Re: Rip on Tom Cruise all you want for being a nutjob

On 28 Apr 2006 09:59:47 -0700, "moviePig" <pwallace@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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[Rip on Tom Cruise all you want for being a nutjob.]

Why, thank you, I will.

Tom Cruise is a batsh!t crazy m@therf@cker who is so full of sh!t that
he squeaks.


And yet, he is an actor who has been in some of the best films of the
last 25 years. His filmography can't be touched by 98% of all actors,
living and dead.

"Best"? Sorry, can't see it?. He's simply been in some very popular
films, but
not necessarily good ones.



OK, but "Popular" and "best" are not necessarily mutually exclusive. EWS
wasn't very popular, nor VS, nor "Magnolia." All three were
thought-provoking, excellent films. Then there is "Collateral", "The Last
Samurai", and "The Color of Money" which were both popular and very good.


Good Christ, TZ--you thought "The Last Samurai" was good? It was a pale
imitation of "Dances with Wolves". Ed Zwick is good filmmaker, but he
seems to have lost it with TLS.

(LAST SAMURAI was good until Billy Connolly's exit.)

I wish we could get more of Billy Connolly.
Thumper


Cruise gets marks
for a career well-managed, and for being an excellent character (i.e.,
limited-range) actor. Whom else would you cast to play 'good-looking,
cocky, and earnest'? RISKY BUSINESS (your favorite), THE COLOR OF
MONEY, and his best scene from WAR OF THE WORLDS (the game of catch
with his son) were all the same guy ...whom he'll soon be too old to
play, btw (...one reason COLLATERAL didn't quite work).


John Wayne made quite a career playing essentially the same guy in
most of his films.
Thumper
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