Downfall

Well just watched it last night. Anyone Else seen it yet.

Thought it was very good and quite hard hitting, I dont if it was simply that I expected it not to be as it was a German made film, probably.

Overall I liked it, Hitler appeared every bit the man I would have expected him to be, arrogant, defiant and unforgiving of every German because he knew he was loosing the war.

[Marina]

I saw it earlier in the eyar and bought the dvd last week because it made such a big impression on me. I thought the film was excellent - and it didn't spare the Nazis. Magda Goebbels's murder of her children was harrowing and typifies something of the Nazi menatlity. Vile. And Hitler seemed such an inadequate human being.
I loved the scene when they announced his suicide and all the smokers lit up once they were fee of his disapproval.
Marina

Agreed, I think the way they portrayed Hitler was every bit the way I would have expected him to be, he did appear very much the inadequate, I still think its amazing just how he turned on his own people as he was loosing the war, well not amazing just Hitler!

[Nick]

I have not seen it yet so please dont give away the ending !!! ; )

lol, the ending might not be a big surprise, it was Goldie I felt sorry for!

[Nick]

goldie?? ? ?

lol, just making sure you were paying attention

[angie999]

Originally Posted by Lee Wisener

lol, the ending might not be a big surprise, it was Goldie I felt sorry for!

I just hope they do not come up, in a few year's time, with a director's cut with alternative endings. This is what they are doing with Titanic right now, but there again I expect the ship still actually sinks!

hmmm, that would be quite interesting actually, will need to have a think about that one.

[Kiwiwriter]

Originally Posted by angie999

I just hope they do not come up, in a few year's time, with a director's cut with alternative endings. This is what they are doing with Titanic right now, but there again I expect the ship still actually sinks!

Haven't seen it. Looking forward to getting the DVD.

As for alternate endings...let's see, they can do

1) the one where Hitler escapes to Argentina in a two-man midget submarine

2) the one where the Volkssturm and Hitler Youth make a counterattack that hurls the Soviets all the way back to the Urals, and Hitler strides triumphant and victorious through the ruins of Berlin, enjoying acclaim from Berliners

3) The American and British forces come to their "senses" and attack the Soviets, driving them all the way back to the Urals, and Hitler strides triumphant and victorious through the ruins of Berlin, enjoying acclaim from Berliners, Churchill, Eisenhower, and Allied troops, grateful for his leadership in fighting Bolshevism. John Wayne stars as the US paratroop Colonel who saves the Bunker from the Russians.

4) Hitler pulls off his mask to reveal....surprise! that he's really Elvis! "Thank you, thank you very much!"

5) The one where Hitler and his entourage finish the movie by singing and dancing "Springtime for Hitler."

6) Space aliens save the Reich from destruction, ibid.

7) Eva Braun reveals that she's really a guy in drag.

8) Goebbels shoots Hitler and takes over...and saves Germany from the Americans, signing an alliance with Stalin.

9) Hitler summons his last surviving flunky, and hires him as his successor, in the Nazi version of "Der Apprentice."

10) Hitler moves into an apartment in a Chicago housing project with a smart and sassy wife, a wisecracking oldest son, a would-be tramp daughter, a precocious eight-year-old, and a wacky Jewish neighbor and his Gypsy wife. It's the sitcom everyone has been waiting for! "Hitler Knows Best!"

11) Hitler becomes manager of a new musical group, "Sig Heil and the Gestapos," and makes millions off their hit, "These Boots Were Made for Stomping" and the flip-side, "We Have Ways of Making You Talk, Darling!"

12) Hitler gets a talk-radio show, "The Adolf Factor," where he and sidekick Eva Braun take on the liberal-controlled media and dirty words in movies. It also includes his vegetarian recipes.