Do you believe that the Twin Towers should be edited out of post-9/11 DVD releases of pre-9/11 films?

I think THEY SHOULDN'T! The 1992 film Home Alone 2: Lost In New York features a pivotal segment where 10 year old Kevin McCallister finds himself at the LaGuardia airport in New York when he should be in Miami. He looks at the skyline, dumbfounded and trying not to identify it as that distinct New York skyline and asks a nearby agent "What city is that over there?" She looks at him with a very DUH face and says "That's New York." However, in this particular segment with the shot and the double-take of the skyline, the Twin Towers were edited out. In all the other scenes of the skyline where the towers would have been visible, again, they were edited out.

HOWEVER, in a very dramatic scene (emphasizing New York's many wonders) Kevin is standing at the base of the towers and looks up in bewilderment. Then to add to the excitement, Kevin is looking through a view-finder, and the scene is zoomed out to reveal that he is on the top of the South Tower peering down on Manhattan.

Why would they edit the towers out of skyline, but not out of the movie? To minimize confusion? To minimize their size, their importance?? Who knows, but at LEAST they weren't completely edited out. In most of the pre-9/11 movies i've seen post 9/11 releases of, they've completely edited out the towers, whether they be in the skyline, or completely editing out scenes with the towers in them.

I think that it COMPLETELY dishonors the history of New York and of America to edit them out in movies. We all know what happened and when it happened and to edit them out of movies is like trying to erase 9/11 out of our memory. That's like taking these towers, blowing them up to pieces and then shoving them down the memory hold through a plastic funnel.

Gahhh what do you think?

Ditto..... and it dishonors the victims.

I agree.. editing them oujt onlyh serves to keep people from thinking about the towers and why the hell they aren't there anymore. if people saw the towers more often, they would start thinking, and we don't want that now do we?!?!

thats wrong to take them out

keep em in

Yeah I hate that. What is the actual reason of editing them out anyway? Just before 9/11 they aired this Spider-man teaser trailer which had the Towers in it. Check it out on YouTube. I hated it when it was pulled right after 9/11 :(!

if they erase the memory of the WTC then they are trying to erase the facts ...

Editing them out is idiocy. I even thought removing the plane-in-the-web scene from one of the Spider-Man movies was stupid. :unsure:

It's appalling to me that they would be edited out. I use the opportunity to show my kids what the towers were and what happened to them when we see them in pre 2001 film shots.
I'm trying to think of a proper analogy - like editing an actor out of a film if they have died - makes no sense. Sounds like psy-ops.

*Doc Brown* Erased...from existence... :blink:

Who? :blink:

Back to the Future maybe,

do you really think they were edited out of Home Alone 2. Would they waste the time and money on a DVD that I am sure doesn't generate that many sales. Maybe.?

i definitely do not think they should edit them out.

Maybe the Us goverment are behind it by removing the twin tower from films etc hoping people will forget the twin towers they probs think it will all go away in acouple of years time the idiots

Mike

That was released in summer 2002 though, so the descision made perfect sense. Editing them out of already released films is not something to be supported though, it's essentially messing with history isn't it? Like when George Lucas messed with the Star Wars films. It's just...wrong.

Nope,they are a part of your history they should stay

Therese

I think they should be left in. It's silly to edit them out of movies that have already been released.

well, maybe not. Nobody would forget the twin towers. The government would want us to think about the twin towers, so we have a valid reason to hate muslims. :( :angry:

Stupid.
If the story is set in pre-2001 New York City, the skyline should reflect that.
It's nice that film-makers are trying to "ease peoples pain" or whatever, but this is totally off base and if anything it's just upsetting people more...
Whatever, they own the movie rights, I guess they can do what they want, it's not like anyone is going to forget about them.

u know all this editing out twin towers crap is like the health and safety laws. completely unneccessary and a drain on tax payers money