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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Steve and one of the PLO members having an increasingly tense, but non-verbal confrontation over the radio--Steve wants to listen to French music, the PLO guy wants to listen to Middle Eastern music. The two appear legitimately ready to kill each other over the issue until Steve finally selects a station playing classic ''Creator/{{Motown}}'' music and the two legitimately smile and nod in agreement. Paired with some serious FoeYay as the song in question is Music/AlGreen's "Let's Stay Together" and they're smiling at each other as the opening line of "I'm so in love with you" plays.
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** During the opening, the West German police attempt a rescue at the Olympic Village, only to call it off when it's pointed out that the terrorists are watching their approach on the news. This actually happened during the crisis.
** It is also mentioned that the Army is unable to assist due to "complicated laws." The (then-West) German constitution forbids the Army from operating on German soil during peacetime, which is why they were unable to directly move against the terrorists.
** During the opening, the West German police attempt a rescue at the Olympic Village, only to call it off when it's pointed out that the terrorists are watching their approach on the news. This actually happened during the crisis.
** It is also mentioned that the Army is unable to assist due to "complicated laws." The (then-West) German constitution forbids the Army from operating on German soil during peacetime, which is why they were unable to directly move against the terrorists.
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* CriticalDissonance: Compared to great reviews and the presence in year-end lists and the awards circuit, audiences were not as enamoured, with the film not managing to turn a profit at the box office and [[https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?explore=title_type&role=nm0000229&ref_=filmo_ref_job_typ&sort=user_rating,desc&mode=detail&page=1&job_type=director&title_type=movie its IMDb score being not as high as Spielberg's previous Oscar contenders]].
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** [[spoiler:The CruelAndUnusualDeath of the female assassin.]]
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* SignatureScene: The young girl picking up the phone, which has a bomb hidden in it, and the team rushes to abort.
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** This film features three Film/JamesBond films actors: a future Bond (Creator/DanielCraig, Bond since 2006), from 2006 to 2021), as well as a former (Creator/MichaelLonsdale, Hugo Drax in ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'') and later (Creator/MathieuAmalric, Dominic Greene in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'') Bond villain. Even funnier, the latter two are both French and play father and son, and the former and the latter face off in ''Quantum of Solace''.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: "There's no peace at the end of this."
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Both InUniverse and in real-life, people debate whether the first two targets, Zwaiter and Hamshari, are actual terrorists involved in the Olympic massacre or peaceful pro-Palestinian Arabs who were scapegoated by Mossad.
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* OneSceneWonder: The two Israeli athletes who escape during the terrorist raid (one by smashing a window and the other by fleeing through a parking garage) are immensely memorable and easy to get invested in. The same is true of their two teammates who are killed while trying to resist the terrorists.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Music/JohnWilliams strikes again! The main theme in particular stands out in the many ways Williams applies it.
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* CriticalDissonance: In spite of the award nominations and great reviews, with many critics putting it among the best of 2005, it didn't capture filmgoers the same away, being among Spielberg's lowest-grossing movies, and having an IMDb grade only slightly higher than the divisive ''Film/TheTerminal''.
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** During his brief scene, Moritz Bleibtreu mentions the RAF (Red Army Faction) and Baader-Meinhof. He later appeared in ''Film/TheBaaderMeinhofComplex'' as Baader himself.
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* InternetBackdraft: It was drowned out somewhat by the much bigger controversy over ''Film/BrokebackMountain'' that year, but ''Munich'' did have its own backlash from people who thought that the main characters were portrayed as "terrorists" and/or that the Munich perpetrators they were hunting down were depicted too sympathetically. Various pro-Israel groups organized boycotts of the film. And for the record, several anti-Israel people, like Creator/ChristopherHitchens, criticized the film too.
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* HilariousInHindsight: This film features three Film/JamesBond films actors: a future Bond (Creator/DanielCraig, Bond since 2006), as well as a former (Creator/MichaelLonsdale, Hugo Drax in ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'') and later (Creator/MathieuAmalric, Dominic Greene in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'') Bond villain. Even funnier, the latter two are both French and play father and son, and the former and the latter face off in ''Quantum of Solace''.
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** During his brief scene, Moritz Bleibtreu mentions the RAF (Red Army Faction) and Baader-Meinhof. He later appeared in ''Film/TheBaaderMeinhofComplex'' as Baader himself.
** This film features three Film/JamesBond films actors: a future Bond (Creator/DanielCraig, Bond since 2006), as well as a former (Creator/MichaelLonsdale, Hugo Drax in ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'') and later (Creator/MathieuAmalric, Dominic Greene in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'') Bond villain. Even funnier, the latter two are both French and play father and son, and the former and the latter face off in ''Quantum of
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** Speaking of ''Game of Thrones'', Tom Wlaschiha (Jaqen H'ghar) appears as a West German reporter during the opening.
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* InternetBackdraft: It was drowned out somewhat by the much bigger controversy over ''Film/BrokebackMountain'' that year, but ''Munich'' did have its own backlash from people who thought that the main characters were portrayed as "terrorists" and/or that the Munich perpetrators they were hunting down were depicted too sympathetically. Various pro-Israel groups organized boycotts of the film.
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