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VALKYRIE TRAILER - NEW ONE
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Posts: 2864 10/11/08 15:22:52 |
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Hippo |
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Posts: 3932 10/11/08 15:48:35 |
Okay, they're playing down Tom Cruise and playing up Bryan Singer and Col. Stauffenberg.
And this isn't a normal trailer--it's got commentary from Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Christopher McQuarrie and Bryan Singer. Maybe they can re-edit it so that Cruise has a very small part? |
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Posts: 338 10/11/08 16:23:01 |
OMG how many trailers are there going to be for this movie? What is this the third or the fifth?
They can make as many trailers as they like but this movie is still going to suck. |
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Posts: 2873 10/11/08 18:49:31 |
Felt like I was in International House of Accents.
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Posts: 1597 10/11/08 18:58:15 |
It looks like a lot of money was spent on the added scene that was supposed to take part in North Africa. I doubt that it was really needed for the movie,
other than to have some explosions and gunfire to catch the attention of the teenage demographic.
As far as accents, I'll give Cruise some minor points on pretty much correctly pronouncing the word "Fuhrer." Most Americans have trouble getting certain German sounds correctly; e.g., the Dead Kennedy's wrote a song called "Kalifornia Uber Alles," with the "Uber" sounding like "Oober." (And I know, there should be an umlaut over the "u" in both "Fuhrer" and "Uber," but Windows makes finding special characters like that hard and I'm lazy). |
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Posts: 3085 10/11/08 20:04:03 |
MamaJunebug wrote:  This gave me a well needed LOL!
Okay, another trailer does not make me want to see this film anymore than I did last month. Singer said, "People forget that Tom made "Born on the 4th of July". That has NOTHING to do with this movie or whether or not Tom is going to give a realistic portrayal of anyone! Did anyone else think of Hogan's Hero's when the motorcycle and side car went by? 
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Posts: 467 10/11/08 21:22:11 |
"........more realistic portrayal."
If that's so..then how come no German accents?? |
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Posts: 3381 10/11/08 23:25:06 |
As I said before, it looks like MI4 set in Nazi Germany. Nothing more.
And now a message from Suri and KAK on how amaaaaaaaaaaaaazing MTP is. Ladies?
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Posts: 45 10/12/08 05:04:59 |
Rene Lafayette wrote:I've never tried to type an umlaut (never even knew that you use this German expression, hee) on the internet but now I just have to: Ü Ä Ö ü ä ö --- can you see that too? Or is it about the individual computer settings? At least I don't have to look for them, they're right on my keyboard. And it's true, I guess, the umlauts are perhaps the most difficult German vowels to pronounce. In school I had an English teacher who just couldn't pronounce the fairly simple "Tür" (door) because of the short syllable and the combination of ü and r. And on-topic: As I said before, it looks like MI4 set in Nazi Germany. Nothing more.Exactly. This movie is going to suck so very hard and I will be so so so gleeful. I already am, actually. Burn, tiny one, burn! 
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Posts: 3932 10/12/08 06:23:00 |
SPEAKING OF UMLAUTS:
It always bugged me that the rock band Motley Crue used umlauts on their name--they seem to have been doing it for a visual effect only. |
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Rene Lafayette |
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Posts: 1597 10/12/08 14:45:18 |
JuliaBunny wrote: Welcome, JuliaBunny. This board doesn't seem to have many German members. I can see your vowels with an umlaut just fine. Trying to use a vowel with an umlaut on an English keyboard, such as the one I'm using, is pure torture. For the purpose of Internet posting, I have to go through 4 or 5 steps. Hippo wrote:You're right, Hippo. The band used an umlaut over the "u" because they thought it would make the band's name looker "cooler." Interestingly, when they found themselves on tour in Germany, they heard their German fans pronouncing the band's name as it would be in German, which sounds a lot different. So many heavy metal bands use umlauts in their names that there is an entry in Wikipedia for "Heavy Metal Umlaut." The fictional band "Spinal Tap" put an umlaut over the letter "n": 
According to one of Spinal Tap's members, David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), "It's like a pair of eyes. You're looking at the umlaut, and it's looking at you." |
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Hippo |
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Posts: 3932 10/12/08 15:59:45 |
To Rene:
I didn't realize there were so many things to know about umlauts. Thank you. I think Motley Crue also used one over the "O" in the first word? Not sure. |
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Posts: 111 10/13/08 05:11:15 |
A trick coming from one of the few German members of this board
All of the umlaute equal the "original" vowel with an "e" added (ä=ae, ü=ue etc.). So if your English keyboard doesn't feature umlaute,
you can simply spell it "Fuehrer" or "ueber".
Of course, I'm not sure this works equally well for Moetley Crue 
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Hippo |
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Posts: 3932 10/13/08 05:52:42 |
To Denice:
Well, nobody would be surprised that spelling and grammar are not the strong suits of the Motley Crue guys. LOL |
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Rene Lafayette |
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Posts: 1597 10/13/08 16:04:24 |
Denice76 wrote: You are, of course, right, Denice76. That makes me wonder what would happen if we applied it to heavy metal bands that use the unmlaut in their names. Motley Crüe = Motley Cruee Motörhead = Motoerhead Queensrÿche = Queensryeche Hüsker Düe (actually a punk band) = Huesker Due Spinal Tap (fake heavy metal band with umlaut over "n") = Spineal Tap Deathtöngue (fake heavy metal band from "Bloom County" comic strip) = Deathtoengue The satirical publication "The Onion" once had a story entitled ""Ünited Stätes Toughens Image With Umlauts," giving us "Uenited Staetes of America." Works for me. |
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Posts: 403 10/13/08 18:13:39 |
Rene Lafayette wrote:I love The Onion! Have they ever done a story on our beloved TomKat? |
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Posts: 1597 10/13/08 18:31:16 |
NYCElle wrote: As a matter of fact, they've done a few. One of my favourites is this Onion Radion News story, "Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes' Baby Could Be Born Addicted To Publicity," available here. They also have an Onion News Radio story entitled "Tom Cruise Removes Baby Pictures From Tabloid Magazines With High-Level Mental Powers, " available here. They had a short "Statshot" item on Cruise, below: 
They also had a nice piece entitled "Armchair Publicist Would Totally Rein In Tom Cruise," available here. |
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