VALKYRIE'S TRAILER CAMPAIGN GOES UNDER THE KNIFE ONE LAST TIME
- By Russ Fischer
- Published 10/31/2008
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We've seen a couple of Valkyrie spots already, and each brands the film with a slightly different iron. War movie, thriller, and now Big Important Historical Drama.
The latest and last theatrical trailer spells out the plot in sixty-point letters: Hitler is bad, mmmkay, and we're going to kill him. This is the trailer to run in front of every other piece of big Oscar-bait this year. It's heavy on plot and Importance, and thick with the many non-Cuise actors assembled by Bryan Singer: Bill Nighy, Terence Stamp, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson. I like how this version blends in the red line penetrating the map of Hitler's bunker that we saw in the one-sheet, and I feel that it'll sell to the people who flock to see Ed Zwick movies, which is exactly the audience the film needs.
See the new trailer in pretty Quicktime at Yahoo.
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Comment #1 (Posted by bpvalentine)
This movie looks *good.* Hard to swallow for many, I'm sure. This doesn't look like an Ed Zwick movie to me. That is to say it doesn't look like the blanding of something interesting, aside from Cruise, who I still like in movies. Maybe the bad publicity forced the makers to make this a better movie than it would have been.
Comment #2 (Posted by Chris)
Am./British dudes playing Germans sans German accents? I don't know if critics will buy it. I still want to see it.
Comment #3 (Posted by Servo)
Yeah it sure doesn't look like a Ed Zwick movie, not enough shit blowing up and shots of people crying.
Comment #4 (Posted by Temmink)
The whole accents thing was looked at with Enemy at the Gates which while far from a great movie was very enjoyable and was definitely better without the baggage of horrible accents or actual foreign dialogue (I wouldn't mind, I love subtitles but anyway). Valkyrie will hopefully be an accessible historical thriller with a good ensemble cast and Cruise actually earning back some actor points. If not we have an almost inexhaustible supply of pictures of Tom Cruise with an eye-patch, which can't be a bad thing.
Comment #5 (Posted by Tom Cruise)
Argh! I'm a short gay Nazi pirate!
Comment #6 (Posted by Balcony Fool)
Huh. Another movie where Tom Cruise obscures his face (Eyes Wide Shut, Vanilla Sky, Minority Report, Tropic Thunder).
