Red Mosquito

you really enjoy tearing all the true american heroes to pieces, don't you, mary?

theplatypus wrote:I have to disagree with Malice on Tom Cruise. I think he's a talented and charismatic actor, particularly on Michael Mann's "Collateral", even though I'm thoroughly creeped out by him and his cult.

I would agree with this in the sense that he's good when he's playing out of type, but usually you just get Tom Cruise playing Tom Cruise - and that's balls!

It works for some roles. I think it really worked in "Vanilla Sky", where he was playing a happy-go-lucky smarmy billionaire who struggles to feel any sense of authenticity in his life. That's a movie I will defend forever, and not just because of the amazing soundtrack.

turned2black wrote:

Magnolia

He was good in that too, though I really dislike that movie

theplatypus wrote:I have to disagree with Malice on Tom Cruise. I think he's a talented and charismatic actor, particularly on Michael Mann's "Collateral", even though I'm thoroughly creeped out by him and his cult.

i admit to not seeing a whole range of tom cruise movies, but the one's i've seen have really been terrible to me - the MI movies - hated them. minority report - meh, I like speculative /scifi etc, so it was 'ok' but he didn't add anything special to it for me, and the movie plot suffered some too. rain man was ok but both him and hoffman were a constant reminder that it was tom cruise and dustin hoffman in a movie to me. jerry mcguire? ugh. I don't think it was THAT bad, but really, who wants that kind of movie from him?
I'd forgotten about a few good men - that was good. but I've seen it in rerun showing on AMC so many times I really don't care about it anymore.

whatever, I guess I just don't care for that kind of actor.

He was good in Magnolia. Otherwise he's basically playing Tom Cruise in every movie, and seems flat any time he tries something different. That said, range is overrated.

Heathen wrote:you really enjoy tearing all the true american heroes to pieces, don't you, mary?

i'm particular about what i like is all. i am a girl you know

malice wrote:whatever, I guess I just don't care for that kind of actor.

Is it a height thing? Do you hate him cause he's short?

Rangi Guy wrote:

malice wrote:whatever, I guess I just don't care for that kind of actor.

Is it a height thing? Do you hate him cause he's short?

oh, i hate men in general, didn't you know that?

but, yeah, the short thing is a thing

He seems exquisitely good at finding the inner Tom Cruise in every character he portrays, which DOES serve the movie well when the character is right.

malice wrote:

Heathen wrote:you really enjoy tearing all the true american heroes to pieces, don't you, mary?

i'm particular about what i like is all. i am a girl you know

*old woman

too bad he hasn't made any l ron hubbard fiction pieces into movies yet, like travolta

Heathen wrote:

malice wrote:

Heathen wrote:you really enjoy tearing all the true american heroes to pieces, don't you, mary?

i'm particular about what i like is all. i am a girl you know

*old woman

you can gfys, jerk. I can call me old, you can't

malice wrote:oh, i hate men in general, didn't you know that?

I thought we were getting on alright...

malice wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:

malice wrote:whatever, I guess I just don't care for that kind of actor.

Is it a height thing? Do you hate him cause he's short?

oh, i hate men in general, didn't you know that?

but, yeah, the short thing is a thing

http://lejacquelope.tumblr.com/post/726 ... rt-men-the

Rangi Guy wrote:

malice wrote:oh, i hate men in general, didn't you know that?

I thought we were getting on alright...

harry lime is the only judge worth anything in these matters.

McParadigm wrote:He seems exquisitely good at finding the inner Tom Cruise in every character he portrays, which DOES serve the movie well when the character is right.

The Color of Money.

theplatypus wrote:

malice wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:

malice wrote:whatever, I guess I just don't care for that kind of actor.

Is it a height thing? Do you hate him cause he's short?

oh, i hate men in general, didn't you know that?

but, yeah, the short thing is a thing

http://lejacquelope.tumblr.com/post/726 ... rt-men-the

short men have been shamed by tall men for eons, friend

malice wrote:

Heathen wrote:

malice wrote:

Heathen wrote:you really enjoy tearing all the true american heroes to pieces, don't you, mary?

i'm particular about what i like is all. i am a girl you know

*old woman

you can gfys, jerk. I can call me old, you can't

can I call you woman? that's derogatory enough for me