wtf i hate israel now
Wtf i hate israel now
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>trained Mossad operatives
>they get jumpy over killing a guy
Eh.
Good parts to it. Reasonably unconventional, which I appreciate. They're ultimately hitmen, and the story is small, which is nice. It's not an action movie, although there are strong action elements at times. The characters don't go after big political themes, they're just guys doing their job. They're not idealists or zealots who are pursuing the targets for personal reasons -- they're very detached from it. They don't care who these people are and why they're killing them, they just want to do their job and go home.
It reminded me a bit of The Hunter with Willem Dafoe in that regard, although Munich is arguable the worse film.
Now, they do get a tad political with the ending showing the still-standing twin towers, but these are considerations that only the audience cares about. The characters don't.
Which again, is good. It keeps the story small, while acknowledging topics the American audience may be thinking about.
On the other hand, we don't push the paranoia they start feeling far enough. Tension builds, tension builds, and then the main character goes and sleeps in his closet. It's borderline comedic, but it didn't feel like it was supposed to be. Prior to that (I think, it's been a while), when they kill the prostitute assassin and one of the Mossad ops goes to close her dress, and one of them goes and reopens it. It reminds me a bit of where, in Mother Courage, the title character is paying for her daughters burial, but retracts her hand, removes a coin or two, then finishes paying the men. Except in Munich, (as with Mother Courage and a bad actress) the otherwise natural and significant action feels forced.
It could have been a great scene. But it wasn't.
It's also a 164 minute movie. It should be slow to give the material enough time, but not that slow. I could accept 2 hours, but not 2 hours 44 minutes.
Alot of it was based on a true story, especially the houseboat prostitute scene with the dress. I think I remember reading that the skittishness was a device to convey the internalized conflict of the character that the book had without narration
I'm aware.
My complaints are with the directing/producing side of things rather than anything to do with the script. Plus a minor gripe at the acting.
This film had the best fucking use of practical "shooty" effects.
Mossad was a lot more organized and careful than the movie shows, but I get why they skimmed over that for dramatic effect. What I found annoying was how they ignored the fact that Mossad killed an innocent guy by accident in the middle of all this. It seems like the kind of thing that not only would have made the story more accurate, but also been more interesting from a dramatic perspective.
That's actually the only pro Israeli movie I ever liked.
I think the last decent thing Spielberg made in his career.
>trained mossad operatives
But they weren't, they were normal guys with skills that related to the job
>they were normal guys
>worked for Israeli Intelligence
>with skills that related to the job
>which apparently doesn't include killing efficiently
Were they all Mossad?
Like one guy was a toy maker
alot of good parts. any movie about killing hadjis is ok by me.
>they ignored the fact that Mossad killed an innocent guy by accident in the middle of all this
Why do you think Shekelberg chose to omit this?
and explosives expert
I'm fuzzy on it, but the lead was Mossad and another a former soldier. I could understand their document forger getting jumpy, and maybe the driver too. But I think the lead and the soldier were the ones who did the first assassination.
They didn't ignore it. Geoffrey Rush has a scene when he's walking with Avner on the beach saying something like "no more shooting bellhops in Stockholm" or something. A reference to Mossad killing the wrong guy in Scandinavia I think.
>Like one guy was a toy maker
Jesus Christ mate.
Really?
I am not a smart man
No he was trained in dismantling explosives not building them. Avner worked personal security detail for Golda Meir. James Bond was a South African Jew. Mance Rayder was a former soldier and the other guy forged documents I think
I don't even understand what happened to Mance Rayder. Did he hook up with that woman who murdered him herself or what?
Yes which is why they fucked her shit up on the house boat. She was hired by the Palestinians to take them out
>the hotel bombing scene
>the severed dangling arm spinning around on the ceiling fan
Way more effective than it had any right to be.
is this jurassic park and bridge of spies speilbergs best?
Last great Spielberg movie. It certainly doesn't try to whitewash anyone yet this event is absent.
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I'd like to know why. The time constraints. The movie featured similar scenes except this which is the most infamous.
A final intertitle notes that 9 of the 11 original targets were eventually assassinated, including Salameh in 1979. The World Trade Center is seen in this last shot before the film ends."
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The only good scene in The Bridge of Spies was the U2 flight for some good showcase of Cold War-era technology.
And a couple pretty shots here and there when it was snowing or something.
I enjoyed the entire thing a lot more than the other nominated films, the bridge scene might have dragged i guess. i like some of his other films a lot more but i thought it was pretty damn solid.
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My favorite review of this movie. One of the most insightful, in depth videos about all the bullshit in Munich. It really changed my perspective completely.
>now
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I like that Geoffrey Rush.
Why? Because they killed a bunch of terrorists?
>tfw you fail to kill palestinians
>they die of a heart attack anyway
Geoffrey Rush is good in everything he's in.
>tfw no THICK terrorist gf