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Baron2024

(1,492 posts) Sat Feb 22, 2025, 12:14 AM Feb 22

Valkyrie

I just finished watching the Tom Cruise World War Two movie "Valkyrie" on DVD. I thought that it was pretty good. Anyone else see it? I am going to go read up on some of the actual history.

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Valkyrie (Original Post) Baron2024 Feb 22 OP

Excellent film. Hews pretty close to the actual history. Aristus Feb 22 #1

Good Point Baron2024 Feb 22 #2

Aristus

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1. Excellent film. Hews pretty close to the actual history.

Reply to Baron2024 (Original post)

Sat Feb 22, 2025, 12:30 AM

Feb 22

Tom Cruise gets what Tom Cruise wants. But I would have cast someone else as Claus von Stauffenberg. Clive Owen, Colin Farrell, Colin Firth, anyone but Tom Cruise, who is too much Santa Monica life coach to be believable as a Wehrmacht officer.

Baron2024

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2. Good Point

Reply to Aristus (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 22, 2025, 01:18 AM

Feb 22

Good point about the casting. I was able to suspend disbelief for the duration of the movie, but in retrospect, someone like Clive Owen would have been a better choice for von Stauffenberg.

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