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Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Fri February 03, 2017 7:05 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
are you okay, joey?

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Fri February 03, 2017 7:06 pm
by epilogue
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:are you okay, joey?
I'm still here, len.

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Fri February 03, 2017 7:06 pm
by LoathedVermin72
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Watching Cobie Smulders try to hold her own next to Tom Cruise is just sad
She didn't breathe loudly or frown enough to keep up?
Actually she does both of those a lot

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Fri February 03, 2017 7:07 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
durdencommatyler wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:are you okay, joey?
I'm still here, len.
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Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Fri February 03, 2017 7:08 pm
by epilogue
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Watching Cobie Smulders try to hold her own next to Tom Cruise is just sad
She didn't breathe loudly or frown enough to keep up?
Actually she does both of those a lot
Then does she just not run enough?

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Fri February 03, 2017 7:10 pm
by LoathedVermin72
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Watching Cobie Smulders try to hold her own next to Tom Cruise is just sad
She didn't breathe loudly or frown enough to keep up?
Actually she does both of those a lot
Then does she just not run enough?
She does that too

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Fri February 03, 2017 7:12 pm
by epilogue
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Watching Cobie Smulders try to hold her own next to Tom Cruise is just sad
She didn't breathe loudly or frown enough to keep up?
Actually she does both of those a lot
Then does she just not run enough?
She does that too
Huh. Take her shirt off?

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Fri February 03, 2017 7:13 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Joey, I know you hate Cruise, but you should give this piece a read. Maybe it will help give you a bit more appreciation for him.

http://grantland.com/features/tom-cruis ... nicholson/

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Fri February 03, 2017 7:13 pm
by LoathedVermin72
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Watching Cobie Smulders try to hold her own next to Tom Cruise is just sad
She didn't breathe loudly or frown enough to keep up?
Actually she does both of those a lot
Then does she just not run enough?
She does that too
Huh. Take her shirt off?
That too

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Fri February 03, 2017 7:13 pm
by epilogue
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Joey, I know you hate Cruise, but you should give this piece a read. Maybe it will help give you a bit more appreciation for him.

http://grantland.com/features/tom-cruis ... nicholson/
First of all, I do not hate Tom Cruise. Secondly, I will happily read that. BRB.

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Fri February 03, 2017 7:24 pm
by epilogue
It's a nice piece but I'm not sure how it's supposed to enlighten me about Tom Cruise: The Actor. I still contest that Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia are his two best performances. It's no surprise that great directors working from great scripts are able to help even competent actors shine. And Cruise is, at the very least, competent.

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Fri February 03, 2017 7:26 pm
by epilogue
Also, my issues with Jack Reacher have little to do with Tom Cruise.

It's the fact that HE NEVER GOES BACK!

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Sat February 04, 2017 1:06 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
jack reacher is on fx right now

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Sat February 04, 2017 4:50 pm
by epilogue
Did you watch it?

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Sat February 04, 2017 4:58 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
durdencommatyler wrote:Did you watch it?
i watched 5 minutes or so, then decided to see what was netflix/amazon and that's when i watched the future cult classic swiss army man

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Sat February 04, 2017 5:13 pm
by VinylGuy
LoathedVermin72 wrote:I'm watching the new Jack Reacher and it's making me realize how terrible Cobie Smulders is.
She is so awful. Just a tv actress. A bad one.

And yeah, that movie sucks...looks terrible.

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Sat February 04, 2017 7:23 pm
by epilogue
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Did you watch it?
i watched 5 minutes or so, then decided to see what was netflix/amazon and that's when i watched the future cult classic swiss army man
Ah. I see.

I might watch Jack Reacher one of these days. But the trailers looked so fucking stupid.

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Sat February 04, 2017 7:27 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
durdencommatyler wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Did you watch it?
i watched 5 minutes or so, then decided to see what was netflix/amazon and that's when i watched the future cult classic swiss army man
Ah. I see.

I might watch Jack Reacher one of these days. But the trailers looked so fucking stupid.
i wasn't terribly interested, but went with a friend to see it in the theater...it had its moments, but didn't do much for me overall

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Sat February 04, 2017 7:28 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: Who's Your Favorite (and Least Favorite) Actor?

Posted: Sat February 04, 2017 7:30 pm
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Did you watch it?
i watched 5 minutes or so, then decided to see what was netflix/amazon and that's when i watched the future cult classic swiss army man
Ah. I see.

I might watch Jack Reacher one of these days. But the trailers looked so fucking stupid.
i wasn't terribly interested, but went with a friend to see it in the theater...it had its moments, but didn't do much for me overall
The first one was awful.
It sure looked it to me. And again, that's not a Tom Cruise commentary, just a comment on this particular film.

Verm got me thinking about Tom Cruise. I'm going to use this thread as an opportunity to rank/rate his films that I've seen. I'm going to rank them in order. Then off to the side I'm going to give two grades: one for Tom and one for the film itself. The Tom grade will be 1-5 (five being best) and the film's grade will be an academic type letter grade...


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