Munich Boogers

Munich Boogers

Mother Superior and The Me watched Munich last night because Greeper said it was riveting. Oh, and it was free on cable. Greeper's assurances were necessary because of the early hype. When Spielberg made the grandiose claim that his treatment of violence in Munich would lead to peace in the Middle East, my nose twitched at the familiar odor of liberalusfartsmellum. Such pomposity places him roundly into the circle of self important (redundancy alert) liberal thinkers who, for instance, think they can stop epochal climate change with a gasoline tax. Maybe my favorite movie of all time is Day of the Jackal, so assassins paying painstaking attention to detail is one genre I'm inclined to like. Munich, which I assume most of you have seen, had that, but at 180 minutes was about 30-40 minutes too long. One plot line that could have been edited out was the seemingly contrived CIA effort to thwart the Israeli attempt on hard Salami, and I include the chick scene [Marie-Josée Croze NSFW]. Yes, she was lovely, and yes she had wonderful, precious boobage, but give me a break. Spielberg's world shaking device for causing peace to break out is hardly new. It can be seen in 1962's The Longest Day, where a Nazi officer's belt buckle, engraved with the legend "God Mit Uns," (God is with us) was displayed in an intentionally ironic fashion after Allied troops voiced the same belief. Here we see Palestinian and Israeli families displaying grief at news that the Olympic athletes- and their kidnappers - were all dead. As if there was moral equivalency. Who gives a rat's ass what hatreds allowed those rag pickers to feel justified in perpetrating that outrage? They are/were mad dogs. Later we see the two factions placed together in another utterly contrived scene. Spielberg seems to suggest that if the Israelis had rolled over and let the Black September swine bask in their victory, instead of being cut down like dogs -- what? There would be no Hamas? No al-Qaeda? No Jimmy Carter? Peace in our time? Yes. That's his epiphany. Ich bin mit uns Well la-di-da, who the hell doesn't want heaven on earth? In this war on terror - that the entire world is engaged in like it or not - both sides wear the God is with us buckle. So what? If you're a Muslim, or are comfortable living under a theocracy ruled by "the world is flat" pinheads, then you root for Palestinians. If not, you cheer for the other guys, who by the way include Americans. If you want to argue that there can be no winner, okay, but there can sure as hell be a loser. Like other Hollywooders, Spielberg is talented, but grown too filled with the liberal disease to know reality when it bites him on the ass. That's what I think. I give Munich 4 Boogers