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My wife wants to see MI, and I am now more happy to do so. I think Tom Cruise is pretty spectacularly crazy, but I don't think of the Mission Impossible series as being so particularly about him to make me skip it just because he bugs me. The star of the show, as far as I'm concerned, is Ridiculous Explosions, who is pretty good people all told. As long as this one is less boring than MI:3, I'm sure I'll enjoy it.
I didn't love the first Holmes, but I'm sure I'll see that one eventually too.
I find that I've grown painfully tired of every RDJ character having the "Let me explain in jaded monotone how much more awesome than everyone else I am. Repeatedly." thing going on, so I'm going to pass on the Sherlock Holmes movie.
I find his Sherlock Holmes incredibly annoying. Possibly because his English accent isn't very good, which he covers up by mugging at the camera and mumbling.
Right?
I was so disappointed with the first film. I was jazzed and ready to go. I love SH and this film was not worth it.
RDJ isn't really Holmes to me in the first movie, but I didn't care because he's ... RDJ. I'm easily pleased by him.
wrod. Sometimes I still feel proud of him for pulling his life together so much. Which is stupid, cause, hello? Stranger!
It's their business to make us care disproportionately. He's pretty good at that. And it sure beats being pissed off at/disgusted by people like La Lohan or Winning!Sheen who can't get their arse out of the drugs, and just keep sinking past rock bottom every time you look.
God bless a recovery story for a change.
God bless a recovery story for a change.
Yeah. I cordially loathe Mel Gibson, but I think it's kind of awesome the way RDJ is sticking up for him, because Gibson helped him out when he was in a hole.
I would feel better about Gibson if I thought he was aware he was in a hole and was actually trying to climb out, but he and Charlie Sheen appear to be in adjacent pits that they dug for themselves...
Yeah, I hoped he would, but it looked like a long shot there for a while.
It's weird (okay, maybe not), but I never had any ill wishes towards RDJ. Cruise and Gibson and Sheen have gone that extra mile to make themselves so fucking unsympathetic as well as falling down holes, that I could care less if they ever clean up their respective acts.
But RDJ? I was rooting for.
I was also rooting for LiLo, but fuck, I'm tired of that.