I’m looking forward to seeing this movie.
Hubby and I already have plans to see that and Gran Torino.....
Your diplomacy policy is sh*t
I agree, wife and i saw it this weekend... very well acted and a good story to boot.
Thanks for the review. Its one of the few movies that looked interesting. I always wait for the DVD and was just horribly disappointed with “Appaloosa” last night.
I saw Valkyrie and enjoyed it. Hubby and I plan to see Defiance this weekend, hopefully.
Thanks for the review and historical lead-in. Very much appreciated.
My guys (husband and son) saw it on Saturday night. They both gave it 2 thumbs up!
Our theater advertised it when we went too see the Hitler movie two weeks ago, but has not put it on. It is in a theater 30 miles away in another city, but not here. Strange they showed the advertisements of it, but did not put on the movie.
I plan to watch this movie although a offspring of Polish immigrants who lived through WW2, I wish hollywood would reconize that it wasn’t just the Jews who were butchered and it wasn’t just the nazi’s who were doing the killing........
the Russians were just as guilty—
The Katyn massacre
Today’s events remind me more of Deliverance ... and I’m sure everyone who has seen the movie knows which scene.
Saw it last weekend. Thought it was OK, a bit long and full of Hollywood stereotypes. I’d put it on a par with ‘Valkyrie’ and behind ‘Doubt’ and ‘Frost/Nixon’. And it beat the alternative, which would have been ‘Marley and Me’.
She has criticized the director for not supporting Israel as it defends itself against Muslim terrorists, today's Nazis. She says Hollywood loves the dead Jews, but not the living ones. She interviewed the director, who is Jewish, but could not get him to say anything positive about Jews defending themselves today. We could also use a movie about the Warsaw uprising by Jews.
The Nazis, German socialists, were strong practitioners of gun control. It sure helped them to deal with their “Jewish problem,” gypsy problem, homosexual problem, handicap problem, Slavic problem, and any other “problems” that they dealt with by murdering about 20 million people (excludes deaths of soldiers in battle). Debbie Schlussel opposes gun control and links it to the German Jewish holocaust. I think it's a valid, and insufficiently commented upon, observation. Our founders sensibly linked gun rights to resitance to tyranny, even without the benefit of such examples as Hitler and Stalin.
I just saw Grand Torino and enjoyed it. But as Schussel noted, he insulted just about every ethnic group, but not the Muslims. I think he did give a good look at the Muslim woman (nurse?) at the Doctor's office.
We could also use a movie about Joseph Stalin's Ukrainian holocaust (5 to 10 million murdered). It could include Walter Duranty, head of the New York Times Moscow bureau, successfully denying the holocaust. The US press knew what was going on and rewarded Duranty and the Times with a Pulitzer prize.
I would also like to see a movie covering the time between our troops (except for embassy staff) departing Vietnam, and the fall of Vietnam, some two years later. It could show the post-Watergate Congress reneging on all obligations to South Vietnam, the communists preparing to resume the war, and the ultimate collapse. It may not be too late to do this again - in Iraq.
Books that would make excellent movies (but won't) include Witness by Whittaker Chambers, and State of Fear my Michael Crichton.
Political correctness reigns in Hollywood.
Thank you for posting this review. I will get back to you later.
We saw Defiance this weekend. It is a very moving and gritty movie about survival. Survival in spite of your enemies efforts to kill and destroy your way of life. I found it a good reminder for the coming days of Obamanation. And I did take my 15 year old daughter to see it. Lots of swear words, some adult scenes, but nothing too out there. She enjoyed it as well.
We also saw Gran Tornio the weekend before. Loved it.