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Valkyrie: The story of an all together alright Nazi
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Heh I think Metal Gear Solid 3 did this as well when Eva complemented Snake on his Russian.
Anyways good movie. I was really walking into the theater a bit worried with all the bad mojo about the movie I've heard throughout the year.
Actually, Stauffenberg did place the bag on the correct side. After he left, another officer bumped it with his leg, knocked it over, and placed it on the other side of the heavy table leg. The original position would most likely have killed Hitler. Just like if both explosives were in the bag. Or if the meeting was in the reinforced structures without windows.
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I have this new theory that any time they interview the actors for the ads of something it sucks, which is what they're doing for this movie now, so I'm nervous. Pros are that it's a Nazi assassination attempt and it's directed by Bryan Singer, and cons are Tom Cruise and what the ads are telling me the movie is.
Yes, because it is totally illegitimate to respond to a thread essentially asking if you saw the film and what your thoughts were with "No, I didn't see it. This is why" and then give people a chance to respond. You know, without criticizing them for daring to do so.
It's as if you're supposed to have discussions or something.
On the language transition, Hunt for Red October utilizes the technique very well and also achieves having its cast members (excluding Connery for obvious reasons) come off as believably Russian. It is possible to use English, even without accents, in a believable manner. If your statement is that the majority of the cast pulled that off, great. Every time I saw or heard Cruise I could have replaced the eye patch and uniform with long hair and a jacket and gotten Vanilla Sky, or replaced them with longer hair and a different uniform and gotten The Last Samurai, OR given him white hair and a suit and gotten Collateral.
Maybe this is off base. But if it is, they did a very poor job of putting together a representative trailer that is supposed to pull people in.
Hitler has a German accent, Stauffencruise has an American accent, everyone else has a vaguely British accent. I think it would have been better entirely in German with subtitles, and without distractingly-recognizable actors.
edit: I did like it, though.
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I've been wishing that by some crazy set of circumstances someone with ability to green-light a film would get this adapted :
http://darthside.blogspot.com/
Basically a blog from Vader's perspective from the end of ANH to the end of Jedi.
I thought Valkyrie was really good, actually. But I've always been a sucker for Singer's films, and the fact that he re-teamed with McQuarrie for this just made it a must-see in my book. Cruise was adequate for the role, and they certainly could have done better choice-wise (although the likeness is pretty close) but the rest of the cast was so ridiculously good you could pretty easily look past him. Bill Nighy, Kenneth Brannagh, Bernard Hill, Tom Wilkinson, Terence Stamp, etc. So much talent in one place, my head was close to asploding.
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And if someone is bummed out by the ending of Valkyrie, have them watch Downfall next. Granted, that movie can be a bit depressing in places, too, but at the end, Hitler ist tot and der reich ist kaput. Also, you'll recognize a couple cast members.
It could work, just not with Lucas.
And not with Vader as the brains either. Dude's kind of an easily-manipulated idiot.
Is he in this?
If so: How awesome is he in this?
Well, he does something super awesome, and manly.
My gf noticed a new trend in nazi films again with this film and Defiance coming out soon. I told her it's still not PC to kill Islamo-fascist terrorists in Hollywood yet.
DERKA DERKA!!
Very, but also not all that much screen time.