Valkyrie

[Johnskiismore]

The Mall Cop movie thread inspired me on this one. Has anyone seen Valkyrie? I've been wanting to see it badly since its release, but didn't have time to drive down to Concord, NH...... but it has arrived to the little theater here in Lincoln, NH and I saw it after skiing on Sunday. I really really liked it. If you have seen it what did you think?

 

[St. Bear]

I heard that Tom Cruise was the only person in the movie without a German accent. If that's true, it's pretty bad.

 

[loafer89]

I saw it a few weeks ago with my father. It's a good movie and I was able to overlook the lack of a German accent on the part of Tom Cruise.

In the nearly 20 + years of going to a movie as an adult, this movie was the first one that I can remember that the crowd at the ending was completely silent, you could have heard a pin drop.

Of course the ending is quite sad. I have seen many different versions of the plot on television and this version is fairly accurate.

 

[wintersyndrome]

Typical of Tom Cruise...meanwhile in "Defiance" Leiv Schrieber and Daniel Craig not only speak with accents but they also speak Russian...acting is more than smiles and scientology

 

[Johnskiismore]

I have to be honest, it drives me crazy when actors speak in accents. Many many movies set in World War 2 have done this. Take movies like 'Tora Tora Tora' or 'Midway' when the Japanese are speaking there is an Asian accent........ either speak the language and have subtitles or speak in English. We know the Japanese were not talking in english with an accent. Same goes with WW2 movies based in the European Theater, Germans were not speaking in english with a German accent.

Just my opinion, don't anyone take it personally.

 

[ctenidae]

Spoiler alert:

The plot fails

 

[Vortex]

I liked the movie. I saw it In bethel during the x-mass break. Guys went to this and girls went to me and marley. I like WW 2 and prior war movies/ dramas. I thought TC was good in the movie.
I had no issue with him not having a German accent.

 

[hammer]

Good movie...and IIRC Tom Cruise wasn't the only one without a German accent.

 

[loafer89]

If the crowd here likes WWII movies similar to Valkyrie I highly recommend trying to rent or view Der Untergang - The downfall.

This is a movie about the last 10 days of Adolf Hitler in Berlin as seen through his private secretary, Traudl Junge. It's entirely in German with English subtitles and is the first
German made movie featuring Adolf Hitler to have a German speaking actor, Bruno Ganz.

The movie is very intense and very accurate.

 

[Geoff]

If the crowd here likes WWII movies similar to Valkyrie I highly recommend trying to rent or view Der Untergang - The downfall.

Kelly's Heroes is more my style.

 

[ctenidae]

Kelly's Heroes is more my style.

Hogan's Heroes for me.

 

[Johnskiismore]

If the crowd here likes WWII movies similar to Valkyrie I highly recommend trying to rent or view Der Untergang - The downfall.

This is a movie about the last 10 days of Adolf Hitler in Berlin as seen through his private secretary, Traudl Junge. It's entirely in German with English subtitles and is the first
German made movie featuring Adolf Hitler to have a German speaking actor, Bruno Ganz.

The movie is very intense and very accurate.

That movie is great!

 

[loafer89]

Where you come frome a hero is some kind of weird sandwich.

Gotta love it.

You don't want in this thing, you ain't in this thing, I can pick up sixy feet of bridge just about anywhere, schmuck

 

[Glenn]

Kelly's Heroes is more my style.

I love that flick. 8)

 

[Paul]

Too bad ol' Tommy-Boy went off the reservation...

 

[Geoff]