Tom Cruise’s latest flick, Valkyrie, is set in Nazi Germany, and it’s not a comedy, so why does its new trailer (embedded below, or streaming in a higher-quality clip at Yahoo) leave me snickering? Is it the eye patch? Or the way the lightning crashes as Cruise declares "We have to kill Hitler" in his Serious Thespian Voice? Maybe it’s that awful line, "When the S.S. catch you, they will pull you apart like warm bread." (Mission: Carbs!) Or maybe I can no longer separate the tabloid staple from the actor. Whatever the case may be, I’m kind of wondering — especially in the face of Lions for Lambs bombing this weekend — how many other folks share my inability to take Tom Cruise seriously anymore?
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Is it just me, or was the “warm bread” pronouncement made by Eddie Izzard? I don’t think I can take a movie seriously where Eddie Izzard is playing a Nazi, regardless of how bad Tom Cruise’s acting is.
Yeah I can’t take Tom seriously anymore either. It is a combination of Xenu, Robot Katie and the eyepatch.
It just looks boring. The acting looks fine, but there isn’t one thing about this trailer that grips me which is unfortunate because when I heard about this film it sounded so intriguing.
Uh…obviously I will be the minority, but I thought it looks really good. Better than most of the offerings I’ve seen recently…
I can’t help but interpret Slezak’s comments as being based on the premise that we should evaluate actors and movies primarily based on their trailers, and the box office success of other films starring those actors? This is why bloggers-for-hire rank just above comment posters in the journalism credibility hierarchy.
Serious Thespian Voice. Snort.
I think I saw the whole movie just now on YouTube. What else do I need to know except the ending? Thanks for saving me the time.
I really like the story, but it looks as though this movie has been Hollywood-ized too much. I don’t expect Valkyrie to be all that great unfortunately, though it really should have been.
Ummm, people took Tom Cruise seriously??? Really???
The last movie of Cruise’s I liked was Magnolia. Valkyrie does look silly. I’d always heard the plot to kill Hitler was more of a power grab than a noble effort to save Europe.
I don’t know if Lions For Lambs is a good movie or not. But, the majority of Americans are very tired of the Middle East wars. The last thing they want to do is see a movie about them.
It’s the eyepatch and the pompadour. The airplanes look cool, anyway.
Tom should return to light comedy. This trailer makes him look silly. He doesn’t even have a German accent….if this was made in the 1940s or 1950s, it would be okay, but today people want to hear authentic accents.
Actually, many years ago, Tom Cruise really did show potential as a serious dramatic actor. Remember “Born on the 4th of July?” He was amazing in it, and missed winning the Oscar because another disabled character won (Daniel Day Lewis for “My Left Foot,” which was even amazing-er, IMO). No, I really can’t take him seriously anymore.
Bryan Singer behind the camera makes me give this the benefit of the doubt.
I am fully prepared to be the minority here, but I’ve recently developed a complex about Tom-Cruse-bashing. I can’t stand it. Yes, I know the guy’s got a few screws loose, but the way I see it, that is NOT a justifiable reason to crucify him. What are his crimes, anyway? Being a Scientologist? Yes, I get it, that’s weird, but P.S., this is America, and we have this thing called freedom of religion.
Is it the couch-jumping? Well, why was he jumping on couches? What was he so excited about? Being in love with his wife! I don’t understand how that was spun to make it a crime! Give the guy a medal, don’t throw him to the wolves!
My point is not that the movie looks good–it doesn’t, it looks awful. I’m just very abruptly sick of people attacking Tom Cruise as a person for things that he really doesn’t deserve to be attacked for.
Incidentally, I’m not in love with the guy either, but–please. There are serial killers out there. Can’t we find someone a little more evil to villify?
I tried to dislike Tom Cruise, but I can’t do it. He does a good job in Lions for Lambs, in a battle of wits with Meryl Streep no less. It’s not fair for us to complain when we here too much about a celebrity, but then we’re still talking about a gossip item years later.
Actually, this movie looks kinda good. Awful!?! That’s a bit much, EW…Major Movie Star looks awful.
We were all pretty much done with Tom Cruise after he jumped on Oprah’s couch. I can’t believe Hollywood still lets his crazy a** make movies!
It’s the hair and the eye patch. And I don’t think it’s the more tabloidy aspects of Cruise that make him seem a bad fit for this role, I think it’s just the fact that he’s Tom Cruise. This happens to most HUGE starts, it becomes hard to see them as characters anymore. And this seems like the type of role where we need to see a character in a story and not just see and hear Tom Cruise.
Cara, when it finally comes out that Tom has been keeping Katie heavily medicated in an attempt to brainwash her, then the world will know how much of a villain he really is. But seriously, I just hate the guy because he’s a terrible actor. I won’t even give him credit for Born on the 4th…he overacts every role he has ever played. Sure, it’s harsh to hate someone because they can’t act (there are plenty of bad actors out there), it’s just that he has this unwarranted star-power that allows him to get movie roles he doesn’t deserve. He’s ruined too many good movies and he must be stopped.
He’s an actor, a great actor, and he does his job well. Who cares about his personal life? Yes, he may be an eccentric, but the man makes good movies and he knows how to become a character. When I see a good movie I see the characters portrayed on the screen, not the actors…and lets not judge by the trailer, most trailers suck these days anyway.
I just don’t like Tom Cruise, never have, never will. I disliked him before I knew he’s a nut-job.
I’ve actually always had problems taking Tom Cruise seriously, but have managed to enjoy some of his movies. Not for years, though. Too many teeth, too little acting ability and that thing he does when he talks with the audible exhalation of air through his nose drives me ’round the bend. Kenneth Branagh looked like the best thing about this movie.
I despise Tom Cruise. And I won’t see this movie or any other movie of his ever again
BECAUSE Bryan Singer is behind this, I never want to see it. X-men completely sucked because of him and Superman Returns was more like a modern day telling of the bible than a story based on a great comic book.
I agree with what Mike was saying below, I’m getting really tired of the entertainment media (especially EW) ragging on the box office takes on the movies that deal with the war in Iraq. To paraphrase a great someone made in a previous post on EW, those that have been against the war from the beginning are disgusted and sick from hearing about it for 4 years, while those who support the war can’t take the slightest bit of criticism or opposition to their ideas, so they wouldn’t possibly see the movies as well. So don’t expect any movie dealing with the war to make any money, I don’t care if it has Tom Cruise or Jake Gyllenhall or the whole cast of Seinfeld reuniting, it will bomb.
Tom Cruise absolutely deserves to be attacked for everything he is attacked for. He purposefully tries to manipulate the media into believing his sham of a life, so people will see his movies and is deeply immersed into the cult of Scientology, which has ruined the lives of many, and stolen from many more. If he just made it about the work, and wasn’t so transparent and dowright creepy in general, most would feel differently.
Looked good to me. But, then again, I don’t have any sort of antipathy toward Tom Cruise.
I don’t dislike Cruise for being a scientoligist. That’s fine. What I do dislike is that he seems to shove it doen people’s throats. I still can’t forgive him for going on the Today show and acting like he was the highest power over psychiatry. He came off as intolerant to any religion/practice other than his own. The fact that he blasted post-partum depression and women ho use medication was outrageous. He was really in no position to say that.
P.S. As for the couch jumping, that’s just too much fun to make fun of. But I don’t dislike him because of that. (Anymore).
Um, this movie is not about the war in Iraq. Sorry, dude.