Nuremberg review

World War II was the biggest battle in history, and still is to this day. More people died during that war, than in any other event in world history. Of course at the end of it, there was a winner and there was a loser. Obviously one of the losers were the Nazis, and this episode’s movie, “Nuremberg”, is about putting the Nazi high command on trial, notably Hermann Goring. Oscar winner Russell Crowe plays Goring, the second in command in Germany behind you know who. Another Oscar winner, Rami Malek, plays a U.S. Army psychiatrist who is sent in to evaluate Goring, and the other members of the high command, before the Nuremberg trials can begin. Michael Shannon plays Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, who didn’t just want Goring and the others to just be executed. He wanted a trial to get Goring and company to tell the world what they’re guilty of. It’s a legal and high tension end to one of the most evil chapters in world history. Is it worth watching to see what happens? Check out this episode of Movies Merica to find out! “Nuremberg” also stars John Slattery, Leo Woodall, Wrenn Schmidt, Mark O’Brien, Lydia Peckham, Richard E. Grant, Colin Hanks, Lotte Verbeek and Andreas Pietschmann. 

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As bad as sometimes today seems, for some valuable perspective, read up on World War II as well as the aftermath of that war that killed the most people than in any other event in history. If you want a little help from Hollywood with that, you may want to watch today's movie Nuremberg to see what truly bad days were. You might then just start thinking it wasn't that bad that the barista at the nearby coffee shop read your name wrong or Netflix got rid of the show you liked. That and more on Movies America Live Hey, everybody, hey, welcome to this latest episode of Movies America Live. Happy Sunday to you. And as always, I'm your host, Van Eberts, aka Movies America, aka Movie Maniac, and just want to say hi to all my fellow movie maniacs and my fellow freedom-fueled film fanatics out there as well. As we get into a World War II historical drama here today, and that, of course, would be Nuremberg. And real quick, just want to uh just suggest to you that uh if you know of anybody that uh you even remotely suspect is into movies, well, go ahead and share the link to this episode right now with them, especially if they're like World War II movie buffs, you know, probably like your dad or your grandfather, you know, this is right up their alley since it's a World War II historical drama right there. Okay, so but and then also real quick, we do have the live chat available on Rumble and YouTube. That's one of the perks of doing this show live. You don't have to just sit there and twiddle your thumbs and listen to me yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, the whole time. You know, you can involve yourself, get in the live chat, and uh at least say, hi, you know, or hey man, great episode, or man, you're you're you're your your show sucks butt, you know, or something like that. But uh the point is that this is an interactive show, and uh and the live chat is what makes it interactive right there, okay? So, all right, let's uh get into some Nuremberg here. Um, and uh I know, I know some of you might be saying, like, this is not a new movie. Nuremberg uh, you know, didn't just come out this weekend. And it's like, I know, I know this movie came out back, you know, last November. So this is technically a retro review, but you know, I just love war dramas. And as it turns out, this was the better movie uh back uh on that November 14th weekend last year. Certainly better than The Running Man, uh, the movie I chose to review for that weekend back then. But um, and also, real quick, I should mention that this movie, Nuremberg, is on Netflix uh right now. That's where I happen to watch it there. But so this movie is directed by James Franklin, and I don't blame you if you guys don't know who that is. Or this is not a household-name director like Spielberg or Denis Villeneuve or James Cameron or anybody like that. Uh you know, your uh your uh Christopher Nolan's, nothing like that. James Franklin is just kind of pretty obscure. Uh, but this movie stars the Academy Award winning Russell Crowe, also the Academy Award winning Rami Malik. Uh, you guys might uh know him. He's a guy he won his Academy Award for playing Freddie Mercury. Uh you got Michael Shannon, uh Leo Woodall, uh Richard E. Grant, uh Ren Schmitz, John Slattery, and then Lydia Peckham. And that's just a small schmattering of the plot or of the cast uh in this uh in Nuremberg. And so the plot, just kind of give you the broad strokes of the plot of Nuremberg, is so it's the end of World War II, Germany's lost, you know, Japan's lost, Italy's lost, uh, you know, the good guys, you know, America, oh, and then the UK and France and all those guys. Uh, you know, we are the victors, we are the winners. And so now we're in that process where we've got some of the you know the German high command in custody, but there's still some baddies from Germany wandering around trying to escape and that kind of thing, right? So um, and we eventually do capture Hermann Gring, who is uh or Gering. This is uh Russell Crowe, the player, the the character of that real life guy that Russell Crowe plays. So they capture him, and uh it it's and at this time there's a kill order out there, basically, for any any German uh, you know, like uh any German uh bad guy that they catch, uh then there's like a kill order there. Now it's kind of sketchy as far as who had the kill order out there, whether it was Roosevelt from the United States or Winston Churchill. I'm pretty sure Stalin. I think that's pretty much definitive that Joseph Stalin from Russia, like he liked the kill order. He was like, oh yeah, any of these, any of these doofuses, any of these German doofuses you run them in across, you know, Rudolf Hess, Gering, you know, whoever, right? Uh, you know, go ahead and just just just obliterate them, run on a spot, you know, like uh just uh yeah, just get a just uh you know, make them dead, basically, right there immediately. So a kill order, that kind of thing. Kind of like uh, you know, Order 66, you know, from Star Wars, they're like, just kill them all, right? And but there's a character, the guy, uh the character played by Michael Shannon, he's a Supreme Court Justice, uh like Robert Jackson is his name. And he's one of those guys who was like, well, I think it's kind of barbaric. You know, it doesn't what what makes us better than them if we're just going around and if we happen to find, you know, one of these German, you know, German losers, like we just shoot them, we just kill them or whatever, right then and there. He's one of those guys, right? And he's like, you know what, we need to, I think the way he was thinking is like, we need to do it better than Germany did it, okay? They went around just massacring people and systemically massacred people. Let's show them like what uh, you know, a higher character, a people of higher morals uh would do it, right? So he wanted to create like an international tribunal uh to try these guys. And I think one of his main goals is he wanted to get these German scum to, in front of the world, in front of the in front of you know worldwide cameras uh in a trial to admit the evils, the atrocities that they committed uh there. And so so it the that's basically an applied. So we've got all these German bad guys. I'm avoiding saying a certain word because uh there's a and I'll use it later on in the episode. There's a certain word that starts with the letter N and ends with a letter I that I don't want to say here like the first, you know, like 15 minutes of the show, you know, YouTube rules and all that stuff, right? Um, you know, since YouTube is a bastion of free speech, right? And uh so yeah, so it's all about like them being tried by the US, by the UK, by France, by the Soviet Union, uh, by many other, many, many countries uh here, and what was uh became the Nuremberg trials there. And so it's you know Nuremberg trials are so famous, uh, you know, they're they're worldwide famous. I mean, they were like these trials that were watched worldwide, uh, you know, across across this big planet we call the planet Earth, right? And uh and then also there's several movies who have been made about Nuremberg, obviously this one. Uh, there's an Alec Baldwin movie uh uh called Nuremberg back in 2000, where Brian Cox, uh, you guys might know him from Succession, and he played Hannibal Lecter and Manhunter. He played Herman Goering in that one. Uh you know, then there was uh with the the um uh the trials at Nuremberg or whatever that movie was back with Maximilenshell, Richard Winmark back in the 60s, uh that right there. That was a you know a Nuremberg movie as well. But today we're concentrating, though, on the 2025 Nuremberg movie with Russell Crowe right there. So that's that's how we're rolling here uh today. But that's the plot of the movie. I'm not gonna go into it any more than that. That's the broad strokes that I said that I would give you about the plot. But uh, yeah, let's move on. All right, and we got some more Nuremberg to talk about here. And as usual, we see a magnetic performance by Russell Crowe. Now, he's not the big movie star he was 20 years ago anymore. I mean, he's but he's still doing some of his best work, quite honestly, okay. Sure, he's not all honked out like you know, in his Gladiator and a Beautiful Mind days, you know, uh a master and commander, the far end of the world, you know, those days, right? But for as, let's just say, as robust as his physique is now, his performances nowadays are just as robust. For another example of an excellent Russell Crowe showing or performance there, uh, there's a movie that you should check out, and it's called Land of Bad. Uh, and that's where Russell Crow plays like this Air Force drone operator that's trying to save some military operators, some military guys on the ground, you know, with the drones and launching missiles from the drones and that kind of thing. And I think that's also on Netflix there, but uh and Crow is excellent uh in that. And so and he he he he just elevates that movie so much. But again, it's called Land of Bad, and it's on Netflix right now. It's a very action-packed, uh, and very, you know, very tense movie. So it's really good. It's never boring whatsoever. So Russell Crow, I mean, he still takes on interesting roles as he comments uh in this video right here.

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But the decision to take on the weight of playing a character that's a Nazi, the second in charge. That's what was that? That's heavy, right?

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Yeah. Yeah. But that thrill that comes from that thing of saying, This challenge is so big that I don't know if I can do this. And then part of you goes, I I'll I should leave that aside. And then that other voice goes, let's just have a go. And uh see someone like Guring. You know, that that word nuance is coming up a lot today. Because we can look at him in the stark sort of caricature version that a lot of people have in their minds of who he was. But that against the reality of his life and how he grew up, how he was educated, what his experiences were, who he really was uh as a man. Um there's a lot more to Goering than just looking at this going, oh bad man Nazi, you know. He uh one other thing I find fascinating, when he was a kid at school, he was like one of the dumbest students in his class at a normal school. And because of his sort of continuous failure as a punishment, he got sent to military school. In military school, he was a top student because it was stuff that interested him. He comes out of school pretty much on the dawn of the First World War, has his first military experience in the infantry as a young officer, gets wounded and realizes that standing on the ground and on a battlefield is not really the right place for him. What's interesting him is what keeps going on overhead. So he manufactures a way to get himself assigned to uh uh fighter squadron, is supposed to turn back up for duty with his infantry squadron, but sort of you know, manufactures a way to keep him as associated with the fighter squadron, learns how to become a pilot while he's doing that, and at a certain point in the war, they're losing more pilots than they trained, so they go, he knows how to fly, he can be a pilot. Finishes the first world war with 22 kills, air-to-air kills. That's three times the fighting ace. And he's also because he recently passed in battle, at the end of the first war, he's in charge of the the Baron V Von Richtofen, the Red Baron Squadron, which is the pinnacle of the German Air Force. So here he is as a young man, he's finishing that first war experience, and he is a third income, which means true, he is an actual war hero. And so through the 20s, he's on cigarette cards in Germany. You buy a packet of cigarettes, and there's a picture of Hermann Guring. Wow. So and he goes into that political environment, that post-bazar environment with a a very definite belief in his country as being something special, and he wants to make a contribution to bring lifting his country out of the mire that it's uh it's currently in. So he starts looking for a political connection and ends up going upstairs in a coffee house in uh Munich, I think it was, uh, and hearing a fellow called Adolf Hitler talk. And you know, realises that he has a lot in common with this guy where he sees things and knows that Hitler was a soldier. You know, it's a funny thing we put into the movie at one point because there's a speech about Rami that Rami Malik makes about Hitler being a failed painter and a not very good soldier. And I think the response I gave Goering at the time, which isn't not in the film, but he talks through Hitler's actual military record. And yeah, he didn't he didn't rise above Lance Corporal, but he turned down promotion three different times. He won an Iron Cross in 1914, and then he won a second one in 1918. And doing things that were showing such extreme courage that he was awarded the Iron Cross and he would he delivered messages on the battlefield. He would take their messages from headquarters and take it to the frontline troops and then bring their response back, things like that. You know, so at one point in time I had Goering say, you know, you call him a failed painter, but maybe he got to a certain point in his life where there were more important things to address than painting. So, you know, nuance, you know.

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So Russell Crowe taking on, you know, roles like Goering reminds me of how even over 20 years ago he took on uh an uncomplimentary but very intriguing, I should say he took on uncomplimentary but intriguing roles. Um, one example is like uh playing uh tobacco company whistle whistleblower, uh Jeffrey Wygan and uh The Insider. Michael Mann's the insider there, where Russell Crowe was paired up with uh Al Pacino, and Al Pacino played like the 60 Minutes producer that was trying to get uh Wygan to do a 60 minutes interview blown the lid on how tobacco companies knew that cigarettes were were addictive there. And for that, for that role, Russell Crowe had to gain was like, I don't know how many pounds, but he had to look like he was, you know, all uh frumpy and all that, right? And that was a year before he uh played Maximus and Gladiator, right there. So but uh but yeah, it was cool because uh yeah, he's uh you know he's a movie, he's got movie star looks right there, but he's not afraid to kind of fatten himself up, you know, to uh, you know, back in the day when he was skinny, now he's not so skinny uh there. But uh yeah, he's so he's he's he's not he's he's not this vain actor that's always gotta you know be you know in shape and be like the movie star and be like the you know the titular hero and always looking like a badass or anything like that. So and then uh fellow Oscar winner Rami Malik, he's also good in uh Nuremberg. Now he's playing the Army the Nuremberg prisoners' state of mind uh there. So basically he's he's brought in as a U.S. Army psychiatrist psychiatrist to do like a political or a mental uh evaluation on all these Nazis here. See, now I can use that word because we're in we're 15 minutes of the show. I could use the word Nazi now. So uh so but uh yeah, he's there to you know to investigate all these Nazis. So there's like there's like 21 prisoners, including Hermann Goering uh there, and then Rudolph Hess, who's another big name in uh the Nazi High Command there. So Robbie Malik's character is there to evaluate them mentally and kind of try to glean from them what kind of like what's uh what's their mental state uh so that he can maybe determine, okay, why are these people so evil? And if we can figure out why they're so evil, maybe we can come up with something to prevent people from becoming this evil, that kind of thing. And I gotta say, like Robbie Malik, he's more charismatic than usual. I got the feeling that he was channeling Tom Cruise's Daniel Caffey character from a few good men. He just kind of had that charisma, uh, kind of trying to chew up the scenes uh as he was going through uh his performance there. And then we uh we also have the aforementioned Michael Shannon as Supreme Court uh Justice Robert Jackson. And uh he's also good in an understated way. So basically the exact reversal or the exact opposite of Michael Shannon's portrayal of General Zod in Man of Steel, you know, what, uh, over 10 years ago in the in uh the Zack Snyder's Superman movie uh there. So um and then also we have Leo Woodall, who I'd never even heard of as an actor. I was looking up his filmography on IMDb, and I don't think I've ever seen him in anything, but Leo Woodall, uh, he plays uh Kelly's translator, because uh Sammy, or Sammy, Rami Malik's character, Douglas Kelly, doesn't speak German, but this uh this character, uh Howie Triest, played by this Leo Leo Woodall uh actor, he does play, or he does speak German. So he's uh he's Douglas's, or sorry, Kelly's German translator. Uh he is surprisingly good, uh, you know, but he's still a supporting player in the movie, but he's surprisingly good as a supporting player. And uh and Leo Woodall, you know, in his role as Howie Trees, uh he's in the army as well. Uh he gives a heartbreaking monologue uh almost towards the end of the movie about why it's important that Hermann During and all the other Nazis are shown to be the pure evil that they are. Now, with Nuremberg, you know, with everything that I've discovered right here, as far as the actors go, with Nuremberg, at the very, very least, you'll see some supremely competent acting all around. Uh, that is no lie uh right there. But uh yeah, real quick here, I want to say hello to my good buddy, Mr. Scott Awesome, here in the live chat on Rumble. And uh he says, hello, fellow taco lovers. Yes, get your taco. I like it. Ooh, movie. I love it, I love it. Yes, it's so good. Uh so there we go. That's uh that's my uh totally accurate, totally, totally accurate uh you know, movie or Mexican accent accent right there. Totally, totally, as I try to get my ducks in a row. All right, let's move on. And we've got some more Nuremberg to talk about here. And make no mistake, this movie is nowhere near historically accurate. For example, uh, like I said, Rami Malik's character, Douglas Kelly, the psychiatrist that they that he that they bring in to evaluate all the Nazi prisoners there. Uh, he wasn't actually at the Nuremberg trial. Now, he was just there. He was there, but before the Nuremberg trial started. So he was there for you know an extended amount of time, but but that was before the trial. Then by the time he was, by the time the Nuremberg trial started, he had like been promoted and he was back in the States uh there. But the movie portrays him at as being at the trial there. Also, Douglas Kelly didn't spend a lot of time with Guring's wife and daughter as it's portrayed in the movie. Now he knew Goering's wife, but that's as far as it went. He just knew about her uh there. And then you know there were rumors going around as to where Goering's wife and daughter were hiding and that kind of thing. So um, and uh but and on a side note about that relationship there uh with you know Goering's wife, uh her name is Emmy, and then uh Goering's daughter named Etta, that whole relationship, uh That's portrayed in the movie. It's just enigmatic there because you got to remember, this is they're they're the wife and daughter of essentially a murderous demon on Earth, okay? And also another historically inaccurate thing in this movie is there's no way that Goering would have known about uh Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as is implied in the script here. Uh, because remember, he's a prison. He has no access to newspapers or uh, you know, TV footage of the news or uh you know movie tone news, you know, with the reels of the world events. He's got no access to information. So he would have not he would not have known about us dropping uh you know, Fat Man, a little boy, uh those nukes, those nukes on Japan uh there. That all being said, though, Nuremberg, Nuremberg is still a very, very good movie. And you know, and that's the thing, is like most like uh historical drama movies, you know, they're they're not meant to be documentaries. Okay, they're they're all they're oftentimes uh they also they oftentimes have like uh you know just events and relationships and characters added to the movies to kind of Hollywood it up, right? To just increase the drama, make the movie a little bit more compelling, that kind of thing. Uh so but and so this movie is no no uh exception to that, right? There, like there's a there's a reporter character, and she's like a like a really hot you know reporter character in this movie. She never existed uh, you know, in in this whole true story about the Nuremberg trial, but she's inserted into the movie there to kind of uh move along the plot and that kind of thing. So and they did get the actual conducting of the Nuremberg trials pretty close to accurate. I mean, it's hard not to because remember, these Nuremberg trials specifically were designed to document them thoroughly. Okay. I mean, they were set up with like numerous lighting setups in the courtroom, uh, and those lighting setups were used, so those filming the trials had, you know, decent exposure levels or lighting levels. And then, of course, there were microphones uh everywhere. And as a result, director James Franklin and then Jack L. High. Jack L. High is the guy that wrote the book that this movie is based off, based off of there. And I think he also co-wrote uh the script, but uh but James Franklin and Jack L. High had plenty, plenty of trial footage to use to recreate the courtroom that the trials were held in. Because if you go out on YouTube, you can pretty much get the entire Nuremberg trial uh out there. I mean, just how many days and hours of Nuremberg trial uh how many hours and days that the Nuremberg trial took place over, right? You can basically watch the whole thing on YouTube or other places, obviously on Al Gore's worldwide interweb, uh right there. But uh and we got a little uh little uh kind of a little video here to kind of show you uh how close, if not exact, uh that James Franklin and Jack L. High got the the courtroom to look here uh in contr in the movie in contrast to real life. Uh part of that uh video right there, just because I didn't want to get uh get uh dinged for copyright right there. We'll see if I still do get deed for copyright. But uh but yeah, so and again, like the the first part of that, the black and white footage, that's the actual Nuremberg trials. And that guy was actual Herman Goering. Uh the actual Herman Goering there in that video uh there. But uh again, like I said, you can find you know the actual the Nuremberg trials, you know, all over YouTube and uh other places there on the web. But uh but James Franklin and Jack Alaye, as far as like authenticity of the trials there in the portraying the movie, they even show like how sunglasses were provided to everyone that was in that courtroom because the lighting was so bright in the courtroom. Again, like I said, they wanted uh they wanted the recordroom to be lit so bright that uh you know the the the ones that were capturing it, you know, on film there, you know, had it had basically so it looked good on film there. So it's what I'm trying to stammer out right there. My God, I can't talk today. But this all adds up uh to movie with so many compelling twists and turns. Uh, that is for sure right there. So, but uh real quick here, I think we need to change it up a little bit and uh you know, add a little you know, variety and spice uh to uh this episode right here. And I can't think of a better way to do that than with brew review time. All right, all right, let me introduce you to the brew for tool day. And alright, let's get that right there. There we go. All right, so and since we've got St. Paddy's Day coming up here, a couple days from the original taping of this episode here. Uh, I wanted to uh, of course, uh do a review of uh something Irish related. And so I have met that uh that uh that that requirement, uh, you know, that goal here uh with a little luck. Great Lakes Brewing Company, Conway's Irish Stout uh here. And uh this uh comes to us uh that brewery, the Great Lakes Brewing Company, is out of Cleveland, Ohio. And uh this beer, uh the name Conway, uh that named Conway is actually it's named after the brewery founder's grandfather, okay, who was a Cleveland cop. Uh and then uh, of course, you know, you might be like, hey Van, that's great. Thanks for the history lesson about this beer and what it was named after and all that stuff, and you know, where the brewery is at. But you know what? What I really want to know is how's it taste, brother? Come on, man. That's what I want to know. It's a beer. I want to know how it tastes. And so this beer right here, it does have the taste of like roasted malts. It's got like a little slight dark chocolate uh flavor to it. And I also taste a little bit of toffee in there, okay? Now, again, remember when I say chocolate and toffee and all that stuff. Again, remember, it's not like this overt, extreme toffee and chocolate flavor. I'm talking it's very, very slight here, okay? But enough to where, you know, you can tell that it's in the beer uh there as well. Um and so it's got in the chocolate, it's got kind of a bitter uh taste. Again, a very subtle uh chocolate bitter taste to it right there.

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And then as far as like the aroma here, the the nose, let's check this out here real quick. So it's got like uh like the crust of some toasted bread, that that that smell.

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And then I'm getting chocolate there as well with the nose on this beer there. So and it comes to us uh at 4.5 alcohol by volume there, which is actually pretty light uh for a stout there. But uh this is a lighter stout, and uh it's a good one to drink on old St. Paddy's Day. Again, that's coming up right here, so uh I can just taste, you know, the you know, the Rubens sandwiches already and that kind of thing. Uh but unfortunately I'll be working here, but uh, you know, off to uh get something there after work for a little St. Paddy's Day. But I know you guys are like, well, that's fascinating. Thanks for letting us know your St. Patty's Day plans. Next! Okay. But uh this uh beer, you know, and I like to and I'm I'm going into what foods this beer pairs well with, because I like to tell you that there as well. And the first thing that it pairs well with is fish and chips. Uh, also goes good with like barbecue brisket, uh, you know, hearty beef stews. Uh actually you can even make a milkshake out of this right here with like vanilla ice cream and chocolate bitters uh there. So mix this in, you know, with some vanilla ice cream and some chocolate bitters, and you got yourself, you know, a spiked milkshake there. So, I mean, I'll admit, I'm not above, you know, getting a uh you know, getting a spiked milkshake every once in a while there. I gotta since I moved uh from Dallas Fort Worth up to a smaller area, I gotta find another place where we can actually get a you know a spiked or a boozy milkshake because I had plenty of places uh down there to get boozy milkshakes, but not so much anymore where I where I've moved to right now. But again, that's my problem, not your problem right there. But uh with that here, I'm gonna take a drink off uh this beer because uh that's really what it's all about, right? So, all right, slantcha. All right, excellent. So I'm recommending uh this Conway's Irish Stout uh from Cleveland. And uh, you know, hey, hey, Cleveland Rocks, and so does her beer, I guess, right here. So a little Conway's Irish Stout there. Uh, you know, probably I'm just picturing some people watch, you know, uh drinking this in a in a Cleveland bar. Most Cleveland bars were like the long bar. It's like one of those bars that's you know, got that long hallway kind of, you know, uh build-out to it right there with a long bar and that kind of thing. So this is your classic like neighborhood, like Irish pub kind of looking place right there. So, but this tastes place, or this tastes great anywhere, even behind a microphone while you're doing a live stream, that's for sure. But uh anyway, pick yourself up some Conway's Irish Stout. Uh, you can probably get it like via an app on your phone, like Open Bar. Uh that's available on iOS. I think it's on Android now as well. Uh Android always bringing up the rear as usual. Uh but uh and also you can go to like Uber Eats uh if you have this beer in your area, or you can go to like a website like gopuff.com, and that's a website that uh prides itself on being able to get any beer anywhere in the world, even if you're 5,000 miles away from the nearest place where the beer is available there. So now, uh, you know, obviously without saying, uh it's gonna cost you some scratch, okay? It's gonna be gonna be a little pricey there if you're in Walla Walla, Washington and trying to get some beer where it's you know, nowhere, it's not available anywhere but uh like you know, Istanbul or something like that, right? Uh but which you will get your hands on it as I beer burp right there, and that's not very classy. Um but anyway, so just you know, I wanted to tell you that so I'm not hogging all the good brew for myself because I'm all about generosity. All right, there we go. You're good, you're good enough to watch, you're nice enough and good enough to me to watch this episode. You know, I should uh you know return the favor and let you guys know where you can get this beer there. But obviously, you're in the Cleveland area. Oh, yeah, you'd be able to get your hands on this. No problem. There you go. But anyway, I think I've belabored this point. So let's wrap up this brew. Review time. And I just have some random thoughts about this fantastic World War II historical drama. And my first random thought is the evidence video of the concentration camps was unsurprisingly shocking, maddening, and saddening all at the same time. It cuts through all the legal minutia of the trial with just a gut punch to your emotions. Uh, director James Franklin asked the cast, because he knew that they were going to do Nuremberg research, but you know, obviously, because they're in a movie about the Nuremberg trials, and they want to do some research for their characters. Uh, he asked them not to watch the actual Nazi concentration camps film that was shown during the actual Nuremberg trials. And the reason is he wanted them to be seeing it for the first time when they see it while filming that scene for the Nuremberg movie where they do show the uh the Nazi concentration camps film. And I keep saying Nazi concentration camps uh film because that's the title of the film uh there. So, but yeah, he asked them, please, uh, Russell, Romney, you know, uh Michael, please don't watch the the the this film ahead of time. I want you to see it fresh uh when you watch when when we're when we're showing it for filming that scene in the movie. And he put four cameras on four lead actors uh so he couldn't get their honest reactions to the horrors that they were seeing via this film. And it's a powerful scene. It is a powerful scene, and you see it change uh Douglas Kelly's attitude again, Rami Malik's character, the psychiatrist. You see it change Kelly's attitude about the gravity of what he's a part of here in there in Nuremberg. And useless trivia, just a little useless trivia here if you're a big movie maniac or a fellow freedom-fueled film fanatic like me. Useless trivia here. Uh, the Nazi concentration camps film that I'm talking about right now, it actually was made by legendary director John Ford while John Ford was still in the military. And then uh, if you know, as you movie maniacs already know, likely, uh, John Ford, he'd later go on to direct Hollywood classics like The Grapes of Wrath and The Quiet Man, two movies he won Academy Awards for. And then also he directed famously Stagecoach and uh and other Westerns like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, other uh like the uh was it uh The Enforcers, I think was another Western that he directed. So if so if that that that name John Ford sounded familiar, yes, it is that it's that same John Ford, the legendary director there that that that created that Nazi concentration camps film. But you know, that film basically what it does, it just shows evidence filmed uh of multiple concentration camps, if not all of them, right there, where I think um some of the footage I think was from the Nazis themselves because the Nazis, one of their characteristics is they they they documented everything, whether it was on paper or on film, they documented everything. And I think some of the other horrific, just heartbreaking footage uh were was from uh like the U.S. military or the British military or whatever, like the Allied military, uh filming what they were finding as they went in and liberated uh these camps. But God, uh that's it's it is it'll get you, it'll get you. And like it's it's intense for them. I mean, this movie's PG-13, but you know, uh in another context, like say if if what you saw in the Nazi concentration camps film were part of like just some horror movie, that movie would be rated X or rated NC17 nowadays, okay? But in the framework of this movie and in the framework of this footage being part of like real life Nazi atrocities, where they're they're literally trying to exterminate an entire race of people. Uh, you know, it you know, they it still doesn't earn this movie an NC17 rating there. Um, and so it's yeah, it's it's something else there, but uh just just be warned when you watch it. And the footage I've seen other Nazi concentration camp footage like on the internet, a random place on the internet, and what they show in this movie, it's not even the worst I've seen. God, I just I don't even want to think about it. Uh so moving on to the next random thought I have on Nuremberg is one of the characteristics of most historical dramas is they have impactful movie soundtracks. And and Nuremberg is no different. Uh composer Brian Tyler, and if that name sounds familiar, he's the same guy who does a musical like Yellowstone and other other um uh Taylor Sheridan TV shows. And he also does like uh movie soundtracks, well, obviously this movie here and other movie soundtracks as well. But composer Brian Tyler creates a powerful and thunderous at times, and others tender soundtrack. Now his soundtrack crescendos just feel like it just crescendos up and gets louder uh ingeniously when a significant event happens, or to show like how foreboding Herman Goering is at times. And then Brian Tyler like kind of just just just brings it on down, or just you know, does that that that just brings it on down and just changes the mood and does that it's it's time for couple skates, you know. It's a this turns on the quiet storm, you know, and goes softer with the music for the more personal scenes uh there. But those are just a couple of random thoughts I had about uh Nuremberg uh there. So, I mean, just uh you know, just more to enjoy about uh this movie, except for the I wouldn't say you're necessarily going to enjoy uh the Nazi concentration camps uh film part of this movie, but it is a necessary part of the movie there. Uh it's essential that they have it in there. But anyway, moving on. All right, just gotta wanted to remind you here that I do have another show on weekly. Now, obviously, you're watching the Sunday afternoon show here, but I also have a show on Thursday nights. And uh, that is a show where it could contain spoilers. Uh, and so much so I even put a spoiler warning in the title of the show. So the title of the show is called Movies America Spoiler Warning. And uh like with that show on the Thursday night, I don't go out of my way to reveal spoilers, but I also don't tiptoe and walk on eggshells trying not to spoil the movie here, like I'm doing today. Okay, so if you see a little bead of sweat coming down my down my forehead, it's because I'm literally, well, not literally, but I'm I'm metaphorically, you know, walking on eggshells, trying not to drop any spoilers for you on today's episode. Because this is Movies America Live. This is the spoiler-free show. Not so much on Thursday nights. Thursday night, I could spoil some stuff. Uh, so that's why I'm hoping that anybody watching this live right now or watching the recording of it here in the next few days, uh, that this this this video here, this live stream, convinces you to watch Nuremberg and then come back on Thursday night where I'm gonna be talking about Nuremberg, spoilers and all, in more depth. Okay, I'm gonna be uh busting out the scalpel and the suction and doing a deep dive and an autopsy on Nuremberg there. And so I shall probably tell you, hey, what time does uh my show come on on Thursday? And uh that comes on at Thursday night, 7 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Central, 5 p.m. Mountain, and 4 p.m. Pacific time there. And you'll be able to watch the show. The links will be available to watch the show on Thursday morning there. Uh probably the easiest way to get the links is go to my ex account uh under at Movies America. Just look for, or just type in Movies America on X and it'll come uh right up uh there. So, or you can just go to Rumble or YouTube and just type in Movies America Nuremberg on Thursday. Don't do it before Thursday because you won't find it there. But on Thursday, yeah, just type in Movies America Nuremberg and just look for Movies America spoiler warning there. And you're usually you'll first be able to search that and then actually find it on Thursday morning right there. But I hope to see you there. Um I love you know on Thursdays, like you know, everyone getting a live chat and let me know, let me know what they think about the movie that the show is about. Obviously, in this case, this week, it's about Nuremberg. Uh, it's a great chance for you to get in the live chat and let me know stuff like, hey, what's your favorite war historical drama movie? Or what's your favorite World War II historical drama movie? I mean, some people like you know, something like Bridge of Spies with Tom Hanks, the Spielberg movie there. Um, of course, the classics, Saving for Ivory and World War II dramas like that uh there. So um, and then Ori, you can, you know, like uh let me know, hey, what'd you hate about the movie? Would you like about the movie? Did you like just think the movie's kind of meh? All that stuff. And you can do all that in the live chat. Ultimately, you can live chat about whatever you want in a live chat uh there via Rumble and YouTube. But again, that's Thursday night uh movies America. Spoiler warning again at 7 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Central, uh, 5 p.m. Mountain. And 4 p.m. uh on uh Pacific time right there, as I my brain just went blank there uh right there suddenly. So I think we all have those senior moments, right? So there you go. But uh check that out and hey, yeah, let your friends and family uh know about that show on Thursday night if you if you're pretty sure that they've seen Nuremberg. Or hey, you know what? Sit though, sit their asses down in front of Netflix and yeah, watch Nuremberg there. And then you guys can both, or all of you, that you sit down, could all, you know, check out the show this Thursday night where we talk about Nuremberg and we'll just have a good old time. All right, we'll sit around the campfire and talk us some Nuremberg. How about it? There we go. But enough about that. We're moving on. All right, and so right now I'm gonna get to another one of my regular segments that I do on the Sunday show, and that is the segment about whether or not the movie that I am talking about this week is a woke after school special. Okay. Now, a lot of you might know what woke is or have your own definition of what woke is, but some of you younger folks out there, some of you young whippersnappers out there, okay, or you you little kids out there, you may not know what an after school special is, okay? And so, in order to give this segment the proper context for you, I should probably let you know really quickly what an after-school special is. So, an after-school special is uh something that came out back in like the late 70s and 80s, there. Uh, and as it as it infers in the name of it, it comes, it comes on after school, like 3 30 or whatever, okay. Uh, central time there. But it was a show where you would you'd come home and you'd be like, Ma, Ma, can I turn on the TV? I want to watch Dukes of Hazard. I want to watch, you know, DuckTales or something like that. And you fire up the TV, you're like, wait, wait, wait, where's DuckTales? What's going on? What is this show? And it says ABC, ABC after school special. And these after school specials would all be like these half an hour or so shows uh that that are all about all of our are all about like you know um life lessons that that they're trying to portray, trying to teach kids, right? Like, don't smoke or don't drink or you know, when the when the creepy guy that looks like Joe Biden rolls up in your neighborhood with the van with no windows and you know says, Hey kids, I got free ice cream in here.

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Come on, get your get your get your cute ashes in here and uh get your free ice cream.

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Like, don't get in Joe Biden's van with no windows. Like it's just valuable life lessons for kids, right? And you know, and uh, you know, their heart's in the right place as far as teaching these lessons. It's a you know, it's a good objective there. Um, but they're just so corny and cheesy. Okay, when you watch them, they're even back then they were corny and cheesy. So that's it, that's what an after school special is, okay. And so I like to let people know via this segment whether or not the movie I'm talking about this episode is a woke after school special. In other words, is it a movie that's like we're not really interested in entertaining you and and making your life better by presenting you with a movie that's either entertaining or informative and all that stuff. No, we just want to like make this movie, and oftentimes we're gonna wrap it up in like familiar IP that you're that that you know, like Star Wars and Star Trek and and you know Marvel. We're gonna we're gonna use that and we're gonna defile all that by inserting, by by awkwardly and clumsily inserting our little woke messaging in there. And so that's what a woke after school special is. And we and obviously, as you know, I don't have to tell you, as you know, uh, we've had a number, uh we've had an armada of woke after school specials that aren't movies, they're woke after school specials, okay? And so uh to to you know, to get to uh this week's movie, Nuremberg, is Nuremberg a woke after school special? And thankfully, it's not, okay. Now this movie was right on the tip, the tippy tip, tip, tip of being a woke after school special, because you can, you know, they the way that they talk about how you know the people can be evil and you may be people that even look like normal people, like they look like you and me, right? Uh just like the Nazis look normal. I mean, if you if you didn't know who they were, you're like, oh, that's just another human being right there. Uh, and and they the the messaging that really is a core part of this movie is that hey, evil isn't just done by you know people with horns coming out of their heads and look all evil and all that stuff. Like they just look like normal people there. And and you always gotta look out for evil, and you know, this and they and a lot of people like during the interviews, like the cast interviews for this movie, they're talking about this movie is you know more relevant today than ever. And you know, if you if you know anything about actors and Hollywood and that kind of thing and what's going on, a lot of people, when they make a movie about like uh Nazis and that kind of thing, or you know, dictators, uh, you know, fascists and that kind of thing, and they say something like uh, oh, this movie is more relevant than ever, you know what they have in their mind is is let's just cut through it, Donald Trump. Okay, that's what that's what they have in their mind right there. Now, they don't go as far as saying in this movie, this movie uh shows us about evil, or they don't have they don't like they don't have a caption at the end of the movie going, you know, the Nazis and Hitler were evil, and if you think evil has gone away, it's not. We are facing it even nowadays, like with people, like with like with people like President Trump, like there's no like caption or anything like that at the end of the movie, and nobody even says as much during the movie, okay? And I haven't heard anybody in any of the cast interviews, you know, uh for this movie. I haven't heard anybody. I haven't, of course, I haven't seen every interview, but uh they but you just know, I mean, actors have made their affection for all things woke uh you know evident for long enough to where we know where we know when they talk like this, we know that what they have in the back of their mind as those words are escaping their mouth right there. And the word Nazi gets lazily thrown around today to the point that I mean it almost has no impact or weights. I mean however, back in the period of time that you know today's movie Nuremberg takes place in, that word stood for something real, okay, not something fake like how leftists and never Trumpers use that word for Trump or or anyone who dares disagree with him politically right there, okay? So but for a lot of people, a lot of leftists, a lot of never Trumpers, when they realize, oh crap, I'm losing the debate. I have no facts on my side. They have every fact on their side. I have no facts on my side. What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? Like evasive action, what do I do? Oh, I know I'll use my little uh my little weaponized safe word that I always go to. It's my little word that I keep here in my little toolbox right here. I'm just gonna take this word, Nazi, and just arbitrarily throw it at them, uh, even though I damn well know it doesn't apply to the person that I'm having a debate with. But I'm hoping that whoever I'm debating with is weak-minded, very limp-wristed, and once they hear themselves being called a Nazi, they'll be like, oh, oh, please don't call me a Nazi.

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I'm not a Nazi. I swear to God, I'm not a Nazi. Okay, you win. You win, you win the debate. I'm sorry, I'm gonna shut up now. Okay, have a good day, okay.

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You know, like that's the that's the response that the leftists and the never Trumpers are always hoping for when they just just randomly, lazily throw the word Nazi or fascist out there, okay. Uh, but it's used so much nowadays that it has no weight, no impact whatsoever. You know, nowadays leftists is like leftists call their shoes Nazis if they're if if they're having problem if they're having trouble tying their shoelaces, you know, or or if Chipotle doesn't have the you know the the meat that they want for their little uh burrito right there. Oh, suddenly Chipotle is a bunch of meat Nazis and fascists, you know, that kind of thing. So it's uh it's it's really, really, really pathetic uh there. Kind of like the word racist has basically virtually no impact and no meaning to it because people just it it might as well be the word water. Okay, it just means absolutely nothing right there. But uh all that to say, hey, is is Nuremberg a woke after school special? And uh, you know, through all of that commentary I just gave you right there, I will say yes. Uh no. I don't know why why does it say yes? No, no, Nuremberg is not a woke after school special. Another feather in Nuremberg's uh cap, the movie that is, okay, Nuremberg movies cap right there. It is not a woke after school special, and thank God uh for that. Okay, so all right, let's press on. All right, so my final thoughts on Nuremberg, if you haven't uh picked it up yet, is to see this movie, okay. Check out this movie, and it's on Netflix uh right now, okay? So check that out. Netflix has uh got that uh there free of charge to you if you subscribe to Netflix. Uh that's that's free. Uh but you can check it out. It's it's a great watch. It's two hours and six minutes long, I'm pretty sure. Uh there. So it's not going to take up too much time of your day. But you're going to be enjoying the whole time uh that it's uh that you're watching it on Netflix. There's PG 13. Uh now, I would not have the kids watch it, uh at least definitely not the part with the Nazi concentration camps film right there, unless, I don't know, I mean, I mean, you might I guess from a pure educational, true world history standpoint, um, you know, hey parents, you make the call. Uh, you know your kids better than me, uh, whether or not they're gonna be able to handle it. But the rest of the movie they can handle. It's fine. There's a lot of there's some there's some profanity in the movie there, but nothing like that's gonna scar your kids for life, or you're gonna have to spend$85,000 on child psychiatrists or anything like that. So there you go. And uh before I wrap the show, I just want to acknowledge here, Mr. Scott Awesome there in the live chat. Around says, Mountain time isn't real. Well, you're not making friends with our viewers in what, Colorado and uh and uh New Mexico and with uh Wyoming and all of them right there. 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