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Munich - Hollywood Playing with History?
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Brixtaan
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Uncle Spielberg said:
A really enjoyable film dealing with the dirty unglamorous street-level aspect of an alien invasion.However the whole thing left me feeling unfulfilled and I can't believe you think this was one of the greatest action sequences of all time! Haven't you seen Freedom 'going down' in Armageddon?
Uncle Spielberg
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My best films of all time include
Field of Dreams
The Shawshank Redemption
ET
Schindler's List
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Magnolia
Its a Wonderful Life
The Machinist
The English Patient
The Elephant Man
Eraserhead
Gladiator
Aliens
off the top of my head
Field of Dreams
The Shawshank Redemption
ET
Schindler's List
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Magnolia
Its a Wonderful Life
The Machinist
The English Patient
The Elephant Man
Eraserhead
Gladiator
Aliens
off the top of my head
Brixtaan
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yep, he's a blockbuster man
TrevorDove
Member
War of the Worlds was dreadful.
For the record, my favourite film is Caddyshack.
For the record, my favourite film is Caddyshack.
aftershavedave
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Uncle Spielberg said:
not exactly the "classic" top films list that most film buffs would go for is it!
gladiator...FFS!
Uncle Spielberg
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4 of those could be considered blockbusters
The Machinist, Field of dreams, the shawshank redemption, magnolia, its a wonderful life, the english patient, the elephant man and eraserhead were hardly blockbusters
The Machinist, Field of dreams, the shawshank redemption, magnolia, its a wonderful life, the english patient, the elephant man and eraserhead were hardly blockbusters
Uncle Spielberg
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Gladiator was a very good film imho.
Uncle Spielberg
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Simster give me your 10 top films for my amusement
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Some of my fave films (I can't condense into a definitive top 10)
The LOTR trilogy
The Matrix
Gladiator
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Casino
Black Hawk Down
Taxi Driver
Rain Man
A Few Good Men
The Shining
Back to the Future
Reservoir Dogs
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Terminator 2
12 Angry Men
The LOTR trilogy
The Matrix
Gladiator
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Casino
Black Hawk Down
Taxi Driver
Rain Man
A Few Good Men
The Shining
Back to the Future
Reservoir Dogs
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Terminator 2
12 Angry Men
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That's going to take a while - but here are ten very good films IMO off the top of my head:Uncle Spielberg said:
Salvador
Donnie Darko
The Godfather
Festen
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption
American Beauty
Usual Suspects
Jean de Florette
Uncle Spielberg
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They are all shit except TSR
Man of Harveys
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The special effects in Festen are TOILET - they were not worth the admission fee alone. 
Publius Ovidius
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I am not really a film buff at all...
I have very simple tastes really.
The Green Mile - excellent moving film
Blazing Saddles - non PC comedy but very funny
Harry Potter Films - good rattling adventures
The original Star Wars films - preferred the originals, didnt like the last three
My Fair lady - magical film
A Man for All seasons - very powerful, moving film
Cromwell - as above Richard harris at his best
Stir Crazy - just superb
Born Free - chilhood friend...cried buckets
Schindlers List - not sure if its an uplifting tale or not.
Alladin - just for Robin Williams voice of the Genie
I have very simple tastes really.
The Green Mile - excellent moving film
Blazing Saddles - non PC comedy but very funny
Harry Potter Films - good rattling adventures
The original Star Wars films - preferred the originals, didnt like the last three
My Fair lady - magical film
A Man for All seasons - very powerful, moving film
Cromwell - as above Richard harris at his best
Stir Crazy - just superb
Born Free - chilhood friend...cried buckets
Schindlers List - not sure if its an uplifting tale or not.
Alladin - just for Robin Williams voice of the Genie
Dandyman
In London village.
dave the gaffer said:
Surely one of the most anti-racist comedies going ?
Uncle Spielberg
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User Comments:
"A Prayer for Peace" and Powerful Film-making!, 23 December 2005
Author: lavatch from Twin Cities, Minnesota
In an interview given shortly before the release of "Munich," director Steven Spielberg discussed his film in the context of world terror today, as follows: "Somewhere inside all this intransigence, there has to be a prayer for peace."
I personally recall the tragic events of the 1972 Olympic games in Munich, as I had just graduated from college and was following closely the moving and graphic images on television, as described so vividly by newscasters Jim McKay and Peter Jennings. The opening scene of "Munich" recreates the attack on the dormitory and the subsequent killing of the athletes at the airport. Those were ten minutes of taut and riveting drama.
But the main dramatic impetus of "Munich" is the retaliation on the Palestinian planners of the "Black September" massacre. The strike force is led by the character Avner, a zealous and patriotic member of Israel's Mossad. Along with Eric Bana in the role of Avner, the entire cast of "Munich" is superb. Geoffrey Rush is a standout as the Mossad handler of Avner, and in an all-too-brief scene, Lynn Cohen turns in a charismatic performance as Golda Meir.
But "Munich" is not a film to discuss in terms of star performances, and much credit should go to Tony Kushner and Eric Roth for the thoughtful ensemble screenplay. The most memorable moments in the film are those involving the hit team led by Avner. In the planning and carrying out of the assassinations by a small group of men, it becomes clear that the participants are no more than ordinary people who become obsessed with killing. Thus Avner, who would prefer the domestic world of living with his wife and newborn daughter, descends into a virtual state of madness as a result of the killing frenzy.
The Greek poet Aeschylus wrote one of the most expressive works of literature on the theme of "an eye for an eye" in the revenge trilogy "Oresteia." That epic work dramatizes the culmination of the long cycle of murder within the ill-fated House of Atreus in Greek mythology. The killings finally end when the goddess Athena establishes the law court in Athens to provide human justice, as opposed to blood vengeance. I can't help but think that Spielberg, Kushner, and Roth were influenced in some way by Aeschylus' drama, wherein we see the title character Orestes succumb to the pursuit of the furies and spiral into madness. That was the tragic journey of Avner, as depicted in "Munich."
Mr. Spielberg's concept of "intransigence" gets to the heart of the matter in our own modern tragic experience. In the Oxford English Dictionary, the word intransigence is defined as "uncompromising hostility; irreconcilability." Like the "Oresteia," the film "Munich" provides a balanced and powerful commentary on the human impulse of "an eye for an eye" revenge. The ancient Greek concept of justice meant something like "scale" or "balance" used to resolve a seemingly irreconcilable conflict. The thoughtful and powerful film "Munich" offers us the opportunity to meditate on this concept, not for the 5th century B.C. world of Aeschylus, but for our own.
"A Prayer for Peace" and Powerful Film-making!, 23 December 2005
Author: lavatch from Twin Cities, Minnesota
In an interview given shortly before the release of "Munich," director Steven Spielberg discussed his film in the context of world terror today, as follows: "Somewhere inside all this intransigence, there has to be a prayer for peace."
I personally recall the tragic events of the 1972 Olympic games in Munich, as I had just graduated from college and was following closely the moving and graphic images on television, as described so vividly by newscasters Jim McKay and Peter Jennings. The opening scene of "Munich" recreates the attack on the dormitory and the subsequent killing of the athletes at the airport. Those were ten minutes of taut and riveting drama.
But the main dramatic impetus of "Munich" is the retaliation on the Palestinian planners of the "Black September" massacre. The strike force is led by the character Avner, a zealous and patriotic member of Israel's Mossad. Along with Eric Bana in the role of Avner, the entire cast of "Munich" is superb. Geoffrey Rush is a standout as the Mossad handler of Avner, and in an all-too-brief scene, Lynn Cohen turns in a charismatic performance as Golda Meir.
But "Munich" is not a film to discuss in terms of star performances, and much credit should go to Tony Kushner and Eric Roth for the thoughtful ensemble screenplay. The most memorable moments in the film are those involving the hit team led by Avner. In the planning and carrying out of the assassinations by a small group of men, it becomes clear that the participants are no more than ordinary people who become obsessed with killing. Thus Avner, who would prefer the domestic world of living with his wife and newborn daughter, descends into a virtual state of madness as a result of the killing frenzy.
The Greek poet Aeschylus wrote one of the most expressive works of literature on the theme of "an eye for an eye" in the revenge trilogy "Oresteia." That epic work dramatizes the culmination of the long cycle of murder within the ill-fated House of Atreus in Greek mythology. The killings finally end when the goddess Athena establishes the law court in Athens to provide human justice, as opposed to blood vengeance. I can't help but think that Spielberg, Kushner, and Roth were influenced in some way by Aeschylus' drama, wherein we see the title character Orestes succumb to the pursuit of the furies and spiral into madness. That was the tragic journey of Avner, as depicted in "Munich."
Mr. Spielberg's concept of "intransigence" gets to the heart of the matter in our own modern tragic experience. In the Oxford English Dictionary, the word intransigence is defined as "uncompromising hostility; irreconcilability." Like the "Oresteia," the film "Munich" provides a balanced and powerful commentary on the human impulse of "an eye for an eye" revenge. The ancient Greek concept of justice meant something like "scale" or "balance" used to resolve a seemingly irreconcilable conflict. The thoughtful and powerful film "Munich" offers us the opportunity to meditate on this concept, not for the 5th century B.C. world of Aeschylus, but for our own.
Rangdo
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I can't believe Soccer Dog hasn't made anyones top 10.
