vakyrie......................

[gojira]

Its not that he's not a decent actor (just decent), its that his off-screen persona has taken on such enormous proportions that its impossible to seem him as anyone other than Tom Cruise.  Tom Cruise makes friends with samurai, Tom Cruise tries to Kill Hitler, Tom Cruise drives NASCAR, etc.  He has been in some great movies - Risky Business, Rain Man, Collateral, Eyes Wide Shut, Interview With The Vampire, Magnolia, and Vanilla Sky - but they were great despite of him, not because of him; they all had phenomenal direction and/or superb scripts.  Bryan Singer is not a phenomenal director (despite The Usual Suspects, which is a fantastic film, but only because it had such a great script and some great performances), and I already know the story.

Word is they had to spend $60 million on promotion because the public's perception of Cruise is so negative. 

+1

Wow! Right on with words I would have typed here as well. 

As for my opinion on the movie, I thought it was a good. I went in thinking I'll need to forget about Tom and follow the rest of the show. It ended up being with such direction that there was no effort needed in overlooking Tom.

[CowboyBeebop]

+1

Wow! Right on with words I would have typed here as well. 

As for my opinion on the movie, I thought it was a good. I went in thinking I'll need to forget about Tom and follow the rest of the show. It ended up being with such direction that there was no effort needed in overlooking Tom.

Cool - maybe I'll check it out then.  BTW, huge Godzilla fan myself. 

[Popeye the Sailor]

you would die at how many actors are "little men"
pacino
hoffman
stiller
slater
so many are tiny... like jockeys lol

Yeah but the other ones are, afaik, way less sensitive about it to the point of wearing special shoes to make themselves look taller.

Weenie.

[That Nice Guy Beck!]

Yeah but the other ones are, afaik, way less sensitive about it to the point of wearing special shoes to make themselves look taller.

Weenie.

robert downey jr is  a midget as well.
all of cruises films are pretty awesome so ...

[teddy037.2]

just saw it.

was able to suspend belief until I saw eddie izzard's first scene.

don't get me wrong, I think eddie is teh awseom! but that really just did it for me.


although, they did cast a couple of german actors from a far superior (and recent) WWII film for this one. so that was nice.

[lethe]

robert downey jr is  a midget as well.
all of cruises films are pretty awesome so ...

This says he's 5'9", hardly midget status.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000375/bio

[NeufUnSix]

Back on topic:

I was impressed by the movie because they REALLY stuck to the facts very closely. Right down to the acid-detonators, the circumstances of the plot, even the details of the executions

(SPOILER ALERT, if you don't already know the history)






The aide did in fact jump in front of Stauffenberg during the execution, and the conspirators were in fact hung by piano wire from meathooks at Hitler's request. Even the turning point with Goebbels on the phone did in fact happen as depicted. All in all I think 5000 people died in the purge after the attempt, if memory serves me. I kept picking up on little details throughout that were very close to the real deal; this makes for a mediocre action thriller, but a good historical war movie. The only thing that bugged me was the general at the start of the film in North Africa; he is clearly modeled after Rommel, complete with British goggles, but Rommel wasn't killed in NA, he was forced to commit suicide after the plot failed (oddly no mention of this was made in the epilogue).