Munich

[Reckoner]

Great, great movie. It's pretty long (2 hrs, 45 mins), but it is well worth it. Definitely give this a rent!

 

[BrokenVisage]

Yeah, I liked.

 

[Heisenberg]

Yeah, it was pretty good.

 

[Caesar]

That motel scene was wow :shocked:

 

[Kenazo]

Have you read the actual account?
Massacre
Operation Wrath of God

 

[Reckoner]

Originally posted by: CaesaR
That motel scene was wow :shocked:

Yeah, my HT system cranked during that explosion.

 

[DainBramaged]

The whole movie was awesome.

 

[Reckoner]

I'm not entirely familiar with the events after the Munich slayings. Did the movie stay close to the actual events that took place afterwards?

Edit: Links answered my question, thanks Kenazo

 

[Theb]

I liked the movie too.

Originally posted by: Kenazo
Have you read the actual account?
Massacre
Operation Wrath of God

Thanks for the links.

 

[TheWart]

I actually was quite dissapointed with the movie...I had really high hopes, but I just felt it was kind of "meh." Not too mention it dragged on too long imo.

With a better editor/producer I felt it would have been awesome.

 

[MustangSVT]

pretty good

 

[MazerRackham]

I thought it was great! Is it out on DVD now or something?

 

[0roo0roo]

he oscar award winning documentary "one day in september" is also good, and about the same incident. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230591/

and well a more factual take

Striking Back' Look at Munich Killings, Aftermath

Listen to this story... by Robert Siegel

All Things Considered, December 22, 2005 · Aaron J. Klein talks about his new book, Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response. It's about the secret, 30-year campaign to track down the killers of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, which was led by a secret Mossad unit, code named Caesarea.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5066445

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5080871
nterviews
Tony Kushner: From 'Angels' to 'Munich'

Listen to this story...

Fresh Air from WHYY, January 3, 2006 · Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner co-wrote the screenplay for the new Stephen Spielberg film Munich. Kushner won a Pulitzer for his 1993-1994 play Angels in America, which was performed in two parts and set in New York in the mid-1980s in the midst of the AIDS epidemic.

 

[aswedc]

Bump for awesomeness.

It's funny seeing all the blind partisans coming out of the woodwork for this one (see other ATOT thread, I chose this one because it was newer). The film was as neutral as it is possible to be when dealing with a highly political subject. Any claims otherwise just reveal your sympathies...

 

[MrsBugi]

I enjoyed it. :thumbsup: High applicability to what's going on today, as well.

 

[aswedc]

Originally posted by: MrsBugi
I enjoyed it. :thumbsup: High applicability to what's going on today, as well.

Yeah. Honestly the thing that shocked me the most about the movie was that Spielberg had the balls to frame the credits on the World Trade Center.

 

[potato28]

I guess I'll have to rent it then...

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: aswedc

Originally posted by: MrsBugi
I enjoyed it. :thumbsup: High applicability to what's going on today, as well.

Yeah. Honestly the thing that shocked me the most about the movie was that Spielberg had the balls to frame the credits on the World Trade Center.

That is exactly why I searched for this thread, I live in NYC and I wasn't sure if those were the silouetes for the WTC during the credits; Waterside was easily seen in the background, but I was still thrown off

 

[Excelsior]

I liked it.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Excelsior
I liked it.

As did I

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: Excelsior
I liked it.

As did I

And I

 

[ThePresence]

I thought it was good, not great.

 

[Reckoner]

One thing I didn't understand is, why is that guy seeing visions of the Munich slayings when he's having sex with his wife near the end of the movie?

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
One thing I didn't understand is, why is that guy seeing visions of the Munich slayings when he's having sex with his wife near the end of the movie?

He had flashbacks throughout the film; IMO it's his way of mentally dealing w/ what he was about to do, the flashback when he is on the plane and takes off his wedding ring and what he has done, the flashback when he is having sex w/ his wife.