Well, not exactly.
Some of us from Teacher's Brunch HQ in Rainy-and-60-degrees-all-weekend Auburn Hills, MI saw the latest Quentin Tarantino film, "Inglorious Bastereds," over the weekend.
While professional movie critics have largely been split about the film's success or failure, we amateur film critics thought the movie was pretty good.
In particular, the performance from Christoph Waltz as suave, smart Standartenführer Hans Landa was impressive, and he rightly won an award at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Though the film is decidedly not safe for school, we wondered at the time how many U.S. History students are going to see the film and write essays about the war's end that are just plain WAY wrong.
We also thought to another recent WWII film, "Valkyrie." That movie probably is OK for most high school classrooms, conforms to reality more than a bit more closely, and is available here.
Tom Cruise is even not too crazy in it.
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