Marley & Me.

The book was fabulous....the writer used to be a columnist for the Sun-Sentinel.  John Grogan likes the screen treatment (he's in the obedience scene)....Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, and of course, lovely South Florida.

Should be a winner.

Now...as to the Nazi flicks....yawn.  Last good one I saw was Judgement at Nurnberg.

I can't stand Cruises acting, almost as wooden as keanu reeves'. I don't go to any of the memory-sticks' movies at theater, I'll either wait for it on DVD or find it online somewhere.

If they can't make movies with SOME redeeming values I refuse to spend money on them.

Good point on Cruise.  Besides, I haven't seen Valkyrie yet, and I possibly won't, but I'd be willing to bet a scene as such appears in the movie (in German with subtitles):

Hitler: "Nobody likes you von Stauffenburg because you are too dangerous!" 

von Stauffenburg: "That's right!!!  Mein Fuehrer, I AM DANGEROUS!!!" 

:-)

"THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING!!!  A WAR ON FREEWILL IS COMING!!!" - Nevermore, "Bittersweet Feast", from This Godless Endeavor (2005)

Funny!

I'm still waiting for Hollywierd to come up with anti-communist films. After all, there were more atrocities from Soviet Russia and China than fom Germany.

I guess I won't hold my breath.

Der Feuhrer doss not zay "baaayby"

Dick Shawn should have gotten Oscar for that movie.

• Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. - Brit Hume

LOL!

1:30 mark - "don't be stupid, be a smawty come and join the nazi pawty!"

http://www.youtube.c...

Right after that "wild" day with the German ladies in Berlin

They can bust a move as they sack a capital...

2010: A GOP Hill

It's my theory that most of the Oscar voters in the Academy are Jewish, Socialist, or homosexual or some combination of the three.  So, if you think like a Gay Jewish Socialist you will have a distinct advantage in predicting Oscar winners.  It's not foolproof because some films are just so bad that no amount of pandering to the Academy will save them, but it will give you a distinct edge. For example, I haven't seen the movie "Milk," but whether it is any good or not, it WILL be nominated for an Oscar. Where prediction gets complicated is when more than one film panders to the Gay Socialists Jews.  In those cases, I make my pick based on who has "paid their dues."  Only after going through these filters do I actually make predictions based on the quality of work.  Follow this simple three step process and you significantly improve your Oscar prediction success.  

I think you might be overreading what this post is all about. It's just an interesting observation and I think that's all. I know others had noticed this ironic phenomena (see above).

You'd think that Tom Cruise would attempt a German accent if he is suppose to play a Nazi officer. That is reason #1 why I won't see the movie. If they take such liberties of an obvious thing like accent, then who knows what other liberties they will take with the true story.

  You guys? Are you deliberately putting yourself at odds with the entire audience at NB? or all of the writers?

  I feel sad because I actually put all of the tiny letters in to a coherent thought structure. Us guys call it a sentence. And Mr. Sheffield made one that said Sandy Cohen actually put it in print. Mr. Sheffield brought it to our attention. A lot of "us" agreed that yes, quite indeedly, it was the end of the year, looking at an Oscar nod, that seems to be the reason. Christmas just falls coincidentally at the end of the year.

  Excuse us guys for going overboard. 

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

Never mind that Hitler was a Marxist, admired by many in the Western world in the 1930s, including The New York Times and FDR. Had Hitler not broken the non-aggression pact with Stalin, Marxists would've been happy to let both of these maniacs conquer Eurasia.

Other than the fact that Hitler did have some admirers in the United States and that the majority of those were on the political "right", where do you come up with this drivel?

And while I am certainly no apologist for the psychotic mass murderer, Stalin, inasmuch as the Red army was responsible for the liquidation of at least 7 of every 10 Wehrmacht soldiers killed in World War II, it might also be reasonably concluded that many U.S. servicemen survived because of such fact.

Jer

You pointed out one of the main reasons I don't go to movies anymore. The leading men chosen are pansies and the leading ladies are floozies. One exception was "The Passion of The Christ, And Mel Gibson is paying the price for bucking the ruling establishment. Of course he could care less.

Great films are a thing of the past. We will see no more "Longest Day" or "Ten Commandments". Cecil B. DeMille has the whole world believing that Charleton Heston is Moses. A good story has been replaced by a political message, and good actors have been replaced by political pawns.

Never heard of him, but I will study up on this person.

There are SO many people of the WW2 era, good and "evil", that would make fascinating movie subjects. I'm waiting for the definitive movie on Rommel. Guderian and Von Manstein would make an interesting subject. Hans Rudel was the closest thing to a superhero you could get, but just worked for the wrong side. Erich Hartmann is another.

We have already covered Patton and McArthur in the U.S. cinema, and Doolittle and Eisenhower to an extent. Col. Tibitts and the Enola Gay has already been covered. Wild Bill Donovan might make an interesting movie subject. I would love to see a movie on the Manhattan Project so long as it was historical and didn't have bare body parts every 10 minutes.

The Last Samurai.

String him up!!!!

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