Posted on 11/08/2025 7:41:31 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
Crowe shows us why he’s one of the last great movie stars as well as a brilliant performer, settling into the high-powered character actor phase of his career. Like Gene Hackman in his greatest ’80s and ’90s performances, Crowe has such a regular-guy energy that on those rare occasions when Göring is thwarted or disappointed and we get a glimpse of his capacity for overwhelming violence, it somehow comes as an unsetting surprise within the context of the scene, even though we know the man’s a killer.
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When I was a kid I watched the WWII film “The Young Lions” on TV with my dad. It starred Marlon Brando as a German officer. There’s a scene where Brando’s character and another German are trying to escape capture from the Americans. My dad laughed at that. He said in real life they would have gladly surrendered to them.
You would not put any American citizens in an internment camp if there was a war with China, regardless of their heritage. You could intern or deport non-citizens.
Hopefully we won’t have to cross that bridge.
That was a good movie
I really wish there were more movies about Christians. Is it Christian guilt amongst the Hollywood directors that cause Christian based movies to be ignored?
One would think after the success of “Passion of the Christ” there would be a far greater effort to deliver more success.
Terrible movie, but at the end of “The Battle Of The Bulge”, those Germans seemed very happy to be surrendering to the Americans.
I really wish there were more movies about Christians. Is it Christian guilt amongst the Hollywood directors that cause Christian based movies to be ignored?
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days is a good movie, that highlights Sophie’s religious beliefs.
When it came to killing Communist Russians and non Communist Russians nobody came close to Old Joe Stalin.
Never saw that series.
My grandpa (on my mom’s side) was a SeaBee during WWII.
I’ve got a few pictures of him in San Diego, and then in Okinawa in 1944/1945.
And I will say, it was better for us that Stalin led the Soviet Union, instead of Trotsky.
**It would be fun for Russell Crowe to get the Oscar, but only if he doesn’t lose any weight between now and the ceremony. Field Marshall’s uniform optional.**
The uniform could have been done better-looked polyester. He should take off the weight. Show how serious he was preparing for the role. Lobby for the Oscar the same way Trump lobbied for it.
“Stalin may be a son of a bitch but he’s OUR son of a bitch!’’ - Harry Truman.
“Hare. hunter . field’’.
“Make a sentence of these three words’’.
I thought the movie was well done. I definitely have questions about why Hollywood would choose to make such a movie at just such a time. Who thought it was saying something that needed to be said? And why right now? Is the public hungry for a movie about the Nuremberg Trials??
I thought it was surprisingly even handed and subtle.
There’s no question that Goering was a bad guy — but the movie allows him to be somewhat sympathetic.
There is no question that the Nazis were beasts — starting wars, invading countries, exterminating whole peoples — but there were no laws against that (it was all somewhat new) — can you put people on trial for actions against which there are no laws? It’s an interesting question and I give the movie credit for not shying away from the whole concept.
I was looking for an subliminal “anti-Trump” message in the whole thing and I really didn’t see it. The line about Hitler that you highlight: “he made us feel German again” did stand out and it was the closest the movie came to implying that Making America Great Again is a Nazi message. But if I see it that way, I think I am a little hyper-sensitive. Overall, if the movie wanted to say “Goering is Trump” or something, they really should have tried harder.
I thought this was a fair exploration of the issues. And I think the big message in everything is always “People are flawed”. We do bad things. We follow bad people. We think we are the Good Guys when in fact we are sometimes the Bad Guys. I thought that came through pretty clearly. And while some people may want to think that is a message for Trump supporters, I really saw that as a message about the supporters of The Deep State. The people being so noble and saving “Our Democracy”. Maybe those people ought to look in the damn mirror.
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