I had this horrible idea

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I had this horrible idea for a movie this evening...horrible but oddly unshakable. Nobody would ever have the courage to push this with anyone else, but it's basically Oliver Stone's 9/11 movie meets Wedding Crashers. Remember Will Ferrell's character telling Owen Wilson's character that funerals are better than weddings for scoring? Okay...now remember that brief phenomenon that happened in New York City right after 9/11 called "terror-fucking," which was about a lot of guys (fireman in particular) going home with a lot of women because everyone wanted to obliterate the horror of what had happened with sex...almost any kind of available sex they could get their hands on? This movie would start with a couple of horndogs (good-time guys like Wilson and Vince Vaughn's characters) who start to realize two or three days after 9/11 there are some phenomenal opportunities out there, etc. Clearly, the idea of guys trying to exploit the heartbreak of 9/11 by trying to get laid is a ghastly reaction to human suffering, but as long as we're going to see at least a couple of 9/11 movies in '06, why not go all the way and try for a twisted 9/11 sex comedy? You know...really push the envelope? I think we're ready for it.