This little blurb appeared in yesterday's New York Times and does not require any commentary:
Israel Reacts to 'Munich'
After months of furor over its political message, the Steven Spielberg film "Munich" encountered something perhaps worse when it opened in Israel over the weekend: bored critics, Reuters reported. Hostile reviews focused more on cinematic technique than on the question of sympathy toward the Palestinians who killed Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. The conservative Jerusalem Post called the film "muddled, inept, offensive — and boring to boot." The liberal Haaretz said, "There is something slovenly about the way in which Spielberg constructs the film, a slovenliness that leaks into the directing style itself." Shirit Gal, the publicist in Israel for "Munich," said yesterday that about 25,000 tickets had been sold. She called the number "good," although Hollywood blockbusters have drawn as many as 35,000 people on an opening weekend in Israel.
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None of my friends are even interested in seeing Munich. (Even my elite friends (-friend) who served in intelligence and isn't allowed to tell me what he did in the army under penalty of castration.) Movies that Israelis are seeing these days: Jarhead, and that gay cowboy movie.
That "gay cowboy" movie is set to reap Oscar gold a few weeks from now it would seem.
I've gotlotsof better things to watch these days-will wait for the dvd!!!!!!
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