Speaker 1: Hellllo, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to an extremely rare, extremely
special solo episode solo review. I am your one and
only host, Kirkland Patzer. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, tonight we
are going to be making history. I have never done
a solo cast ever in the history of the podcast.
It's yeah. I've been doing this for almost a decade now,
and I've never been the only person behind the mic.
I'm gonna get into the details of what we're covering tonight,
but first off, there might be some questions out there.
You might be wondering why I'm here alone? Where are
the other lads. If you saw the title of this episode,
you of course know that we're here going to be
talking about a I don't even know if it's much anticipated,
but apparently it's an oscar you know, buzz movie in
the works September five is what we'll be talking about.
We get into that. I just want to first and
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I'm kidding. There's many different reasons why I'm the only
one here, and but yeah no, let's let's let's get
back to the questions that we are gonna be asking
ourselves today, like why I'm alone? Why I even saw
this movie in the first place, Because if you're a
regular listener to our newscast or anything like that, you
definitely would never have heard me ever mentioned this movie,
let alone doing a review for it, let alone doing
a solo review. I thought that maybe the day would
come and one day I'm doing a solo newscast, But yeah,
no that or sorry, solo movie review. But and maybe
if it was a solo movie review, it would be
something that maybe I'm a lot more passionate about compared
to like our other other members that I'm normally with.
Like let's say, if it's I don't know, happened to
be a random like dragon Ball movie comes out and
I just really feel passionate about I want to do
a solo review for or maybe I don't know, if
they ever do an arcane movie and I'm the only
one that that happened to see and maybe I'm doing
a solo review for that. But you know, stuff that's
normally in my wheelhouse, normal normally in my just things
I'm more affiliated with than a I guess it's a
thriller drama that we got here this evening. But no,
let let me get to the story on why this
even happened. So, and I should say, I will get
to the review if you if you're here year just
for the review of September five, I will get there.
I maybe will leave you a little time stamp if
you really want to hear my thoughts on the critical
aspects of me judging this film and just what I
really thought about it. But I think this episode is
going to be a lot more special if I actually
give you the context as to why I'm even here.
So without further ado, let's let's just get into the tail. So, yes,
I kriklm Patzer. I've never even heard of this movie
until today. Honestly, when I woke up this morning, I
did not think I was even going in the movies tonight, So,
you know, to break the fourth wall, we had a
news schedule, oh sorry, a newscast scheduled, and that was
supposed to be myself, Dylan Muss taylor Field, that newscast
is still going to be coming. Don't feel like we're
you know, there's lots of stuff to be talking about.
We'll be covering I believe tomorrow will is when we're
going to be recording that episode. But no, h taylor
Field and I got wind that they're through the Landmark Cinemas.
That's just the company that's one of the movie companies
that we have here in our neck of the woods.
They do these mystery movie Mondays. And the big deal
with these mystery movie Mondays is, like the name suggests,
it's a mystery movie, you don't know what it is
until you actually go and see the movie. And why
would you want to take that chance? I guess it
is kind of fun for, you know, just to not
really know what we're gonna get into and just just
go see a movie. That's one aspect to it. But
the reason why I went to go see this movie
and I I was under the impression because of some
I'll say some what I thought were reliable sources that
this was going to be an early screening for Sonic three.
So yes, there would have been a world where I
maybe wouldn't have been alone recording this, and I'm maybe, well,
maybe I would have been alone as well, but I
would have been talking about Sonic three, which I am
still gonna be seen. I am very much still looking
for that movie, but that is not what I got
on screen. So I yeah, went through my whole day.
I was messaging, you know, the lads about how we're
gonna be moving some things around. Ended up deciding that, yeah,
we're gonna play the Russian Roulette game. We're gonna go
see this because again, I thought the odds were super
super strong. It was gonna be Sonic three, and even
if it wasn't Sonic three, it's like, okay, maybe the
War of the row Herem movie, the new Lord of
the Rings anime movie would be releasing soon, so I
thought it was a pretty healthy gamble. They didn't release
obviously the name of the movie, but they did release
a runtime which kind of narrowed it down to around
I believe it was like one hundred and ten minutes.
So again, like it seemed pretty close to what the
Sonic three runtime is, because I believe that's I believe
it's it's If it's not that, it's it's pretty similar
so again, I just feel like all the cards, all
the stars were pointing this was gonna be a Sonic three.
So yeah, message the lads, we move newscasts. Just multiple
things were going on Taylor Field and it ended up
having some personal things, so he wasn't able to go
see the movies, and I thought, you know what, fuck out,
We've already moved the newscast. I'm gonna take this gamble.
I'm so sure it's Sonic three. I'm gonna go there.
I'm gonna get my popcorn, I'm gonna get my my drink,
and I'm just gonna be, you know, a solo goer
for some for a new Sonic adventure. I'm really looking
forward to seeing that movie with the inclusion of Shadow
the Hedgehog or sorry, yeah, I guess that's not a spoiler.
He was in the trailer, so you know, Shadows coming
for all the Sonic viewers out there. But my gosh,
I'm sorry, I already lost my train of thought. That
might happen a couple of times tonight. I'm also gonna
have to be taking a few waterships because, as I
mentioned earlier, this is a solo venture and this is
something very unique to you, the audience listeners for hearing
me talk alone for this long and me the podcaster
going off and trying to stay on track. And we'll
see how many times I go off track but no
getting back to my tail now. So yeah, pretty sure
it was Sonic. I knew I was going alone, but
it doesn't matter. It's gonna be Sonic. Go in there
and my local theater. I've been there many many times.
I've I've seen many amazing releases in this theater. And
because I've been there so many times, I kind of
have it down to a science now that if you
let's say the movie starts at seven o'clock, If I arrive,
let's say I don't know ten after seven, I get
enough time to get my concessions to maybe it's seven fifteen.
Now you might be thinking it's crazy, like how canep
you missing fifty miss the movie like this? People trust me.
I've been to these movies so many times. I always
get there. Let's say seven to fifteen, movie starts seven
to sixteen, like on the dot it is, it is
just dialed in this time around, Like, yeah, I just
have it to a t now because I've been to
so many movies, and that's that's super super accurate all
these times. Now, I will say, because it is Monday,
it isn't in the normal So for some context, we
have the extreme theater. There's one big extreme theater, meaning
the one screen in the theater which usually has the
big movie. So I noticed that this movie was in
one of the smaller theaters, or sorry, one of the
smaller screens, so I figured, maybe, you know, it wouldn't
be having the exact same fifty minute rule. So I
did get there basically right at seven, which some people
might think that's crazy late because maybe they get their
thirty minutes before every movie. That is not me at all.
I'm usually always walking in the door after the start time.
But again, like it's never an issue because there's always trailers,
and because we do the newscast, we are usually always
covering these trailers. So I've always seen them so many times,
so I don't want to sit there and rewatch them,
so I digress them. So I get there. Yeah, let's
say seven o'clock, pretty busy for a Monday evening. I
don't really go to movies on a Monday, but yeah,
get in there, Wayne in line, get my popcorn and
get my drink, get my my movie ticket, and they
still don't tell me the name of the movie. It's
just the Mystery Monday movie. So that's what I got
my ticket for. Oh and I should have mentioned earlier
I said I had some sources. One of my sources,
I'm not gonna name names or anything, may or may
not be one of the managers at this specific theater.
So I was getting some like again credible information that Okay,
it's pretty likely that it's either Lord of the Rings
or Sonic. And again, the runtime looked like it was
more like Sonic. So that was just another factor that
I thought for sure it was going to be the
case that it was Sonic. And I was also kind
of hoping that that individual would have been working this evening,
which they were not, which I maybe could have gotten
like the go ahead, like, yes, this is for sure Sonic,
but this is for sure not Sonic. You know, take
that how you will. I probably wouldn't have gone in
through that door if I was told it wasn't Sonic,
if they told me it was September five, because before tonight,
I never even knew that was a movie. And honestly,
I probably would have just walked away. If that was
the case, I would have just headed home. And I'm
gonna you know, of course, we're gonna get to the review.
You're gonna hear my thoughts. I will tell you if
that was a regret or not, if that was a
good idea or not. But yeah, back to the story.
So that individual wasn't there, So it's like, okay, well,
I've already got my popcorn, already got my drink, already
got my ticket, so I'm kind of in it. You
can kind of walk out within thirty minutes of a
movie and get your your money refund. I knew that rule.
I could have done it, I guess. But let's just
go back to what was in my mind during these moments. Yeah,
I got my ticket going through, had my ticket to
the to the fine gentleman at the stand and shows
me to my theater, and I'm going in there. I
know it's the doors closed. Doors closed at the start
of at the start of a movie is always kind
of concerning because usually they leave them open for a while,
like especially while the the the previews are coming on.
So as soon as I saw that, I'm like, okay,
I might be I might be a little bit hooped here.
Walk in there and one of the one of the
theater managers standing in the in the hallway, just kind
of like doing their pre movie checklist whatever they do.
And I walk in there and the theater is just
pretty packed, honestly, like like for the screen not being
one of the bit like the bigger screen at that theater.
I was pretty impressed actually, like it was still really packed.
And yeah, I'm just I'm hustling in my seat. I
got a nice little angle booth seat up in the
corner of the little you know, good good solo viewing experience.
And I as i'm as as I'm hiking up to
my seat, I I just kind of glanced over the screen.
I just saw something. It said September five. Now, of course,
in my like little pee brain, I see this this message,
and in my mind, I'm like, okay, that's that's like
a release date, right, Like it's that's gonna be for
the movie it's coming out. So okay, I don't know
what this movie was, but clearly the previews are still
going on because they're showing us this. And then I
sit down and I noticed that we haven't been like
cutting too anything else or you know the classic like
Landmark Cinemas, like thanks for coming to the movies. Preview
message wasn't playing, and I realized the movie had already started,
So okay, right away I knew that it wasn't it
wasn't Sonic because Sonic is definitely not a live action movie.
And I think by this point, I'm just like trying
to register everything that's going on. Maybe it's an extended trailer,
like maybe again, like I'm still in some disbelief that
I will be seeing Sonic and it's just keep going on.
It's like, okay, no, definitely not. Maybe, maybe it's gonna
be something else. I'm interested in the chap Like the
first gentleman that was on screen kind of had a
little bit of a Timothy Shallon May thing going for
him from the back. So I'm like, oh man, this
this could be like the what's the Chap's name? The
Bob Dylan movie, like the New Timothry Timothy shall May
and I at this at the point of this recording,
I do not know when that movie's come out. I
just remember seeing a poster as I was into the theater,
so I'm like, oh shit, this is gonna be really cool.
I like, Timothy Shallo may this is kind of like
a nice little surprise here. So that's the movie that
I thought it was. And then of course once he
once the the actor headed into the light, I realized
it wasn't that. And then from this point on, because
I thought that the title of the movie September five,
and also because I'd never heard of this movie before,
when I saw September five, I thought it was just
a release date. I didn't realize it was the actual
movie until much much later on. So yeah, I'm getting
back to real time now. I'm or, you know, real
time of the time of the storytelling. I'm sitting there
that the Gentleman the chap Is is walking into ABC
Studios and they're doing some sports coverage. So I'm like, okay,
I don't really know of any historical sports drama that
has come out, like maybe this is something that I
just have never Well, clearly it's something i've never heard of.
I don't know, just some different indie movie that might
be interesting. Like I'm basically waiting for something to tell
me what the hell this is, whether it's an actor
or and again, like like we do like podcasting, we
do our you know, like our movie review for the year,
so we usually look ahead and I feel like we
usually get a pretty good grasp as to what the
big head heavy hitters are coming out for the year.
Of course, again, like they're mostly geek, comic, bookie type
of oriented. We talk about all films that we're interested in,
but that's kind of the main genre at least of
the films that are on my radar, and this was
definitely not one of them. But you know, so sorry.
At this point, at the point in time, I think
this is some sort of sports movie, which that's way
it's set it up, and then I realized it's about
Munich and then nineteen seventy two. I am not a
big historical guy or anything like that. There's a lot
to keep a track in the world. But I knew
of the Munich incident just because of the movie. And
I say incident, I'm not trying to like downplay it.
It was a terrorist attack. People lost their lives. It
was really horrific, but I knew of it because of
the film Munich, and I knew that that's what that
movie was about, so I see this. I obviously it's
a modern movie. I don't really recognize anyone, and in
my mind, I'm like, man, did they remake like the
Munich movie. It seems like a weird one to remake,
but whatever, it seems like that's what we're getting right here.
And then, of course at this point in time, I'm
I usually never ever pull up my phone in the
middle of a movie, but I had to at least
dialogue with my man on the outside, which this so
happened to be Travis Snell. You know, he's in a
bit of a sabbatical right now, but he was my
lifeline there because I was basically just describing what was
going on. He was interested if the movie ended up
being sonic, because again it's a mystery film, and I
gave him the hard confirmation it was not sonic. I
think he was having a lot of fun on his
side of the journey, just kind of experiencing this experience
through me, and like I will say, I definitely could
have walked out. I had that option there, as I mentioned,
like the thirty minute policy. If you don't like the
movie within thirty minutes, you can get your money back.
I was kind of liking the adventure in a weird way.
It's not like I was like, I don't know, like
going way out of my way. I kind of I
was signed up for a movie and that's what I
went to go see, and the whole mystery box experience
of it was actually kind of fun in a weird way.
Like I definitely think I will do a mystery movie
in the future. And I definitely learned my lesson that
never like count on a mystery movie for something like
don't make. Don't make like a scheduled review for the
movie release of course, like the enticing early review and
viewing of something like Sonic three, that's something that we
already were looking forward to. And I say we being
me and Taylor Field, that that's kind of what got
us did to the door. But the whole experience of
the of the mystery movie and like just seeing like
a lot of different demographic out of the movie, like
there was there was younger people, and I say that
like I'm an old boy, but I don't know some
high schoolers. There's some some older boys. I don't know
why I keep saying boys. This is weird, but just
some yeah, just all all ages, all shapes and sizes
is what I should be saying. And yeah, it was
pretty pretty lively crowd, not in the sense of everybody
hooting and hollering, but it just seemed like everybody was
like locked into the movie and it was. It was
kind of Yeah, it was a unique one of one
experience for sure, and of course some comedy came out
of it, the wild adventure that was my Yeah, just
just completely woke up this morning nothing as we seen
a movie, and then as they went on, thought I
was gonna be seeing Sonic, and then at the end
of the day I saw a movie that I never
had even heard of before. So, uh, yeah, I don't
think I'm really missing out on anything else. Oh other yeah,
just so, so I pull on my phone because I'm
off in the corner, you know, I'm not distracting other
people or anything, but just messaging Travis and just trying
to kind of decipher what the hell this movie is,
because yeah, I'm asking if there's a Munich movie. He's
asking me if there's any actors we recognize. Definitely not
the first actor that I did recognize, which I should
have pulled up his name. I'm so sorry right now,
but his if you checked out Rings of Power. Uh,
he played the role of gil Galad the I hated
that character if you checked reviews. But Benjamin Walker, there
you go, that's his name. He plays Peter Jennings in
the film. So that was the first like recognizable face
I saw. And then later on and not much later on,
but I saw Peter Sarsgard, who I had only really
seen him in The Great and Powerful Green Lantern film
where he played mister Hector, and I feel like maybe
I've seen him play like a side character in some
things here and there. But I'm getting my house out.
I don't want to get into the movie yet, even
though this is a review for that specific movie, because
not exactly done my little recap story yet. And I
again apologize if you came here for a September five
spoilers review. That's not exactly what this episode is. Well,
it is what it's about. It's the title of the episode,
but really it's about the experience and journey that I
kind of went on because I did not sign up
for this journey, and this is kind of what you're getting.
So if you're still, you know, listening, I appreciate you
being here with me and seeing me kind of fumble
my way just to the start line. I haven't even
gone to the review or my thoughts on this film, yes,
but yeah, it was definitely a unique adventure with yeah,
some good laughs on the way. I was kind of
chuckling to myself, of course, And the funniest thing was
just I think I like really convinced myself that it
was gonna be sonic, Like, of course, it's like I
never really know, but like still it's like everything's aligning,
like now it's Sonic three. I'm gonna be seeing countu
Reeves a shadow here. That's gonna be awesome. And then
I got a yeah, like Oscar Buzz film about a
terrorist attack at the nineteen seventy two Munich game, So
definitely a completely different genre. And yeah, so I would
you know, if you ever see a miss movie mystery
Monday thing and you're sitting near you give it a shot,
you never know what you'll find, because yeah, I was
kind of hiding my thoughts overall, but honestly, I had
a good time with this film. I was kind of joking, uh,
well to myself because of course it's all alone and
this is just the weirdo that I am, but uh
it's and yeah, so story over, I'm gonna be getting
into the review now. You know what, Let's take a
quick AD break and then we'll get in there. Give
me time to sip some water, so we'll take our
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we got we got Creature Commandos coming out. Taylor Field
and I are doing weekly reviews for that, as well
as the Star Wars Skeleton crewise show. We got Craven
the Hunter coming out, so that's going to be a
review released with I believe that's my self, Taylor Field
and Dylan Muss, and then Lord of the Rings where
we're here, that will be Dylan Muss and myself. We
possibly have an os Faratu movie review coming out. It's
of course we're leaving in that Christmas slot, so depending
on everyone's schedule. I know the lads definitely want to
get out and see that one, so don't like again,
don't do what I did and bank on it like
the movie Mystery deal. But hopefully you'll be seeing an
Osharatu review, and even if we don't get a review out,
we'll be talking about that film early in the new
year because we're all really excited for it. And of
course Taylor Field and I have been cooking up a
nice Daredevil retro for you find people out there in
anticipation for the Daredevil Born Again show that's going on
next year, So yeah, I think. Oh and then of
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I'm gonna say what you came for. I feel like, honestly,
my review is going to be less entertaining than, of course,
the story about me seeing this film. I feel like
that was a lot more exciting than my overall thoughts
of the film. But you know, I put in the
title that's what you people came for, So I'm gonna
be giving you my thoughts on September five. So yes,
if you made it through my long spiel of an
intro and just kind of how I got into the movie,
you would know that I did not really sign up
for this movie. I got it, and honestly, I am
really really pumped that this was the mystery movie. Yeah,
just just the mystery movie that that had come out,
because I probably would never have sought this movie out.
Like ever, like even if I heard I don't know
buzz about it and people give me like they're just
high praise on it, it just I don't know, Like
I like some historical accounts like I have seen Munich
of course, like the movie that was I don't even
know when that movie came out, I want to say
pre two thousands. Normally I just bank off of other
people here. Because I'm solo, I'm gonna have to just
be googling all these things, so I do I apologize.
It's gonna be taking me some time, or if I
spit any false information, I apologize. But yeah, I think
i'd seen Munich, like I don't know, it was on
TV two five is when it came out, and saw
I was kind of off, but there you go, starring
the great Eric Banna Dan Craigs in here. My gosh, Okay,
I don't really remember this movie at all, so I
probably saw glimpses glimpses and glances of it on TV
at some point and really didn't remember much of it.
I knew of the terrorist attacks in Munich at the
time nineteen seventy two German Olympics, but I really didn't
know like the the finer details I guess of it.
So yeah, I and of course my intro just telling
of the story of me deciphering what even this was
like that was a whole experience in m of itself.
But yeah, like definitely not the type of movie that
i'd be seeking out on my on my my norm
But and yeah, like of course, Travis being my guy
in the chair was mentioning that this was potentially an
Oscar film, and I don't know if you've heard me
in the years, I'm kind of just like bitter on
award shows in general. Of course, we do our Golden
Geeks every year, which is super fair and not rigged
at all. It sounds sarcastic me saying that it's definitely
not rigged, but I think it's just some of the
results are goofy sometimes. But yeah, super legitimate show that
we do every single year. Again, not sarcastic, even though
I continue to make it sound that way. I apologize,
but yeah, not really big fan of award shows. I
just find that they're like popularity contests, and I just
jokingly like to bash the Oscars. How the Oscar movies
are usually just like boring movies that no one really
cares about. But unless you're like a really big film head.
And I'm not trying to offend any any film heads
out there, I'm not trying to bash something that you
find passionate. You know, if you like the Oscars, you
like what is that's amazing. I'm happy for you. Just
in the past, I feel like I poke fun of them,
So definitely not the type of movie I would be
searching out. I really didn't recognize anyone on here I met,
of course, like Peter sarsgard I recognize them a couple
of things, but beyond that, like, I don't know, there's
no one in there. If I would have watched this trailer, like,
I definitely wouldn't have been sold to go see this
in the definitely let alone at home. So yeah, not
what I would have searched out. But it was a
nice little surprise because it was a funny introduction of
the film because at as I've already said like five
times now, I just deciphering it, realizing what it was,
and uh yeah, okay, I I chose to stay in
the theater. I'm not gonna be leaving. Let's let's unpack
this film together. And by together, I mean myself and
the audience that I was with. But uh yeah, I'm
really glad I stuck it out because this this is
an insanely well crafted film, and I, yeah, I I
never really seek out like the movies that are mentioned
around Oscars. Maybe I do now, like maybe this is
gonna be like an eye opening moment where I'm just
missing out on a plethora of like extremely well crafted films,
especially now that you know under the geek First Productions banner,
like we're starting to release our own films and just
getting into the film crafts and everything. I feel like
I've just kind of I've always appreciated films throughout my life,
obviously doing reviews and podcasting you talk about the whole time,
you just grow appreciation for it. But once you actually
start making films, I feel like it's just a completely
different thing in and of itself, Like you just see
films differently. You think about what it takes to really
craft these shots and all the moving pieces that really
like what it takes to make a film, and I, yeah,
I feel like I just like I am able to
appreciate the craft a lot more. And I'm already starting
to sound like a like a grimy little film film
nerd like I like to make fun of. But no,
this is this is an extremely well made movie. The
crafting of the shots, the like just the film effects
and everything. The score. I found the score. The score
extremely subtle. And I don't even know if I contradict
myself in history or in passing, but I feel like
with me and the score, there's like there's two sides
of the spectrum where it's like, okay, the score is
extremely noticeable, and at times it can either be like
too much, where it's just too much score, or maybe
maybe it's just such like a bop that it really
like stands out and I'm just really clicking with it
and it like makes me just focus on it more.
And then on the other side of the spectrum, it's
like a subtle score where it's like barely even there.
I don't even know that it's in the film, and
it just seems, yeah, like there is no score. I
feel like this movie is more on the subtle side
because there isn't like again like some crazy I don't
even know sense or something that like just make you
cower and fear, like it's Dune or something you got
Hans Zimmer coming at you with a sandworm. But this movie,
like the subtle, subtleness of the score, I feel like
it just it hit those like jaw dropping moments just
so much more. And maybe I'm have perbalyzing a little
bit with the jaw dropping this, but I feel like
this movie just hits you in certain moments with again
like the tragic events that are happening in real life,
because this is based on a true story of a
true terrorist attack in Munich, Germany. Like I feel like
the moments of yeah, like when it gut punches you,
the score just comes in like a tidal wave to
like carry those emotions. And I don't know if I'm
just yeah, like, I don't know if that's just my well,
you know you're here again. Sorry, I'm used to bouncing
off other people, So this is just basically my thoughts.
So yeah, this is what you get. But I feel
like the way that it just like hit like those
title waves, it lifted those moments so much more for me.
And there is a couple I'm gonna call them twists. Yeah,
it's not even really a twist because this is a
historical event. If you are familiar with the event, obviously
you would know the ending of what happens. But I
feel like they did a really good job at just
just like unraveling I think the story and yeah, no,
so for me, like the score was phenomenal, as subtle
as it might might be, I just think it was
the perfect amount and it didn't really try to overdo
what it was trying to do. And yeah, just as
I was kind of mentioning there with the telling I
think of this story. I think the fact that I'm
really not that knowledgeable. I think of everything, like all
the details that went on with the nineteen seventy two
terrorist attack. Like you know, I saw the movie maybe
on TV like years ago, I really didn't remember much
about it. I think this movie does such a great
job at actually telling the tale. Now, there might be
some out there that are really familiar with historical events
that maybe they completely I don't know, veered in different directions.
I didn't really check that, you know, I'll obviously find
out later on when I look into it a little
bit more or just hear other people's feedback, because I
don't know like how pinpoint accurate it is. I think
the movie really sets it up to make it feel
like it is pretty authentic. So that's just kind of
what I'm running with. But I just think they do
such a great job at putting you there, like in
nineteen seventy two when this would have been happening, whether
you're at home watching the events take place, or whether
you're in the control room like with the ABC news
crew kind of covering everything. I think they just do
such a good job at whether it's just released, like
having the characters find things out with you, the like
the viewer, with you, the audience, because cause there's no
like like Tarantino style where you start at the end
and then and then work your way back and like
piece it together like it really is. Everything's taking place
as the movie's going along, and it just makes it
feel like it is like a live like a live telling,
like like like as if you know, we're transported back
into nineteen seventy two and this is us like kind
of going through just yeah, like breaking down all this
information that they're giving us, and like all of the
shots of the just I guess, like the terrorist events
that are going on, it's all like through like the
news cameras, so it's not like we're seeing, you know,
like from the ABC newscaster. And then it goes to
like the actual film camera of them making the movie,
like in like the hotel, like with the terrorists and
with with the like with the hostages and the victims
and like that, like there's none of that, like you
really just get what you see through the ABC coverage
and it makes it really feel like, I don't know,
intense beak, and I think it's just multiplied because I
really didn't know much about what was going on. Like
I truly felt like I was like at home and
just like stressed over this, Like Okay, I'm watching the
Olympics and now this terrorist events going on, and like
just the way that they're breaking it down, and then
of course like we're in the like our our main characters.
I haven't really talked about our main characters, but our
main characters are like the ABC Sports broadcasting crew. I
guess I should have mentioned that, So, yes, our main
players are ABC Sports casters if you didn't know, because
I didn't know until I saw this movie. But this
was this was such a big deal because this was
the first time that a terrorist event was live broadcasted
like on TV ever nineteen seventy two. You gotta imagine
a long time ago, some old tech. Definitely not what
we have nowadays. But yeah, so ABC they were obviously
covering the the Olympics for the sports broadcast, and then
they just so happened to be the only like I
don't know exactly how it was working, but it seemed
like they were the only ones that had like the
capabilities to be live stream mean this, and they took
full advantage, and they they drew in an insane amount
of audience, which you would imagine, like again, people are
just drawn to turmoil and and just awful things. That's
usually what gives us clicks. It's it's something that's still
relevant today. But yeah, no, it drew in an insane
amount of people. I believe that nine hundred million was
the number that they dropped at the end of the film.
And you basically are just, yeah, just just experiencing the
whole unraveling of of the terror event through the lens
of these newscasters. And I really really liked the telling
of it. I'm gonna try and like not spoil really again,
like it's it's a history movie. If you know of
the event, you kind of knows what happens. I will,
you know, say, I'm not really gonna do like a
spoiler section, but like I well, I guess I might,
but I'll mention any spoiler things. Uh so you if
you really don't want to know, you know, a specific
that happens, maybe I'll just yeah give you some some
heads up there. But uh, yeah, no, I am where
was I there? Yeah, so the American sports broadcasting they're
the ones telling They're the ones telling the tale, that's sorry,
the tale of the hostage crisis. And yeah, so the
hostages were the Israeli national team. I think it was
multiple sports events, like there's there's weightlifting there, there's fencing
in there, there was eleven I believe hostage is total
and uh, yeah, it's such a just intense moment, I
think because of the basically just the setting of everything. Uh,
this is set in nineteen seventy two Munich, Germany. Obviously
the like not that far away from World War Two,
like definitely within a lifetimes, so there's just like the
obviously the after effect of everything that, like all the
horrific events that happened there, all of the just yeah,
just just basically like the recovery of Germany. I'm not
gonna like talk like I'm a big history buff again,
like I know exactly the whole feeling of of what
the vibe in Germany was around this time. But I
think the movie does a good job at basically setting
that tone and you can feel it amongst some of
the cast and crew or Yeah, the cast and crew
of of the ABC Sports broadcasters because some people on
the team are Jewish. There's a German lady which I'm
gonna pull up their names because I definitely want to
give them service. So yeah, uh Laoni Benesch who plays Marianne,
she's she's a big character in the movie. She plays
the German translater and yeah, they just do a good
job at making it feel like Germany is trying to
like really put on a like we're moving forward sort
of persona. And then of course, for many different reasons,
there's there's many people that feels like they like they
they don't really deserve it maybe or they're just mad.
There's there's a lot of tension and anger I think
in in just the whole vibe of of what the
movie set up to be. So I think they do
a good job at setting that up pretty early on. Yeah, So, uh,
what was what was I going off there? Oh? Yeah,
so just telling the events. So I believe it was
Palestinian terrorist group. They had a name for them. It
was like Black September or something, and they yeah, early
in the morning on September fifth, they shot up and
murdered two of the Israeli individuals and then held them,
had held nine of them hostage in the room for
I don't exactly know how long. I imagine it's like a
full day. They don't really give us like exact time markers.
It's just yeah, it's feels like a long day. And
I think the movie does a good job at kind
of just making you feel how how long these newscasters
are kind of just therefore and I mean they're definitely
not the ones that are in peril here or anything
like that. There's people having a worse time, but yeah,
they just do a good job at making you feel like,
I think, just the length of time of everything that's
going on. But anyway, so yeah, the Palestinian Terrorist Organization group,
they take these Israeli individuals hostage and then basically they're
demanding like release whatever amount of prisoners and is israelly
captivity and if you don't by noon, we're gonna be
murdering a hostage every hour. So definitely sets up that
like terror of well yeah that's the name, you know,
suggests the terror terror event by these terrorists. But just
I think just like a time frame on it makes
it feel like it is really just urgent and rushed
and and yeah, I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to take
a little sippy here. So one second, I missed a
co host. I missed a co host so that I
can throw it to them for a quick little brimage there.
But thanks for bearing with me. But anyways, that's that's
my super crude rough telling of kind of the main events.
And yeah, so that's kind of how it's set up.
But getting back to my initial thoughts at just my
my true appreciation, I think for telling of the tale
and like the just the pacing of everything. I think
this movie doesn't overstate it's welcome. The run time is
a nice hour and a half, and I think because
it feels like it is such a high stakes threat
at hand, there's not really much downtime. And it's interesting
because this movie doesn't really minor spoilers. I guess, it
doesn't really have a lot in your face action, but
you still really feel the threat that's there, like you
really feel like it is just kind of right across
the street, because that was the reality of it, like
they are actually there to be just covering the Olympics,
and then of course this terrorist events going on and
there's so many just unknowns that are at play with
just just how it all begins, and then of course
like the coverage of it, because there isn't much access
to like internet and like cell phones that you can't
just be getting information like real time, just do a
really good job at showing kind of I think, what
it took to like really get a story told with
the technology they had available to them in nineteen seventy two.
Like there's a lot of shots of them actually do
like like actually doing the work to get it on screen.
Whether that's the uh yeah, yeah, just like the chaos
of the control room, coordinating with all his other cameramen
that are on like out and around the courtyard, around
the Olympic village, just kind of using walkie talkies because
that's what they're able to use. Whether it's the I
don't know the name for them, but basically the lady
that like you know puts on a little message on
a board and then they oh, my gosh, I apologize.
I don't remember the term of it, but they basically
basically is able to like put on a little watermark
or something on the image. Like just all of those
little things that they had to actually do that. I
think we really take it for granted now, like just
because of again technology and how easy it is simplified
in order to just put things out there and broadcasts
like you know, me just doing this podcast right now.
Like it's just it's pretty crazy how far we've come
in terms of just getting media out there. Like, like
I just think we totally take it for granted. For
back in the day, all the movie pieces, all the
the people on staff that were required in order to
just get information on something. There's there's translators, there's like
talking to this person on the phone and then putting
them through the walkie talkie. Uh. There's many instances of
them in this movie even just like they're on the
phone with someone and then they just have the phone
on to the broadcast and then that's what's going out
to like the news for people to hear. So it's
just pretty interesting like they just kind of did what
they need to to get, yeah, in order to get
it to work. Like they're not worried about audio quality.
It's just yeah, it's good enough, let's get it out there.
So that was a really interesting side that I well,
I was gonna say I wasn't expecting going in this film.
I wasn't expecting anything this film because I didn't even
know this movie existed before I went in there. But yeah,
it was just it was really cool seeing the showcasing
I think of of just all of all of the
things at play in actually getting the broadcast out there,
whether it's you know, waking up their their their anchorman,
uh that's at his house just to get him there,
they have like phone his landline and just and then
just all all all these things. Again, it was really
cool to see that being used because I don't know,
just just because nowadays, again it's just taken for granted,
I guess how easy is to get out there. So yeah,
I thought that was really cool and something else that
they really did a good job at highlighting that. Again,
like I maybe saw the Munich movie long time ago,
kind of knew a little bit of what was going on,
but I definitely never really thought about the idea of
because it isn't just like an era where everybody has
the news on their phone. Nobody like nobody has a
smartphone or access to the internet or anything. Well the
internet is not even a thing at this point in time,
but like nowadays, you know, if there's a shooting going
on somewhere, like you get that news pop instantly on
your phone, like everybody knows about it. When the shootings
were going on, and like the Olympics were still happening,
like there was still sports events going on, because people
just had no idea what was going on, and even
when they knew that there were terrorists like holding this team,
they still were just having the Olympics. And I think
that I think they do a good job in the
movie at kind of showcasing the reasons behind that. It's
not so much it's I feel like it's probably mostly
because of just the lack of like me coverage and
the sense of just what was available at then, like
just not many people knew that it was actually happening,
even though you know, ABC was live covering it. It's
just like people at the events weren't seeing those like
the ABC coverages, right, the only people that got the
news for ABC would have been people and other places
of the world, or like the athletes actually in the compound,
which yeah, I'll get to that when I get that,
but yeah, I know, it was just really shocking of
having like the anchor like commenting on what was going on, like, yeah, okay,
you see the shooters here, and then that's just go
back to volleyball, and these volleyball players have no idea
what's going on. And he's even making like just remarks
in the sense of like isn't this just insane? How
like there's a fucking terrorist hold up and then now
we're going to see some volleyball. Like I just couldn't
imagine having that information, like just knowing that and then
seeing that, Like it's just such a crazy, stark contrast.
So yeah, that was pretty eye opening in that regard.
And yeah, I just thought it was pretty surreal honestly
of again, like just how much we take for granted
of getting access to information, how quickly we get it too.
But yeah, I oh yeah, That's what I was gonna say,
is like partly is probably the majority of it is
just the lack of access, but also just the whole
idea of this Munich, like this German Olympics nineteen seventy
two Munich, you know, coming off of it's not right after,
but like it's still very much in the forethought of
people's minds. Just everything that went on with world World
War Two, the Holocaust, all that stuff just kind of
like the re just I guess healing of everything that
went on, Like it's still a wound that's extremely fresh
at this point in time. And that's another thing that
they really do a good job at highlighting in this film.
I kind of you mentioned the tone, but even just
like all of the consequences I think of like like
let's say, like political, yeah, all all the political I'm
missing the word for it, but basically the political penalties
that Germany faced for the events of just everything that
went on with the Olympic or my gosh, with the Olympics,
World War two, Holocausts, all that stuff. Like they're like
they're not actually able to even have the military in
those areas because of just treaties of and stuff like that.
So yeah, like anti terrorist group basically the non existent
They do a good job at highlighting that. Like a
lot of the cops that are kind of handling the
situation are like Sunday cops that, like you like they
barely know how to hand out a speed and ticket,
let alone deal with a terrorist threat, and like, yeah,
like they don't really have the capabilities to do it.
They're extremely Underquali five and like worse worst case scenario. Well, yeah,
any human life is super precious for sure, But just
the idea of like Israelites, like Jewish people like again
under threat in Germany, Like they do a good job
at kind of just kind of high highlighting that focus
and how important of don't fucking let this happen and
this is horrible that it's happening on German grounds, like
just that type of threat. And they even have certain
like board members. I don't want to say downplay in
the event, but maybe just not necessarily, not necessarily like
I almost want to say, like brush under the rug,
like they are really their whole goal is to make
Germany look good, and I think that's and maybe that's
something that's inaccurate. And I did already mention like I'm
not super well versed, so I do apologize if I'm
I'm saying something that is historic history. I'm not gonna
I'm gonna do my best to basically not be SuperFin
like definitive with my my terms and everything. I'm just
gonna be judging the movie and what it is, not necessarily,
what's accurate, what's not because I I'm definitely not the
guy for that. I'm definitely not the history buff in
that game. But anyways, they they do a good job
at basically a long winded way of saying, they do
a good job of just setting the tone and the tensions,
and not just because it's a terrorist event, it's a
it's a much much more special is the right word.
It sounds too positive, just just the significance I think
of this event. They do a good job at highlighting that.
And it's many different factors, not just because it's a
terrorists event, not just because it's Israeli at athletes, you know,
Jewish people like on German soil losing their lives. Nothing
like well aspects to it, for sure, But there's also
like the idea of like this being like the first
ever live documented or sorry, live streamed. I don't even
know if they called it stream back then live just
goes to show, you know, the era that I'm used
to living in live stream, but I guess live televised
there you go, live broadcast, yeah, first ever. So many
different factors as to why this was a super significant event,
extremely tragic obviously anytime people lose their lives, but especially
in such a heinous and just evil, absolutely evil event. Yeah.
I thought they did a great job though, at that
storytelling of it. So yes, that's it's take a liar
sip here and then look at my notes, you know,
let's take a quick at break. We're actually I was
worried this was going to be a very quick episode,
but we're making good time. So thanks for sticking with me,
and we'll be right back. And we're back. I forgot
to take drinks. Sorry, Okay, where was I was giving
my thoughts on? Yeah, basically just the tone of the movie.
The pace heme was really good at the score I
had already mentioned was really phenomenal. The yeah, I kind
of already touched upon. But just how as someone that
isn't super familiar with all the real details of what
went on in Germany during nineteen seventy two Olympics event
that had occurred, I really enjoyed I guess, I guess
just how the information was coming to our characters, like
our ABC broadcasters like of course, their job is to
tell the story no matter what it is, no matter
how horrific or whatever it is. They're just their point
a camera and that's what their job is. Their their
job is to just tell the message to you know,
be the ones that give you the news. But at
the end of the day, these are still humans. And
another great thing that this movie does is just I
think highlight that in maybe maybe like the different calibers
of what like how someone would just handle this right,
like it's a super heavy thing even just like I
don't know, like just thinking about like the fact that
like super innocent people can be going through like a
horrorrific terror attack like that, which still happens today. It's
happened throughout all of human history. It probably will never
end as long as we're here. As horrifying and terrible
as that sounds, that's just kind of the reality of it.
But you know, let's not get too sad about it
on ourselves. But yeah, just the people that are running
the show and telling the story, like they are still humans,
and with all humans there's different levels of compassion and whatnot.
And I think they do a good job at making
it feel like everyone truly is like on the human
side of it and just not necessarily invested in telling
the story. But just these are human lives at stake,
and there is a few instances on maybe just the
moral dilemma of like is this something that we should
even be really broadcasting, Like like what if the parents
of whoever sees their son just get his head shot off, right,
Because that's the reality of it, Like it was live broadcast.
It could have happened at any point in time when
the camera's rolling, just it's uncensored, Like they can't control that.
So yeah, like like some of the characters really feel
that heavy on them, and I well, actually, for the
most part, I feel like all the characters show that
throughout the whole film. And again, you know, maybe this
is a little bit of a spoilery thing, but at
the end of the movie, I didn't want to get
there yet. But whatever, at the end of the movie,
worst thing, worst, absolute worst case scenario happens. All of
the hostages ended up losing their lives. They were all
shot and killed by the terrorists. Yeah, super gut wrenching that.
This is one of those moments at the end of
film where it's just like it just punches you and
you're just like, man, like I cannot believe it. So
again that for people that probably were really familiar with this,
they saw this coming and it wouldn't have been surprising
at all, but for someone that wasn't familiar. I like
the movie did a good job at I think just
delivering that and really making you feel just awful and
just just yeah, like man like it's just just just
sad like. I think they do a good job at that.
But getting back to my point about just the different
moral levels in some of these characters. Our main yeah,
I'll say our main character in the film. Let me
just get his name, John Magaro, who plays jeff Jeffrey Mason.
He's kind of our main control room lead. I don't
know what position that is in news or anything like that,
but he's he's the one running the control room and
uh yeah, like at the end of this whole event,
because he's basically just focused on telling the story the
whole like he is so many people that are relying
on him to kinda like he's basically the quarterback in
in the situation of he he's the or like the director.
I guess, like it's like everyone has their jobs, but
everybody is kind of just looking at him as their general.
He's the one that's kind of making all these calls.
So he's in charge of so much going on, especially
just the fact that he like he isn't really supposed
to be covering an event like this, right, Like he's
a he's a their sports broadcast, Like he's supposed to
be focusing on wrestler or whatever the events are in Olympics.
I'm obviously not a big Olympics fan, but uh, hundred
meters dash, there you go. Let's let's let's let's show
some hundred meter dash. Okay, now let's go to the
triple jump, Like those are the things that you're normally
focusing on, not so much like, Okay, where's the camera
on this window? Let's get this terrorist with with this
AK forty seven, you know, like like it's a completely
different thing than what he should be kind of covering.
He has the skill set to be managing the cameras
and everything and managing the crews and all that, but
just the actual material is completely different than he would
have been covering. But at the other the day, it's
a job, and he's doing a tremendous job just handling everything.
There's a lot of intense decisions that he has to make,
like on the spot. It all kind of falls on
him like a director would like a quarterback would, so
he has all that weight on him. Again. Fast forward
to the end of the film, when the worst, absolute
worst news comes out that yeah, they're they're all dead.
It definitely horrifying, and it's felt by a handful of
characters obviously because they're they're humans, so this happens. They're
all just kind of I think, just in awe and
like in shock as to what happened. And then yeah,
I didn't really talk about the characters, so it's kind
of a weird way to unpack unpack them. But I'll
transition to the characters after this, after this thought. But yeah,
Jeffrey Mason, John mcgaro, who I had never seen this
guy in anything before, but he he was fantastic. All
the whole cast was really really good. I think there's
others that shine more than others, something like John mcgaro
was fantastic, Peter sars Guard was really really good. And
then Leoni Benesh I apologize that's not how you say
your name, but the lady that played Marianne, the German Lady,
she she was fantastic. I think her and John mcgaro
were probably my favorite in the entire movie. They were
just really really really good in everything, Like I think
they just stood out in such a different way. Like
Peter Starr's guard, I think because I've seen him a
couple of things before, I'd seen a similar range as
to what he was showing. But he still he still
did a fantastic job. But John mcgaro and and Leoni Benesh,
we we're just they were my they were my s
tiers and in this movie they were just fantastic. But
sorry getting off rails. Honestly, I'm pretty impressive as happened
more tonight, So kudos to me, and thanks for sticking
with me. So Jeffrey Mason, he he yeah. They the
day's over all the worst case scenario. All the hostages
are dead. Rune, who is played by Peter Sar's guard,
he's kind of like, I don't exactly know his role.
He's kind of just the head hauncho. I don't know
if he's like the head of ABC or something, but
he's definitely the one kind of making the calls like
he's the head guy here. And then Jeffrey Mason's the
guy running the control room. And then Marianne who is
the German lady Leany Binesh. I believe her role is
I guess translator, but yeah, we'll just say translator because
I don't know exactly what specific role she is. It's
probably that. But anyways, Rune asked to see Jeffrey at
the end of the day because it's just horrifying thing,
like and this is a moment where all this stuff happened,
and like, I don't know, you're just expecting like man,
like that was a heavy day, that was crazy, like
are you all right? You know, just like get that
like natural human heart to heart moment because like they
kind of went through this whole thing together. Obviously they're
much safer than the people that were held captives and
everything and that we're actually in like the gunfire, but
still like it is a mentally draining thing. You're trying
to do your work, do your job with all these
real high stakes things going on. But uh yeah, he
gets called into into Rune's office and it's just a
total different vibe than than you kind of were expecting.
Where Ruin Peter Sarsguard is basically just like, man, yeah,
it might not feel like it beat a really good
job today, and he's basically just like business as usual
sort of attitude, like he has no like oh yeah,
that's horrible that happened, Like none of that addressing at all.
It's just like, yeah, no, that was the story that
was told and then tomorrow we're gonna be doing like
a special on They're like like he's basically just like no, no,
I don't want to say no compassion. It feels like
no compassion, but it's really just like a total lack
of like caring and I think for our character of
Jeffrey Mason, like it kind of just put it in
perspective there. Oh, I also didn't mention it, but it
seems like this is like his first day on the job,
so what a wild first day coming into the fold
here and yeah, no, it's like obviously he did his
job well, but it's just it's such a different like
it it feels like a synthetic reaction like it it
feels like something that you wouldn't actually be you know,
witness too. But uh, I think that's very much the
reality of like media across the board, Like at the
end of the day, their job is to just kind
of tell the stories, not get emotionally evolved. I think
it's extremely hard in many instances and probably is for
a lot of people, but like I I because yeah,
I can have do that job. I think just covering
like dour subjects and just like terrorist attacks and everything, like,
I think it would just weigh on me as as
a human being, just always getting my head focused in
around that stuff. That's why, that's why I'm not even
really on like a lot of social medias because I
just feel like a lot of the twenty four hour
news cycle stuff, they just the algorithms. They know that
outrage kind of gets clicks and gets people's attention because
it's just human behavior. But I just try and stay
away from that, trying and keep positive things on my timeline.
I'm not gonna say I try and just live in
a bubble and pretend everything's fine and Danny, I know
there's bad things out there, but you can definitely get
analysis paralysis with many topics and negative ones. I think
it's I think it's just a down. I think it's
a detriment. I don't think it's a good thing. But anyways, anyways, yeah, no,
I think the scene is really it really hits because
Jeffrey Mason's character before he goes to see Run who
has like the very I guess cold hearted reaction and
like answer to what's going on. Benjamin Walker, you know,
got gil Galad come in and he just wants to
work with him, going over like yeah, you know what
for our one hour special tomorrow, we need to go
to the airport right away because that like the helicopter's
probably still burnt and exploded, and like like it's just
no like remorse for like the victims or like anything
like that. Like it's very much just how can we
profit off of this? And I think for our character
of Jeffrey Mason, he kind of realizes like that's the
reality of what's going on there, and yeah, it was.
It was just really well done. Oh yeah, That's why
I was saying that, because before he goes to see Rune,
he's having just dialogue with mari Anne, who Marianne is
honestly like probably the MVP of his entire adventure. She's
like the one German translator that had She does so
much work in order to get information across from the
German police scanner that they have that she's kind of
listening on to get just more information of what's happening
in real time to she actually goes like to the
airport because I didn't mention it, but the long story short, basically,
the the terrorist groups are trying to get like out
of there, so they're getting the sorry they get get
the hostages on a bus, then on a helicopter, goes
to a military base and then from there they're hopefully
gonna get a airplane to Cairo, and that's kind of
their escape plan. So fast forward to where we are
later on. They get them on the bus, they get
them on the on the helicopter, then they're going to
the military base, and then kind of all the media
is starting to follow them, and then that's where Jeffrey Mason,
John mcgarrough's character sends Marianne as well as Hank Hanson,
a audio man, and uh Carter Jeffrey haven't mentioned these
guys' names. They're they're they're all right side characters. Definitely
side characters though, but basically a camera guy, an audio guy,
and then Mary and because she's the only one that
speaks German to just go get live coverage, and she
was there like the whole time that the just the
events were happening at the airport, and I feel like
all of this is an extremely just heavy weight that
she's carrying like the entire time of the events of everything,
because they do a good job at showcasing like she
is I don't know, I'm gonna say less than thirty
in this movie, Like she seems like she's probably in
her late twenties, maybe early thirties, and yeah, she's probably
younger than that, but still just a child that grew
up kinda I would say, like in the era like
just after World War Two, and that's kind of what
she's been grown up in, been grown up in, raised in,
I guess in Germany, and just she very much feels
like like the blame of what Germany is blamed for,
Like like I think she is in that era of
like really feeling the what's the word I'm looking for, Like, uh,
just the like the shame I think of of the
events that happened. Because of course not all German definitely
not all Germans or evil or anything like that. But
I think the perception of a lot of the world
maybe around this time, is just kind of Germany is
the enemy, not so much just Hitler or the Nazis
or anything like that, just just Germany. Is the Emeny
is the Emeny is the enemy? And uh they even
kind of showcase that with other characters in their dialogue
around certain events, especially like amongst some of like the
Jewish crew members on the ABC team, Like of course
they would be super angry, rightfully so for everything that
went on around Germany. But this character, Mary Anne, I
think she really does a good job at, like the
actress Leoni Binesh, I think she does a good job
at kind of making it, making it like trying to
be a good example of the generation of Germany that
wants to go forward and not necessarily just forget everything
that happened, but how can we learn from that and
move forward and yeah, just be a good country, right
like like like you can't just be in that box
of evil forever, especially if they're not genuinely that because like, yeah, no,
I think she's a good representation. I think of just
like a German around this time that that does kind
of feel that way. So throughout the whole film, she's
kind of is that representation on the crew obviously she's
like the only German there. But long winded way of
saying she she feels the shame of Germany and kind
of how horrible this is because especially if you're trying
to like rebuild your image on the on the national
scale for Germany, this is like absolutely the worst thing
that you would want, right, like just have a terrorist attack,
but also one that's like specifically against Jewish people on
German soil. Like just just how much that would be
the last thing that they want to have, like the
the recovery and the rebuilding of the image on the
national scale. But yeah, so by the end of everything
that goes on, obviously you know, the terrorist murder, the
the nine remaining Israelites, and yeah, no, she just feels
absolutely terrible. And it's the complete opposite of a reaction
that Rune Peter Sarsguard's character gave to Jeffrey when Jeffrey
Mason goes and speaks to her and you know, like
how you doing. It's like not a fucking easy answer, right, Like, oh,
she's terrible. More Jewish people died on German So like
she just feels so much weight there and great emotion
shown from the actress in that scene. Yeah no, like
I felt emotionally involved with everything. I think it's mostly
just because of the storytelling and of course the phenomenal
just performances of the actors. But yeah, just I think
I was naive. Well, obviously I'm not the most knowledgeable,
definitely not the most knowledgeable on everything that happened around
this event, but I think I had some like false,
naive hope of that they would get out of there somehow,
because yeah, because something that I'll mention after I talk
about the characters. So already talked about Marianna a lot.
She's fantastic. I absolutely loved her. Leoni binesh really haven't
I checked her IMDb. There's like three projects that she's
been a part of. She is so fantastic, Like she
she is such a great actress. So I'm definitely not
probably gonna be checking out other Oscar films this year
and getting ready for the Oscars. But uh, you know,
if if best supporting actress comes up, and uh, I
don't even know if it'd be supporting actress. I don't
even know how genres work. I clearly have a hard
time with that in our own golden geeks. But yeah,
if she pops up there and she wins, I'm gonna
be so happy. She is fantastic. I thought she was
really really great. Jeffrey already mentioned really great and uh yeah,
and then Peter Sarsgard's character was he was really good
at at what he was doing, but just not really
stand out y. And then there's a couple other ones
that were that were definitely good. But I felt like
those two of John mcgarough and Leoni Minesh were my
standouts by far. Okay, let's get actually, let's get back
to the story there, because it was kind of alluding
as to I kind of jumped around all the place,
like again, I apologize, this is this is all new
for me. I'm learning as them going. But essentially the
oh yeah, I was mentioning at the end that the
worst of the worst happens of the and again, I
guess now we're in spoilers, So I apologize if I already
kind of spoiled the move for you. If you're here
at this point, I feel like you're kind of either
already know the movie or you know that you probably
won't watch it, so you just want to hear my thoughts.
And if that's the case, hey, I appreciate you, Taylor Field.
I know you're listening to this. Appreciate you so Anyways, Yeah,
the worst of the worst happens. But before this, uh,
there's some major major false hope where they get word
from a couple of unconfirmed source sources. I believe one
of them is just a straight up like German news channel.
Even Marion, who's at the airport, is hearing some murmurs
that all the hostages got out, they all escape, there's
no more shooting. It seems seems like best case scenario
is kind of happening here, and uh, everyone kind of
jumps the gun. There's there's a big there's a big
dilemma I guess, a moral dilemma between a couple of
the people that are making the call of like do
we say that everyone's alive because we're the only ones
live broadcasting this, so the repercussions are extremely major. As
soon as we say they're alive or dead, everyone is
going to be repeating that message. And I do think that, uh, like,
although they do kind of jump the gun, I think
it's it is pretty justified that they do say that
they all escaped on air. Because the I can't remember
his name, but like one of the chiefs board of
like the Olympics, things that are going on that is
a German fellow is on the air on the news
mentioning that, you know, like it's it's all good, we're
all we're all finding Dandy, all the hostages escaped, everyone's good.
So because he says all this, it kind of like
solidifies that, like, okay, no, we can say that. So
I think ABC's team is they are okay with saying that,
even though you know, technically you should be waiting for
those solid sources confirming all these events, Like I think
they say you need at least two to really mention it.
I feel like they were getting good word and then
the German news were reporting that, and then they get
the classic like nineteen seventies printer thing telling like confirming
that it's good to go, everyone's cheering, happy and of course,
but like because I'm just naive, I don't exactly know
knew what happened back then, I'm like, man, that's like
that's crazy how they actually got out like that, that's
really fantastic. Oh my gosh, I'm sorry, I need some
more water, getting a little scratchy throat. Okay, sorry, yeah no,
so best case scenario, they well, not best case scenario.
Best case snario that would have been they all get out,
but nine out of the eleven escaped. They're they're fine.
The ABC through they're cheering obviously because they're super happy
that the hostages got out. They're cracking beers there, they're
having a good time. And then fast forward it's not
exactly the case and we find out that there's still
shots going on. It's hell in a handbasket. It is
just not good. It's basically the complete opposite as to
what they just got confirmed reports from all the hostages
were killed, One of the helicopters was on fire, just
just absolute warzone type setting of just gunfire, everything. Everything
was horrible. And this was like the big moment in
the movie that just felt like a major gut punch
where they give you like like they're cracking beers, they're celebrating.
Everything's good, and then just a few minutes later, you know,
the the buzz of the beers they just slammed is
just hitting them. And then they get word that, yeah, no,
not only did we just tell the whole world, well
not only did they all just die, but we just
told the whole world that they that they weren't. So
how do we backtrack this and there's definitely no easy
way to do it. They just have to hit it
head on. And yeah, I think that part of the
movie just really like made my jaw drop, and uh yeah,
Like I think the whole event of the Munich terror
attack terrorist attack was horrible for so many different reasons,
but just like the way that it was told in
the sense of like, no, yeah, they're they're all they're
all good, they're all free, everyone's happy, we're all cheering.
And then you got to imagine like all the family
members again of the team that would have been watching
this one of the nine hundred million people watching this live,
they get that everyone's celebrating, Like it wasn't just our
news crew that was celebrating this a moment. I'm sure.
I'm sure across the world that was happening, And I
don't I can't confirm nor deny if that actually was
the case how it happened in real life. I imagine
it was because I don't know. It seems like they're
trying to stay true to it, but uh, you know,
I'll find out either by a terrible review in the
comments of someone saying I don't know what I'm talking
about or just my own research. So yeah, no, I
I thought that was just such a such a jaw drop,
like gut punch moment and a real great opportunity to
see like some great acting amongst those specifically like like
Jeffrey there, John mcgarough's just the way that it just
hit him and like realize all of that and this
was his call. Yeah, they really really powerful moment and yeah,
it just it hit me so well, so well, it
hit me so effectively, I think is a better way
to say that. And I think it a big part
of that is because I was fully locked in with, uh,
with just the whole story of what was happening and
how it was being told, So pacing was was great
for me, and just the telling of like the unraveling
of the story was really really powerful. And uh yeah, no,
I thought it was really really just powerful. It was
was good. There. Let's see what else did we got. Yeah,
let's just take a look at my notes. He I
thought it's something else I was gonna lead into that with,
But of course it's gone. The film had like an
interesting film effect to it. Again, big film buff nerds
out there are probably gonna laugh at me. For not
knowing the name for what it was, but I noticed
it at least even though I don't in the name
of it, and it it made it feel like an
older film, and I just really appreciate it. I thought
it it seemed like a movie kind of out of
time in that regard, Like it felt like an older
like I want to say, like VHS style, but like
not VHS quality, even though like it had like a
certain effect to it, so I don't know, film grain
or something is probably the term I appreciated it. So
I wrote it down. Yeah, I had already kind of
mentioned like the disassociation of the media and the real
event people losing their lives. I thought that was just
really really effective at getting that across. And it's interesting
because it's not something that's really relevant throughout the whole film,
of of like the sense of like I'm a terrible
person for showing this. I guess they mentioned it a
couple of times. And that's actually the point that I
kind of forgot that I wanted to mention, was the
oh no, ladies and gentlemen just happened again. I just
lost the point. I wish I could rewind in the
back of my mind, but I can't. I don't have
anyone here to bounce off of to get that idea,
So I'm just gonna probably keep rambling until it eventually
circles back into my mind. Disassociation the media, that's actually
what it was. There, you go, thanks for reminding me,
shouts out to you guys. But the basically like the
moral dilemma of should we be doing this? And there's
a point in the movie when the extremely ill equipped
German local law enforcement are trying to like raid the
hotel and save the hostages, and everyone in their grandma
that's watching just makes it look like these are fucking clowns.
These are level one, like zero experienced soldiers, and like
where we find out that that pretty much is the
case because they can't have the German military in any
of those areas because of like post war decrees and
all that stuff. I just realized it. I have my
weird camera. Okay, there you go. Apologies to all the
video viewers there, but yeah, no, it's just super ill equipped.
And then they ABC is filming these cops raid this building,
and then they realize that ABC is accessed for the
people inside, which you know, they're making the argument, well,
well no, sorry, I'm got to hit myself. They realize that,
and then basically the cops come in here because they
realize that ABC is doing this, and then they shut
off all the cameras and then that's when like the
operations basically dead. They have to pull the cops out
there because the terrorists are just watching them approach them,
so obviously it's it's not a good strategic maneuver to
keep that plan going. They pull the troops out, they
they killed the broadcast, and then our ABC News workers
are basically like, were we the one that caused that? Like, like,
is what we're doing actually putting the hostages at a
further risk? Right because the terrorists know exactly what's happening
and they're getting information from the outside because of our
own broadcast. I like that moment of just again highlighting
is of what they're doing. Is it actually should they
be doing it? Or is it morally wrong to be
doing what they're doing? And of course they bring up
the arguments of like well these idiot you know, anti terrorists,
not even anti terrorists, basically Sunday cops like if they
actually knew what the fuck they were doing, they would
know to cut the power to the building so they
can't get any information like that. Well, of course, then
it's revealed that these guys actually don't know what they're doing,
and they are putting on just a tough face because
they it's a big image thing of again like a
stronger United Germany, and they're not gonna let this stuff happen,
so they can't just obviously reveal that they have no
idea what they're doing. It's mentioned, not confirmed, but in
the movie they mentioned that like the Israeli Special Military
Forces whatever it is, like offered Germany's like offered, yeah,
to come in and help Germany, and then they say no,
probably just to keep up appearances. Again, I don't know
if that's an actual thing that happened or whatnot, but
it's just something else that really added to the overall
tone I think of like the German perspective and just
trying to keep that appearance, which you know, which is
obviously a terrible idea because priority should be the hostages
and the just dealing with the terrorist threat. But it
went a different direction. Okay, I had mentioned the film effect.
I remember that scene. Yeah, pace was nice Honestly, that's
pretty much all my notes. This episode went a lot
longer than I was expecting you too, and I'm glad
I did. It was a really one of a kind experience.
I made it through my own soul episode. I can't
believe I made it to an hour twenty Honestly, that's crazy.
I clearly I can just talk and talk and talk,
and uh, I mean, it was a good en a
movie that I could just upwer I get kind of
alone and uh, I don't know. Going through this, I
realized that I can actually kind of do this, So
there you go. I'm just gonna split off and do
my own pot now. I'm kidding. Maybe I'll do more
solo episodes because it was actually a good time. I
kind of got into the flow and uh, definitely went
off the rails, definitely went on tangents, definitely probably made
a fool of myself. A real listen to this episode,
I'd probably be cringing the entire time, but nonetheless, we
made it through. I'm trying to think if there's any
last things I want to mention on this film that
I didn't because this will be my only real time
to talk about I mean, after nine's coming up. I'm
sure it'll be brought up there. I guess I should
have said this earlier. Would I recommend this film. I
would recommend this film too. Definitely fans of film, any
fan of film, just like fans of how a film
is crafted and everything that goes into it. I highly
recommend this. I recommend this if you are interested in yeah,
like history movies. If you know or don't know the
events of the Munich terrorist attack, definitely would recommend it,
And definitely would recommend it if you're like me and
you definitely aren't super familiar, because I think it actually
helps a lot more because and again, if you're listening
to this right now and you're taking my advice, you
want to go see it. I kind of spoiled it already,
but just the way that things unfold it hit a
lot harder because I didn't know what was going to
be coming. And yeah, so there you have it, ladies,
Oh number ready, there we go. H I think're gonna
give us a nine out of ten. I don't exactly
know why I'm deducting points, because I enjoyed it thoroughly.
I just think maybe there's a lack of clarity in
certain situations as to what is fully going on, like
for some context as to what that means is like
there's certaindividuals that they talk to that they're just getting
information from, and they don't really explain who they are,
like they say their name, but and maybe they're like
a historical figure that if you know everything that's going on,
you kind of know what's what is going on. But
for me, I was a little bit confused at some point.
So they're just kind of bouncing all over and it
was a little bit confused in that sense. And uh yeah,
but man, what a time. Really enjoy this film. Hope
it does well at the Oscars whatever that means. But
uh yeah, I had a good time. It was a
good movie mystery Monday. Maybe this should just be a segment.
Maybe I should just go see movie mysteries and then
just just review them, just do solo reviews, you know.
If you want that, let me know, go join our
patron Maybe maybe that'll be some incentive. But anyways, let's
get out of here, ladies and gentlemen. Tune in next
time for whatever the hell it is talking about, hopefully
with someone else. Maybe I'm not maybe it's just gonna
be me, a show me show going forward. But uh, anyways,
I love you. Have a good one, one and only
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