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Valkyrie (2008, Blu-Ray)
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"Valkyrie (2008, Blu-Ray) IMDB In 1944, a segment of the German Army was fed up with what Hitler was doing to the country, and put into motion a series of events that nearly resulted in success. Nearly.Valkyrie is a telling of that story. Revolving around Col. Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) we see the events unfold from his days in North Africa, until his execution (spoilers? you know how it ended!) after the failed attempt on Hitler's life in the "Wolf's Lair" bunker.... Alright, so Valkyrie really isn't a "war movie" per-se, lets just get that over with right now. I'd classify it more along the lines of "mystery/thriller/docudrama" more than anything. If you'r "
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10 Worst Holocaust Movie Trends
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"There are those who think it’s time for a moratorium on Holocaust movies, and there are those who stand by the belief that there won’t be enough until there’s been 6 million produced and released. As of 2003, we were up to at least 442 titles, according to Annette Insdorf’s book Indelible Shadows. And due to last year’s boom of Holocaust-related features, it seems as though Insdorf could easily add another 100 more to the list in her next edition. But there’s no need to put an end to Holocaust films, anymore than there’s a need to cease making any genre of movie. A good film is a good film, no matter if it’s set in a concentration camp, features Nazis or merely alludes to the Shoah. And a bad movie is a bad movie, an exploitative movie is an exploitative movie and Oscar bait is Oscar bait. Beginning this Tuesday, when The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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"In 10 out of 14 years, the winner of the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role has gone on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. If this year marks the 11th such congruence, Meryl Streep will take home the Oscar. Yet there is an odd circumstance with the Academy’s nominations that hurts Streep’s chances. Another one of the Academy’s Best Actress contenders also received a SAG Award Sunday night: Kate Winslet, who won the supporting actress trophy for The Reader. At the Oscars, this role has been recognized as a lead performance, one that is likely a favorite to win. Yes, it is a strange situation, one that shocked and confused Oscar prognosticators (especially this writer) on Thursday morning. Winslet’s Reader performance was campaigned as a supporting role, and she was recognized as such by the Golden Globes, the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Chicago Film Critics Association and of cour "
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"But how could we have known what a complete snooz the whole movie could be. From the opening dubbed over German w English subtitles to when thankfully Tom Cruise (at least the character he played) gets killed at the end (MGM and Tom Cruise deserve the same fateful death ) High hopes, Not so much "
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"The immediate appeal of Valkyrie is its apparent camp value, demonstrated byits awful, inappropriate trailer- Tom Cruise as a Nazi with an eye patch. The fact that the movie is by Brian Singer, a commercially successful filmmaker whose pictures I have always found lacking in heart meant that I did not exactly bound into the theatre (My friend and I were supposed to see another film but we arrived late). I expected a boring, empty movie and pleasantly surprised to find that Valkyrie is an effective piece of cinema. Fans of Cruise (which will probably make up most of the audience) will probably be disappointed that he abandons his usual charmingly arrogant persona and gives perhaps the most understated performance of his career. He’s good in the role and wears the eyepatch without looking ridiculous, but I wouldn’t be surprised if many complain that they didn’t get what they expect from a Cruise picture. It’s proof that sometimes being a movie star gets in ... "
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"Valkyrie (2008, USA, Brian Singer) ** Clearly, there is something entertaining about trying to kill the world’s best movie villain- Hitler, leader of the (dare I say?) NAZIS!!! Yes, the same Nazi’s that grace Indiana Jones. And now in Valkyrie American icon Tom Cruise plays Claus von Stauffenberg- a Nazi who attempts to assassinate Hitler. Fortunately, Stauffenberg is not the villain Nazi we American’s know so well. He is the leader of American dreams- our dreams to stop an unstoppable evil force. Stauffenberg’s mission then is to show American’s that, contrary to what the movies tell us, not all Germans are evil Jew killing Nazis. Cruise reprises his iconic role as a confident to the point of arrogant, unswerving individual, headstrong hero (as best seen in Top Gun and Mission Impossible). The historical Stauffenberg tells a fellow conspirator in their first meeting "Let's be blunt, I am committing high treason with all "
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"In no particular order, some movies I saw during my Christmas vacation: Paranoid Park - Apparently high school is just as boring and arbitrary as I remember it, even if you've killed someone and are trying to evade the police. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Probably didn't need to be as long as it was, but it was far better than what the preview lead me to believe. On the other hand, it's not something I can picture myself watching over and over again like I can with some of Fincher's other films. Will probably earn a top 10 slot whenever I get around to compiling such a list for 2008. Milk - I guess I'm the only person in the world to think that it's possible that Milk doesn't do a body good. I just couldn't connect with this movie. While it's well made and Penn's performance is great, I can't get over the usual biopic lameness. I guess I just don't like biopics in general, and this one is no different. It seems to me that this subject is much more ideally suited to a ... "
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"We’ve known for months that absolutely nothing was wrong with Valkyrie, and now we’re just a few days away from watching this tiny independent feature storm the box office, redeem United Artists as a production entity and make Tom Cruise a respectable household name again. Of course, there is the slight problem: he’s portraying Nazi Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who may have disagreed with the party politics, but still rocked the swastika and straight salute. How exactly did Cruise, one of the great symbols of the “Blockbuster Film” and American culture, wind up so perfectly suited as a crippled, over-zealous Nazi embroiled in conspiracy? We’ve excavated evidence from his filmography to track the transformation.
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"Gus Van Sant’s Milk, a skillful and impassioned argument for gay rights, may have come out too late. As proponents of equal marriage rights are still reeling from the passage of Prop 8 in California, the film finds itself the subject of bitter irony, rather than the center of a political victory parade that could have been. Milk is saturated with politics, both on screen and off. It’s not too hard to imagine Sean Penn’s speech should he win an Oscar, and Van Sant has done a fair bit of political maneuvering in an effort to give him that opportunity. Tom Cruise has done some politicking to get audiences to warm up to his Hitler assassination plot thriller, Valkyrie. Can he bury bury the couch-jumping and psychology-bashing hatchets quick enough to enjoy a successful holiday at the box office? (Subscribe "
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"If yesterday’s clip of Muppets disco dancing wasn’t childish enough for you, check out today’s trippy video. I don’t quite understand the inspiration behind the concept, but someone decided to superimpose the heads of the cast from Valkyrie onto little bodies in elf costumes dancing to a disco version of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” (courtesy of JibJab’s Elf Yourself program). Tom Cruise with an eyepatch was odd enough. Tom Cruise with an eyepatch flailing his arms about like a Nazi Tony Manero is just about the strangest thing I’ve ever seen. Just what are these guys so excited about? The holidays? The death of Hitler (though not thanks to them)? Or could it be they’re celebrating the fact that the reviews of Valkyrie aren’t as dreadful as many expected? Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, the actual movie doesn’t feature any scenes as great as this one.
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