 9/11.
DR. RICE: "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile."
Apparently, Dr. Rice doesn't go to the movies. Well, maybe she goes to the movies, but we certainly know she didn't go to see the very popular [worldwide gross: $121,969,216] 1996 thriller Executive Decision starring Kurt Russell and Halle Berry.
A movie in which some Middle-Eastern terrorists hijack a commercial airliner, load it with a huge bomb, and try to detonate it over Washington D.C.
A movie, we should add, that was made with the full cooperation of the Pentagon.
"I don't think anybody could have predicted..."
Oh, well. At least they killed Steven Seagal off in the first half an hour...
8 Comments
Leave a comment
Steve Simels has written about music and movies for Sound and Vision magazine (formerly Stereo Review) since the early 70s. He has also contributed to Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide and the Wall Street Journal. He’s the author of “Gender Chameleons: Androgyny in Rock n Roll” (Arbor House, 1985), and blogs at PowerPop.blogspot.com. His ambition in life is to play the Leslie Howard role in a remake of “Petrified Forest.”
Great Lost Films of the Nineties (An Occasional Series)
Weekend Cinema Listomania (Special Smile When You Say That Edition)
The Sound of One Temple Throbbing
Champagne and Cheetos for Everybody!
Why God Invented TiVo (An Occasional Series)
The Hair Extensions That Challenged the World
Weekend Cinema Listomania (Special Misty Water-Colored Memories Edition)
You Drive Me Ape, You Big Gorilla!
Christmas Comes But Once a Year (The Final Chapter)
Christmas Comes But Once a Year (Part 37)
Weekend Cinema Listomania (Special Was This Trip Really Necessary? Edition)
Anonymous said:
she also said she didnt feel it necessary to read a file that was titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States" -- APPARENTLY Dr Rice doesnt read either...???
September 11, 2008 7:28 AM
Brooklyn Girl said:
Don't get me started on this one ... but it would be ironic if bin Laden got the idea from the movie.
September 11, 2008 8:20 AM
Gummo said:
Only effete America-hating elitists do research.
September 11, 2008 9:01 AM
ice cream joe said:
I think Black Sunday deserves an assist. Substitute 'dirigible' for 'airplane' and Mohammed Atta for Bruce Dern and the similarities are hard to deny.
September 11, 2008 9:49 AM
leiniz leibkins said:
Condi is an idiot hired by a moron.
September 11, 2008 10:12 AM
Aloys Kontarsky said:
I also think the collected works of Tom Clancy may be relevant here.
Who could have predicted indeed...
September 11, 2008 10:26 AM
Apprentice to Darth Holden said:
What a terrible movie.
It would have been greatly improved by killing off Steven Seagal during the credits.
September 11, 2008 10:53 AM
the former l'atalante said:
The first episode of the short-lived X-Files spin-off "The Lone Gunmen" had a similar plane-as-weapon situation not very long before the actual tragedy. In a DVD commentary, the writers comment on the mixed feelings they have upon viewing the scene post 9/11.
September 11, 2008 2:03 PM