Spielberg & Kushner's Munich '72 / Israeli vengeance film

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dood william hurt and ed harris were fucking awesome... "Joey"

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link

'a history of violence' is great!

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link

and not a revenge flick

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 02:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Not really but it definitely is what Morbius claims.

Ed Harris and William Hurt were definitely the best parts of the movie; I think part of the reason the film ultimately left me cold was that I just didn't like Viggo and wifey at all. AHOV does a fantastic job atmosphere building, Harris esp. is totally creepy and tense-creating.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link

also howard shore's score >>>>>>>>> john williams' score

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I think part of the reason the film ultimately left me cold was that I just didn't like Viggo and wifey at all

The relationship (esp the sexual) b/w Viggo and Maria Bello was the most compelling part of the movie.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link

morbius mccarthy WAS evil...do you seriously debate that?

No, I don't want to see a 90-minute "earth not flat" film either.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I felt like it should've been more compelling, but it just...didn't do it for me. I really just didn't like them. The movie was well made and interesting but I didn't have much interest in either of the married couple; which is odd because clearly the tension and menace all surrounds Viggo's identity so I can't quite put my finger on why I felt all of that yet had such little interest in him.

It is thoroughly possible that my dislike for Viggo (and Eric Bana, for that matter, they kind of are similar in my mind) colors perceptions here!

otm on score.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Can't remember a note of Shore's music. I think scoring the Dungeons & Dragons trilogy may have sent him down the chute.

Munich shows that the international death industry, presumably motivated by nationalism and securing the primal hearth, is actually just a big unstoppable economy (feeding families like "Papa" Michel Lonsdale's).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha that seems akin to me to not wanting to see a 90 minute "earth not flat" film though! ;)

I liked that angle and the interactions with the family but I was half expecting Papa to come down with a heart attack during the idyllic countryside dinner sequence. Some of the shots were soooo similar, I am half curious if it was purposeful because of the inevitable comparison that would be made there regardless.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

What a film -- my first viewing since 2006.

― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 02:22 (five years ago) link

Spielberg had a pretty interesting run in the oughts: AI/Minority Report/Catch Me If You Can/War of the Worlds/Munich. (Didn’t see The Terminal)

― Conceptualize Wyverns (latebloomer), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 02:34 (five years ago) link

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