07-13-2005, 04:23 PM | #21 |
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I like the original War of the Worlds anyway, you know, the one from the 1950's. That one's the best. Unlike most old movies, it doesn't look stupid (i.e. few model "hover tanks," which is what the aliens used in that one; paintings, etc.)
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07-13-2005, 04:36 PM | #22 |
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Tom Cruise is an idiot. A gilded (guilded?) idiot. The last time he was cool was many years ago, in that fighter-pilot movie Top Gun.
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07-13-2005, 04:46 PM | #23 |
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I don't particularly like any of his movies, either. My stepdad, who worked with him, said that he was jerk anyway.
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07-18-2005, 08:29 AM | #24 | |
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Well, actually I do. Made me feel personally vunerable...a bit helpless, if you will, to anything/anyone with a destructive bent and a leg-up on technology/biomechanics/etc. Weak weak weak ending, can't believe that this one Boston family managed to stay home unscathed, looking clean and well fed while everyone else was grunged from mortal peril....sheeesh.
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Another thing I didn't like about the movie (spoiler): Tom Cruise CANNOT kill Tim Robbins. I mean, especially for no good reason. It was embarrassing to sit there and watch Dakota Fanning sing a lullaby while her father strangles the poor man in the other room, then TWO MINUTES later she runs out of the house and they never go back. So he killed him all so they could have a half-hour's sleep before the big show-down?? Get real. (Besides, watching The Shawshank Redempton the previous night doesn't put you in a big mood to see Robbins get rubbed out.)
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07-30-2005, 09:59 PM | #27 |
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Since when was someone's acting ability based on whether or not they are jerks in real life?
Everyone keeps bashing Tom Cruise. So what, he's conceited and arrogant. It makes him more interesting. I don't mind if my celebrities are off-the-wall crackpots. They entertain me that way. And that's what they're there for. Entertainment. Are they not? I loved this movie. I thought it was great. Why? Because I focused on the acting, I focused on the characters, I focused on the emotion and the turmoil and the ranking human smell about it. It was wonderful to watch and I want to watch it again. It's a story of survival. Maybe I'm just biased, but I can't get enough of those. |
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the whole katie holmes and scientology crap is what has gotten people to dislike tom cruise as of late.
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I would prefer to ignore their lives too...if only I didn't see their faces plastered everywhere with screaming headlines! I don't care what views, religions or original or un-original ideas celebrities have, I just want it out of my face. And I don't think it should be made public to the point where its all you hear about happening in hollywood. The problem with celebrities is that their wisdom is no wiser than your local postman's, yet they all act as if they're all Ghandis or Christs that the world would fall apart without. And I respectfully disagree about their personal lives for entertainment. Are celebrities people? Do you see your mom's (not you specifically Rana) face on a billboard announcing her latest breakup? Question: why do celebrities personal lives get big coverage while ours don't? It's not a matter of unfairness that I'm feeling, because I certainly don't want my life spread out on magazine covers...I just don't see whats so...necessary about it. Here again we run into a question, why do celebrities unfailingly get married and break up?..lots of people breakup, but we're talking about Julia Roberts, Britney Spears' instant made marriage (the same way Batman calls Alfred for Coffee): you know her now-husband divorced his then-wife for her...and now they've got a child. How cute...and what good models they pretend (no, they think) they are for the American Family. It may be harmless, really, but it sure as heck is annoying. Headlines we may see... Jen & Vince get hitched! Tom and Katie joyfully consent to adbduction by aliens! With new technology Spielberg flies across moon on bike! ("Always wanted to do it") I'm mean. But they do sound likely.
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