STOP the negative buzz for Valkyrie!

Okay, I admit, Tom Cruise will probably be bland in the lead role. That has happened many times before. But why is the board saying negative things about Valkrie, just because of Tom Cruise? I saw the trailer, and it look good. The great supporting cast will make up for a bland Tom Cruise, and Bryan Singer is a very capable director.

Why does the Home Page say that this is serious competition for Rambo IV? This will be miles better! 

Response from Head RAZZberry: RAZZIE "winner" Tom Cruise has alwaze been, in my opinion and that of millions of others, a mediocre actor at best. When asked to come up with an accent for VALKYRIE, he seems not to have made even a minimal effort. Add to this the oddly rumpled hairstyle (perhaps the German expression would be "Bad Herr Day"?) and the ridiculous eye patch (Fealess Leader, anyone?) and you've got the basis for a likely 2008 Worst Actor nod for Ol' Tommy Boy. And not even a stellar supporting cast (including Kenneth Brannaugh, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Fry, Eddie Izzard and Terence Stamp) can save a movie whose central character is played by a dilletante movie star who can't even be bothered to work on something as elemental as an accent appropriate to a 1940s German officer. As for Bryan Singer being "a very capable director," USUAL SUSPECTS was a good movie, but anyone who saw the travesty that was SUPERMAN RETURNS might choose to argue with you about that assessment still being apt.

Having worked as a trailer-maker myself for several decades now, I think I can spot when a movie's gonna stink, just from seeing what's included in the trailer. And given what's in this trailer, VALYRIE looks worthy of ANY scorn we heap upon it...

I'm sorry, I disagree.  If this were a movie about Americans in the Southern U.S., I expect the movie to get the accent and dialect of the region correct.  If this were a movie about French, I'd expect English spoken with a French accent.  If this were a movie set in Japan, I'd expect English spoken with a Japanese accent.  If this were a movie about Russia, I'd expect English spoken with a Russian accent.

Now, there's an argument whether Cruise is actually attempting a German accent or not.  But one thing I agree with most of the others who watched that clip, and that is, attempt or not, it's NOT a German accent.  All the other actors in that clip spoke with an accent. 

Then again, all those other actors can act.  Tom Cruise has always played Tom Cruise.  It worked in Rain Man, but you'd think after awhile he would hone his craft.

Let me put this another way.  Maybe someone can come up with other titles, but the only movie I can think of where the cast played Germans and almost all of them spoke English with no accent at all was Grand Hotel.  Yes, it's Oscar win was controversial, but my point is that it takes an enormous amount of acting talent on the part of all the performers to pull off something like that.  And I submit that Grand Hotel did not really depend on its location, either.  Valkyrie does.

I actually want Tom Cruise to be brought down...but not by this movie.  I feel too much sympathy for Bryan Singer, Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branaugh, Eddie Izzard, Stephen Fry, Tom Wilkinson, Terrence Stamp and Carice Van Houten.