I just finished watching Max, and wanted to know if anyone else had seen it and what they thought of it.
I just saw it, and I liked it. I thought Noah Taylor made Hitler both pathetic and revolting at the same time. John Cusack also did an amazing job with his role–especially the frustration he felt trying to work vicariously through a less talented artist.
One review I read criticized the characterization of Max, saying that Cusack played him like a 21st century character plopped into 1918. But, I think that was intentional–he was a futurist, and it provided a contrast with Hitler’s hyperconservative, regressive world view.
On a more personal note, I loved the scene when Hitler flies into a rage and fights with his painting. I’ve felt that way more than once while I’ve been working on a painting, and it was wonderfully cathartic. 
Whoa, you saw Max? I’ve been wanting to see that for months! Was is on broadcast TV, or did you see it on DVD, or in a theater or something?
I read the thread title and now I can’t get this idea out of my head.
Cut to commercial.
A group of orthodox Jews stand around drinking Mike's Hard Lemonade.
One says ‘I’d heil Hitler for a hard lemonade.’
From there it becomes ‘what would you do for a klondike bar’ from hell and on acid.
Funny, but wrong. 
The commercials usually feature injuries and the tag “A hard day calls for a hard lemonade.”
Thus, the scene would be this:
A Jewish man wearing a yellow star is picked on (in montage form) by Nazis. He goes home at night… but it’s Kristillnacht. A brick flies through the window and hits him in the head. Cut to a bar, where he’s drinking a Mike’s, brick still on his head. That’s your commercial.
Don’t get me started on the dozen ideas I just had for one of those “Not going anywhere for a while?” Snickers commercials…
Max? I’m sorry. I left February three months ago. Where on Earth do you people live?
Muad’Dib lives in California, parts of which are clearly not of this Earth.
I thought Noah Taylor was great in the movie. He must have done his research, because he portrays a Young Hitler exactly the way he’s always been described in biographies…nervous, insecure, afraid of women, arrogant, and convinced of his own artistic genius even in the face of constant rejection and scorn.
I thought the movie as a whole sucked, though. Pretentious script and lazy direction.
John Cusack’s character is only marginally interesting, and the subplots involving his wife and mistress are so boring and non-germain to the movie that I fast-forwinded over them.
Maybe I rented the movie for the wrong reasons, though. I always thought Hitler’s early years and eventual rise to power would make a fascinating movie, and I guess I wanted to see more of that, instead of Cusack’s fictional character.
Everyone knows Hitler would only drink Sauerkraut juice,
Yeah, I most likely spelled it wrong. I know.
Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore.
In America where the movie didn’t get wide distribution. Where do you live?
I thought the movie was good but not great. I don’t think the script or direction was “lazy”, but I did think the writer and director bit off more than they could chew. Cusak did a good job, although I will conceed to his critics that he did slip into John Cusak mode a couple of times. Noah Taylor really knocked it out of the park, though. He was perfect. The concerns that the movie would make a sympathetic character out of Hitler were misplaced. The impression I got was of a guy who is clearly a self-centered jerk, has an inkling that he might be a self-centered jerk, tries to reach out to people and un-jerk himself, but fails because, well, let’s face it, he’s a jerk. The implication at the end is that he probably felt that his one attempt at non-jerkhood absolved him of any other responsibility to try–and besides, being a jerk is working! He reminded me of an ex-friend I had, although I don’t think this guy is going to end up being a murderous dictator. But then again, neither did Max…
[Family Guy]
Hitler: Today on Hitler, we’ll be talking with Hollywood hunk Christian Slater…
(Cut to Hitler sitting at a Letterman-style desk)
Hitler: So, zey tell me in your next movie…we’ll get to see your butt…(audience cheers)
Christian Slater: Heh, well, that’s right…
Hitler: Can ve see it right now?
Christian Slater: Well, sure.
Hilter: Oh! Oh! He’s going to do it!
[/Family Guy]
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