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- Bullitt0
I havent seen it yet, so I dont know whats fictional about it. But I do know those events did infact happen, the assinations the following year that is.
- jimeeboy510
It was too long and slow imo. But nevertheless, an interesting bit of history. I enjoyed the hour long documentary on the discovery channel called something like "Munich, the real assasins."
Just saw it last week, so it's probably replaying every week.
- monkeyshine0
I actually saw this film on xmas eve...not the best choice, but I felt that the length and intense, very graphic violence made me feel like I'd been beaten up by the time I left the theatre. Maybe that's the point. The scene with the woman nearly pushed me over. Did feel like it was too long.
- digitalswarm0
I liked the film very Mu(ni)ch.
^^^ AWESOME!!
- alloyd0
looked like it was going to be a good one.
- kelpie0
hmmm, everything I've heard about this is bad - a total added-schmaltz distortion of the truth that insults both sides of the divide with it's portrayals. A really good *opportunity* for a film that goes and bases the script on an alegedly fictional memoir by a guy who no-body really belives was ever anything to do with Mossad let alone a death squad leader.
Caring, emotionaly torn assasins?
come on.
still, not seen it yet, could be wrong ;)
- brtman0
Liked it, although a bit long.
The flashback parts were unnecessary. Quite a statement for Mr. Spielberg still.
Just see it.
- kelpie0
did you believe what it was saying? did it mention the guy in Norway they murdered because he looked like one of the hostage takers? I'm just worried cos most of the chat from people who actualy had anything to do with any of it is very negative and not for the usual reasons, but it seems the source text is highly questionable. You know what it's like with these Holywood movies too - people tend to end up looking at them as gospel...
But I know, you're right, I've not seen it, just wary of Stevies "truths"...
- brtman0
the story itself i didn't believe to be historically accurate, no.
- xenicon0
It is soaked in the sweat of its idea of evenhandedness. Palestinians murder, Israelis murder. Palestinians show evidence of a conscience, Israelis show evidence of a conscience. Palestinians suppress their scruples, Israelis suppress their scruples. Palestinians make little speeches about home and blood and soil, Israelis make little speeches about home and blood and soil. Palestinians kill innocents, Israelis kill innocents. All these analogies begin to look ominously like the sin of equivalence, and so it is worth pointing out that the death of innocents was an Israeli mistake but a Palestinian objective. (I am referring only to the war between the terrorists and the counterterrorists. The larger picture is darker. Over the years more civilians were killed in Israeli air strikes than in the Palestinian atrocities that provoked those air strikes. The justice of Israel's defense of itself should not be confused with the rightness of everything that it does in self-defense.) No doubt Munich will be admired for its mechanical symmetries, which will be called complexity. But this is not complexity, it is strategy.
-Leon Wieseltier, TNR