halter91 Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 I'm looking forward to seeing this movie. If you have please review!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooper Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 Reviews have been really mixed so far. The critics are saying it's good, not great, and probably won't even be nominated for best picture. I'm sure I'll love it. Looks like a 70's film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halter91 Posted December 19, 2005 Author Share Posted December 19, 2005 Looks like a great revenge movie. Eric Bana was great in Black Hawk Down, hopefully he'll be better in this flick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halter91 Posted January 6, 2006 Author Share Posted January 6, 2006 Just a bump to see if anyone see this yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 yeah, it was decent. it was interessting the way it went down, the traps they set. i think its worth seeing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skins4eva Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 It was a very, very good movie. A little long, but I thought it did a good job of illustrating the nature of vengence. Eric Bana gave a really outstanding performance. All in all--it was obviously a powerful picture, but in my opinion, like most of Spielberg's movies, a little done up for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 I'm going to wait until cable or something. Looks interesting enough and I love Ciaran Hinds (Caesar in HBO's Rome) and I like Bana too, I guess, but I don't want to go see something that requires a moral clarity where the left-wing screenwriter(and I'm not inventing that, it's well-known) who has called Israel a "calamity" for the Jewish people gets to convey his point of view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosperity Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 It is a good movie that is worth watching, the only problem I had with it was that it didn't really have a conclusion, maybe it was meant to be that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 979guy Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 yeah, it was decent. it was interessting the way it went down, the traps they set. i think its worth seeing. Problem is, the movie has nothing to do with the way things really went down. If you're looking for facts - If you're looking for Hollywood fiction - ok If you're looking for the moral of Spielberg's take - violence begets violence begets more violence. Should have left the terrorists alone, and then maybe 9/11 wouldn't have happened. I know It's stretching it, but the final scene does pretty much suggest exactly that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrockster21 Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 I want to see it...but I'll probably wait for it to come out on video. NETFLIX, MOTHER****ER!!!! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halter91 Posted January 14, 2006 Author Share Posted January 14, 2006 I just want the Violence. Like when John Creasy went nuts in Man on Fire. Man, I watched that movie again this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cdowwe Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 It looks good. Im just wondering how long before Spielberg runs out of Jewish related films. I need a Jurassic Park 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsHokieFan Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Saw it, enjoyed it, even though it was long it did not feel long Do yourself a favor and do a little research about the massacre before seeing the movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 979guy Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 It looks good. Im just wondering how long before Spielberg runs out of Jewish related films. I need a Jurassic Park 4. Jewrassic Park isn't about Jews? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cdowwe Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Jewrassic Park isn't about Jews? Nope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 979guy Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Nope You didn't REALLY think I was serious, did you? :paranoid: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cdowwe Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 You didn't REALLY think I was serious, did you? :paranoid: No, I just didnt know how to respond to such a stupid joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iheartskins Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 An incredible, if historically innaccurate film. I just came back from seeing it though scenes from the film will likely permeate my thoughts for weeks to come. What struck me the most was how close the movie felt. I don't know if all American Jews, especially those with family in Israel, connected to the film in the way I did but Munich did more than make me live vicariously through the characters, I felt as though I were one. Maybe that's because if I were to live in Israel, I would have served in the Army--maybe even in the Mossad. The plot, if you haven't read about the movie already, focuses on the Munich Olympic Games when Black September (a terrorist organization) kidnapped and murdered Israeli athletes. That part is not in dispute. What is in dispute is the manner in which the film portrays the Israeli reaction to the Munich Games. I don't know enough about these events to provide any kind of definitive account, but as you've read in this thread, and you'll read elsewhere on the net, it's not clear how Israel actually did react to the Munich Games. The movie follows one Mossad agent and his band of four brothers in arms (who, by the way, are the most diverse collection of Jews I've seen and actually an accurate representation of Jewry in the world--unlike the traditional portrayals in movies). The scenes the group's descent into the world of assasins; they are given only oral approval and orders from Golda Mayer, but never provided with any specific connections to the Israeli government. The story moves forward without a break and there's never a moment, with the exception of a few lines to do with the need for receipts, that lets the audience relax. As the men move closer to their goal, so do they move closer to their own instability and madness. Divisions arise as to the moral implications of their moves...and so it goes. I go into this degree of detail only that for some, and maybe for all, this movie is not a traditional spy v. spy--Bourne Idenity--kind of movie. It's a brooding, emotionally charged tale of loss of sanity, morality, righteousness and clarity. You won't soon forget it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsfanevan Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 It is a good movie that is worth watching, the only problem I had with it was that it didn't really have a conclusion, maybe it was meant to be that way. Right. There is no conclusion, because the violence is continuing today. That scene was so powerful, when he was like "We killed these men only for them to be replaced." By not putting a distinct ending on it, it just shows how all that violence accomplished nothign but revenge. And i like that, because its so true. GREAT movie, by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 It looks good. Im just wondering how long before Spielberg runs out of Jewish related films. I need a Jurassic Park 4. He did Schindler's List 13 years ago and this one. That's two whole Jewish movies. Unless ET was Jewish I'm not sure what you're complaining about. Oh, and Jurassic Park IV is in pre-production. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Air Force Cane Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 here is the TRUTH. the TRUTH is that this movie has almost nothing to do with the REAL mission to wipe out Black September. Even the beginning of the movie says "inspired by real events"!! in TRUTH, it was not one Mossad squad but many squads. there was none of that receipt garbage, the one way an actual member of the teams was caught was by a receipt!! Israelis for the most part detest this movie- because it does make it seem like it is about vengeance. it is morally oblique, there are no good or bad- just everyone kills everyone else. do we hunt Al-Queda out of vengeance in 2006? or do we hunt them to STOP FUTURE ATTACKS?! Spielberg literally believes in talking "until we are blue in the face". that is his leftist worldview, that the PLO and the Israelis just need to start talking and then they can solve the problems of the Middle East. it is so far into fantasy it is not funny. you can pull up tons of articles going into the myriad problems with this movie.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty P For The Pulitzer Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 At the time I saw Munich, I thought it was no more than pretty good, that it was about 20 minutes or so too long. The more I think back on it though, the more I like it. I still think the ending drags too much though. It's definitely an interesting movie (despite it's alleged historical inaccuracies, which I know nothing about) and worth seeing. Normally I don't really care a whole lot for movies that are supposed to make you think, but this was one that I liked. I didn't mind that it was a leftist message, it was good because it was more analyzing the necessity or effectiveness of retaliation and vengeance, and not a 'Blame the West' message. Spielberg did a very good job with it, and I thought the acting was great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 As a movie, it was very good. Not great like Schindlers list, but very good. As a historical piece, it was complete fiction. Unfortunately, most people will see it and think "Spielberg made Schindlers list accurately, this must be as well." Where, in fact, it is nowhere CLOSE to reality. Speilberg does a great job of making his point that volence begets violence, even though I disagree. But at times it seemed a bit too preachy. Definitely worth seeing. The acting and cinematography are excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 979guy Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 here is the TRUTH.in TRUTH, it was not one Mossad squad but many squads. there was none of that receipt garbage, the one way an actual member of the teams was caught was by a receipt!! Israelis for the most part detest this movie- because it does make it seem like it is about vengeance. it is morally oblique, there are no good or bad- just everyone kills everyone else. Thank you. Correct. BTW, no one was caught. There's also none of that dramatic "If you get caught we'll deny ever knowing you blah blah" BS in real life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Air Force Cane Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 it was based on George Jonas 1984 book "Vengeance" and another lefty helped write the screenplay. (Tony Kushner is an anti-zionist). anyway, it is basically a work of fiction (the CIA helps protect the PLO?) i agree great acting, great movie making. but it takes the arab position that the holocaust is the only reason for israel to exist- with no mention of the fact there have been Jews living in Israel for 2,300 years continuously.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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