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Scientologists -- They Fight Hitler!

  

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[nq:1] I think that this is shaping up to be a ahem big bomb. Even in the trailer, Cruise's performance comes across as unpersuasive, plus it's a very difficult story to find a real handle on. We know that the conspiracy fails.

  • [nq:1] I think that this is shaping up to be a ahem big bomb.
  • Even in the trailer, Cruise's performance comes across as unpersuasive, plus it's a very difficult story to find a real handle on.
  • We know that the conspiracy fails.
  • Everyone's caught.
  • Everyone gets killed.
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I think that this is shaping up to be a ahem big bomb.

Even in the trailer, Cruise's performance comes across as unpersuas
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[nq:1]I think that this is shaping up to be a ahem big bomb. Even in the trailer, Cruise's ... he's surrounded by great English Act
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[nq:1]I think that this is shaping up to be a ahem big bomb. Even in the trailer, Cruise's ... but he's surrounded by great English
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[nq:2]I think that this is shaping up to be a ... him a pass. No. I don't see it doing well.[/nq]
[nq:1]He completely lacks the gravitas the part requires. Utterly lightweight. The guy who should have played the part, Sebastian Koch, in fact already has... in German. No word on whether he speaks (or acts in) English:
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[nq:1]I think that this is shaping up to be a ahem big bomb. Even in the trailer, Cruise's ... he's surrounded by great English Act
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[nq:1]Last I heard it's been delayed - again. Apparently, among other things, Cruise's accent is emabarassingly on-again off-again, so I suppose they're doing a lot of ADR with a dialogue coach riding shotgun, which only rarely results in a wonderfully nuanced performance.[/nq]
It didn't sound to me like he was even making the effort to have an accent, just his regular speaking voice. Poor Tom
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[nq:1]I think that this is shaping up to be a ahem big bomb. Even in the trailer, Cruise's ... he's surrounded by great English Act
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[nq:2]I think that this is shaping up to be a ... a pass. No. I don't see it doing well. NMS[/nq]
[nq:1]Kenneth Branaugh plays a mean ****. Did you see him as Heydrich in that film about the Wansee Conference? Fantastic. A lot of people will go to this film feeling it's Important History.[/nq]
A lot of people will go to it thinking it's along the lines of "Where Eagles Dare." Whether it li
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[nq:2]Kenneth Branaugh plays a mean ****. Did you see him ... people will go to this film feeling it's Important History.[/nq]
[nq:1]A lot of people will go to it thinking it's along the lines of "Where Eagles Dare." Whether it lives up to that or not, I don't know. But I would certainly like to see the original German film.[/nq]
The original German Wannsee film is excellent, and the Engli
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[nq:1]By the way, surprised no one has mentioned Night of the Generals doesn't that include the bomb plot it's not central, but I seem to remember it is there. Good film altogether, though the lighting and cinematography are kind of lurid and ugly.[/nq]
I don't believe The Night of the Generals has anything to do with the plot to kill Hitler. I saw it when I was a boy. It's an OK but rather dr

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