Comments on: Nazis and Scientologists

By: heydave

heydave — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:57:20 +0000

Hey! Eddie Izzard was good in Valkyrie!

By: MBouffant

MBouffant — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:47:17 +0000

Think that was a telebision movie.

By: HalloweenJack

HalloweenJack — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:06:20 +0000

The only reason that Valkyrie did as well as it did is that the ads promoted it as being from the director of X-Men, and inattentive folks showed up hoping to see Wolverine go after Hitler.

By: 4jkb4ia

4jkb4ia — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:30:01 +0000

Of course the doggie will win. It was promoted within an inch of its life and there are many dog owners and people who read the book who are a natural audience.

Besides the R rating, my husband remembers seeing a movie about this plot before.

By: drew42

drew42 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:28:15 +0000

Not necessarily defending Cruise here, but the Brad Pitt vehicle which had twice the budget and The Official Approval of Oprah, isn’t faring much better.

By: HeywoodJ

HeywoodJ — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:20:26 +0000

Not sure why anyone would go see a movie about Nazis — no matter how good it might be and no matter who’s in it — for Christmas. Cruise is actually a decent actor, imho; it takes talent to turn in an excellent performance in an otherwise awful movie like Magnolia.

Something for the kids:
Predictions for 2009

By: CCinNC

CCinNC — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:55:28 +0000

The only movie I liked Cruise in was “Collateral” because it was the only movie I’ve seen him in when I didn’t think, “Oh, there’s Tom Cruise, playing ____________.” Or maybe it was because he was a cold bastard and that’s how I imagine him IRL.

By: captphealy

captphealy — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:52:59 +0000

I actually liked Cruise in Tropic Thunder, but his role should have been chopped a bit, as the move got less funny the longer it got.

By: baldheadeddork

baldheadeddork — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:49:02 +0000

Sometimes the fiscal yardstick is obscure, and sometimes it’s not.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:41:16 +0000

Tom Cruise “was attracted to the role based on the resemblance of his profile to the colonel’s”.

Now that’s shallow ego talking. Cruise probably thinks he’s the second coming of Stauffenberg.

The only film I’ve enjoyed with him in it was Magnolia; but let’s face it, he was playing a hyped up version of himself. The man is ridiculously arrogant.

Speaking of shallow egos, will we be seeing the loveable bassets this evening?