[California Patriot]

I've never heard of "Downfall." Do you recommend it?

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Yeah, I do. It's apparently the first time the Germans have done a movie about Hitler, and it's largely based on the recollections of Traudl Junge, one of his secretaries. (There's also a documentary about her called "Blind Spot" that's pretty good, too--two hours of a single medium close up of her in her apartment just telling the story ). The whole Last Days of Hitler in the Bunker has been filmed a couple of times before, but this is by far the best. There's this sense of the end of the world in it--the true believers, the cynics, the people trying to figure out how to escape, the people getting drunk. It's like a bad fever dream. And the scene of Magda Goebbels poisoning her children is just harrowing to watch.

[Bringbackthedraft]

"Downfall" played on Cable TV a couple of times. Its one of many films portraying the last ten days of Hitler. This one was based on one of his secretaries version as to what occured in the bunker. Overall, it beats out all the previous ones made on the subject. You actually feel you are there when it all happened. It was very well made and it was the first one I've seen that was actually made in Germany.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I've never heard of "Downfall." Do you recommend it?

Yes, get it. It's very good.