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Tom Cruise in his VALKYRIE German get-up goosesteps online!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. VALKYRIE is one of the most interesting films in production at the moment, at least for me. I'm dying to see Bryan Singer tackle another script by Chris McQuarrie and I love a good men on a mission movie. The cast is killer, the story sounds great... this should and hopefully will be amazing.
The first look at Tom Cruise in character is up over at RopeofSilicon.com. CLICK HERE TO VISIT AND CHECK HIM OUT!!!
The likeness to the real life Col. Stauffenberg is pretty uncanny and he's sporting that Snake Plissken look in the onset still. What do you folks think?
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ha first
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anyone check out the yoshida fish farm website? could it be related to slusho?
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Count me in then.
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First of all: All the best to Harry and family!
2nd: sound like a great project to me. Would be even better without the scientology mumbo jumbo - but bryan looks to be caught by it since supes returns. Imagine a german actor in the lead like till schweiger, thomas kretschmann, or tobias moretti... just great! -
A SCIENTOLOGY nazi! Scariest thing I ever heard of....
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It's like one of my nightmares come to life. The resemblance is good, however, that famous nose might have gotten Herr Cruise in trouble with the Nazis.
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Bow down, untermenschen!
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The role suits him as it's only befitting that a NAZI play a NAZI. The way he treats Katie Holmes, he should be tried for Crimes Against Humanity.
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To have such a big star taking on a project like this seems somehow really 'fresh', compared to the recent glut of superhero / fantasy films.
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I don't know, maybe have robot nazi and babes with their boobs hanging out and shit. Maybe a musical number? yeah, a musical number would be rad - gotta be gangsta rap though.
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Cruise looks really stupid in the full colour photo. really really silly. and can you imagine his German accent? ouch.
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you nearly made me guffaw like an ass in the middle of my office at work! This untermensch certainly bows down. :^)
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a great actor and that's all that matters to me. Doesn't mean I have to agree with his beliefs. Enjoy the movie.
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calling Cruise a Nazi is abit much,
I doubt many gay men who support a system which would exterminate them from the face of the planet -
The accent issue is a worring point though.
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Just sayin'.
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If he can channel that sofa jumping energy thru his turn in Collateral via a decent accent then he may just pull it off! and he does for once resemble the character which is a good start.
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Ve have vayz of making you Scientologist!! Our spezial tests wi8ll make you realize that being a Scientologist is totally Wunderbar!! Seig Heil!!!
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Bad joke.
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After she sprayed the deodrant she kept her arm up for 10 minutes...
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She never takes a shower...
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Oh, what I happy day! Here I am, 5 days into a crippling flu, missing job interviews, unable to sleep, paying countless hours of homage to the porcelain altar, when I finally say "Well, if I'm going to be awake and miserable, I'm going netsurfing!" And, what do I find? Something that makes me laugh so hard I'm feeling better already.
Tom Cruise in his Nazi gear.
Yeah, he's got the Nazi uniform and everything, but he STILL can't be convincing. I mean, here you are with the most surefire costume in history to ellicit emotion, and all I can manage to feel or think is "bad actor playing dress-up". He can't even frickin' SNEER RIGHT!!! What kind of frickin' Nazi can't frickin' sneer right??!!!! That's like Darth Vader not doing the menacing breathing.
Any doubts that Ms. Tommy Cruise is the biggest wart on the ass of Hollywood society can now be burned away in the Bad Actors Deathcamp (sorry if anyone found the above offense, but, really, is it any more offensive than Tom Cruise's "acting" we've had to endure for a quarter-century?)
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Given the US film industry's tendency for revisionist history, I wouldn't be THAT surprised if Von Stauffenberg succeeds in this. ;)
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Her vagina ate my foreskin
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They'll have to cast a 3 foot tall Hitler now.
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it sits 6.
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the ashtray sits 7.
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My grand father died in a camp....he feel out of the guard tower.
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I will be here all week, be sure to tip your waitress!
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Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha.
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Jul 19, 2007 6:38:56 AM CDT
The likeness is pretty close, but a german character
by 300spartansinhell
speaking english and Cruise speaking english playing a german... Bad idear, if you know what I mean. Couldn´t they picked Arnold after he is done playing governor? Go see The Downfall with Bruno Ganz playing Hitler. He doesn´t look that simillar to the german dictator but his acting was perfect and because he spoke german I totally believed I was watching Hitler.
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Box office gold I'm tellin' ya!
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Seriously, Tom Cruise in nazi uniform is about 10,000,000 times gayer than anything this side of a Bruce LaBruce film. In fact the only way I'd ever see another Tom Cruise movie would be if Bruce LaBruce directed it.
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but that's still the campest picture on the internet.
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that whole uniform thing is gay and not in that...dude that is so gay....way. More as is ...mmmm Shawn put those knee high leather boots on and goosestep around me while I watch Eyes Wide Shut again. Considering that Tom has a thing for wrestlers, and now uniforms....I am sure he had a chubby during the photo shoot.
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and wants to see it!?!?!
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Indy'd spank his ass big time.
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If this doesn't get pushed up for July, I think it'll get pushed back to the fall for Oscar bait. I don't think they'll release a movie with a cast like that in the dumping ground of August.
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or maybe Ewan McGregor. Tom Cruise manages to look a lot like Tom Cruise.
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Sorry, just don't buy it.
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Too short for those punks.
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Their plot doesn't work, we all know it going in, so where's the suspense?
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just awful....no matter how good the film is. it will be difficult getting past that fact that you are watching TOM CRUISE "acting".
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Consider Ralph Fiennes very subtle liddle sing-song accent in Schindlers's List. No need to go all Colonel KLink on it. Did anybody see 'Conspiracy', that HBO thing with Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci? No accents, brilliant film.
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where Dave Lister turns up via a timeslide, and disappears with his briefcase?
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The problem with "no accents" is they'll all have American Accents. Remember Robin Hood Prince of Thieves?
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I tought he was playing a rebel nazi in this movie.
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Surprised no one used that line!
But as noted above Von Stauffenberg wasn't a Nazi. Just a career military guy. You will note the lack of a Nazi armband. Feel free to the Cruise-hating, but at least have some sense. -
that in and of itself wouldn't sustain a feature. There will have to be more about the character prior to the attempt, which only took a couple of minutes. This story was very well done in War and Rememberance, which still has the most horrifying concentration camp scenes ever filmed. If you've never seen it, be sure to rent it on Netflix. It's something like 25 hours long and goes from the day after Pearl Harbor to the end of the war. John Geilgud plays a Jew who we follow from his home in Italy all the was into a gas chamber. There is some soap opera stuff, but it is far outweighed by the power of the rest.
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Ridiuculously generic phrase - like "alternative music"
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I understand people wanting to see a movie in the language that the characters would've really spoken, the way Mel does it. But I don't have any problem with actors speaking English with their regular accents. I actually really liked how in Enemy At The Gates they made the Germans Yank actors and the Russians Pommish actors so the audience could feel they were different but still understand. Also lotsa love for Amadeus, that film worked perfectly in English. I never felt confused that it was maybe taking place in California.The only movie I can think of where they got the all the actors to speak English but with the local accents was The Unbearable Lightness of Being. They got Daniel Day Lewis to try and sound like a Czech guy speaking English, and I guess that worked in that movie, but it seems like a more risky approach because the actors in Valkyrie might all end up sounding like Dr. Stangelove or something.
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A better lead in story would be the amazing retrieval of Mussolini by the Nazi Special forces.
Hopefully this isn't the usual black vs. white bullshit where all the allies are these good natured heroes and the Nazis are all possessed by demons. -
need to see it in action.
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Okay, I agree that Scientology is gimcrack religion. However, why is everyone making fun of Cruise about it? It's his choice. It may be a silly, loopy choice, but isn't worshipping a guy who got nailed to two pieces of wood just as silly. For that matter believing in a guy who got two stone tablets from God and parted the red sea? Why is it acceptable to mock Cruise's religion. But not mock Billy Crystal for being Jewish, or Mel Gibson for being Catholic (okay, maybe a bad example). And the notion that Cruise is not a good actor is ridiculous. He's done stellar work in a number of films. Pardon the guy for being good looking, intesne, and hard working. I'm looking forward to this film, it's a great story and with Singer behind the camera, it should be pretty involving. And about the accents... Can't you people suspend your disbelief? Griping about the wrong accents is like complaining that Golem was CG, so he doesn't count.
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Boat captain in King Kong
Read that he was originally down for the lead and then Cruise got interested! Mind you this guy is getting a bit type cast playing Nazi officers - Staligrad, U-571, The Pianist, Downfall etc. -
zour pazzport pleazeeee!!!!
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Also according to an article in the English Times today Liev Schreiber is down to play Hitler and that Armin Mueller Stahl turned the part down!
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"the usual black vs. white bullshit where all the allies are these good natured heroes and the Nazis are all possessed by demons." Yea, this was pretty much the truth, other than the demons part. We were the good guys, and the Nazis were all scumbags who needed to die. What are you suggesting, that the film should be "fair" to the Nazis? Show there side of it and all? You gotta fucking be kidding me. The allies vs. the Nazis is about as black and white as it gets. There was no "gray" area where the Nazis were concerned. They were hardened, dedicated foes, who believed in a policy of ethnic cleansing far beyond that which we have seen since, and were willing to die for it. Were there occasional people who joined the Nazi party to save their own ass, and then sat by and watched the Holocaust and did nothing, though they might not have believed it in. Sure, but who gives a fuck. You put on that symbol and you have dedicated yourself to "evil". Yes, "evil", not maddness, but actual "evil", which is what the Nazis were, and continue to be. Black vs. White - you bet your ass.
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For that grand old Princess Leia line - I figured SOMEONE would have had to say it!
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as a director. Not a great story teller in my opinion. Cruise is ignorant, probably brainwashed and crazy but to his credit, he works hard, he's a nice guy and he makes entertaining movies. It'll be interesting to see how this turns out.
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Hogan's Heros The Motion Picture!
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GAY Hitler. Tom Cruise as, apparently, Snake Plissken.
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about the grandfather falling out of the tower. practically every relative on my dad's side of the family died in a camp and i STILL think it's funny. what i don't think is funny is tom cruise, hater of people who don't take vitamins. his hubris is monumental. and, he looks like he's put on that uniform for some joke party he's throwing for the beckhams. i have no argument with some of his past excellence in film - collateral, magnolia, cocktail - but some people just aren't built for this kind of work. it's like julia roberts playing mary reilly. not happening! maybe if this was a comedy...
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Your argument has merit, but the truth is this: the guy who literally invented Scientology wrote "Battlefield Earth." I mean seriously now. The concept of many religions may be ridiculous, but at least they go back thousands of years and have some mystery about them because we can't verify anything. We can, however, verify that L. Ron Hubbard was a mediocre science fiction storyteller who found an ingenious way to disguise a pyramid scheme as a religion, made up contradictory nonsense about aliens and legends that wouldn't even have made a good book, and managed to decry drugs and vitamins while being heavily addicted to painkillers and freely admitting to associates that Scientology was simply the greatest tax shelter the United States Constitution was ever forced to let slip by. There have been many douchebag religious figures and many stupid religions, but Scientology tops the list as far as bullshit goes. The only reason they aren't ranked in the top five worst religions ever is because they haven't killed anybody directly...took a hell of a whole lot of money though.
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Even though it's a period pic and he gets to wear cool WWII outfits, I have a sneaking hunch that the film will somehow manage to show Tom running-running-running, and at one point running from a fireball.
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i keep waiting for the day when i'm standing in line at starbucks, loudly talking about how lame scientology is, and 4 men in dark glasses grab me, throw me in a van and i disappear from society, only to reappear a year later with a different hair color, living in that scientology town in florida with a job at jo-ann's fabrics.
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at Tom Cruise's jerry accent. "I hate Illinois Nazis"
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Chris Kattan is an inspired choice for Col.Klink er.. sorry, Adolf hitler.
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liked Lady in the Water
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If I remember correctly, he severely injured his leg in the war and had to hobble around.
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Can ve pleaze put on a musical mein schatz?
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what a hero
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Can someone get their sources straight?
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Can't wait to see that one. Of course I love Reford and Meryl though.
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That's not even him in his outfit, that's his normal clothes at home. He fooled you all with Xenu when in fact Hitler is his god.
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Is the concentration camps set up by the Soviets after the war: run by Jews.
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Wasn't a Nazi. Well, he was. But he's the guy who tried to kill Hitler isn't he? One of the real heroes of world war 2.
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. . . this entry from the comic book section, but, anybody absolutely NEEDING to know how a plot like this might end up might want to check out Garth Ennis’s “Fury: Peacemaker” (now in trade paperback) concerning yes-THAT-Fury-, Nick-owned-by-Marvel’s foray into WWII.
Riveting. Tricked ME, too! Heck, if anything, shows how Fury lost his eye. But, a LOT more on one General Stephen Barkhorn and Panzer Divisions and, most of all . . . a certain planned assassination. -
was personally ordered by FDR to stop funding the NAZIs (Prescott LOVED Hitler) in 1942! After we were already at war with them!
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Is nicnamed the "Nati" (pronounced "nah-tsee").
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I thought WWII Germans were very scary. Now I think they're very funny. Thanks Tom, you brought a ray of sunshine into my grey world.
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...he looks like a little kid playing dress-up.
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Too soon?
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i remember a time when tom cruise's personal life didn't overshadow his career. i remember when he was a respectable actor. do you remember? do you remember the tom cruise of jerry macguire, magnolia, far and away, interview with the vampire? however, nowadays he is so fucking INSANE, all i can think about when i see him on screen is goddam oprah, brain-washing katie holmes, mother-fucking scientology and anti-depressants...GODDAM IT!!!! i wonder what the fucking deal with his publicist is. somebody needs to reign his bullshit in. the scientology booths he brings on set to peddle his insanity are disgraceful. it's a sad day when i hear about a bryan singer film starring tom cruise and DONT get excited...sorry for the rant but does anyone have an amen for me?
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"they were nazis walter?" "oh come on donny they were threatening castration!" "fuck walter, they said they were nihilists." "nihilists...fuck me...i mean, say what you will about the tenants of national socialism dude, at LEAST it's an ethos." fucking classic
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Combine this film and Indy 4! Both filming right now, right?
"Indiana Jones and the . . ." the, uh, . . . the uh, oh, YEAH, " . . . Flight of the Valkyrie"
Da-da-da-da-DAAA Da-da-da-da-DAAAA Da-da-da-da-DAAAAA Da-da-da-da-DAAAAAAH!!!
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what's with those eastern European's and their eye patches? Did they provide the inspiration for safety glasses?
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Imagining Cruise doing an accent is so hillarious. Was that an eye patch?! This is going to be one of the funniest movies of the year. Do they still make Mystery science theatre? They ought to put that shit in for the premiere.
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this doesn't look bad. The rest of the cast looks terrific and I just can't resist a WW2 movie.
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Just can't agree with those Cruise apologists making comments here...
I've always been flummoxed at this guy's career. Great actor? Not even in the top 5 of his generation. He operates in two gears and two gears only: Cocky/Cool and "Intense." Not a lot of wiggle room between those. I've never believed his acting because he's never conveyed a sense of truth in a character. Even his down-on-his-luck Jerry Maguire was forced. And comedy? Jeez...the guy has no discernable sense of humor. It's time for "Intense" Tom to get out of the way for better actors. -
He will be played by Nic Cage "THIS IS MY MECCA! AHAHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHA!"
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I'll be moving to Germany in a few months and I can't wait to see how this plays out over there. This story is great and I hope Singer does it justice. A bit of history on this....if the explosion would have killed Hitler and had the rest of the coup leaders been able to secure Berlin the end of the war might have been very different. They even had Erwin "Desert Fox" Rommel tapped to be the new leader of the Reich.
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I will be in line for this next year. Although Singer F'ed up Superman maybe with a strong actor like Cruise to reign him in this should-I repeat SHOULD-be a good thriller.
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Too soon!!!!!!!!! Someone had to say it! Also, TOM GOTTA EAT!!!
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Metaphorical -- "my Nazi eye (AKA "patched eye") is damaged forever due to my party's atrocities toward man; with my good eye, I will dole out justice." Or "Holmes" out justice in this case, yuk yuks.
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What more is there to say?
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Cruise plays anger well... and the Nazis were angry, right?
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Cool.
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it's true
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I buy the Xenu story more than that....
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Oh and Hubbard and Hitler had very similar ideas about gays, non-aryans and disabled people. Read Hubbard's Science of Survival to see what I mean...
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Tom Cruise, Tom CruiseWatcha gonna do, watcha gonna doWhen he goosesteps on you? Shubba!
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In the article Singer couldn't wait to film in Germany? I guess he'll have a long wait on his hands as far as shooting in any military location as the German government gave no permission, seeing as Cruise is a member of Scientology which is banned in Germany, so the government refused cooperation of any sort, seeing as they considered it to be of rather bad taste for a man who tried to resist a fascist regime would be played by a man who supports an organisation that doesn't exactly embrace democratic values.
As for this story being not well known, well sorry, maybe not in the US, but in Europe it's common knowledge and taught in history class in high school. -
about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it is an ethos.
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I saw Trey Parker. That would be FUNNNNNYYYY!!!
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Care to back up the claims of Soviet concentration camps "run by Jews"?
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...show up and scream about how this film is coded liberal Hollywood propaganda designed to encourage treason against America and Bush?
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I just came back from going to one on the outskirts of Berlin. The Soviets used em' to get rid of political enemies (not specifically nazis), they didn't actively try to gas and murder their opponents however, they just didn't give a shit about things like water, or food or sanitation. I think over five years, some 15,000 people died at the one camp I visited purely through malnutrition and disease. I guess the lesson here is that the Soviets were fucked up. (Like we didn't already know that.)
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Even though the claim that they were "run by Jews" is doubtful, there most certainly was something like concentration camps in the Soviet Union:
"After WWII, some 3,000,000 German soldiers and civilians were sent to Soviet labor camps, as part of war reparations by labor force. Only about 2,000,000 returned to Germany."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_internment_camps#Russia_and_the_Soviet_Union
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I never denied the existence of Soviet concentration camps. My beef with that moron was that they were supposedly "run by Jews", which is interesting since thousands of Jews were worked to death in those very camps by the Communists.
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They backstepped and endorsed the movie, so much so that it got something like 22% of the national budget set aside for foreign move productions ($4+ million). They get to shoot in government buildings where the events have taken place and everything.
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I just heard that Tom Cruise might be gay! No way!!!! He's, like, totally my hero and I don't want my hero to be putting from the rough!
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Was my comment about "The tenets of National Socialism" deleted? A John Goodman quote from Lebowski? Cripes, my screen name is Larry Sellers Homework. WTF?
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Once again, Hollyweird is shattering all known limits of cinematic achievement. Box office boffo!!!!!!!
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This could be potentially funnier than Schindler's List. And that's a long shot, but I dunno ... looking at the ol' Cruiseanator in that get-up does bring on the funny.
Thanks to you special person who compared this picture to Snake Plisken. I couldn't place that look on his face, but I knew I'd seen in somewhere. Yeehaw. -
You showed up late to our very first date, I said "how are you" you said "white power"
Stephen Lynch rocks.
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