Posted on 04/22/2013 9:54:41 AM PDT by Perdogg
Oblivion," starring Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman, took the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with $38.152 million in gross receipts. "42," the Jackie Robinson story with Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford, stayed strong in its second week with $18.025 million, good for the No. 2 spot.
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He can be an action star, it doesn’t mean he is convincing as one.
I think he’s very convincing.
movie was awesome.
special effects and visuals are alone worth the ticket, and music is great
plot, i thought was really interesting.
acting was good too, i like cruise in it. also jamie lannister made an appearance, but with both hands attached.
That’s cuz you’re a girl. :-P
yes! i agree! and it's the same with Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan... in every movie Meg Ryan does, she is basically Sally from When Harry Met Sally... in every movie Julia Roberts does (other than Steel Magnolias) she is Vivian from Pretty Woman... every movie she does has to work in that gawd-awful cackle of a laugh... without fail!
But I've liked some of his later work. A couple of the Mission Impossibles, War of the Worlds, Minority Report (excellent scifi IMO), Knight and Day, the one about the plot to kill Hitler was very good, and Jack Reacher his latest.
I'm looking forward to seeing this one too.
Also in Cruise's favor...he doesn't generally do gratuitous profanity or sex.
Hey now, Prometheus was an important cautionary tale about running to the side, not forward, when something long or round is falling towards you.
According to author Orr Kelly, citing Navy studies, the average SEAL is 5 ft. 8 in. and weights 179 pounds.
Former SEAL Team 6 member Denny Chalker didn’t give any numbers but in his autobiography he said the average SEAL looks like a very fit guy of average height and build. He said the long runs on the beach tend to weed out the big guys and the log PT and handling the boats tends to eliminate the small guys. So you are left, with some exceptions, with a bunch of average size men.
Let’s just put it this way;
“Only an idiot would eff with one.”
Yessir.....
I saw this on opening night...
I have mixed feelings about the movie, mostly because of expectations I had going in.
If you saw Tron: Legacy, you know this director’s style. He’s huge on visuals and somewhat less so on story. In this particular case, I feel he upped the bar with a compelling, interesting, and twist-happy story, but there was still something missing.
Great visuals, and a really solid story (honest). Tom Cruise acted his role well, and the supporting actors were all good as well.
I guess if I had to sum it up, I’d say this movie was sort of like a beautiful but emotionless woman. You can appreciate her aesthetically, and you can want to spend time with her, but you’ll have a hard time connecting with her in a meaningful way. That sums up what was missing for me - I could not connect with it, but rather felt like I was appreciating the cinematics and twists for their artistry and cleverness rather than investing in the characters.
I will never watch it because of morgan freeman.
LLS
“I was surprised how good the acting was from Olga Kurylenko and Andrea Riseborough. A lot of people are going to miss out because of their prejudices against Tom Cruise (for being a scientologist)”
It is hard any longer for me to accept Cruise given the combination of the well-deserved “prejudice” I have for the cult of Scientology and his strident advocacy for it. He is not just an actor who happens to be a Scientologist he is a primary cult icon to the Scientology cult as well as a primary public promoter of it.
There are plenty of things in entertainment that my life will not suffer for not having experienced them.
(I thought he was fantastic as a damaged, narcissistic motivational speaker in “Magnolia”).
Read the best-selling documentary expose books on Scientology released the past couple years. You may conclude that Cruise was not so much acting in Magnolia as he was channeling the inner Cruise.
This is one of the few Movies I am looking forward to seeing. I love good SciFi, and Cruise usually does a decent job in the genre. I watched “Jack Reacher” a couple of days ago and thought Cruise pulled off the role well. The movie seemed to stay true to Child’s writing. (Though I’ve not yet read the book the Movie was based on I’ve read several other Jack Reacher novels.)
That would be one way to put it.
I detest Morgan Freeman, but I’m still going to watch this movie.
I think I’ve read all of the series. I can imagine Cruise doing well as Reacher.
i meant to see Jack Reacher, but did not get around to it... i will have to rent it... i do think his action movies are better than his quasi-drama or somewhat love stories (i guess that's what Jerry Maguire was)...
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