Posted on 11/24/2005 7:41:24 PM PST by wagglebee
Yes! He's making another Jurassic Park! (Homer Simpson voice) - "Woo-hoo!"
But AI was just plain weird.
The Israeli hit teams were called off when one of them whacked an (apparently) innocent Pali expatriate in Sweden(?, IIRC). The entire team was rounded up and jailed. The resulting diplomatic flap helped to promote the "sympathy for the downtrodden Palis" movement in Europe. A PR nightmare. I'm sure the Spielberg movie will emphasize this as a sop to the Leftist Internationalists.
But, just in case, he has also assembled a team of pro advisers to confront the international protestations that are sure to occur. The trio consists of Dennis Ross, a well-known U.S. diplomat who played a leading role in shaping Middle East policy in the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations and is now The Washington Institute’s counselor and Ziegler distinguished fellow; Mike McCurry, President Clinton’s White House spokesman who is now a senior political strategist; and Allan Mayer, a crisis PR specialist with Los Angeles-based Sitrick And Company who has advised Spielberg for several years.
This plus Tony Kushner makes me very, very suspicious about this movie.
After reading this before bed, I saw an ad for Munich last night on TV.
The guy who digitally removed the guns and terrorist references from "ET" and who turned "Jurassic Park II" into an environmental screed leaves his politics out of movies?
The guy who turned a story about a man trapped in a French airport into a story of a man trapped in a US airporat by unfeeling homeland security agents leaves his politics out of his movies?
The guy who directed "the Color Purple" leaves his politics out of his movies?
Sure, up to about 1993 you were probably right, but over the last ten years he's just another agenda driven lefty. The fact he, like a lot of lefties, considers WWII "the good war," doesn't mean he left his politics out.
After the the opening bit where the first machine rose from beneath the street I thought it went downhill quickly. The whole bit with Tim Robbins in the basement was just stupid and unnecessary, and that's leaving out the casting of Tim Robbins. My complaints were mainly those aliens were so dumb: advanced as they were they didn't have infrared imaging technology, and they buried their machines here on earth, freezing the technology in place.
I think part of the minefield is that the Mossad was mistaken on at least one case and killed the wrong person. I'm no expert of the post-Munich operation, though.
Dont' want to sound callous but...... I'm more comfortable with the Mossad erring on the side of caution than Pallies indiscriminately murdering people. But I can see how that could cause a problem in the retelling. Best just to play out the facts straightforwardly. But this is a movie right!
I have no problem with the Mossad doing its business at all.
A major screw up is still a major screw up, though, and makes them come across as bad or at the very least, sloppy.
Anybody have any details of this screw up? I could be thinking of something else, though.
The Mossad killed an innocent person by accident. The Palis have killed thousands of innocent people ON PURPOSE. Yet the story here is about how wrong the Mossad is? Is that right?
Unless I hear differently, I'm passing on this crap.
Disgusting.
And theyy're overlooking the obvious.. central piece... the palis killed the wrong people. they killed the entire athelte team. how about those deaths? were they right or wrong people?
Right. Except for Shrek, A Band Of Brothers, Men in Black II, he's not done anything.
I was referring to the movies he has directed, not produced, or been the executive producer for.
"I recall reading in Time mag. that we did the same after the Beirut barracks bombing.
IIRC Mossad helped with that ."
Really? I hadn't heard about that. Has anybody else?
That's putting it mildly. It was stupendiously bad and totaly incomprehensible. Toward the end, there's a scene where you can see the boom mike in the top of the picture. Bad script, production, acting and editing. I couldn't believe it was a Speilburg picture.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......................
TIME magazines' latest cover has Spielberg on it. Look to the RIGHT [the site would not let me link to the pik, unlike all the other piks on the page].
http://www.time.com/time/
Its always been my understanding that nothing happens in the MSM by coincidence.
"......You have to be Steven Spielberg to get away with that........
Dats fo shor!
It will star Barbra Streisand, who will sing at the end of the movie "There's a place for us", causing all the Pallies, ragheads, and Israelites to be moved to tears and start hugging each other and apologizing for past wrongs, blah, blah, blah...
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