Munich

[adam]

Just got back from seeing this. I wasn't keen on going to see it, because I generally don't care for Senor Spielbergo's films, but I was hung over and useless so I went.

I liked it. It's well done, and Eric Banana is a better actor than I thought. I liked the way it was put together, and some of the characters are pretty neat. I often feel that characters in Spielberg's films have a kind of caricaturey two-dimensionality to them, and I would say that holds true in this movie, too, but it didn't irritate me the way it did in, say, Minority Report.

I don't know anything about the historical events, and it's interesting reading/hearing different people's take on Spielberg's stance. Some are saying it's pro-Israel, some saying anti-, and I find all that kind of bizarre. To me, (and I would like to repeat that I don't know much about the reality behind these events) it seemed to be an intelligent look at a complicated issue.

When I was leaving the theatre, a young man was talking to his parents, and they asked what he thought of it. He said, "I didn't like it. It was very idealogically motivated, and Spielberg has an agenda." I thought that was quite odd. I wanted to stop him and ask him what he thought that agenda was, because all I saw was something saying violence is morally and functionally ambiguous. Is there an omission, or, conversely, a fabrication that is part of the movie that I'm not aware of that would cast a different light on Spielberg's "agenda"?

Anyway, I liked it...though it should maybe have ended a couple of scenes earlier.

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from what i gather,one criticism is that the film takes a real incident; the kidnapping and murder of isreali athletes at the munich olympics and mixes it with a fictional tale of the mossad mission to hunt down the terrorists (the story of which has been rubbished by both mossad and palestinians close to the story)

[GforGroove]

This movie is so unconvinient and unnecesary, specially now.




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I watch it all but at the end when they super hot agent gets laid finally edited with the killing of the israelis i wanted to puke. Is not even poetic, political, nice or anythinf.. is bad taste, is not well done..the cut sucks....
ugh.

basically Spielberg has an agenda? Yes he has an agenda of "remember never forget" that im so sick of...

the only thing i like it it was the story of the french source... loui and papa were actually the only characters i believed.

Don't go watch it.

[viddy]

People were walking out of the theatre during this one. I share their feelings in saying this movie is crap.

To much blah blah blah about politics and it doesn't move foreward quickly enough. I was just completely bored 3/4ths of the way through and was just waiting for it to end.

I did enjoy the action though, when they were actually doing stuff.

[undarrenworld]

Im not Spielberg fan, but I must say that this movie is different from his other works. Its psychological, very emotional.