No. 46: Munich

Gotta disagree with you on Munich. I am with the critics of the film, in that Spielberg takes artistic license with the book [Vengence (excellent book)by Jonas], and makes namby pamby arguments about moral relative equivalence which smacks of leftist liberal responses and excuses as to why people who do wrong should be looked on with sympathy. In contradiction to the latter, the book says: people who do henious acts should be punished (old testament like) no excuses but be careful when exacting punishment—you might be drawn into a vortex which will exact a toll on your soul and hurt you if you let emotion overcome you. Spielberg’s film fails miserably here by taking an excellent book and sexy subject and squeezing out the interest, diluting the themes and playing with the facts to make a lacklustre affair to forget.

I also disagree on Munich. The theory of the movie was good, tracking the assasins as they hunt down the terrorists. But then it devolved into a push for the opinion that the two sides were equal and that the terrorists shouldn’t be punished. And it wasn’t like the story made the argument, he just got the actors to explicitly say the argument in their conversations. Lost cred in my eyes after that.