Timewaster's Guide Archive
Departments => Movies and TV => Topic started by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 05, 2006, 04:18:00 PM
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reference: http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=1226
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Kudos to the Directors Guild of America for giving Spielberg a well-deserved award nomination for this film (I'm also glad to see them recognize George Clooney and Paul Haggis for their films).
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I would like to see it, but wont due to the rating reasons.
Also I've heard some rumblings about the movie being very inaccurate historically and the author of the book this movie is based off of being very anti-Israel.
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I want to see it. I also want to see about 9 other films out or almost out, including Jarhead which comes out in a couple days here.
Damn cinemas and their overly large number of good films.
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I would like to see it, but wont due to the rating reasons.
Also I've heard some rumblings about the movie being very inaccurate historically and the author of the book this movie is based off of being very anti-Israel.
The historical accuracy is hard to determine, considering it's based on classified information, but yes, there has been some dispute, which is why Spielberg makes it clear the film is "Inspired" by real events. However, some of the complaints about historical accuracy come for a Black September terrorist who is merely upset that he wasn't consulted, and his complaint is that the film doesn't portray that some of the targets were not directly copnnected to the Munich massacre. This is complete ignorance on his part, because the film confronts that issue head on.
As for the anti-Isreal thing, that is being commonly repeated, but the film is simply not anti-Israel. It's merely fair and balanced.