This is my first Tuesday schedule post, so let's get started.
Alright! A couple of days ago, I was able to watch the fantastic political thriller, Valkyrie, which is not actually about Valkyrie from Thor: Ragnarok, but instead about Operation Walkure, the most famous attempted assassination plot of Hitler led by Colonel Stauffenberg, a military officer who lost his left eye, right hand, and two fingers on his left hand in Africa as a German soldier.
The terrific plot fails and all the characters end up dying (Spoilers), but did you really expect them to win? If Hitler had been killed off in 1944, I think I would know about it.
The assassination plot:
To kill Hitler, Stauffenberg and his high ranking military official buddies rig a suitcase to go off in a meeting room where Hitler is. Hitler survives the blast and comes back to finish Stauffenberg and his amigos off, and ultimately ends up killing them (They were able to take over sections of the German empire, however. Hitler got those back).
My consensus:
GREAT MOVIE! YAY! For a movie where you know the plot fails and the characters end up dying from the beginning, it makes you awfully sad about it. I nearly cried (Nearly).
Bad points:
None, really. The only complaints others have about it is that it stars Tom Cruise, who everyone now apparently hates for some reason. Is it because of the Mummy reboot?
How does it compare to Dunkirk?
There is no comparison. Dunkirk was a sad movie, afraid to say "Nazi," afraid of dialogue, afraid of a coherent plot, afraid of showing the Swastica, afraid of showing action, afraid of being awesome like Valkyire, and afraid of having any impact other than wasting two and a half hours of my life.
The biggest diffrences, other than quality, is that Dunkirk was nominated for an Oscar. What? How? I don't like using modern expressions and text talk, but WTF (What the fridge)? How? Why?
I can't even think of a word to describe how disappointing Dunkirk was. Oh wait, here it is, a mesh of disaster, failure, and mistake:
Misfailurment.
Alright! A couple of days ago, I was able to watch the fantastic political thriller, Valkyrie, which is not actually about Valkyrie from Thor: Ragnarok, but instead about Operation Walkure, the most famous attempted assassination plot of Hitler led by Colonel Stauffenberg, a military officer who lost his left eye, right hand, and two fingers on his left hand in Africa as a German soldier.
The terrific plot fails and all the characters end up dying (Spoilers), but did you really expect them to win? If Hitler had been killed off in 1944, I think I would know about it.
The assassination plot:
To kill Hitler, Stauffenberg and his high ranking military official buddies rig a suitcase to go off in a meeting room where Hitler is. Hitler survives the blast and comes back to finish Stauffenberg and his amigos off, and ultimately ends up killing them (They were able to take over sections of the German empire, however. Hitler got those back).
My consensus:
GREAT MOVIE! YAY! For a movie where you know the plot fails and the characters end up dying from the beginning, it makes you awfully sad about it. I nearly cried (Nearly).
Bad points:
None, really. The only complaints others have about it is that it stars Tom Cruise, who everyone now apparently hates for some reason. Is it because of the Mummy reboot?
How does it compare to Dunkirk?
There is no comparison. Dunkirk was a sad movie, afraid to say "Nazi," afraid of dialogue, afraid of a coherent plot, afraid of showing the Swastica, afraid of showing action, afraid of being awesome like Valkyire, and afraid of having any impact other than wasting two and a half hours of my life.
The biggest diffrences, other than quality, is that Dunkirk was nominated for an Oscar. What? How? I don't like using modern expressions and text talk, but WTF (What the fridge)? How? Why?
I can't even think of a word to describe how disappointing Dunkirk was. Oh wait, here it is, a mesh of disaster, failure, and mistake:
Misfailurment.
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