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delalluvia:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 10, 2009, 09:44:22 pm ---I just got back from Valkyrie myself. I wasn't quite as enthusiastic as you, Del, but I liked it well enough. It seemed slow for a while, and then the end was pretty bleak. (Spoiler alert -- they did not succeed in killing Hitler.) But it was very suspenseful in parts.
I myself have no trouble stomaching Tom Cruise, except in real life. And there were some other interesting actors in it, too. I always enjoy Tom Wilkinson. And nice to see Kenneth Branagh again! What's he been doing in recent years, anyway?
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Adored the casting. Almost every main character was someone you knew or had seen somewhere else. The acting was just superb. VERY nice to see Branagh again, though I hope he only gained weight for the movie. The general in North Africa that Von Stauffenberg is talking to right before they're strafed is also very familiar, though I can't place him. The German Army officer who was the hunk in the swimming pool, who keeps complaining about all the drills was actually a German actor - the gorgeous ship captain from the movie King Kong. I saw him then and thought 'Wow! why don't we see more of this guy?' - actor Thomas Kretschmann. And interestingly, an act I thought dramatic license in the movie turned out to be real:
SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At the last when VonStauffenberg is about to be shot and his loyal lieutenant breaks free to stand in front of him to take the bullets?
True event.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Haeften
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on January 10, 2009, 10:15:55 pm ---Almost every main character was someone you knew or had seen somewhere else.
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I kept wondering who the actor was who played Olbricht. Bill Nighy. I didn't recognize him, because in the role I mainly associate him with, he had huge tentacles growing from his face, one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
--- Quote ---VERY nice to Branagh again, though I hope he only gained weight for the movie.
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He's 48, though he could pass for mid-50s. Looks slightly on the hefty side in his most recent photos on imdb. Maybe he's been busy on stage in recent years?
--- Quote --- The German Army officer who was the hunk in the swimming pool, who keeps complaining about all the drills was actually a German actor - the gorgeous ship captain from the movie King Kong. I saw him then and thought 'Wow! why don't we see more of this guy?' - actor Thomas Kretschmann.
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I know! I thought the same. He reminds me of a younger Liam Neeson.
BelAir:
I had my whole day planned in order to see Milk yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately, when I arrived at the theater, there was no longer an afternoon showing. (I had checked the schedule Friday night, but not Saturday morning.) So, I spent my whole afternoon shopping, for better or worse.
::)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: BelAir on January 11, 2009, 02:18:28 pm ---I had my whole day planned in order to see Milk yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately, when I arrived at the theater, there was no longer an afternoon showing. (I had checked the schedule Friday night, but not Saturday morning.) So, I spent my whole afternoon shopping, for better or worse.
::)
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My plan had been to see Frost/Nixon. Blame my 14-year-old companion. But it worked out for the best, because I probably wouldn't have seen Valkyrie otherwise. And I still had time to buy a new pair of silver gym shoes!
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 11, 2009, 11:37:16 am ---I kept wondering who the actor was who played Olbricht. Bill Nighy. I didn't recognize him, because in the role I mainly associate him with, he had huge tentacles growing from his face, one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
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Bill Nighy has been in everything. He sticks out in my mind most prominently from his roles in Love Actually and Underworld.
--- Quote ---He's 48, though he could pass for mid-50s. Looks slightly on the hefty side in his most recent photos on imdb. Maybe he's been busy on stage in recent years?
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I suppose, since his last few movies bombed.
--- Quote ---The German Army officer who was the hunk in the swimming pool, who keeps complaining about all the drills was actually a German actor - the gorgeous ship captain from the movie King Kong. I saw him then and thought 'Wow! why don't we see more of this guy?' - actor Thomas Kretschmann.
I know! I thought the same. He reminds me of a younger Liam Neeson.
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OMG Thomas K. is such a manly man.
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