― 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
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― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― na (Nick A.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link
what is it about him?
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― na (Nick A.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
I've not seen so many of his interviews and if I try to think of what he looks like being interviewed I get 'the stock smile' or his 'uncomfortable consternation' looking back at me. those are just images not memories. in fact, I'm not sure, have I any memories of tom cruise? probably definitely so it would be silly for me to argue fr his images over my memories. well, not entirely but I won't. I always think of him as insecure but always remember him as outgoing, confident, good look-ing.
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― na (Nick A.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Jaymc's story about Leno kinda sums up the confusion i feel about him.
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link
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i mean yeah, i was being a little hyberbolic. i can see him as good looking and sexy and all that.
― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link
well Madchen put it more succinctly upthread:
He doesn't look like a zombie so much as he looks like he's always concealing the desire to launch across a room and beat someone to death with their own shoes.
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― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, I saw him on a different talk show recently where he started laughing uncrollably for a good minute, if not more, and when he tried to speak he couldn't. I wasn't paying enough attention beforehand to know the context or to understand what was going on when he finally was able to talk, but that was a definite chink in the armor moment.
― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
(it's midnight for now tho, but later)
cruise's magnolia = von trier's five obstructions?
― prima fassy (mwah), Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― erik, Friday, 13 August 2004 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huey (Huey), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link
"Vanilla Sky" commentary? Oh the shame...
― Huey (Huey), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 13 August 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st, Friday, 13 August 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
http://sportsmed.starwave.com/i/magazine/new/risky_business.jpg
― erik, Saturday, 14 August 2004 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― anthony, Saturday, 14 August 2004 08:20 (nineteen years ago) link