'Why We Fight'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I think I'd have to lose a bet to see a Tom Cruise movie.
Yeah. Even beside the whole blatant defying of physics thing that the MI movies excel in (I have no tolerance for the mockery they make of climbing in every single MI movie, it's like they're doing it just to piss me, Consuela, off), it's Tom Cruise. Ewww.
I'm sorry but Mel Gibson will never lose the crown for retroactively tainting a bunch of movies I really liked (or loved). Tom Cruise doesn't even come close.
I don't think I need to CHOOSE. I can (and do) dislike both!
For me, the difference is that Mel Gibson isn't retroactively doing as much damage. Lethal Weapon? Still golden. However, there's little in Cruise's oeuvre that I can't say goodbye to. I mean, really, I only have to keep Top Gun and The Outsiders, and I don't *have* to *have* to keep Top Gun. It's just fun.
He didn't make any good movies. Mel did. And I've already paid for Mel's good movies, and it was long before the covers came off.
I watched Knight and Day in the background the other day, and ick, ew. Just can't look at him. I still want to rescue fully grown and consenting Katie Holmes.
rescue fully grown and consenting Katie Holmes
still the best(and only) RPF i've ever read.
I don't have the visceral Cruise hate a lot of people do, plus the movie's got interesting people in supporting roles (Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner) so I'll probably end up catching it at some point. Plus, I'm kind of stoked to see what Brad Bird would be like as a live-action movie director.
I'll probably go see SH2 at some point as well, but I REALLY don't like Guy Ritchie's style. I wanted to bash someone's head in every time he did one of those gratuitous slo-mo shots in the first movie. The second movie looks like it's gonna be full of those Ritchie-quirks I hate as well. Bah.
Even the sight of RDJ in drag having said drag torn off him and doing the rest of the action scene half naked with smudged lipstick could not redeem the steaming pile of crap that was that movie.
At least MI4 had the decency to have a plot. Seriously, we're two Sherlock Homles movies in and apparently nobody on the writing team has been made aware that their title character is generally known for solving mysteries.
I had decided that if Paula Patton was a decent action hero in her clips, I might give it a Netflix go, but the one fight scene I saw was laughable. I'll see Pegg in other stuff.
OK, I was just clicking on links on IMDb and... they are doing a Bourne movie without Jason Bourne? I don't even know how that will work!
It's got good people attached to it (including Joan Allen returning as Pam Landy! LOVED her) but the whole thing just strikes me as bizarre.
I guess they might go with the organisations that produced/chased him? Is whatsisname still doing action roles?
I watched the making of of The Adjustment Bureau, and they talked about all the training Blunt went through in order to be halfway convincing as a dancer. I don't know shit about dancing, so I can't gauge her success, and they did use doubles for some of it, but she said it was gruelling. Am I just that clueless or did they train her to be a better dancer than the fight choreographers made a fighter of Paula Patton?
(Obviously one of these is my bugaboo, and the other I am innocent as all hell...)