Take a movie such as the “City Of G-d” (although a different story altogether) it manages to build real characters with outstanding cinematography and you never want to leave the cinema. I was praying for the Munich to end 30 minutes into the film. A movie like this should never be shot entirely in english. It makes the film feel totally unreal.

Munich had no character and was obviously not researched professionally or extensively. Do you honestly believe an Israeli “hit” team would be so unprofessional and careless. You’re talking about the most sophisticated and well respected intelligence org. in the world and you show them off as amateurs.

I dont know how Spielberg does it. but he manages to get box office hits one after the other and yet in my opinion he is still an amateur.

someone needs to remake this film and show spielberg how it should have been done! i bet half the budget could easily do it!

the “jewish” content seemed overly contrived. I don’t think anyone could miss a room with three huge and prominent menorah. It was like, yes, their Jewish, we get

I really don’t see how its good for Israel, if anything, it makes our best stories be boring.

Ano, not off hand, if i remember some, I’l get back to you.

Raiders of the Lost Ark absolutely kicked ass. Tha;s Spielberg’s real milieu and he should stay there.

Haven’t seen Munich, not gonna. Schindler’s List, or, should I say, the moralizing and posturing that surrounded it, turned me so off that I’ve been leery of Spielberg ever since when he’s in his mussar mode..

And I know what you mean about all of the “father-son conflicts”. War of the Worlds was a classic example. A billion people need to get killed so some snot-nosed punk can realize his father’s not a total schmuck? Jesus.

1. Most movie-goers nowadays don’t remember the Munich Olympics (or weren’t alive), so this film re-introduces into the popular culture this tragedy that befell the Jewish nation (people and state).

2. The American movie-go’ers will naturally identify with the Israelis as fighting “a moral war on terrorism”, as evidenced by the Mossad team delaying the hit in Paris so that the target’s wife and daughter can leave the area.

3. The movie is a very “Jewish/Israeli” film. It is chok-full of references that only someone quite knowledgeable about Israel and Judaism would pick up on (i.e., mezuzahs, menorahs, using Yiddish and Hebrew terms, like ‘Yekke’). Honestly, the average American would miss most of these references. And the scenes of 1970′s Israel were spot-on: the scene at the Prime Minister’s residence looked just like my aunt & uncle’s place in the 1980′s.

So say what you will, I think the movie was a net benefit to us.

I feel that any vehicle that brings the talent of Eric Bana to the screen is a worthwhile project.

Encino, I don’t know about molestation, but my understanding is that Speilberg didn’t have much of a relationship with his father growing up, if that explains the little lost boy looking for a home and father figure theme in every spielberg movie.

One good thing I can say about the movie was I’ve never seen a film feature a pregnant sex scene before. That was pretty cool.

And it was also fun seeing it with an audience full of Israelis – they laughed in places of absurdity I don’t know if American audiences would pick up on, and even booed at a few of the lines. It was almost like being in a theater in on the South Side of Chicago

Apparently he claims when he was younger all the kids in the neighborhood would taunt him unmercifully, Now we know why.