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 May 15 2006, 02:04 AM
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Prime Runner  Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221  |
ok so it is set in 1972-3 and has no magic and no cyber. It is still a great SR movie. For those who don't know it is Speilburg's 2005 movie about Mossad agents doing wet work to take out the PLO planners who brought off the attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics.
It is great for planning and executing a run and how to get away. The first hit is a mess and they learn from this. Best for this is the hit in Cyprus where they have covering fields of fire for the get away. Also the hit on the 'dutchwoman' for just cold blooded killing. It is also good for how teams are set up and funded for corporate/government deniabliity. and a view of a safe house. Eric Bana leads the team of 5 assassins. Michael Lonsdale is wonderful as a french fixer who provides info but lets Bana know when he is not happy. Towards the end of the movie the team is properly paranoid not knowing if they have been sold out by tyheir fixer, their control or just dumb luck. You focus on Eric Bana but he is enough. He starts thinkinng how he has killed people and starts looking in his apartment for all those tricks. The bed, the phone, the TV etc No I'm not giving details I want you guys to enjoy the movie. |
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May 15 2006, 02:18 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Sword of Gideon did it first and may have done it better from some of the reviews I've seen. Unfortunatly, I havn't seen Munich yet.
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May 15 2006, 12:56 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 976 Joined: 16-September 04 From: Near my daughters, Lansdale PA Member No.: 6,668 |
Munich gets inside the heads of the agents. The idea of righteousness in killing terrorists when they are replaced by other terorrists. It also has big conflicts between the agents and the control. They do not trust their control or the fixer.
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May 15 2006, 01:14 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
I loved Munich, both as a film and as inspiration for Shadowrun (there is so much you can use).
I agree with Snow Fox that when Bana snaps at his apartment is one of the best scenes. Oh, and "PLO! ETA! IRA!" :D |
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May 15 2006, 02:14 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,718 Joined: 14-September 02 Member No.: 3,263 |
Haven't seen it, was considering picking up the DVD. One question about the movie.
[ Spoiler ]
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May 15 2006, 02:32 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
Check Operation Wrath of God.
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May 15 2006, 03:46 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 976 Joined: 16-September 04 From: Near my daughters, Lansdale PA Member No.: 6,668 |
I sent a pm about that. You know it is really bad, when your friend starts taking notes during these sort of movies.
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May 16 2006, 05:29 AM
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Mostly Harmless Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 937 Joined: 26-February 02 From: 44.662,-63.469 Member No.: 176 |
Excellent flick. Rented it last week, think I'll buy it.
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May 16 2006, 06:08 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,718 Joined: 14-September 02 Member No.: 3,263 |
Thanks for the info. I think I'll pick it up myself next time I'm in the store.
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May 17 2006, 05:18 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,556 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle Member No.: 98 |
Excellent movie. A warning to people who aren't that into screen violence... this is a violent movie. Not an "action" movie, a violent one (if that precise qualification makes any sense). It's a story about people ambushing and killing each other, hostages being taken and killed, and bombs going off in people's houses, and Spielberg goes at it in a similar fashion to how he did a lot of the close-in fighting in Saving Private Ryan... except that most of the people involved aren't soldiers.
The SR aspects are undeniable, and have been addressed previously. It's a very solid, very well put together movie, that digs hard and deep into a chunk of history that was particularly nasty. And it doesn't pull many punches when it tells you about it. |
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May 19 2006, 05:20 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 58 Joined: 9-May 06 From: Right behind you! Member No.: 8,538 |
Of course it does. Jackie Chan often uses the exact opposite qualification to describe his movies, saying he believes in action rather than violence. I was dead to the world (come to think about it, with regards to mass media I usually am) when the movie came out, but it looks pretty good. Maybe I'll look into it sometime. |
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May 19 2006, 07:00 AM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
OOoh... Even better. |
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