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Hahaha, I meant my being psyched about the EoT sequel is mostly about Emily Blunt, not that the actual movie would be centered on her character (I wish!)
Okay, my wishful thinking totally got your post backwards! A movie centered on her character would kick serious ass.
I thought Cruise really made Interview with a Vampire, but then he played a deceptively youthful-looking narcissistic whackjob who built a fake family around himself and cozied up to younger people to maintain his relevance. Turns out it was the part he was born to play!
I still remember some of his fans being appalled when he took on such an "evil" part.
Carrey and Sandler are two of my stay aways, though neither of them would drive me away from a movie I otherwise interested in.
Rob Schneider, Mel Gibson...there are actually quite a few.
I know it makes no sense to overlay what I hear about a person...as a person...onto their job, but I do it all the time.
Schneider is one I just can't look at, regardless.
Rob Schneider is one that I tend to mentally discount and then discover that I like him more than I think I would each time I bump into certain movies. I like Hot Chick and Grown Ups. Though I avoid Deuce Bigalow like the plague (luckily it is very easy to avoid).
I also met him a few years ago at the celebrity softball game during MLB All Star festivities in San Francisco. He was very kind and great with all the fans.
deceptively youthful-looking narcissistic whackjob who built a fake family around himself and cozied up to younger people to maintain his relevance
Bwahaha!
I also met him a few years ago at the celebrity softball game during MLB All Star festivities in San Francisco. He was very kind and great with all the fans.
This is very nice to hear, Suzi.
It will not, I fear, shift my aversion, but now I will smile as I speed past any news story or entertainment offering he is in.
I think the only Tom Cruise movie I can watch and still enjoy is Risky Business.
And with Mel Gibson (who I didn't list, but who I also don't watch anymore), I can still watch Chicken Run and Signs (which I have a strange fondness for, and he's very un-Mel Gibson in it).
I don't know why Costner never bothered me. I never followed much about his personal life, and after Waterworld and The Postman, I felt sort of sorry for him. I still love Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, The Untouchables, and A Perfect World.
I think Chicken Run is the only Gibson thing I can abide - I don't have to look at his face, so it is all good. And I used to adore him, so it really sucks.
Chicken Run is also the only thing I can really watch/listen to Gibson in anymore.
I'm not sure if I can watch Johnny Depp in anything anymore. I want to be able to watch those movies - the first three PotC, Edward Scissorhands, Sweeney Todd. But I don't know, and I haven't tried yet.