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What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
| January 23rd, 2019 at 6:10:23 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | Good news, Tom Cruise is make MI 7 and MI 8 back to back, starting later this year. He'll have a blockbuster release in 2020, Top Gun, then the MI's will come out in 2021 and 2022. I wonder how long he can keep doing all his own stunts, he's be 57 this summer and 60 in 2022. I just saw Fallout a few weeks ago, probably the best of the MI series. MI 3. with Phillip Hoffman was OK, but Hoffman is hardly in it. He's in beginning and at the end. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| January 23rd, 2019 at 7:29:14 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | The only Tom Cruise movies I've truly liked were Risky Business and Eyes Wide Shut. The one where he kept living the same day over and over (no, I'm not referring to Groundhog Day) was decent, but it was despite of Tom Cruise, not because of him. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| January 23rd, 2019 at 8:03:40 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18762 | Edge of Tomorrow. I liked Interview with a Vampire, War of the Worlds, and Minority Report. Whether Cruise was integral to the movies...can't say. I think MI is the closest thing to a movie series built around Cruise, and I believe he was a driving force to reboot that idea if nothing else. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| January 23rd, 2019 at 8:16:45 PM permalink | |
| petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | We haven't watched Tom Cruise in "Jack Reacher" mainly because we are such fans of the Lee Child books where Jack was a part of our vernacular for a few months. Jack was 6'4" and built like a wedge. Can't help but know Tom isn't that way. We would ask each other, "what would Reacher do". The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
| January 23rd, 2019 at 8:38:26 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
I forgot about those. Minority Report I really liked, although not because of Cruise. The other two were good too. Maybe I like him more than I thought. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| January 23rd, 2019 at 8:49:20 PM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11791 |
I agree I read a lot of those books Tom Cruise just does not fit the bill. A definite miss-cast if you read the books I think I read the 1st 7, 8 or 9 Jack Reacher books Real fun reads. Kind of like a popcorn movie but I am reading. Great action Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| January 23rd, 2019 at 8:57:10 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I have all of those on DVD, and both Jack Reacher movies. And The Firm, Jerry McGuire, Last Samauri, A Few Good Men, Color of Money, all the MI series. Cruise is excellent in certain types of movies, he's believable and intense. Everything he's made in the last 20 years I've liked. Haven't seen Mummy or American Made yet. He was excellent in Vampire and Last Samauri. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| January 23rd, 2019 at 9:02:43 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I've seen Jack Reacher 6 times or more. You cannot compare books to the movies that are made from them Two different genres. I equally enjoyed LOTR books and movies, and they were not the same. Books by their nature require you to use your imagination a lot. A movie leaves nothing to the imagination. So give movies a break, forget the book and enjoy them for what they are. How the screenwriter saw the book, not how you saw it. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| January 23rd, 2019 at 9:08:02 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
My god, he's not supposed to 'fit the bill'. A movie has a very short time to tell the story from a book that took hours to read. A screenwriter takes a general theme from the book, here it's that Reacher is a badass. Who cares if he's a different looking badass, the theme is the same. James Bond in the books is quite different from the movies. Who cares. But they can go too far. In the Gunslinger series it's important he be a grizzled white guy. In the movie he was portrayed by a black actor. It didn't fit, and the movie was a bust If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| January 24th, 2019 at 12:55:54 AM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 | My favorite Tom Cruise character was the bit part he had in "Tropic Thunder". My gut tells me Top Gun Part Deux is going to disappoint. Goose is dead. |