There's a whole weird rage vibe there.
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 11:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:20 (nineteen years ago) link
(haha slocki that bit ws nicked, with modification, from dthomson!)
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:21 (nineteen years ago) link
boy's a star.
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link
(Though he hasn't approached it since, roles like "Magnolia" and "Vanilla Sky" are in a similar vein - playing off the classic "Cruise" golden boy persona.)
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link
I can't think of a film of his that wouldn't have been exactly the same without him. He brings nothing at all. He seems to have become a star with no reason for doing so, and is coasting along on that now.
(x-post where does Mimi Rogers fit into this theory?)
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
xxpost
― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link
same religion (at the time at least)?
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link
their facial features (the eyes especially) are actually very similar if you look closely. the nose is different, true.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― theodore fogelsanger, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
thomas cruise mapother IV.
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link
even when he is shit he is watchable and I can't really tell when he is shit, any longer.
maybe I am just good at avoiding films I would like him less in--vanilla sky and stuff.
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link
I pretty much hate him, but I wouldn't call it kneejerk. It's not a reflex, it's an opinion that took years of gathering evidence to build. I've seen almost all of his movies, and I just... don't... LIKE the guy. Not as an actor, not as a person. And yet I still go to see his movies. If anything's kneejerk, it's the impulse toward self-abuse.
― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link
crosspost
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link
oh damn i did not recognize noah taylor. good premise but ending, yeah, was straight schlock.
― the captain beefheart of personal hygiene (soda), Saturday, 24 January 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
Dunno if I would call it schlock, but it was consciously lite entertainment for sure.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 January 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link
The first act was so knowing, so well-edited. The whole film felt carefully attenuated to an audience's ability to twig onto the rules and scope of the time-fuckery. There wasn't a lot of unnecessary story, and the military-pr0n made a nifty backdrop. Cruise was well-cast. The stakes changed appropriately in the second act, and Blunt was a good charact. Third act just felt lazy and perfunctory. I don't know what would have been better. Also, I think that if the two leads had switched roles the movie would've worked a lot better.
― the captain beefheart of personal hygiene (soda), Saturday, 24 January 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
I could see Blunt perhaps doing as a good job as the protagonist, but Cruise definitely felt more suited (esp. the first half) as a cocky propagandist
― Nhex, Saturday, 24 January 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
i really hated the way the aliens looked like glowing metal spaghetti
― Punny Names (latebloomer), Saturday, 24 January 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
decent flick tho
― Punny Names (latebloomer), Saturday, 24 January 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
everyone otm about this film falling apart in the last reel, but still decent yes.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link
though what's up with them changing the title for the video release? isn't that a marketing team's nightmare?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
rock of ages is on abc family right now
this is a very weird film
― polyphonic, Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
xpost They didn't really change the title, did they? So much as radically downplay the astoundingly daft generic title, which was all the more baffling, because "All You Need Is Kill" is an AMAZING title. "Edge of Tomorrow" is like:
http://static.rogerebert.com/uploads/movie/movie_poster/mercury-rising-1998/large_22MTY11yZg6fmdI9u7lwi4uoP1P.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
tom cruise is licking a gal's face in front of a large crowd rn
― polyphonic, Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
I watched 12:01 recently. Was surprised at how high-energy it was, like EoT and not at all like Groundhog Day. 12:01's ending is also incredibly bad.
David Thomson's entry on Cruise now ends with "Edge of Tomorrow (14, Doug Liman), in which Lieutenant Colonel Bill Cage fights aliens."
― poxy fülvous (abanana), Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:04 (nine years ago) link
I think that if the two leads had switched roles the movie would've worked a lot better.
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
just not as funny or moving as Groundhog Day
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 January 2015 00:32 (nine years ago) link
it wasn't an emotional comedy. it was a very good action scifi tho.
― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 January 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
xp what is, though, really?
― Nhex, Sunday, 25 January 2015 00:45 (nine years ago) link
kung fu hustle
― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 January 2015 00:56 (nine years ago) link
nonstop action really bores the living hell out of me.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 January 2015 00:58 (nine years ago) link
Me too
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 25 January 2015 01:24 (nine years ago) link
though Cruise being paraded everywhere as the Angel of Verdun is kinda lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 January 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
Just saw this again. Especially in light of "Jurassic World" and its billions in the bank, it is utterly dumbfounding that this movie was not huge. Box office disappointment aside, it's the sort of movie made for a movie star anchor. Just as I can't imagine Cruise dorking around in "Jurassic Word," I couldn't imagine someone like Chris Pratt keeping this one together. I actually think Cruise is really good in it, too. There's a nice beat where some old man calls his character a coward, and just with his eyes and a wince he conveys his frustration, knowing that he has died hundreds of times, in the most horrible, painful ways possible, again and again, by choice, sacrificing himself for the sake of the human race, and there's just no way he can explain that to anyone.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 04:00 (eight years ago) link
Hmm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEBIJRAkujM
Seems like a Nic Cage sort of role.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
Tom Cruise is slowly turning into Sandi Toksvig. pic.twitter.com/UafWkeW8Bx— Richard Littler (@richard_littler) August 23, 2017
― streeps of range (wins), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
I watched one of the Jack Reacher movies on Netflix. Nothing special, but there's a moment when Cruise approaches a car where a couple of detectives are tracking him and he goes "How are ya!" with this earnest disarming smile right before he smashes their window and grabs their guns. He does studied charisma really well, though the new one makes me wonder when these roles will start to seem desperate and embarrassing or if can grow into a Liam Neeson-style mature bruiser.
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
I recommend this thread
I don't know how to supercut so please forgive/enjoy the upcoming thread https://t.co/aWUY0NZlXw— Anthony C-M (@anthonymiccio) August 30, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
good stuff!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
ha ha. this happens in get smart, too, with barbara feldon always slouching when she's beside don adams.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Thursday, 31 August 2017 09:50 (six years ago) link
man i hope kelly mcgillis had a decent physio on-set, seeing all that slouching made my own back start hurt
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 August 2017 10:35 (six years ago) link
I don't see how keeping her eyes open during a kiss helps tbh
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 31 August 2017 10:39 (six years ago) link
Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle has a trenchant joke that encapsulates the fundamental arrogance of so much American war cinema: “American foreign policy is horrendous 'cause not only will America come to your country and kill all your people, but what's worse, I think, is that they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.” Doug Liman's American Made, a rollicking comedy based on the drug-smuggling, gun-running, contra-funding exploits of C.I.A.-backed pilot Barry Seal (Tom Cruise), represents a discomfiting corollary: Not only will America attempt to destabilize your country with insidious covert ops, they'll come back decades later and make a movie about how much fucking fun it was.
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/american-made
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 September 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jul/05/the-top-20-tom-cruise-movies-ranked
'War of the Worlds' below 'Cocktail' and 'Days of Thunder' is certainly an interesting take.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 6 July 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
8. Minority Report (2002)Cruise and Spielberg should, by rights, be as natural a combination as bread and butter, and yet Minority Report is the only truly satisfying movie they have made together.
The only one out of...two
― omar little, Friday, 6 July 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
this is genuinely the greatest scene ever committed to film pic.twitter.com/VZXRJctPcc— velma 🐀 (@maggotmagick) June 23, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 23 June 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link