Valkyrie (2008) First Time Watching | MOVIE REACTION 

"Ya know, the thing about Hitler--the more I learn about that guy the less I care for him."--Norm Macdonald

as a student of history I've known of this story for yrs and this is a very good dramatization of the actual tragic events cruise deserves kudos for bringing it to a wider public ⚛

This movies character is based off a real person who planted a bomb that didn't kill Hitler and even after the war was over most Germans considered him a traitor. It took Germans way to long to realize he was a patriot.

Von Stauffenberg was a very religious Roman Catholic. His beliefs were a big part of his world view and why he was so against the murder of the Jews, Eastern Europeans etc.

the chronology of the attempt is historically reconstructed in a very accurate way

Good reaction. I liked this movie. The German film "Stauffenberg" is very good too. I can't imagine the stress Stauffenberg must have been under walking around with a live bomb, not certain how much time he has, then going to a different conference room than he expected, and having to wait for a phone call that has to be well timed. Then he had to make his escape from the Wolf's Lair. I always wondered what would have happened if when he entered the conference, Hitler engaged him in conversation, or halted the conference and insisted Stauffenberg make his presentation.

I don't think I've ever seen Mrion tear up like that before. Touched my heart.

The adjudant helping to pack the contreau bottle at the beginning is Staffenberg's real-life grandson.

When this movie was filmed, a moment of silence took place by the cast and crew in the square where the execution scene occured, for this was the spot where the actual executions took place. It took the German people a few years to realise that these men who tried to assinate Hitler were not traitors but heroes of Germany.

I went to Berlin over the summer, and one place we went to was the Resistance Museum, which included the place where Stauffenburg was executed. It’s very somber to stand in the exact spot where this near complete assassination attempt almost succeeded. It is also a very interesting that Tom Cruise looks eerily like Stauffenburg in the photos from the side.

When I was a young man in the early 1980’s I read a book Operation Valkerie by a French historian. He did a very good job of describing the events that led up to the attempt on Hitler’s life as shown in this movie. You did a great job on this reaction. Thank you and keep up the good work.

This movie is so fantastic and historically accurate (except there's no German speaking). Tom Cruise nailed it for his portrayal of Claus von Stauffenberg.

This movie is the gem, needs more attention. Thank you.

Masterpiece ever.

Kenneth Branagh is also in Conspiracy (2001) which dramatises the 1942 Wannsee Conference at which Nazi officials discuss the "Final Solution". It uses the authentic script taken from the only surviving transcript recorded during the meeting. It's a difficult but very interesting movie, and the acting is superior.

Given director Bryan Singer, the movie is a bit naive about why some generals wanted to kill Hitler: Most officers had an elite-educated background, and years more military experience than Hitler, who had never risen above corporal-When it became clear that his strategies were becoming more unstable, and faced new losses, they realized that he was the biggest obstacle to negotiating a last-minute deal with England if necessary.

What a tense and tragic story -- and the fact that it's based on true events is so much more compelling. This is one of Tom Cruise's best films in my opinion. Thanks for reacting! What's next?

40:00 "this is actually what separates us from being animals." I could not have found a better analogy. Great reaction, I did not know of this coup as well until I saw the movie. Cheers!

The world could use more Marions in it. I enjoy your reactions.

Great reaction guys, really felt the heartfelt summary from Marian

Ahhh Marian...such a heartfelt response. Please don't apologize for your feelings. I agree...if we know better hen let's do better. And along the way let's try to care about each other instead of tearing people down...then maybe just maybe we, humans, will be worthy of this beautiful planet. Joy...first time I saw this movie I was like you...never crossed my mind that there were germans and german soldiers resistant to Hitler. I never thought about it, so this movie is very important for that exact reason alone if not many other reasons. One of my favorite grad-school friends was a woman from Germany and is to this day my go-to person to ask those uncomfortable type of questions about WW2 and Germany's recovery. Thank you both for the great reaction. Much love from Oregon.😊💚

The scene with Tom Cruise in the same room with Hitler and the Nazi High Command is very intense. Without a doubt one of Tom Cruise's greatest movies. Thank you Marian for expressing your views on life. One of the hardest things in life is to except is without suffering there wouldn't be any compassion.

I've read quite a lot autobiografies from German officers (Knocke, Gallant Strachwitz, Carius, Rudel) There's a lot pondering abour your oath as officer. Where your duty lies. I mean its easy to say well obviously should done same. There were supporters what war made realize mistake, people who would not renounce ideology even after war, people who would serve because family had served in armies for hundreds of years, even as far as Crusades the rulers of the land and others who joined not because of ideology but after first allied bombs hit german cities. They go far depending on writer. But this film is great. They take artistic liberties but as much as things to happen, this is surprisingly accurate with stellar cast. After I made my military oath, it kinda made me think how I would have reacted if I would have served army, made oath and during that time megalomaniac dictator would take over. Clear answer came much more muddier and shades became grey. When you wear uniuform and you have take oath to protect home and country, the threshold to betray that, regardless of government is, is extremely high.

It's only natural you'll do Downfall next.

They simplified parts of the real story and in reality there was no attempt to oust Stauffenberg. But there had been many discussions, if their oath to Hitler allowed them to murder him. Some had serious doubts about this. But in the end, after so many attempts of killing him had failed, most of the people in the resistance did know, that it was secondary if the coup would be successful, they had to try for the sake of a Germany after the Nazis. The main flaw of the coup was, that Stauffenberg was the head of the operation and the only one who had access to Hitler at that point. So he wasn't allowed to take his ohne life by the attempt to kill Hitler, something he would have been willing to do. The coup had a little chance to succeed if the officers in Berlin had reacted faster and dind't waited til Stauffenberg returned to Berlin. They lost haours and hours and when Stauffenberg gave the go, back in Berlin it was nearly hopeless to would have success. Only in one city the coup was completley successful: Paris The General of the Wehrmacht in Paris did successfully imprisoned all relevant SS and GESTAPO guys (1200 people) and had full control over the city. But after the coup failed in Berlin, he declared all of his actions as a training mission and had luck, that nobody rated him out. His boss, General Stülpnagel, the comander in chief for France did try to commit suicide but was saved and later on hanged. The resistance was dead after the failed Operation Walküre and mehr people died in the last 10 mounth of the second World War than in the nearly 5 years before. Only the members of resistance cought on the first day, were shot, all others were imprissoned, tourtured and did stand before a show trial, where the worst Nazi justice mocked them and sreamed at them. All of them were hanged, some of them, like Admiral Canaris only a few days before the end of the war. The young West-German repbulic after the war, had great difficulties to come to terms with the people of the 20th of July, because a lot of veterans of the army hated the resistance. A lot of them maybe, because they hadn't had the courage to act in that way? It took nearly 10 years til the country honered them. When the German army was rebuild, 1955, because the NATO members thought, that they couldnt face the USSR without the Germans, the new army was seeking for rolemodels and the found them in the soldiers of the resitance. Nowadays they are seen as the heroes they had been.

Crazy-good movie, really sad it ended the way it did but these men would have been happy to know that their country and the freedom of the world was accomplished. 👏👏👏

That was a good reaction..especially from Joy…the bomb attempt on Hitler was July 1944 just a month after the allies invasion of Normandy France..

Great movie!

A bit late but Ill add something as well: After WW2 this movie portraits very well why Germany established completely new rules for it´s military. Today we have a "Staatsbürger in Uniform" meaning a Citizen in uniform. What that means is that you´re primal supreme commander is your conscience and the Grundgesetz(the German constitution where §1 says: "The dignity of human kind is untouchable")..any order given that goes against those is to be ignored and even you will not be punished if you go with your conscience against illegal orders. Nowadays our military police and intelligence is working real hard to fight of any Nazi tendencies in the armed forces even though there are always some because the military is the mirror of the society just like they imagined it 70 y ago.

Love this movie!

Just to be clear, its not that they had that much support, its just that those people thought Hitler was dead.

A great underrated film.

You should watch Downfall after this

This is one of the few films where Tom Cruise's character dies.

Great movie choice :) glad somebody reacting to it 😊👍

Nice film choice and reaction. I especially appreciate Marion's commentary (bearing his soul), I hear you and feel you. Keep seeking truth and you will find God. BTW, in that same courtyard where the conspirators were executed there now stands a memorial with all their names listed, they are not forgotten. God bless you both and your family.

Best reaction 👍

Awesome! Thanks for reacting to this movie!

It sad knowing that the families of the people involved in Valkyrie were seen as traitors too and treated poorly even after the war was won. There is a documentary where the the children now grown up tell their experience growing up in Germany.

Great Pick, that is the place in Band Of Brothers.

Am I going nuts or did someone else also remember a different execution of Stauffenberg in this movie? One in daylight and him yelling the same ‘‘Long life sacred Germany’’ line, while raising his right arm before he gets shot. #MandelaEffect

Normandy was 46 days before this.

31:18 YEEEEEEES🥳🥳🥳

I love how ur girl pronounced "the Fuhrer" (Hitler) as "the fooler" 😂

I hope there is a Valkyrie like plan in Russia...

The Valkyrie conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944, a month after D-day in June 1944 when Allied Forces landed at Normany in France... Sensing that the Axis would eventually lose w/ most of Europe being decimated from the onslaught of Allied Forces, the Valkyrie conspirators hoped that the coup attempt would seize power over the German forces and they could withdraw from occupied countries and reach a peaceful accord w/ the Allied Forces. The coup attempt failed and the conspirators were all executed after Hitler survived by mere inches... Allied Forces took a year (1944 to 1945) before Soviet forces reached Berlin and found Hitler had apparently taken his own life (It took weeks for Berlin to fall) As a result, millions of lives were lost (soldiers and civilians) between the failure of the coup in 1944 to the fall of Berlin in 1945.

I look forward to your reaction.. That's the way it is.. It's always important to look deep into history to really understand things.. Like for example that not all Germans followed Hitler because of his ideology.. The Germans followed Hitler because they had no food, drink or money due to the Allies and the Versailles Treaty. It's always difficult. There's really no such thing as black and white. Even an angry mustache man, who was a horrible person, said right things in many speeches.. That was the trick.. To lure the Germans in. And when times are tough, you don't question. There is a super charismatic person who promises you a way out of the crisis.. And actually helped the Germans in the beginning.. I mean Hitler annexed Austria and many other Germanic country's without conflict.. Of course people thought he was a great leader.. He gave them food, jobs and water. When many Germans woke up, it was already too late.. Now it's accept the Führer or send to a concentration camp. And as I said many Germans were happy with Hitler.. Remember they had great propaganda and they helped.. So it took really long for the Germans to realize that he was a madman. At the end of the War, many high German generals, who hated the Waffen SS and the horrible war crimes of the Nazis, wanted to kill Hitler and almost succeeded. The legend behind operation Valkyrie was Stauffenberg. Who was a descendant of the old good Prussians and was of Christian origin. Is still called a real German soldier from the good empire. But the Nazis persecuted Christians, which Stauffenberg didn't like at all.. A German oak table saved Hitler. That's a running joke here in Germany, at least for old Germans and not modern blinded ones who take everything too seriously, the hard German oak and German craftsmanship art saved hitler.. Had that been another table, hitler would have blown up completely, for Example from the Americans, I'm just kidding. Even the legendary German general Erwin Rommel or even Wüstenfuchs didn't really like Hitler. He was an incredible general at the wrong time. Eventually he was forced to commit suicide by the Nazis, which was a last major act by a general since he just spoke out against the Nazis. To show how incredible Rommel was, all you have to do is know his thoughts on D-day. Rommel was betting heavily on the Allies landing in Normandy and devised a completely sick defense plan as he felt the Allies should not be allowed to land on the land or it would be over. in the end he was right about everything. But Hitler, with his madness, and many other loyal high command generals did not listen to him. Rommel alone had completely foreseen D-Day. Along with the general who invented Blitz Krieg, the Wehrmacht was unstoppable.

One of my all time favourite movies..❤

This movie was made by the crew of the X-Men movies (X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: Days of Future Past). Singer (director), McQuarrie (writer), Ottman (editor/composer), N Thomas Sigel (cinematographer). Speaking of X-Men, when will you be going back to that series. I think your last video was from X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

"Downfall" -great movie about Hitler's last days. Consider reacting.

Great reaction

14:38 😊 Himmler

It wasnt solely Germany that conquered Europe. Germany had many allies, weak allies, but the pro-Germany countries sent many volunteers. Especially the countries under occupation sent a lot of foreign legions like France, Netherlands but Romania was the biggest supporter of Germany in man power.

I don’t understand the hesitation about initiating Valkyrie after the bomb went off. It made no sense to wait, because there was always the possibility of overthrowing Hitler. There was no going back.

Excellent movie!

Hi mates, try to watch (if you like and not seen till now) these other war movies Der Untergang (Downfall) and Wołyń (Hatred)...but the second one is really brutal and quite actual in connection whit current situation on Ukraine.

I wished the 20 July ‘44 plot was a success. Imagine how strong German democracy can be from the moment it’s brought back from the dead with a vengeance after 12 years of Nazi dictatorship. The Western European front of WWII would’ve ended much earlier had the assassination (and operation Valkyrie overall) been a success. Germany would’ve then joined forces with the British, Americans, Canadians, Australians, French, factions of the Soviets etc to take down the Japanese Empire (former “ally” of Germany) and what’s left of Fascist Italy. Oskar Schindler, Hans Muench, John Rabe, the Bielski brothers and other heroes that emerged in the Holocaust/WWII for their roles in saving innocent lives - helping them escape unscathed so that generations will live to tell the tale - would marvel and lead by example from the German anti-Nazi resistance movement (same goes for other resistance movements/freedom fighters). While I’m upset that it failed, I’m still happy that Adolf Hitler got what he deserved - opting out like the cowardly joke he was from the moment he arrived into the German society and gave the German people a bad name. Still happy that Germany (in particular the Bundeswehr - modern German armed forces) today still recognises the Valkyrie team as the shining example of German heroism, humanity and patriotism. P.S. Hitler’s inner circle that were in the Berghof tea scene were Schutzstaffel/SS supreme commander Heinrich Himmler, propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, air force commander Herman Goering, architect and armament manufacturer Albert Speer, Hitler’s secretary Martin Bormann and field marshal Wilhelm Kietel

23:47 “confirmation, confirmation!” That actually reminds me of a certain other film, “Tora Tora Tora!” You guys should totally react to it when you get a chance. Only one other channel has done it.

THE DEFINITION OF LOVE: "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. 6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement." Romans 5:1-11. Also John 3:16-17. ebible.org/study/ The Gospel in One Minute: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K6wcW3ZTrm8.html

14:37 😊 🤓 Himmler

31:10 😮😮 “ do you recognize my voice?.”

I got an MI7 ad with Tom Cruise while watching a reaction to Valkyrie with Tom Cruise...what does it mean?!?!

What the movie doesn't mention (probably because its not sexy) os that Hitler always demanded quality, so his table was made of very thick, solid wood. This is part of what saved him in this attack.

"i dont want to spoil it" I mean, i'd be amazed if someone didnt know hitler died in 1945 :D

The cruelty of mankind, the evidence of evil is, ironically, one of the main signposts that good exists, and God. Especially when that cruelty or evil originates from one's self, one's thoughts and actions. Once you recognize the evil, you can't deny that the opposite exists, that Justice exists, without also sacrificing that part of your mind that processed and recognized that evil, and can separate between selfishness and selflessness, between cruelty and charity, wrong and right. It's not all there is on the path to God, and by itself it doesn't guarantee that path for all, but it is a significant part I think. Natural revelation. Which is why materialism, the seedbed of Communism and the soil for the bloodiest century - the 20th - had to work overtime to erase and rewrite that recognition for decades, before and after totalitarian regimes gained power. Nihilism doesn't lead to a true understanding of the natural, human, or philosophical world - if anything it leaves one open to _anything_ besides rationality... so long as it serves one's immediate interests. This is why you get such Utopian thoughts from idealists like Nechayev who would (and did) murder his own friends in the name of Revolution. It's what ideologically allowed Internal State Security agents to employ informers, break into homes, whip up cases against millions of their own countrymen, _torture_... for decades... and sleep soundly at night. _"You today, me tomorrow."_ Dostoyevsky said "Intelligence hides and twists," largely for its own gain, and this was before he could live to see how that would pan out for his own country later on. I'd add a bit of (I think) C.S. Lewis and Socrates to that: Half knowledge and a little philosophy spoils the mind into thinking it knows enough when it in fact knows nothing; continued and fuller knowledge while seeking in good faith makes one humble about what one does not know, and leads one closer to empathy, limits, and to recognizing God.

All things must die in order for all things to live.

35:54 LONG LIVE SACRED GERMANY !!! 🇩🇪

Two freaking countries nailed. Because Soviet Union was the ally of Nazi Germany for almost 2 years. They shared Europeand Soviet Union kept sending to Germany wheapons and food (Soviets have done it also before)

Himler was the head of the SS, who built and ran the concentration camps.

Gandhi? Funny you bring it up cause Hitler and Gandhi were in letter correspondence at one time because they both had a common enemy: the British Empire.

The Backbone of Allied Forces, were men, from 'British Indian Army', Today know as the 'Indian Army'!!.. The Majority of fight brunt, on West side of 'Germany', was taken by British Indian Army, and, on the east by 'Red Army' (Russians). With, all that's been said, don't take me for my word. But, you can check, the war archive/records/documents, by/for yourself!!.. Thanks 👍😊!!..

I didn't understand this movie when i was very young at the time But always felt it was a important movie while watching it.I guess i have to watch it again.

In five years, in 1949, the democratic Adenauer government would come to power. The Adenauer government would be in office until 1963 and would significantly shape Germany's state structure until the present day. The Federal Republic of Germany, as the successor to the previous National Socialist Germany under Adolf Hitler, rehabilitated in its name the men and women of July 20, 1944.

If was in German was perfect. The original language rules.

You didn't comment on Tom Cruise's wife in this so maybe you missed it, but she's the Red Woman in Game of Thrones. :)

This film misses one important factor from beginning to end. What kind of Germany the conspirators wanted. The answer is that they wanted a return to the military-led government typical of Germany before, during and for a time after WWII, when they were young men. Stauffenberg hoped for better in his surviving papers and diaries, but it wasn't until the Nazis had been rooted out, and Germany had become a fully democratic state again (which took years), that a peaceful Germany existed. If the Nazis had a lasting effect, it's that Germany became a truly united West Germany and not a set of separate states, and an East Germany under the Soviets. It took decades more before Germany was reunited and democratic, since when she is now allowed to get involved in United Nations and NATO military operations.

Your tears do you honor, sir. To eat fish and meat is one thing, so long as the animals are treated humanely, but treating them inhumanely or even worse, to abandon pets is horrific and inexcusable.

Most of them didn't especially care about the regime's crimes, except insofar as amplifying their own personal, career, and military doctrine grievances. They were more or less on board with most of what the Nazis did until it started causing battlefield defeats and senior military commanders being disrespected or ignored. But optimistically, maybe the act of resisting enlightened some of them.

you guys need to cheak out downfall the last 10 days of hitler

Don't let think film make you think *too* highly of those involved in the July Plot, they may have been anti-Nazi but that's only because they were beginning to lose the war. As for those who were against it for moral reasons, they weren't against continuing the war until the Allies allowed them to keep some of their conquests. They were Prussians more than they were anti-Nazi, just as the last German Emperor hated Nazism but approved of the German conquests of Poland and France.

Nice to know; Stauffenberg and the 20. Juli is a corner stone of todays German Army the Bundeswehr. So that the German Army will never be a tool of evil again. The HQ of Operation Valkyre, the Bendlerblock, is the seat of the German Federal Ministry of Defence and the 20. Juli is one of the big days for the Bundeswehr. Every year a solemnly pledge of recruits is held in the Bendlerblock, to reminde the day and spirit.

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Obviously hardcore nazis existed. There were a lot of them. But just because you were an officer or soldier in germany, definitely doesnt mean you were a nazi.

actuly that gyuy gobbels killed him self 1 day after hitler did 31:00

The non Tom Cruise version of this movie is much, much better.

There is a german dokumentary which call the devil's luck. Its a story about over 40 attacks agains Adolf Hitler and his circle. (The once attapch against a a Nazileader who work was against the general of police Reinhard heydrich. 13 minutes (german name is 'Georg Elser- he would change the world') is another good Movie. Its about the assassin Georg Elser who was a small worker from south Germany. But he hates Hitler so extrem that decide to kill Hitler. He put a Bomb in the 'Bürgerbräukeller' at the November 1939 while hitler giving a speech.

27:47 the Fūhrer is alive !

Goebbels was the minister of propaganda and Himmler was the "architect of the Holocaust." This is one of the few films that makes me proud of the human race. To know that there were those who resisted, and gave everything to destroy all that Hitler stood for. I'd like to believe I'd be willing to sacrifice myself to try and stop Hitler. If I was younger, I'd say I probably would have been indoctrinated and deluded into becoming a Hitler Youth. Now that I'm older, more determined, more comfortable in my own skin, my knowledge, my awareness.. I think I'd be more inclined to resist. Then again, don't we all. The world is full of hopefuls, but we must recognize the majority of us would probably submit, as many Germans did themselves - out of fear for our lives. It's a shame that this fear has been instilled in society much more prevalently. Just look at capitalism, and how the awareness of everyone about the suffering capitalism causes has skyrocketed. Everyone knows it's vile and malicious. If it was a person, it's killed more people than Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Kim Jong Un and Il combined. Everyone knows it's this bad, but few stand up against the powers that be to face them down.

27:38 You have shameful knowledge of one of the most importatnt part od european history... (whole "reaction")

Disrespectful

The Nazis were nationalist socialist They were liberal famous quote from Hitler, even confirmed that they weren’t conservative at all.

Horrible casting in this movie. I suggest watching vintage flicks about Rommel aka 'Desert Fox'.

Of the best movies everrrr...🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👌👍🌹🩸