12 Days of Xmas #11: Stalingrad 

HIPTANG IS NOT YOUR GOD

"My God, it's full of Hiptang!"

HIPTANG... SOMETHING WONDERFUL!

That’s from 2010 the year we made contact right? I have not seen that movie but i heard someone say that. Is it a good movie to watch? I have been hesitant to watch it because i fear it answers questions I didn’t want to know the answer off. “I don’t want to know where it comes from.” -Werner Herzog when asked about the source of a small mountain river.

I found it a good watch. It isn't as mysterious as 2001; however, it does have some good set pieces. The space walk to, and entry into the Discovery really worked for me. And the Aerobraking scene gave me white knuckles. It is more a rather solid sci-fi thriller than the previous films psychedelic mind-fudge. It does "answer" the riddle of the monoliths; but you can always disregard that answer and enjoy the film for what it is. I mean, watching Prometheus didn't ruin Alien for me 😄👍👍👍 @@rubenskiii

Thanks for the tip!

thank you!

Czech artists speaking german shouldn't be surprising.

@@robertkalinic335 Sure there are people in our country that speak foreign languages (myself included), but without any accent? At least I suppose he speaks without an obvious accent but I'm not German, so I can't really tell. Speaking perfect German would be extremely rare and very unlikely. One other example I can think of off the top of my head was the (Czech) singer Karel Gott, he sang some songs in German for German audiences and he had an extremely strong Czech accent. During the era of Czechoslovakia even Slovak actors used to be overdubbed by Czech actors when their characters were supposed to speak Czech and not Slovak in movies because they just couldn't do it, and Czech and Slovak languages are much closer than Czech and German 😉

@@DusanPavlicek78 I dont think that you as non native would be able to tell and i never heard about Gott having strong czech accent from Germans. Slovaks being dubbed cause of weird czech... petty and mean but ok fine it sounds ridiculous, i can understand 100% czech but i would never try speaking it. Not that long ago i asked one czech i know to try slovak and it sounded so funny, he said everything correctly but at the same time it felt like some Cronenberg miscreation.

It's rated appropriately and is hardly unknown. Too many cliched "war movie" conventions to make this anything like a stand-out in a crowded field.

Well that's certainly what Hitlers defeated generals wanted people to think when the war was over... 😉

oops, lol

I just pointed that guy out to my mom the other day and said he's in every WW2 movie with Nazi soldiers that's come out in 20 years. She laughed and said, "Not EVERY one." I told her to let me know when she finds one he isn't in. I know for sure he's been in few more recent ones I've seen trailers of. It's just nuts! Edit: I went and checked and I THINK I found him playing a WW2 Nazi in (as you wrote) 15 times... Twice in different films called Stalingrad, once playing Eichmann, once playing Goebbels and once in the new Indiana Jones which is where I saw him with my mom. He wouldn't have worn a uniform as Goebbels, but your 15 was still basically correct, lol. 👍

@@TroubleToby3040 he was also Fegelein and Remer in different productions. Thing is, he's such a good actor, I could watch him in anything.

@@HandGrenadeDivision I agree, he's always enjoyable... Well, you know, for a Nazi, lol. If he were American, he'd be a big Hollywood star, I imagine.

I think that title goes to Come & See, but this one is certainly up there

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The future.

Bottled inside-joke.

Google Hiptang

It's George being offered to advertise nord vpn, or rage battle thingy, and refusing. But making a stupid advert anyway, and playing it constantly.

Only if you're interested in contrasting an intimate, deeply cynical movie vs a pretty stock, detached, but slick Hollywood production. EatG is Hollywood formula first. It does have some nice production values, and the cast is strong. But it gets pretty ludicrous.

Enemy at the Gates manages to be both insulting and historically inaccurate. STALINGRAD (I accidentally wrote Enemy at the gates, so edit) at least treats both sides with a semblance of respect.

I have not seen “Stalingrad” but I did see "Enemy at the Gates" which gives some glimpse into what was happening on the USSR side of the battle. Like “The Death of Stalin” compared with “Downfall”, World War 2 era films, which comment on why things happened and who did what, will have a bias. And these movies will often turn away from a deeper reality because the implications of mass murder on humanity are too horrible for a mass audience to accept.

@@bb1111116 Enemy at the Gates give a view from the perspective of Hollywood history, and many soviet veterans were not happy with it.

@@Alsemenor I upvoted your comment. Many Hollywood live action movies about World War 2 fighting give a distorted view of history. I also watch documentaries and read history books but almost no one in the US does that. Many people in the USA think that Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is history. What did Enemy at the Gates tell the mass US public who could not point out Stalingrad on a map? There was a great battle in Stalingrad. There was a USSR leader named Khrushchev who was involved in planning against the Germans. And during this battle there were snipers killing hundreds of soldiers. Enemy at the Gates has been called nonsense. I am not disputing that. What I am saying is that the movie is an entertainment for a US public who thinks Inglorious Bastards, Kelly’s Heroes and The Dirty Dozen are about history.

Wait until you've sat all the way through the classic "Come And See".

He covered that in his 2021 '12 Days of Xmas'.

I think it's gonna be 'Russian Ark'

I hope you are right, its such an amazing piece of art

I was thinking of that film, but it doesn't spend a lot of time in the cold. It's a two hour art-and-living museum tour, but it stays almost entirely indoors.

I thought maybe Andrei rublev

@@Leonards-leopard He had that one a few years back

This is what I say when to my advent calendar daily after I finish eating each chocolate