My New York Times Review of Munich (please FReep)

01.10.06 | Mia T

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a 'please FReep' ping :)

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[E.G.C.]

Mia T. bump.

[Miss Marple]

I voted. I don't think you can vote, though, if you aren't registered with the New York Times. You might give people a bugmenot password, and that might get your totals up higher.

[johnny7]

Will comment later... got 'business' in NY.

[Mia T]

Thanx. :)

Great idea, bugmenot. Not sure if NYT allows more than one vote per ID, tho.

(The only reason I'd like to get the numbers up is positioning, i.e., to avoid having the review buried in the back pages of the site.)

[FlyVet]

Bumped and Freeped. I notice the reviewers who loved the movie saw it purely as entertainment or believe it to be historically accurate.

I saw a profile on the movie "Alexander", in which Oliver Stone said something like "We're not historians; directors have 'License'." IOW, "We can take a historical event and twist it to read the way we need it to read." In this case, no thanks.

[Mia T]

thanx. :)

post-911, we need to revoke that 'license.'

[jmaroneps37]

I am getting a very good feeling about what is happening in Hollywood. It looks like they are getting ready to give America the finger on Oscar night by giving the best picture award to Broke-back Mountain.
Combine that with jon stewart running the show and they will send a big message to the few people who still go to movies that " You will continue to be insulted and you WILL take it, LIKE it or not!. And oh yeah, vote Democrat and death to America!"
All of this just in time for this important mid-term election. How nice is that?

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[Chewie84]

"I saw a profile on the movie "Alexander", in which Oliver Stone said something like "We're not historians; directors have 'License'." IOW, "We can take a historical event and twist it to read the way we need it to read.""

Amen to that. Spielberg has already proved to be an expert at that with the "Into the West" miniseries that came out last summer. The first half of it was pretty good, but after that, it was mainly just "Noble Indian lived in perfect peace and harmony until evil, smelly White Man came and destroyed everything for no reason."
In that miniseries, they glossed over the Indian attacks on settlers, they REALLY glossed over the battle of Little Big Horn and its aftermath (Even though a fairly major character in the series dies in Little Big Horn), yet they showed instances of white violence against Indians (i.e. the massacres at Sand Creek and Wounded Knee) with full gory detail. It's what liberal directors do best: Twist historical fact to suit whatever their agenda is.

[JoeGar]

Spielberg has publicized the fact that the movie is fiction, that some conversations and events never occurred, and that he purposely tried to make the Palentinians and Israelis equally wrong in the film.