Tom Cruise is going to kill Hitler on Christmas

[undeterred]

and I am going to die laughing at the ads for this movie! (Valkyrie)

[TX Screwball]

1. Hitler ain't dead yet?

Damn that asshat old!

[charlie and algernon]

2. heard the reviews aren't that good

said Cruise tries too hard to be serious and it doesn't work, lol.

[undeterred]

4. No German accent

and you never forget you're watching Tom Cruise. I think his off screen weirdness doesn't help me take him seriously. He's a good actor who has made some good films. But he doesn't have the gravitas to play a role like this.

[kentauros]

57. "No German Accent"

Yeah, well, that famous and wonderful movie "Spartacus" has British and American actors playing pre-Italians and it's all in English, not Latin :P

How often do we get a period-piece movie that depicts all languages involved and includes subtitles?

I don't know what movie this is for, but I bet Gary Oldman would have been a better choice. There are a few roles I've seen him in where I didn't know that it was him! :D

[cwydro]

3. He is gonna TRY to kill Hitler.

That plot failed miserably.

[undeterred]

5. Spoiler!

So will this movie.

[NewJeffCT]

11. Surprisingly

the early buzz on the movie is pretty good... at least what I heard. Of course, the buzz has been wrong before.

[cwydro]

39. Lol.

He looks ridiculous in that uniform.

[RoyGBiv]

26. YeeeHawww, Hitler's dead ...

Well, it worked in the simulator anyway.

But he forgot his wingman.

[ashling]

37. This is the replays - Cruise style

new surprise ending.

:rofl:

[regnaD kciN]

38. ...because the ship hit an iceberg and sank!

Oops... :blush:

[KitchenWitch]

6. Tom Cruise cannot shake Tom Cruise enough to be considered a serious actor.

[undeterred]

7. And he can't be bothered to do the things other actors do

like learn a new skill or an accent to play a part.

[KitchenWitch]

8. exactly

[charlie and algernon]

9. lol, well said

he's actually still playing the part of Maverick from Top Gun. Every character he's done since then as been Maverick, lol.

[KitchenWitch]

10. ding ding ding ding ding!

[NewJeffCT]

12. somebody once told me that

she was raving about Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, and said how he became the character of Jack Dawson, while Tom Cruise is always Tom Cruise in every role he plays.

[undeterred]

16. Damn, I thought Jack Dawson was the character on LOST.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Is he gonna fly that Ju-52 inverted?

[undeterred]

18. maybe that's how he tries to get Hitler

:shrug:

[Zomby Woof]

29. Not true in "Tropic Thunder"

[LeftyMom]

13. Which puts the moviegoing audience in the uncomfortable position of rooting for Hitler.

Way to go, Hollywood! :patriot:

[undeterred]

14. Rooting for Hitler opens on Christmas Day this year.

:banghead:

[LeftyMom]

15. Nice movie, Hitler. nt

[arcadian]

19. The poofy pants have already doomed this movie.

Sorry Tom, bet he's standing on an emtpy crate for that shot too.

[petronius]

23. It's such a wierd looking picture. If I was absolutely forced upon pain of death to

say one positive thing about the 3rd Reich, I'd say that they had snappy uniforms. But he manages to make it look all baggy and stupid looking... :shrug:

[arcadian]

43. Yeah, I think American soldiers even had a strange fascination with German regalia.

In the closing months of the war, my uncle wrote home on Nazi letterhead. I'm sure he thought it was a lark, his family thought he had been captured. We were also looking through some of my wife's father's WWII stuff and found pictures of guys in his unit who tried on Wehrmacht uniforms and posed in them. I guess they were bored.

[undeterred]

46. Bush regalia

[undeterred]

24. Maybe that poofy pants need the puffy shirt.

[elshiva]

20. EWWWWWW!

:puke:

[HEyHEY]

21. I can see why, I'm sure Hitler is against Scientology.

[undeterred]

22. Germany is very much against Scientology and Tom Cruise.

Bad casting.

"Josef Joffe, a German journalist who has criticized what he views as the German “obsession” with Scientology, said that in this case the combination of star and subject was simply too combustible. “Stauffenberg for Germans is like Jefferson and Lincoln, motherhood, and apple pie all rolled into one,” he said in an interview. “Germany is a country of established churches, and so Scientology is viewed as a cult and, worse, totalitarian and exploitative. A professing Scientologist in the role of Stauffenberg is like casting Judas as Jesus. It is secular blasphemy.”

German officials, for their part, have been eager to clarify their position.

“The German military has a special interest in the authentic portrayal of the events of July 20, 1944, and in the portrayal of Stauffenberg as a person,” Lt. Col. Klaus Reinecke, the defense ministry spokesman, said. Still, the colonel denied that the ministry had actually banned filming in the former headquarters of the German military in Berlin. The film’s producers, he said, had not applied for permission to the ministry, which still occupies the building.

Carl Woebcken, chief executive of Studio Babelsberg, which is finishing a deal to be the German co-producer of the film, confirmed this. But he said German officials had intervened to delay permits to allow shooting scenes in the Bendler Block complex, which now houses a memorial dedicated to Germans who resisted the Nazi regime.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/30/movies/30valk.html?_r=1

[Dr. Strange]

25. According to Godwin's Law...

the longer your acting career goes, the higher the probability that you'll play a Nazi.

[elshiva]

32. I'd rather see Snoopy battle against the Red Baron.

I know, that was the FIRST World War, but still...

[pokerfan]

27. Hitler's dead?

Webster: Should've killed himself three years ago. Saved us a lot of trouble.
Nixon: Yeah, he should've, but he didn't.

(Band of Brothers)

[Critters2]

28. It's too bad. The plot to kill Hitler could make a great movie, in the right hands.

Von Stauffenberg was an interesting and complex character. His story deserves to be told. But by an actor who can, you know, act.

[pokerfan]

31. Already been done

TV movie in the early nineties. It was pretty good as I remember....

[WildEyedLiberal]

34. I know! I've thought he was an unsung hero of WWII for a long time

And then they cast Tom effin' Cruise in the major Hollywood film... :grr:

A) There are tons of great German actors out there, why not hire one? B) If you must go with a marquee name, I can think of 40 actors off the top of my head who would have been better suited for this role than Tom Cruise.

[Robeson]

30. You're kidding? Cruise is playing Claus von Stauffenberg?...

...you've got to be kidding.

[undeterred]

40. the Germans wish we were kidding

[Sebastian Doyle]

33. Apparently he heard that Adolf was the reincarnation of the evil Alien Lord Xenu.

And Tom knew his Thetans would never forgive him if he didn't stop that bastard this time.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

35. Tom Crooze (sic) couldn't kill a gopher in his back yard with a hoe.

I hope Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg (a hero and great wounded veteran) will be back to haunt him for rest of his dumbfuck Scientologist days.

[Mojambo]

36. Alright Christianity... Beat that.

Mel Gibson is gonna have to like vanquish Genghis Khan on Easter or something.

[LeftinOH]

41. There was already a good film about this: The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990)

..with the late Brad Davis as von Stauffenburg.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100376/

[Critters2]

48. Thanks for this. I'll see if netflix has it. nt

[madinmaryland]

42. ZOMG!!! THEY KILLED HITLER!!!!

[DS1]

44. on Christmas?

What a dick move

[peekaloo]

45. so Hitler dies laughing?

[Critters2]

49. !

:spray:

[Orsino]

47. Cruise to agent: "I wanna wear an eye patch this time." n/t

[jobycom]

50. Well, somebody's got to do it. It's not like Hitler is going to kill himself.

[AlCzervik]

51. it looks like a satire. Like the Airplane! of Hitler films.

[undeterred]

52. At last, a Hitler film for the holidays...

:applause:

[Call Me Wesley]

53. He obviously failed ...

I just played strip poker the other night with Adolf, and he lost, no matter how many gizmos he had ...

[undeterred]

54. Looks like a Republican.

[Call Me Wesley]

55. Well, they're all friends ...

;)

[Rabrrrrrr]

56. It's not only offensive for including talentless Cruise; there's no Bonnhoeffer in it.

And I'm sure that was Cruise's doing.

[gmoney]

58. couldn't he pretend to kill Prescott Bush instead?

That would probably have saved MORE lives... especially if he got him before GHWB was conceived...