New Shoots Planned for VALKYRIE

Should I still be looking forward to this film?

I'm actually looking forward to this in spite of my misgivings about Singer. Having Cruise helps, his personal stuff aside he is a proffesional at his craft.

Re-shoots can sometimes be a good or bad thing. A little worried about this one.

PROFESSIONAL? ARE YOU FRACKING KIDDING ME? Cruise hasn't turned in a decent performance since Interview With the Vampire. As for this, he's not even bothering to speak with an accent. It sounds like wholesome American Ethan Hunt with an eyepatch and a Nazi uniform. The stuff I've seen is pretty pathetic. As if Maverick Mitchell is the one saying "We need to kill Hitler". I saw a few clips on the Colbert Report and it was pretty sad.

Seriously, this has been pushed back so many times, I can't believe they're still planning on releasing it. Cruise is a has-been. Mission Impossible sucked, Minority Report sucked, War of the Worlds sucked. Optimisim is wasted on this film. It will suck. And the only thing Singer's gotten right in the last few years is the X Men films, and even they weren't spectacular. More like "Wolverine: Guest Starring the X Men". The Usual Suspects was awesome, but he hasn't really done anything on peer with that to date.

Sorry to rain on anybody's parade, but Cruise choosing to play a "good Nazi" isn't going to do his career any favours.

As Colbert said: "Good night and good Nazi"

I agree with Scyth to a certain extant, Singer has not done anything worth talking about since The Usual Suspects, the X-man were not bad and Superman was dismal beyond belief and this Valkyrie project seems to be going down in flames quick, not because of the new footage being shot because shooting new footage can be a good thing, just ask Peter Jackson

You're letting your bias get the best of you. Fuck yeah the guy is proffesional and has turned in more than a few solid or above performances since Interview. If the film sucked or you didn't like it, that's one thing but his performances or acting is never ever in question. As for him speaking with an accent, who gives a shit, if they wanted to keep it real they'd be speaking german and not english with an accent just as they would with any film based in any other country. But most films are made with the English speaking community in mind and most of us don't want to read subtitles. You're looking for things to justify your feelings for Cruise, they just don't wash. Hate him if you want at least be honest

mla, what's up my man. Surfing conditions must be real good down there, haven't seen you in a while.

Tom Cruise going nuts is old and his films are gooooood, at least in my opinion.

He's supposed to have a killer cameo in Tropic Thunder. I don't think the german movie will do any favors for him but I think if he pulls the Hardy Men movie with Ben Stiller he might be back box office wise.

We could all use Days of Thunder 2.

"he's going high.......he's going low!"

Cole Trickle wins!

I just LOVE how the Plot Summary starts: "Superstar Tom Cruise heads an international..."

Intrinsic to the story!!

Hanso--there is a pic of Tom Cruise in his Tropic Thunder get up, he's over wieght and balding. I don't remember where I found it at. So for that, it's confirmed.

Wasn't a trailer released for this movie at the beggining of the year??? It looked pretty sweet, but since then I've heard nothing but bad things, the release date expecially.

Uh, no, Cruise really isn't that great of an actor. He plays the same character in every film he's in. He has zero range. Maverick, "Race Car guy", Ethan Hunt, "Minority Report guy", "Lawyer on the run guy from the Firm" they're all the same guy. No difference in performance, no subtlety. Compare his work to someone like Gary Oldman who blends in like a fuckin' chameleon and dissolves into the character in every role he plays, this is why I don't give Cruise much credit as being a vital player in the industry.


The only film he was EVER in where he played something other than a cocky prick was Born on the 4th of July. If he could have tapped into whatever he had in that film more than once, he'd be much better off, as he was fantastic in that film.

And yeah, it does matter if everybody in a movie is performing with German accents, and one dork is speaking with an American accent, if he can't be bothered to actually learn some lines in German, that's the absolute least he can do. Most films involving Germans have German accents. In fact in almost any movie where the actors are playing people who speak another language they at least learn the accent.

I have no qualms with stating that I don't like Cruise's "cult" status, or his weird behaviour, or the fact that he left his wife because she didn't want to join his cult, and went on to bang a chick half his age who probably fantasized about him at the age of nine while watching Risky Business on VHS, but none of that has anything to do with my appraisal of his acting ability.


John Travolta is a scientologist as well, and it hasn't prevented me from enjoying some of his work. Russell Crowe can be an abrasive jerk in public but the mofo can act.


Hell, even one of my heroes Harrison Ford has a similar limitation to Cruise, Han Solo, Henry Jones Jr. even his Jack Ryan aren't all that different. He's good at playing that particular hero archetype, and not much else. Fortunately he hasn't strayed from that pattern too many times, though when he has, it's been pretty disastrous too. K19 Widowmaker? That crappy movie with Anne Heche, that was Six Days and Seven Nights Indiana Jones should have avoided.


Cruise is good at playing one kind of role, and unless there's a short, arrogant, badass in the movie he's got no place in it. He sure as hell doesn't have the range to play a German let alone a Nazi. Remember how believable he was as an Irishman in Far and Away? By believable, I mean the exact opposite of believable. Every time he tries to do one of these Oscar caliber films, he totally blows it. Look at the Last Samurai. Yawn.

I'm not saying Cruise hasn't been in some good movies, or that he's a terrible actor per se, he's just not as great as he should be after 2 decades in the spotlight, and unworthy of the adulation that some people give him. Top Gun was cool in 1987, but he never really evolved beyond that as an actor. He'd be better off if he quit taking himself so seriously. If he's got a cameo in Tropic Thunder, that's something I'd like to see.


Bill Shatner is another actor who's been better off once he got over himself, and now he's won some Emmys as a result.