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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Last time I looked
That only got credit
In your Effed up
Kook book.
At first just figured no one saw it. Then people did and started raving about it. Maybe it's just one of those movies that never really caught on. Critics could have championed it more strongly though.
From the moment I saw the trailer and heard Cruise's Von Stauffenberg speaking without a German accent, I groaned. There went the authenticity for me. This is the kind of powerful WWII movie that could have been great. I know European actors like Tom Wilkinson, Kenneth Branagh and Carice Van Houten could have played their parts with pitch-perfect German accents. But not Cruise. He lacks the depth and finesse. Sure he has talent. But he should stay with Americana. He's out of his league here.
I think that "Apt" was glossly overlooked
Mostly ignored
And went unevaluated
Of Singer's work so far
I think it should be his most critically appreciated.
Cruise's appalling denials of chemically-based mental illnesses have been repaid with the loss of any gift he might have had. Let the Church of Scientology restore his at-best-inferior talent.
The only way this wacko could possibly be construed as bankable is in relation to the crooks who caused the current banking failures.
They are failures in the banking industry as this assclown is a failure in all repsects.
I have no intention of seeing this bullshit story as, just like so many books v. movies, it will have no accurate correlation with the historical record.
I forget the movie's name, but I remember seeing a movie about Stauffenberg with my Dad back in the 70's. Anyone recall it? I wait until this one's one cable.
In the trailer to Valkyrie it was obvious we were going to see Cruise Playing A Historically Important Nazi You May Have Heard Of. Yawn.
Without his bag of neurotic tics he turns to wood on the screen.
You're just pissed he ALMOST was successful.
Von Stauffenberg's story is an interesting one. But to tell it, one must naturally turn attention to Hitler and the rest of his murderous band. The setting must be the East Prussian lair from which the Nazis outlined and executed their murderous rampage upon the Government General of central Poland. Why on earth would anyone want to "go back there" over the Christmas holidays, of all times, particularly when the plot failed? I hope this movie doesn't make a penny.
Excuse me.... WHAT MOVIE DID YOU PEOPLE SEE (UNLESS SOME OF YOU JERKS ARE PONTIFICATING WITHOUT ACTUALLY HAVING SEEN IT)?
My son and I saw this movie today: both of us are history buffs (he's a history major) and we both enjoyed it! The only thing wrong with this movie is the attitude that some of you seem to have towards Tom Cruise.... which means, you are idiots. What you think of him has NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW GOOD A MOVIE THIS IS.
This is a very well done, interesting and suspenseful movie that actually mainly sticks to the facts of what really happened. That's when you know it's a good one: when you know what happened, and you're still on the edge of your seat and engaged in the movie.
You people need to rate this movie on its merits, not on how you feel about Mr. Cruise.
Sorry, spoiler.
Mr. Cruise has made this difficult to do.
It's certainly everybody's right to have their own opinion of Tom Cruise, both as an actor and as a person. And there are certainly plenty of things that can be legitimately criticized with regard to what we know of his personal life, many of them arising from his devotion to Scientology. But the degree of vitriol exhibited in some of these comments seems to me to be rather over the top. I don't believe myself to be in a position to judge him on a personal level, since so much of what I know about him comes through the filter of a sensationalist and celebrity obsessed media. However, when it comes to acting, I find it hard to believe that someone who has done the work he has done in films such as 'Born on the Fourth of July', 'Rain Man', and 'Jerry Maguire' can be described with seriousness as having no talent. It may well be that he is seriously miscast in this latest film. I haven't seen it and probably won't, but the reviews seem to indicate that. And, like any actor, his performances can vary widely in quality depending on the suitability of the material, the direction. etc. But seeing the terms that some people have used about his acting in these letters does make me suspect that their reaction to his work is being dictated by their personal hostility toward him...whatever that may be based on.
They were not looking to sue for peace, to the contrary, they sought victory over the Allies...
Mmmm, not exactly. IIRC, they were looking to make peace with the West so they could concentrate all their fire on Russia.
Also, I get the distinct impression you're confusing the Battle of Britain (summer of 1940) with the invasion of Normandy (summer of 1944). Apologies if I'm mistaken.
tell me how a "German accent" would make this movie more authentic? How about speaking German with English subtitles? A German accent would be a joke. These men are operatives in the German resistance. Would they not speak German, straight up?
Tom Cruise has been a bad actor from the get-go. I think he's gorgeous to look at and can even transcend pin-up status but there is no "there there." He's got no range, no emotional range whatsoever, his voice is flat and when he overacts it's really a disaster [see Magnolia]. I want to root for him, but I've been let down so many times...
I think he is passable in smaller roles and second banana roles, like Rain Man. But otherwise I cringe watching him.
They did. It's called Stauffenberg. It came out four years ago and starred Sebastian Koch, who played Georg Dreyman in The Lives of Others.
Never assume that because nobody in America has ever heard of it, that it didn't happen.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
