It was bound to happen. A few 9/11 movies (including one from Oliver Stone) are in the works. Not surprisingly, some people think this is inappropriate. Entertainment Weekly has a poll up right now asking readers if it's too soon to make movies about 9/11. The results show that the public is pretty evenly split.

What do you all think?

Personally, I have no problem with 9/11 movies. Back in the day, Hollywood made WWII movies during WWII. In the last couple of years there's been a slew of movies and specials about the genocide in Rwanda, which was only 10 years ago. Making movies about historical events, even horrible historical events is perfectly normal. It's part of how a society deals with its events.

I think some of our reactions to 9/11 have been just plain weird. We were shielded from some of the truly horrible aspects of it (what happened on the ground around the towers, the jumpers, etc.). You never see video from that day anymore. Even on the upcoming fourth anniversary, I'm sure no network will dare to play video of the planes hitting the WTC.

I remember how shortly after 9/11 there was talk of digitally removing the Towers from TV shows and movies. I thought that was the strangest thing I've ever heard. People seemed to think that they could just pretend that 9/11 never happened, that by erasing the tapes they could erase history. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.