Valkyrie: They Dared To Stop It

Big Hollywood ^ | 1/8/2009 | Assemblyman Chuck DeVore

[GVnana]

Chuck DeVore is a California State Assemblyman and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010. He retired from the Army National Guard at the rank of lieutenant colonel and served as a Reagan White House appointee in the Pentagon. He co-authored the novel China Attacks.

[Rummyfan]

Some films need to be made.

Nope - there is no such film....

[GVnana]

That didn’t take long.

[x_plus_one]

Valkyrie is a good movie. So many attempts were made to stop hitler - and tens of thousands lost lives. Cruise played his part well - the focused & dedicated leader willing to risk all for doing something right.

[Leisler]

Actually, I think it was best that Hitler lived. He was so screwed up and surrounded by such sycophants that he was an assistance to Allied victory.

With Hitler gone, the German high command would of been some what more militarily rationalized and more efficient.

I don't think by the late date of the attempt, we would of made a deal with the Nazis.

[carumba]

With Hitler gone, the German high command would of been some what more militarily rationalized and more efficient.
I wonder if the surrender would have happened sooner with Hitler gone. We can only speculate.

[Leisler]

They wanted to have an conditional armistice and continue fighting the Russians.

Never going to be accepted, and they would not of accepted an unconditional surrender.

The die was cast.

[RegulatorCountry]

Deserving subject matter. Hideous casting in the lead role. If Tom Cruise were any more one dimensional, he’d go *poof* and disappear into thin air.

[Londo Molari]

“With Hitler gone, the German high command would of been some what more militarily rationalized and more efficient.”

At that late stage of the war, Germany was losing badly. Perhaps these men could have surrendered sooner and stopped the “scorched Earth” policy that Hitler had put into place and hundreds of thousands of more people did not have to die.

We’ll never know.

[raybbr]

How’s Vir?

[traderrob6]

Ah, cmon “Ernest Saves Christmas” WAS needed.

[hometoroost]

I don’t know much about him and he may be a terrific man. But, he writes the way Hank Kimble, County Agent (from Green Acres) speaks. The man needs an editor.

[stefanbatory]

he’s all that and a box of popcorn...duuuuh...

[raybbr]

he’s all that and a box of popcorn...duuuuh...

Huh?

[stefanbatory]

there was an episode where Garibaldi was attempting to explain to Vir the meaning of some Earth slang...among the terms was “all that and a bag of chips” (think back to the deep dark 90’s...you’ll recall that fad) Vir kept getting it wrong in his attempts to use it in conversation, though...one example of which was “all that and a box of popcorn...”

[originalbuckeye]

This is a good movie. After discussing it with some people at work, we all were wondering why we weren’t taught in our History classes that there WERE people who tried to overthrow Hitler. Anyone?

[driftless2]

"late stage"

Until the end of the war, Hitler kept the extermination camps open transporting Jews and other victims to them. Hitler was always the most fanatical Jew-hater of all the Nazis. With his death, even if the generals had fought on, most likely they would have ended the death camps as a needless waste of manpower and materiel. Hitler's assassination would have meant a better end to the war.

[CholeraJoe]

One of the reviews I read said, “Cruise was so bad it was distracting.”

[IrishPennant]

The German MSM kept it under wraps. /sarc off

[Xenalyte]

Don’t know about you, but my history class got everything from the Great Depression onward squeezed into the week before finals. We didn’t have time to learn that.