Comments on: Fox News Rep Slags Valkyrie

By: Bill McCann

Bill McCann — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:53:05 +0000

My wife and I saw Valkyrie last night. We thoroughly enjoyed the movie. All the actors, including Tom Cruise did a very creditable job. Other than speaking very abrupt, as German officers were wont to do in WWII, I did not catch any attempt at trying to do a German accent. This is a true story which makes it doubly interesting, and the fact that good men died for their attempts to rescue their country from the clutches of a mad man only adds to that interest. Like all of us, Tom Cruise is getting older and this precludes his credibility in roles where he plays a character in his 20’s. It appears to me that this is what the majority of the critics are saying — they can’t make the transition to Tom playing more mature roles. In Valkyrie he was not bad and he will only get better.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:37:29 +0000

Funny, I was having brunch in my dining hall today. The TV was on The View, and some dude from some show called The Riches was on. Apparently, the guy is also in Valkyrie, and went into full tilt spin mode, talking about how proud he is of the movie and blah blah blah.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:26:38 +0000

@Kristina

The day Singer quit X-Men is when I cursed him….like Doug said my voodoo is strong and it holds true to this day.

Yes, so you can blame me for the turd Superman Returns that is IMFO!

I’ll be back laughing when Valkrie takes a beating (nothing against Cruise) or on the contrary I’ll accept defeat if it does succeeds.

By: sfsilver

sfsilver — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:14:42 +0000

The first clips that came out of this film made it clear that Cruise had overreached in attempting this role. He is just not believable as a German. I think he has had moments of truly great acting (Magnolia in particular blew me away) but this role is just outside of his purview.

I’m not at all to see delayed releases to a late winter dumping ground. I have very little hope for this to be much more than mediocre.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:14:12 +0000

@Jay

So YOU’RE to blame for that borefest Singerman Returns?! FUCK YOU!!!

By: dougnagy

dougnagy — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:03:51 +0000

Your voodoo is strong!

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:59:31 +0000

My Bryan Singer curse continues :) Take that !!!

By: CanuckLou

CanuckLou — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:28:52 +0000

I knew it! Cruise has a very limited range of characters he can play. This was a casting disaster from the start!

By: HisDivineShadow

HisDivineShadow — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:33:59 +0000

Very funny Herby!

I bet they pushed the film back so they can overdub the horrible accents.

This film is DOA.

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:20:23 +0000

They could of moved it from summer to fall to make it oscar bait as historically movies from early in the year don’t get nods from the academy, but if it’s bad then they won’t get those nods.