Missed this one.
Posted on 11/25/2005 12:00:01 AM PST by L.A.Justice
On Tv, I just saw the commercial for MUNICH, Spielberg's new film. The trailer looked interesting. The film is apparently about the Mossad agents going after the Palestinian terrorists who murdered the Israeli athletes in 1972...
Hugh Hewitt usually devotes the last hour of his Friday for the discussion of films, with Emmett "The Unblinking Eye".
Emmett usually comes up with the 10 Best Films about something, like forgeries, spying, etc...
I don't know if he ever came up with the ten best list of films about terrorism...
Following are the nominees for the list(I have not ranked the films yet.):
The Siege: Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis...This film does show US under attack by Islamic terrorists. This film is politically correct in some ways...However, it does show Islamic terrorists as ruthless. (A NY City bus gets blown up...)
The Delta Force: Lee Marvin and Chuck Norris...It is a "fun" movie to watch. It is nice to see American special forces portrayed positively...
The Executive Decision: Kurt Russell and Halle Berry... Not afraid to portray Islamic terrorists as evil...An airplane is hijacked...For some biological assault on US.
True Lies: Gov. Arnold and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Nighthawks: Sylvester Stallone as a NYPD cop going after a big-time terrorist from Europe...
The Patriot Games: Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) vs. IRA
Any more nominations?
Missed this one.
Death Before Dishonor
Does "Die Hard" count? They pretended to be terrorists, though they were only thieves.
Yippee ki yay...
The Dancer Upstairs...Nice movie..
"Fahrenheit 9-11"
Oh wait.....
Worth watching the rest of the movie, though.
They live to terrorize. They can't be stopped.
You thought you got rid of them once....
definitely
wish Bardem would get into something meaty and good
a great actor
Just looked that up on imdb. Sounds interesting...with all those actors, was this an English-language movie?
Isn't to Live and Die in L.A. about counterfeiting?
Sounds like Bardem is going to be in an upcoming movie about Che Guevara (barf--but not playing Che himself), and another movie playing Pablo Escobar.
It was in English..It should have gotten more attention..
Also on a different note. Try another unheard of movie: City of God. Foreign film about crime in Brazil.
If you don't like it..I'll pay for the rental..check it out
You'd think with Malkovich directing, it would have.
I'll look for Cidade de Deus. I love Brazil anyway.
if the media would do an honest Fidel and Che flick it would be worth watching....like Stalin and Beria or something
Bardem as El Padrino should be good.
I wonder who will play Colonel Martinez?
One scene I hate in that movie is a scene wher Jamie Lee has an Uzi (or Tech-9, or some such), which she drops at the top of some stairs. As the gun rolls down the stairs, it fires repeatedly, which is completely unrealistic, and intended, IMHO to reinforce an irrational fear of guns.
Establishing the role of the Secret Service.
And worth watching the rest.
I agree -- well worth watching. Wilhelm Defoe is a great bad guy. William Friedkin a good director.
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