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Hatterasguy · #31 12-04-2008, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by pj67coll

True. I have read that the designers actually tested them on "focus groups" before finalizing them. No substantiation on that though.

- Peter.

Some general staff officer probably designed them.

Carleton Hughes · #32 12-04-2008, 05:42 PM

Personally,I found the uniforms quite authentic.

A264172 · #33 12-04-2008, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by LaRondo

The snipets in the trailer look way too clean for my taste. German or European productions usually work in more 'patina' to bring the 'period flavor' across.

Yeah, everybody knows them old timers had blurry vision.

Carleton Hughes · #34 12-04-2008, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by A264172

Yeah, everybody knows them old timers had blurry vision.

That remind me what Billy Wilder said to his cameraman,Johnny Seitz during the filming of Sunset Boulevard."Throw it out of focus Johnny,I want to win the foreign picture award".

A264172 · #35 12-04-2008, 05:56 PM

You could always watch it first thing in the AM after a late night bender. Might even need sub titles if you have a good enough time of it in preparation.

pj67coll · #36 12-31-2008, 12:24 AM

Well. I've just seen it and thought it was exceptionally well done.

- Peter.

mgburg · #37 12-31-2008, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes

That remind me what Billy Wilder said to his cameraman,Johnny Seitz during the filming of Sunset Boulevard."Throw it out of focus Johnny,I want to win the foreign picture award".

Rub a little Vaseline on the lens, rack in tight and hope for the best...

C280 Sport · #38 12-31-2008, 01:20 AM

I went and saw it on friday and I thought it was very good. Definatly worth seeing if you into History and WW2

pwogaman · #39 12-31-2008, 06:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Very good looking uniforms, ours don't look nearly as good these days. People have no style.

Hugo Bass designed them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_uniform

PaulC · #40 12-31-2008, 10:41 AM

I viewed this film on Sunday night. Thumbs down. It's the first WWII movie I've seen in which I was actually rooting for Hitler.

Dee8go · #41 12-31-2008, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by LaRondo

Did somebody say 'uniforms' ...?

just a fool for your stockings.

I like your taste in uniforms . . . . and in soldiers.

dynalow · #42 12-31-2008, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by PaulC

I viewed this film on Sunday night. Thumbs down. It's the first WWII movie I've seen in which I was actually rooting for Hitler.

Saw it Sat. night too. I told the GF I didn't want to see a movie where the dog dies. (M&M)

So, we went to one where the cur almost died.

(But, at least it was shorter.)

I liked the cinematography. Thought it was very well presented. I read somewhere that a lot of this was filmed in Germany. We all knew the plot and ending going in, didn't we. The piano wire didn't come as a shock to anyone did it?

On the whole, I give a small "eh"
(I actually dropped my head once during the show.

)

suginami · #43 12-31-2008, 11:04 AM

Found this article on MSNBC.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28299641/

German critics like Cruise’s ‘Valkyrie’
Germans initially resistant to Cruise because of his Scientology beliefs

Hollywood Reporter
updated 11:58 a.m. PT, Thurs., Dec. 18, 2008

BERLIN - After a year of Sturm and Drang in Germany surrounding Tom Cruise’s World War II movie “Valkyrie,” local critics have largely embraced the finished film.

In a sign of the anticipation and trepidation that surrounds the project — which tells the story of a failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler — local critics rushed to opine on “Valkyrie” immediately after the film’s world premiere in New York this week.

“Maybe not the masterpiece we might have dreamed of ... but not much less,” said Tobias Kniebe of broadsheet Sueddeutsche Zeitung, a sentiment shared by many of his comrades.

Controversy has dogged “Valkyrie” and Cruise — who plays would-be Hitler assassin Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg — from the start. In addition to reports, real and rumored, of on-set mishaps, shooting bans and lawsuits, there was a firestorm of protest in the German media. Most of it centered on Cruise’s association with the Church of Scientology and whether he could be trusted with the Stauffenberg story.

“Mr. Cruise go home!” bellowed Stauffenberg’s son Berthold Graf Stauffenberg in one infamous headline.

Now the tone has changed. While there have been some nasty reviews — “with his performance, Tom Cruise has finally destroyed his reputation as an actor” sniped one Berlin critic — the majority have applauded “Valkyrie” as both as a history lesson and as a film.

And while Stauffenberg’s son hasn’t yet given his verdict, his sister, Konstanze von Schulthess-Rechberg, who attended the New York premiere, declared the film “a success.”

“Valkyrie” opens wide in the United States on Dec. 25 and in Germany on Jan. 22.

Jim B. · #44 01-01-2009, 09:27 PM

I liked the cinematography and costumes and thought they did a good job with accurate period correct vehicles, like kubelwagens, L1300 Mercedes Benz army trucks, old 290 cabrio's, DKWs and Wanderers.

I had no idea what the "Wolf's Lair" at Rastenburg looked like but those scenes were filmed in Hungary somewhere, not in what was East Prussia in '44.

kerry · #45 01-01-2009, 10:23 PM

I thought Downfall was quite good. Has anyone seen it and Valkyrie to make the comparison?
Valkyrie may have some unintended side effects in the USA. I've just been reading about how anti-abortion activists in the US have used the attempt to assassinate Hitler to justify their own attempts to kill doctors who perform abortion.