Movie Strut (Holiday Edition)
mannybolone
Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
What's hot?King Kong? I've heard "long but good." I've also heard "just plain long."Syriana?Memoirs of a Geisha? (NOT!)And who's trying to fuck with "Munich"? I'm not a big Speilberg fan but I'll see this.
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I'm trynna see that.
Andrea Peyser has stated that Spielberg (and by extension anyone who sees this) is categorically against the Jews (and by extension America) - might wanna look into that property in Tehran you freedom hater.
Here's Peyser's editorial from The Post:
I'm not even defending Poyser but dude, shut the fuck up.
Well, all of that aside, is it not about a Jewish death squad? That alone should render it the film of the year for the SoulStrut poster who has never forgiven John Singleton for portraying a peripheral Jewish character in Higher Learning as the type of personality that is reduced to tears ("like a b!tch!") when a gun is pointed at him.
It's long and intentionally confusing movie, with clustered stories around the oil industry, Iran, terrorism, and American interests in the region. Made by the same dude behind Traffic. Parts of it are based on Robert Baer, a former CIA agent that was kicked out in the mid-90s and is often on talk news shows. Clooney's character seems to be the most likable in it.
If you like these sorts of movies you should see it. Recommended.
8/10
Cosign.
Danno, plaese to post more "With you always". Funnier than taxidermy kittens.
growl!
I'll co-sign this one.
One problem is that the PLO is not an "Islamic fundamentalist" group threatening the survival of Israel. It's a secular group.
According to a Time magazine article based upon a forthcoming book on Munich and the Israeli response, Mossad, Israeli intelligence, wasn't even able to kill many of the actual Palestinians who took part in the terrorist attack. Rather they killed activist Palestinians in Western Europe as a form of retaliation and deterrence.
According to Speilberg, this was one of the reasons why he made the movie. He wanted to show the costs in fighting terrorism, other wise it would be your typical good guy vs bad guy movie. I guess having the Israelis dealing with the fact that they are assassins makes it moral relativism to this guy. From his other comments I would assume he would much rather have the Palestinians be bloody, faceless terrorists who deserve to be killed, and the Israelis the avenging angels with stone cold faces.
The full context of this comment was that Speilberg had always been for a strong Israeli response to protect its security, but with age, he's seen that one attack for another, an eye for an eye, just leads to more problems, not a solution as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has continued to the present day rather than ending.
Here he's twisting Speilberg's comments without context.
Just a couple response to this guy's editorial.
Saw Narnia. Kid loved it. Was a bit long and had too many tear jerker moments. I liked the dark edge of Lord Of The Rings.
Also saw the new Harry Potter with the family. Again, a long movie, but much better than Narnia and this is really the first in the series I've seen all the way through.
Interested in Syriana, but it's not a priority.
When I saw the previews for Munich I just cringed, especially when I saw that it was Speilberg. The action would probably be great, but at the end, he'd have some tear jerker ending or something. After reading a couple articles in Time today I'm more interested.
long, over the top action/drama/love story... don't expect a realistic portrayal of a giant ape, and you'll enjoy it.
Don't drink too much soda while in the theatre
best scene: King Kong roundhouse kicks Chuck Norris... no wait, maybe that was a T-Rex.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"
"FOR NARRRRRRRNIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AND AAAASSSSSSSSSSLAAAAAAAAAANNNND!!!!"
Way too over dramatic. The ice queen was mainey though, serioz.
Munich - Boring.
Geisha - That looks kinda cool. I like Michelle Yeoh & Zhang Ziyi, but this doesn't look like there's much ass kicking going on in this movie.
Aeon Flux - This might be dope. I've heard a lot of good things about this flick. Funny how the studio didn't want to do pre-screenings for critics. Made people think it was going to be a disaster.
Uh, yeah dude, I don't think so. Maybe you're thinking of "Memoirs of a Ninja" or something.
I'll
watchdownload this but dude, the reviews have been TERRIBLE. It scored 12% on Rotten Tomatoes - definitely .That said, I like dumb action films as long as it's not as dumb as Van Helsing or something.
As for "Munich": I'd go DESPITE it being a Spielberg film. He and Lucas are two of the most overhyped, overvalued filmmakers in America, especially as action directors. But I think the premise is interesting, I actually like Eric Bana despite "The Hulk," and Geoffrey Rush as some super-secret Mossad hit man leader sounds almost as good as Jean Reno in a similar role.
Fuck Lucas, but dog... Spielberg "overvalued"? In terms of what?
"Overhyped" I can see, but "overvalued"?
I seriously think you need to go and check the pedigree.
I mean, if money only ever did JAWS, RAIDERS & SCHINDLER'S LIST, then he'd still be in the top pantheon of American film directors.
I know people love to hate dude but I mean, really.
That said, fuck MUNICH from the jump.
Don't quit your day job.
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Just curious - how is this taking Speilberg's words out of context? Granted, I don't know where the Speilberg quote came from (so maybe by definition I'm taking them out of context, too?) but the message seems to be pretty clear: Speilberg would like to see the Arab-Israeli conflict as some endless action-response-reaction thing that gets us nowhere. He says: "A response to a response doesn't really solve anything." I mean, that seems to be the point of his film, right?
Problem is, at least as far as Munich is concerned, is that this was a measured response to a specific act of terror. The perpetrators of the massacre were in fact motivated by Israel's very existence (peep One Day in Semptember). In that context Speilberg's cute little relativism is pretty weak. Going after the perpetrators of a massacre is not really the same as carrying out the massacre in the first place, is it?
Hat me now. Sorry to hijack (no pun intended).