Valkyrie, Tom Cruise’s painfully ill-fated Third Reich flick, has made a last-minute decision to open on Christmas Day rather than later that week.
Um … who goes to the movies on Christmas?
If you guessed “Jews and families with small children and other demographics who would rather stare at a bathroom wall than your Hitler movie, dude,” you’d be correct. You should also consider shooting an email over to the folks at United Artists, since apparently they didn’t get that memo.
This is going to be a remarkably embarrassing opening day for Cruise.
My family isn’t Jewish, and we don’t have small children, but we have gone to the movies on Christmas every year for the past few years. We usually try to see a musical, mainly because that’s the only thing we can all agree on wanting to see. I doubt this one is going to make the cut this year.
There are a lot of Jewish people celebrate Christmas, my family included.
my family celebrates christmas, and we go to the movies every year. once you’re done with the whole christmas morning thing, there’s nothing else to do for the rest of the damn day!
And what would make a better excuse for their poor opening than “well, we opened Christmas day…”?
I figure they’re setting their film up for the excuse, rather than for the poor opening (which is probably assured, by now – although if it doesn’t suck it might pick up once word of mouth overcomes a year of bad publicity. Maybe).
Hey…I’m going to the movies Christmas Day! NOT going to see this movie though.
Christmas night is one of the busiest movie days of the year.
Yep, my family’s tradition includes movie night on Christmas. Gonna have to miss this one, of course.
This film is going to tank regardless. While Katie is the toast of Broadway. Fun times this Christmas for the Cruises.
A lot of Families have a tradition of going to the movies together on christmas day.
i used to always go to the movies with a friend on thanksgiving, so i guess christmas wouldnt be out of the question…there is nothing to do in the evening because everything is closed except for the movies.
i think this entire film is a mistake, whether it opens on christmas or not.
Oh I know tons of people who go to movies on Christm as, but I doubt this will be number one with a bullet on their list of choices.
As if Tom looking constipated and nearsighted (see above picture) weren’t bad enough, his German army officer character, Claus von Stauffenberg, has a remarkably AMERICAN accent for some strange reason. If Cruise can’t be bothered to use the proper accent when playing a character, I can’t be bothered to pay to watch him do a lazy acting job.
Also, the crazy bothers me a little.
the last and only time I went to the movies on Christmas Day? I saw (drum roll please): American Graffiti. Damn I’m old.
Why should he play with a German accent? First of all, that just would sound stupid and horrible, or would you REALLY like to see an entire movie, where all actors have a German accent (I’m allowed to say that, I’m German ;))??
And second, it doesn’t make sense! Just because the movie takes place in a foreign set-up, the actors shouldn’t start to speak English with an accent (if at all, the should play it in the native language. However, I somehow can’t see, how all Hollywood actors suddenly start to learn all sorts of languages). If the movie was close to real live, and the actors were German-speaking, then they wouldn’t have an accent at all…so why should they have one, just because they are English-speaking? I mean, it’s just a guess, but I would think that the Germans in the Germany of the 1930s and 1940s spoke German, and not English with an American accent ;).
But hey, maybe it’s a culture-thing. Just have already wondered for years why foreigners in American ducomentaries and the news are dubbed with an accent…because obviously, the don’t have on in their native language….So, is there a reason to it?
Sorry, bit of a long post….I’m just curious…
I dont know, beet… My entire family (Both sides- the Dominicans AND the Scotts) see a movie every single Christmas day… it is a tradtion now that I think about it lol.. but yeah, every christmas everyone opens their little gifts (no one can afford the super cool expensive shit..) and plays with it for a couple hours.. but then what? there is nothing else to do, nowhere else is open, and God forbid we have actual quality time and conversations with our families. so why not go see a movie? Every time we go it is unusually packed and sometimes sold out, so I know my family isnt the only one. Last year I think we saw the second ‘National Treasure’ movie. (i Think…)
its not like Thanksgiving when you can slave over a stove all day.
Families that don’t want to actually have to socialize with each other go to seem movies on Christmas day. My family went every Christmas when I was growing up, sometimes to two or three movies.
inb4 psychobabble about how that explains so much about me
We go see two or three movies on Christmas day!
It’s been our tradition since we started our family. first gifts, then breakfast then movies.
A lot of big movies open on Christmas day including LOTR.
oh im not going to lie either… I do want to see this movie although as lee said, the lack of an accent bothers me quite a bit lol. The movie looks interesting to be honest.. and If I want to see a movie that involves shooting and killing (or something like that..) my dad and brother will be THRILLED. I doubt we will go for this one though. I might check it out at my nearby dollar theatre when I get back to school.
oh yeah! we saw LOTR the year it came out on Christmas too!! lol.. ok i am one commenting on this haha
beet. going to the movies on christmas is a big tradition for some families. christmas day is a BIG opening day, one of the biggest.
and thats not adolph hitler he’s playing, another guy plays hitler. he plays colonel something or another.
mine is another family who always goes to see a movie on xmas day. but usually family movies or just something my parents think the whole family will like… like juno, the pursuit of happyness, and the family stone (awful). the hitler movie is out of the question. sorry tommy.
Oh yeah, btw, did you actually notice that the movie is NOT about Hitler, but about Stauffenberg (played by Tom Cruise), who tried to kill Hitler? Just noticed that it has been called the “Hitler movie”…that might be quite misleading though. I mean, “The Downfall”, THAT was a Hitler movie….
I have never heard of this Christmas Cinema-going tradition, but I kinda like it!
Our family doesn’t go to the movies on Christmas day but I have some good friends & they do.
Also I think this movie looks interesting.
The movie is actually about a group of German officers who planned to assassinate Hitler and end WWII. Tom Cruise plays one of the officers who conspired against Hitler. Of course, as we know, the plan did not work. Apparently, the plot was discovered and the officers were sentenced to death. Not exactly a feel good movie, but not a glamorization of the Nazis either.
I work in the major motion picture business, and Christmas Day IS the busiest time of the year. It is Oscar contender time as well as holiday time… I don’t think it’s a bad idea at all.
“Marley & Me” is opening on Christmas Day also. If I see a movie on Christmas, it’ll be that one. Cute dog, Jen Aniston and Owen Wilson over horrible Third Reich any day, but especially Christmas!
OMG no way in HELL I am seeing ‘Marley and Me’
this one looks good. Tom C. With an eye patch
I can’t wait to see this movie. My brother and I are going to go see it, we’ve both got a weird fascination with Tom Cruise (lulz scientology) and Hitler/the Nazi party. However, even though we’re Jewish, we’ll be too busy celebrating Christmas to see this on opening day.
this is a horrible idea to show this movie on christmas. I am Jewish and although I myself do not go to the movies on Christmas, I know that any Jewish people do. No Jew wants to see a movie about Hitler on Christmas. It is offensive and horrible. peace
this is a horrible idea to show this movie on christmas. I am Jewish and although I myself do not go to the movies on Christmas, I know that any Jewish people do. No Jew wants to see a movie about Hitler on Christmas. It is offensive and horrible. peace
michelle i do not understand your point. it is a historical and momentous time in jewish history. all jews should see it on xmas. it is a great move. PEACE.
go peace yourself…
channukah bush lol gremlin
sweaters all the way
Ditto, Christmas day = movies. Our family has no small children and open family gifts on Christmas eve so Christmas day is boring.
Also, LOTR didn’t open on Christmas, all three opened prior to Christmas day. Fellowship, Dec. 19th, Two Towers, Dec. 18th and Return of the King Dec. 17th.
Berthold von Stauffenberg did not approve of Cruise playing his father. Cruise just cannot act at all, I don’t care if you are a fan, I am telling it like it IS. I think he is so completely overrated, and his PR team tries way to hard to disguise the fact that he is starting to lose his mind. Cruise did an interview with Barbara Walters recently and he was mimicking her questions before she said them. That should be enough evidence to prove that the guy just can’t think for himself. That Cult he so dearly loves, has pretty much f*cked him for life both mentally and physically (appearance-wise) he simply has no longevity in his career since all of that crazy stuff about him came out. To make a reference to a South Park episode : He is trapped in the closet!! lol
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family, and all the very best to you all in 2009.
PS we have no snow.