Spielberg's Munich and me

American thinker ^ | 1/03/06 | Rachel Neuwirth

[MrNatural]

..The film did crappy box office this weekend..

It sure did; it's now up to about $16M after 11 days in release. With a $70M production budget and maybe another $30M or so in marketing expenses, and the studio getting about 55% of the overall box office, it doesn't look good financially.

But I don't think that was unexpected. This is like Brokeback Mountain; these are Hollyweird liberals displaying and refreshing their leftist credentials to their fellows. Like BBM, it gets critical praise, and will be seen as a plus for the resumes of all concerned, in spite of the red ink.

In other news, Narnia crosses the $225M threshold after 25 days in release ...

[10mm]

"Sword of Gideon"

An excellent movie on the Israeli response to the Munich massacre. Worthy of your movie dollars.

[I still care]

Thanks for posting the chart. Fun reading.

Munich is bombing, and Brokeback mountain, while on more screens, is dropping. Narnia is number 1, and it looks like Syriana and Munich both won't make their money back.

I love charts...

[Ukiapah Heep]

Will Speilberg now revise "Saving Private Ryan" to make nice to the Nazis?

[prophetic]

I wont waste my time or money on that crap movie.

[Zack Nguyen]

Americans, including Spielberg, have never had to live intimately with war and terrorism in a tiny country surrounded and outnumbered by intractable enemies.

This is one of my biggest problems with leftists. Too often their opinions stem from a corrupting softness, a cynicism and moral equivocation that results from never loving life and liberty enough to fight to keep it.

[porkchops 4 mahound]

Just wait until it comes out on DVD, which I bet will be quicker than usual, since it'll tank everywhere but islamist sh!t holes, whose money will not help.

Then wait until the dvd is on a 99 cent tuesday or thursday deal, watch it then, (if you must).

That way Stevie gets nothing.

I'll give it a pass, I remember watching it all on TV, I remember where Yasser, (I'm a diseased, pedophile, murdering, scum sucker), Arafat first gained his fame, and how.

I don't want to understand these animals, (with my sincere apologies to all animals who suffer in the comparison), unless it helps KILL THEM ALL.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

The problem is I have to see it to really be truthful in my opinion. I have no doubt I'll leave the theater in a fury, probably before it's over.

I'm going to use my best judgement from everything I've read and not see the movie.

[Brian Allen]

"[Munich,] Spielberg's not so subtle commentary about our post 9-11 world is the ultimate obscenity."


-- Jonathan Tobin - http://jewishworldreview.com/1205/tobin_2005_12_22.php3

[familyop]

I won't be watching it.

[Sabramerican]

I maybe should get the credit for seeing the obvious first.

I've seen the sentiment now frequently that Munich may in fact be a movie whose aim is to criticize the Iraq War.

I don't know of any source that made that observation prior to mine, here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1540372/posts?page=31#31

[Brian Allen]

<< I maybe should get the credit for seeing the obvious first ....

.... I don't know of any source that made that observation prior to mine, here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1540372/posts?page=31#31 >>

Without a doubt the credit all belongs to you.

It amazes me how many deductions reached by us and first posted here, mine included, are quickly snapped up by the mainstream and become clichéd. And how many of our yesterday's ideas become tomorrow's cartoons.