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the mongoose
08-27-2006, 10:35 PM
Click (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14472455/)

Guess no MI:4 then?!?:p
jOHN rODRIGUEZ
08-30-2006, 05:27 PM
I read Cruise has been calling Brooke Shields for anti-depressants.
Deckard
08-30-2006, 06:59 PM
I stuck my brain in neutral and watched Scary Movie 4 last night on DVD. Tom Cruise got sent up something rotten in it, and the Oprah sofa moment at the end had me pissing my pants. :D

You know he's in a dangerous place when movies are using him as comedy material.
adam
08-30-2006, 10:45 PM
This made its rounds a while ago but I thought it was pretty brilliant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD-3bXIRkzY
grady
08-31-2006, 12:15 AM
At the end of the day, how much is all this really going to matter. So Tom Cruise got out of the tightly held collar his PR people used to have around him. His rep. is down a bit, but he'll still be making movies. Look at Harrison Ford and that atrocious piece of garbage Firewall that he starred in earlier this year.

As long as Cruise sticks to doing rolls like Frank T.J. Mackey in Magnolia and Vincent in Collateral, he'll be fine.
the mongoose
08-31-2006, 12:25 AM
He's got nothing to worry about....people know his movies bank hardcore (his acting is pretty killer too IMO) and so therefore he's got a new deal already...lucky nut.:p

Click (http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/28/news/newsmakers/cruise.reut/index.htm)
grady
08-31-2006, 01:17 AM
It's just like dominos falling into place. He'd have a new deal before the week was over.

I'm sure Mel Gibson is overjoyed to have some of the hallogen spotlight shining away from him at the present.
b.miller
08-31-2006, 01:38 AM
I'm sure Mel Gibson is overjoyed to have some of the hallogen spotlight shining away from him at the present.

it woulda went away quicker were it not for those jews.
grady
08-31-2006, 01:42 AM
it woulda went away quicker were it not for those jews.

I'm TELLING YAS!!!! THEY CONTROL EVERYTHING!!!! EVERYTHIN!!!!

(I wonder what Matt and Trey have in mind for an upcoming South Park episode involving this media event)
grady
08-31-2006, 01:45 AM
I'm wondering if we also really need a fourth installment in the Mission Impossible series, or as I like to call it, 'Tom Cruise trying to be James Bond.'
b.miller
08-31-2006, 01:47 AM
maybe Mel will join Tom in the closet?
grady
08-31-2006, 01:55 AM
One would only hope that they would join one another in the closet. I would like to see Matt and Trey take it over the top on this one.

Maybe mix in some Indiana Jones use of Nazi's and Jewish strife for making their point so over the top that it will get a piece on the front page of the Arts section in the NY Times and warrent a couple op-ed pieces as well.

Side note: The local beer theater I occassionally work at as a projectionist is showing Team America this week. I don't know if I will make it for an entire show, but I want to see segments of that film.
dubman
08-31-2006, 04:30 PM
He's got nothing to worry about....people know his movies bank hardcore (his acting is pretty killer too IMO) and so therefore he's got a new deal already...lucky nut.:p

Click (http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/28/news/newsmakers/cruise.reut/index.htm)

tom cruise and a football team co-invest in their new film venture
if that's not the gayest thing ever...

tom cruise can't act. the fool merely widens his eyes when he's supposed to look panicked or angry.

or relaxed.

or amazed.

or sleeping
BeautifulBurnout
08-31-2006, 04:42 PM
tom cruise can't act. the fool merely widens his eyes when he's supposed to look panicked or angry.

or relaxed.

or amazed.

or sleeping
True.

But he's hella cute when he does.

I dunno, I guess I am stuck with him from his Brat Pack days, but I have always found him to have an endearing way of portraying almost every role he plays. Minority Report was one of his masterpieces for me.
Deckard
08-31-2006, 05:29 PM
Agree with dubman - he's a weak actor. You only need to watch Eyes Wide Shut to realise just how out of his depth he is when real acting is required. He's a great performer, but he's no great actor. Luckily for him, most of his films just require presence (something he undoubtedly has in spades) which is perfectly fine for big budget popcorn rides.
adam
08-31-2006, 06:14 PM
I don't know...I thought his scene with his father in Magnolia was pretty good.
Leon
09-01-2006, 04:52 AM
I don't know...I thought his scene with his father in Magnolia was pretty good.


Yeah his whole acting in that movie is really not bad I think.