So we'll put you down as giving two thumbs up. Merry Christmas to you.
Why else did you like about the film? Beyond the razzle dazzle high production values of Spielberg? You saw no grasping for moral equivalency there? That the Palestinians and Jews are caught in an unfortunate "cycle of violence". That both sides are to blame. That one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter?
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Then why bother to post?
"After watching this movie I have no clue why someone would call Spielberg a Hollywood idiot. Sure he's done stupid stuff but it's just a movie and take it for what it's worth."
For those too young or unfamiliar with the Munich Olympics in 1972 this will be much more than a movie. It will become, for them, their version of "history". The way Spielberg portrays it is not the way it happened.
I was twenty-five in 1972 and as an avid sports fan I followed the Olympic games with great interest. When the Palestinian terrorists kidnapped the Israeli athletes I was shocked. When the German and Oympic games officials totally botched the rescue attempt and the Palestinian terrorists executed those eleven men I was appalled as was most of the world who watched the events unfold on television. Most of us had never seen anyting like this and couldn't even imagine humans slaughtering other humans. It was a transformative experience for many. It was for me. To depict the terrorists as somehow morally equivalent to either the atheletes or their countrymen exacting revenge for their slaughter, is morally reprehesible.
Spielberg is a cowared not heroic. He, like most of Hollywood, will take on the Nazis because they're not around to threaten him. The Islamofacists however, are, and neither Spielberg nor Hollywood in general wants any part of them. As a case in point; where is the definitive movie on 9/11, huh? I hear we're going to get Oliver Stone's take on that. I wonder if it will portray utter moral equivalence as Spielberg did or if we'll be relegated to being the bad guys in that future epic.
Ridiculous. Masterpiece, my ass.
Planning to go see it tomorrow.
The problem with saying that it's just a movie, so what...is that Spielberg has a huge international following and reputation. He's promoting moral relativism in this film. Nobody has clean hands, there's no right or wrong, etc.. This is foolish and dangerous.