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!
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 15, 2017 7:40:21 pm PDT #1083 of 3463
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Kalshane - Oct 16, 2017 4:54:20 am PDT #1084 of 3463
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
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.
beekaytee - Oct 16, 2017 5:09:04 am PDT #1085 of 3463
Compassionately intolerant
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.
SuziQ - Oct 16, 2017 5:42:12 am PDT #1086 of 3463
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
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.
Jessica - Oct 16, 2017 9:40:04 am PDT #1087 of 3463
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
deceptively youthful-looking narcissistic whackjob who built a fake family around himself and cozied up to younger people to maintain his relevance
Bwahaha!
beekaytee - Oct 16, 2017 11:26:06 am PDT #1088 of 3463
Compassionately intolerant
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.
Amy - Oct 16, 2017 11:48:03 am PDT #1089 of 3463
Because books.
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.
SuziQ - Oct 16, 2017 11:58:24 am PDT #1090 of 3463
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
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.
Atropa - Oct 16, 2017 12:33:02 pm PDT #1091 of 3463
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
Amy - Oct 16, 2017 1:33:25 pm PDT #1092 of 3463
Because books.
I can still watch Johnny Depp's early stuff. It seems disconnected from him now? I don't know.
I used to love Braveheart. But between Gibson and the many ways it's been parodied, I don't think I could anymore.