MUNICH

CAROLINE: Paint me a picture of “Munich.”

RYAN: Wait. I have to, once again, begin with something else that’s happening in the movies… because it’s making me a threat to myself and to others.

CAROLINE: The Sierra Mist commercial?

RYAN: Yes! Please! I’m gonna start a campaign to bring back the Fanta girls.

CAROLINE: (laughs)

RYAN: This Sierra Mist commercial is the bane of my existence.

CAROLINE: I saw it too tonight. In Westchester County, New York.

RYAN: I’m sorry. But whereas I felt during “Fun with Penis & Jane,” I’ll succomb to Sierra Mist… Now I feel like if it’s the last beverage on earth, I’d rather die than drink it.

CAROLINE: (laughs)

RYAN: Then there was a preview; which I’m dying. Hope you saw…

CAROLINE: Clive Owen?

RYAN: Yes! And Jodie Foster!

CAROLINE: Yes! And Denzel Washington. It’s “Inside Man.”

RYAN: Bring it on!

CAROLINE: Clive Owen is hot.

RYAN: It’s gonna be a summer of good movies!

CAROLINE: I also saw the trailer for “Match Point.” Which you can only imagine…

RYAN: I can indeed. Okay. Let’s talk “Munich.”

CAROLINE: Okay. Very serious topic.

RYAN: And overall, too long. And very serious.

CAROLINE: On the one hand, it was very good. It was shot beautifully, I must say. I thought it looked amazing.

RYAN: Mmm Hmm.

CAROLINE: Eric Bana is amazing. And so Hhhhot.

RYAN: Oh my God.

CAROLINE: Unbelievable. But it’s super heavy – certainly not your light holiday fare.

RYAN: The experience, for me, began with my Dad leaning over, saying he remembers seeing this on TV. Cuz Munich went down in 1972. So I wish I knew more about it, historically, because I don’t know what was true and what was, “Inspired by real events.”

CAROLINE: Apparently there’s a lot of hullabaloo over Steven Spielberg’s take on it. Like, some were saying the source material he used, I think a book, wasn’t very reliable or something.

RYAN: Well, I’ll tell ya. It did make for one dramatic story.

CAROLINE: Quite long.

RYAN: I was unprepared for it, that long.

CAROLINE: And I was starving the entire time.

RYAN: I was really into the beginning of the film. You know… seeing Golda Meir, etc…

CAROLINE: I loved seeing Magda.

RYAN: Was that Magda! Holy Sh—

CAROLINE: Magda, the maid from “Sex and the City.” And I enjoyed seeing the new 007.

RYAN: Yes. Daniel Craig. He was at both times the new James-Bond-to-be and probably the only blond-haired, blue-eyed Jew in filmic history.

CAROLINE: (laughs) Now. Eric Bana. He is Australian, if I’m not mistaken.

RYAN: Oh, right!

CAROLINE: And he was doing some sort of accent that I found very convincing.

RYAN: Like, “Oh, are you from Dusseldorf?”

CAROLINE: (laughs) My mom was like, “I’m seeing Oscar nominations!” And I was like, “I don’t think he even got nominated for the Golden Globe, Mom.”

RYAN: I just love that this was the man who was, just a couple years ago, the Hulk. But I do believe he should get nominated.

CAROLINE: He was very good.

RYAN: And I loved the pregnant love making scene!

CAROLINE: Loved the wife. The spooning sex – loved that.

RYAN: Full out hot.

CAROLINE: And who knew Geoffrey Rush was in this movie?

RYAN: He’s always so good.

CAROLINE: Good, but no idea he was even in it. He’s an Oscar winner. Why isn’t he being touted?

RYAN: And other scene of note: If the entire movie could have been edited down to five minutes, the scene with Eric Bana and the Arab terrorist- having that conversation in the stairwell of the safe-house and neither knows which side the other is fighting for… Then they debate over the fight for a free Israel. That was the real…

CAROLINE: McCoy, as it were?

RYAN: (laughs) Yeah. Exactly.

***SPOILER ALERT***

RYAN: One thing I didn’t like was the ending. Throughout the film, Steven Spielberg kept intercutting what looked like flashback sequences of the Munich massacre… but couldn’t have been since our leading man, Eric Bana, wasn’t there to witness it. But it was edited in a way so that it looked like it was him remembering it firsthand.

CAROLINE: Yeah. I was very confused by that. It took me a minute to realize what we were flashing back to. I thought it was supposed to be his memories. I was like, “Wait a minute. I don’t remember this scene.”

RYAN: Right and especially at the end. He’s finally returning to sleeping with his wife and it’s angry sex intercut with scenes of the Munich terror. Why?

CAROLINE: Yeah that was weird.

RYAN: Okay. Final thoughts?

CAROLINE: I definitely liked this movie. I think it looked great. It was very well acted. But you gotta know what you’re in for: Political.

RYAN: Definitely. You know. Overall entertaining, but serious. Brace yourself, hunker down, buckle up.

CAROLINE: A very well done film.