Bryan Singer directs Tom Cruise as the almost-successful assassin of Hitler in...

wish I could insert sound file of wah wah wah waaaaaaaah trombone

yeah I really hope singer's direction of cruise in this works as well as his direction of kevin fucking spacey. fingers crossed for a huge bomb. singer should never work again after what he did to supes.

GO BACK TO STAR TREK

hah I have that Superman movie saved on DVR but I'm kind of afraid to watch it.

Yeah, don't watch it.

the remark that cruise looks like the guy is kind of some white-ppl-be-lookin-all-the-same-to-me bullshit, like uh he has brown hair and a chin, you could have cast carrey, affleck or clooney just the same, ffs. 8080 to the guy's son for not bothering to mince words vis a vis the tom cruise repertoire

It's more the other news here:

The film will have plenty of competition in August (2008) if that date holds.

Universal's "Hellboy 2" and Buena Vista's animated feature "South of the Border" are due out on Aug. 1. New Line's Brendan Fraser adventure "Journey 3-D," Warner Bros.' "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" and Sony's Seth Rogen comedy "The Pineapple Express" are all set to release on Aug. 8.

I find it hard to believe the Hitler Assassination Film and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 have teh same target audience.

But oh the crossover sequel.

Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2: The Zippening

Sisterhood of Traveling Pants III: Boot Cut at Nuremburg

Buena Vista's animated feature "South of the Border"

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004R995.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg???

In other news, shit, this means Del Toro won't be in portland for the HPL film fest this year. Rats.

And dig this, apparently, "Journey 3-D" is actually an adaption of Jules Verne.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0373051/

And this bodes oh so well:

Indie film maker Paul Chart ('American Perfekt') was originally signed to write and direct the picture and penned the original script. Chart left the project, however, after a decision was made to shoot the film in 3-D, uncomfortable with the possibility it would become more 'theme park ride' than the epic action-adventure film he envisioned. The Jules Verne novel was apparently one of his favorite pieces of literature. Chart was ultimately replaced with effects specialist Eric Brevig and the script was heavily retooled to emphasize the new 3-D format.

I like how 3-D technology WILL NOT DIE

Jared Syn forevah yo

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FFB6MH7WL._AA240_.jpg

Oh I'm SURE it was accidental.

We may have our new Battlefield Earth here:

http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/images/2008/04/01/tom_cruise_valkyrie_1.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Valkyriecast.jpg

"Dr. Jones?"

I love how Terence Stamp is clearly thinking "Help me, I'm trapped between Cruise AND Branagh!"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Stauffenberg_and_Cruise.JPG

"We do TOO look alike!"

And, of course, the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOSSROFN-Bs

This looks terrible.

i get it it's parody.

tom cruise + eyepatch + don't even bother with vaguely european stock accent = major embarrassment for the nazi party!

it bothers me when characters speak english with accents though, when they're supposedly speaking in another language

the real problem is that Tom Cruise is just too Tom Cruise to be believable as anyone but Tom Cruise.

http://www.fugly.com/media/IMAGES/Funny/tom_cruise_dancing_gif.gif

^this is how Nazi Germany started ended.

the real problem is that Tom Cruise is just too Tom Cruise to be believable as anyone but Tom Cruise.

Right. This point was driven home when I saw, on YouTube, the "interview" Cruise gave in connection with his winning some big Scientology award. He really is a product (and relic) of the 80s. Every utterance, every motion or gesture is outsized, big, without subtlety or shading, and always heavily emphasized for DRAMATIC EFFECT.

because that is clearly limited to the 80's

you should let other people know about this youtube video, i think it could become popular

For those who haven't seen the video, it's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOU8GIRUd_g

THAT VIDEO IS FOR SCIENTOLOGISTS ONLY.

Saw the trailer in the cinema, Cruise hamming it up something awful, with lots of Brit thesps apparently concentrating on receiving their cheques.

i think this is going to be amazing

He really is a product (and relic) of the 80s. Every utterance, every motion or gesture is outsized, big, without subtlety or shading, and always heavily emphasized for DRAMATIC EFFECT.

What will define relics of the 00s? being an Arrested Development alumnus?

I think "responding to anonymous people on the internet talking out of their ass" is the relic definition you're looking for.

man that photo of the whole cast... (uh, where is Hitler? also where is whysoserious.gif)

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Fuck all you guys that are hating on Tom Cruise, he was awesome in Legends of the Fall.

hitler is the one taking that picture

Bumped back to next February. This film must REALLY suck.

Or it's so good that we need Hitlerporn in the depths of Oscar season.

At this point in his fragile career, Cruise just needs to crank out a successful film taken seriously by film critics and moviegoers.

Delicately put.

Come on, Hitler's would-be assassin, I'll buy you a lemonade.

cmon, eddie izzard?? this is gonna blow minds

cruise does sort of look like the guy he plays

i like how the original article kept referring to "The furor"!

cruise does sort of look like the guy he plays

^^^ACTING

no, they just look alike

^^^CASTING

february is the month where studios dump their shit films, in case anyone didn't know

After the wave of Oscar contenders, before the wave of big summer blockbusters. Makes sense.

> february is the month where studios dump their shit films, in case anyone didn't know

First quarter film releases: the cinematic wasteland that is January to March

So how much you wanna bet this movie never actually gets released?

they have a date: feb 13

http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/04/huge_valkyrie_m.php

I still doubt.

Mind you, it worked for Ghost Rider. Wait no it didn't.

If this is half as good as ghostrider I will be very surprised.

I'm sure it will eventually be released. Che is another matter.

Mind you, it worked for Ghost Rider. Wait no it didn't.

-- Ned Raggett, Sunday, June 15, 2008 12:56 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

still made a shitload of $$$

che more like medellin amirite

ha

http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2008/08/wagner-bolting.html
MGM has moved the film to open Dec. 26, instead of the Feb. 13 date that was previously announced.

Paula Wagner just announced she's leaving UA.

She's remaining part-owner. Smells of clusterfuck.

Hahaha, it makes me SO HAPPY as someone who covers film that this movie is being placed in Oscar contention.

new UA is so inept, it makes MGM look like a legit studio

This may yet be a good 'go drunk and laugh' film.

would be great if entire pre-release hype/controversy was a big ruse and no one has actually made this movie

cruise should be familiar with elaborate ruses amirite?

more like 'tom ruse' amirite

More fun.

Leni Riefenstahl's Battlefield: Earth

I want to hear "The studio knew the trucks were rickety" spoken in a movie-Nazi accent.

Really has the makings of an Island of Dr Moreau style monumental bizarro disaster. Should be great!

i will enjoy singer's failure much more than cruise's

they're gay btw

new trailer: http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2008/09/new-valkyrie-tr.html

Looks mediocre : (

Was hoping for train wreck.

at least he didn't do a german accent

http://www.apple.com/trailers/mgm/valkyrie/

trailer 6? they really have pushed this one back a lot.

This trailer came on while my wife and I were at the bar watching election results last night. She turned to me and sad "Is . . . is Tom Cruise playing a Nazi? Is that smart?"

My husband has been making fun of this trailer all night and this morning, since it seemed to be on ALL THE TIME last night during the election coverage. It looks so bad. Samuel Jackson looks much better in an eyepatch than TC.

Someone out there has been writing Tom Cruise-as-Nazi slash fiction for years and had a heart attack when they found out about this.

NY Times report on it all.

The posters in the NYC subways blur out the swastikas and looks like a group of action figures. hmm.

Insiders believe the company has corrected early blunders, successfully repositioning the film as a character-driven suspense thriller.

Excuse me, but where is this alleged suspense coming from? It's not like audiences are going to sit there thinking "Ooh, I wonder if his plan will succeed?", are they?

who's to say; they didn't seem to know Apollo 13 had made it back OK...

Well maybe they'll have Liam Neeson at Schindler in a random cameo as the first step leading towards to an all star "The Anti-Nazi Avengers" movie in 2011.

i don't see what the big deal is about the movie's troubled production history. almost no one who actually has to pay to see a movie is going to care about that stuff.

just saying that this studio politics crap won't affect the movie's success one way or another.

I think it was so troubled that it's likely to get mentioned in reviews. If it gets repeated enough then, even outside the inside baseball people, audiences may smell fear.

i bet this movied be fun if they changed the ending to successful hitler slay

can't wait 2 see this

i dunno, i hear the cgi is terrible

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0cAR80M7ZrceC/610x.jpg

Bryan Singer's personal journey. Um.

“This was my shot at a small movie, and I blew it,” Mr. Singer said with a laugh during a Thanksgiving week visit to New York. “Maybe I just discovered I’m a big-movie guy. Even when I was making ‘Usual Suspects,’ which I shot in 35 days for $6 million, I had to have this giant boat, this police car, explosions, all that stuff. No matter what the circumstances are I tend to amplify.”

I'm more interested in the lavender lipstick Singer wears in the mugshot.

“It would make no sense. Why would they be speaking in German accents? They’re German.”

Mr. Singer’s next move is uncertain. A plan to direct an adaptation of Randy Shilts’s Harvey Milk biography, “The Mayor of Castro Street,” fell apart when Gus Van Sant’s “Milk” beat the project to the finish line.

OK THANKS WORLD FOR PUTTING IMAGE OF TOM CRUISE INTONING FLATLY "I HAVE TO KILL HARVEY MILK"

wtf kind of godawful movie would this have been? oh to live in an alternate universe sometimes.

hahahah

http://www.riskybusinessblog.com/2008/12/at-valkryie-pre.html

And while outside the theater "Valkyrie" serves as the ultimate box-office experiment -- an action movie with period setting and themes, not to mention a film icon at a pivotal moment in his career, caught between stardom and the mark one can make with stardom -- the magnetism and affection inside the theater (there was an ovation _before_ the movie started) was the kind particular to a certain Hollywood royalty that made, at least for that moment, industry issues like box-office and the future of UA beside the point.

I really wish they had called this "The Good Nazi" instead of "Valkyrie"

this looks real bad
can't wait

“When I was a kid, I always wanted to kill Hitler. [Laughs.] I didn’t care about religion or whatever. I hated that guy and everything he stood for.”—MTV News

“I always wanted to kill Hitler, and so Stauffenberg and I had that in common.”—Extra

“Go kill Hitler on Christmas!”—AP

“When I was a kid, we’d play war, you know, and it was always ‘Kill the Nazis.’ I wanted to kill Hitler.”—Details

“I always wanted to kill Hitler.”—The Tonight Show With Jay Leno

“As a kid growing up, I think all of us wanted to kill Hitler—why didn’t someone just pop him?”–MacLean’s

“Who doesn’t want to kill Hitler? I mean, I’m sorry, but who doesn’t want that shot, man? Even just to feel that?”—Sun Media

why DIDN'T someone just pop him?

\(O_O)/

looks like one of those (many) films that if youve seen the trailer of them, it's like youve seen the whole movie.

plus:
1.no suspence - you know how the movie will end.
2.singer is the director and its starts cruise.

doesnt look promising.

1.no suspence - you know how the movie will end.

Wouldn't it be great, though, if he actually manages to kill Hitler in the movie, and the rest of it will be an alternate history sci-fi flick?

might be (also with other director),but it should start with Hitler's death and move on.

dudes can i just say it makes 100% total sense to me that tom cruise has spent his entire life thinking about how much he wishes he could kill an already dead, of killing himself, person who died literally 400 years before tom cruise was invented. like this really makes a lot of sense to me, in the context of tom cruise, who i basically already view as a crazy ranting homeless man in the subway, but a famous one.

also it basically means tom cruise is responsible for the holocaust btw.

really a biodoc of tom cruise could just be clips of him revealing that he wanted to kill hitler as a child interspersed with the couch scene and you would have a life on film.

http://www.sd148.org/ghs%20website/Drama/drama-faces.jpg

Tom Cruise biopic on front page of tomcruise.com = serious lols

they had a good bit on "best year ever" where they juxtaposed his wanting-to-kill-hitler with his quote from that scientology doc about dreaming of a where "SPs (non-scientologists) are just something you read about in history books"

EXTRA EXTRA THIS MOVIE WAS BORING

Colonel von Stauffenberg's son also voiced concerns over Cruise's portrayal of his father, saying that he would not oppose the film's production, but hoped that Cruise would drop the role. "I fear that only terrible kitsch will come out of the project. It's bound to be rubbish," Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg said. "Cruise should keep his hands off my father."

i saw this with my dad (a huge WWII nut.) it wasn't terrible.

that's disappointing.

hahaha yeah the dialogue's pretty hamfisted but there's nothing embarrassing enough to make it the trainwreck people have been secretly hoping for.

not so secretly

so psyched for this.

"Cruise should keep his hands off my father."

Best quote ever.

this wasn't terrible imo

Wouldn't it be great, though, if he actually manages to kill Hitler in the movie, and the rest of it will be an alternate history sci-fi flick?

― Tuomas, Saturday, December 20, 2008 8:24 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hate to agree w/ truolmas but this is basically otm.

how bad did this bomb?

it's doing ok, i think

Kinda flatlined rather than sunk:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=valkyrie.htm

certainly exceeded the (very low) expectations

if this gets a good cable unlife i'm sure i watch the hell out of it a la 'last samurai'

^^glutton for punishment

nah man i love that movie, good costuming, ok action, seriously lunkheaded, watanabe is incredible

yeah the thing is most of the classic war movies of the '60s were weak on period detail. this one is legit. it looks a treat and you csn't fuck with tom wilkinson et al.

Uh this movie was pretty good. Yeah, Tom Cruise was totally the wrong dude for the main role but he did about as good a job as he is capable of, and the supporting cast was excellent, the movie was well-paced and well-plotted, and the whole thing looked great.

i couldn't really make it thru more than the first half hour... kept getting distracted. willing to give it another chance tho

i liked anthony lane's line:

Character acting is, of course, one of the four things that the British still do supremely well, the others being soldiering, tailoring, and getting drunk in public, but you can have too much of a good thing, and there were points in “Valkyrie” when I felt that I was watching a slightly outré installment of the Harry Potter series.

snap

This film was pretty sweet imo!

It was a good airplane movie. It kind of suffered from the inevitability of the conclusion. Instead of thinking, "will they succeed???" in that kind of suspended disbelief Hollywood way, I kept thinking, "how is this plan going to fall apart." Maybe that's a strength IDK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIPZP3rm1DY