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12-28-2008, 09:00 AM

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:02:12 -0800 (PST), Wating for the DVD on the
sales racks maybe <hoocheekoo@rock.com> wrote:

>May he should wear that patch in all of his movies. Ooops there is a
>dog at the door ....here Marley ..Come on .. we can still hit the
>Plex for the early bird prices..Here Marley ..come on ..woof !

I saw "Valkyrie" Christmas Day and really liked it, but then again I'm
a history movie geek who can't stay away from stuff like this any more
than some can avoid a comics-based movie.
I still maintain it is more the sort of thing you would expect to see
made as a docudrama for A&E or the History Channel than as a big
budget feature film. Not enough shooting and explosions to be an "epic
war movie" and not enough real tension to be a "thriller", it lands
somewhere in between.
The roles were all well-played (even Cruise, IMO) but that isn't
enough to pack the theaters over a holiday weekend, though the showing
I saw on Thursday was nearly sold out, with stragglers in groups
having to split up into onesies and twosies to get seats in a market
where only the hottest releases usually do that. Mostly older people
of course, as most kids now days seem to think the principals in WWII
were the US and the USSR and "think maybe the US won, but aren't
really sure..."

12-28-2008, 09:00 AM	#2 (permalink)
Russell Watson Guest Status: Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Cruise & the Eye Patch. He can only see 1/2 of the Absolute Box Office Disaster On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:02:12 -0800 (PST), Wating for the DVD on the sales racks maybe <hoocheekoo@rock.com> wrote: >May he should wear that patch in all of his movies. Ooops there is a >dog at the door ....here Marley ..Come on .. we can still hit the >Plex for the early bird prices..Here Marley ..come on ..woof ! I saw "Valkyrie" Christmas Day and really liked it, but then again I'm a history movie geek who can't stay away from stuff like this any more than some can avoid a comics-based movie. I still maintain it is more the sort of thing you would expect to see made as a docudrama for A&E or the History Channel than as a big budget feature film. Not enough shooting and explosions to be an "epic war movie" and not enough real tension to be a "thriller", it lands somewhere in between. The roles were all well-played (even Cruise, IMO) but that isn't enough to pack the theaters over a holiday weekend, though the showing I saw on Thursday was nearly sold out, with stragglers in groups having to split up into onesies and twosies to get seats in a market where only the hottest releases usually do that. Mostly older people of course, as most kids now days seem to think the principals in WWII were the US and the USSR and "think maybe the US won, but aren't really sure..."