I haven’t seen World Trade Center so I don’t have an opinion on it, and I know smart folks like John Pod are already understandably down on it, but a New Republic blog post from Rob Anderson seems to go a little overboard–calling the trailer “disgusting.” I had at least one problem with the trailer, but his concerns are different. Nicolas Cage has a moustache, for instance, in the movie, to establish “working-class bona fides.” But John McLoughlin, the Port Authority police sergeant who Nicolas Page plays in the movie actually has a moustache. So it doesn’t strike me as too odd. Anderson is bothered by pretty women hugging their pretty children. Sure the people in Hollywood are ridiculously prettier than the average American and that’s par for the course, but…sometimes real Americans are pretty too. I’ll grant Anderson the violin point, but if the movie gets in any small part at what these cops went through that day, soothing music might be appreciated by the audience.

I can’t believe I’m defending an Oliver Stone trailer…

That said, though, we’ll see…