The actor: Eric Bana The character: Avner The film: Munich The quote: “Every man we’ve killed has been replaced by worse!” A person’s judgment of the best Disney movie they’ve ever seen and the best Spielberg movie they’ve ever seen are both largely dictated by how old they were when they saw it. It’s the… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #84
Dir. Ridley Scott. Starring Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore, Sam Shepard One of the stupidest things anyone has ever said about war movies is that they’re all anti-war movies. This is Steven Spielberg’s interpretation, and while I don’t think it’s necessarily a popular one, there are definitely movies which are anti-something else which are frequently mistaken… Read More Black Hawk Down (2001)
Dir. Steven Spielberg. Starring Eric Bana, Mathieu Amalric, Ciaran Hinds The final shot of Munich, in terms of detracted value, one of the very worst shots of Steven Spielberg’s career. I’m trying to forgive him, because better directors than him were shaken by 9/11 in ways that destabilized their own movies. For example, there’s that deeply… Read More Munich (2005)
Dir. Wolfgang Petersen. Starring Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Rose Byrne One of my least favorite games to play, maybe because it’s too easy or maybe because it reminds me of horoscopes, is deciding how a movie is a “movie of the moment.” It is not merely enough for a film to be of its own… Read More Troy (2004)
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