DECADES GRAB BAG: Munich (2005)
“There is no peace at the end of this.”
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of occupation, assassination, Israel & Palestine.
We try not to be too political on this show, but sometimes a movie forces our hand. Still, Spielberg’s third labor of love isn’t a mess because of its subject matter. Instead, it’s a messy rush job that has little to no historical value and also fails at being an entertaining movie. Nothing about this story passes the smell test, down to the fact that it looks like a crappy action movie from 2005. We know you can do better, Steven. We’re rounding up a group of assassins and wondering if we’re the baddies as we watch 2005’s Munich on Have a Good Movie!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpt taken from "Remembering Munich" from the soundtrack to Munich, written and composed by John Williams. Copyright 2005 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Excerpt taken from "Remembering Munich" from the soundtrack to Spotlight, written and composed by Howard Shore. Copyright 2015 Howard Shore; Entertainment Rights Holdings, EOT Film Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
