And what is wrong with a little sin and corruption other than a case of syphilis.
Posted on 06/16/2014 5:27:52 AM PDT by Macoozie
With an opening weekend take of $28 million, Tom Cruise’s new sci-fi film “Edge of Tomorrow” — which debuted June 6 — did even worse than his last sci-fi movie, 2013’s “Oblivion.” In the last eight years, Cruise has had only one hit (2011’s “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol”). It looks like he’s nearing the end of his run as a major movie star, though we’ll see how “Mission: Impossible 5” does when it comes out next year.
The 51-year-old is not alone in his midlife crisis: Here are seven more movie stars whose careers are in trouble.
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Why anyone here would glorify Hollywood, much less financially support them by your patronage, is beyond me.
The people making money from this have values that are diametrically antithetical to what we Freepers say we hold.
Can we not make that connection?
One word...Redbox.
I don’t do movie-house, $50 ticket & snack excursions anymore. Used to be an enjoyable experience. Used to love an afternoon matinee or a Saturday night “date” with the wife. Not anymore. Nowadays, you deal with jerks on cellphones, or someone chattering with their neighbor the entire movie, or the thump, thump, thump of someone kicking the back of your seat, or groups of gangstas hovering around the theatre entrance.
No thanks. I’ll wait for it to come out on Redbox if I want to see it.
UNLESS...the actor has turned into a public jerk, espousing some sort of crap (liberal) dogma. In that case, there won’t even be a Redbox moment for them with me. They’re off my list.
If the line at the Redbox last night was any indication...a lot of folks feel the same way.
***That Tonto thing with the dead bird on his head,***
You want dead birds on the head? Rent the old movie A MAN CALLED HORSE. Authentic Indian costumes. One had a dead buzzard on his head.
And what is wrong with a little sin and corruption other than a case of syphilis.
Common theme with most of these guys...they can’t help but spout off about their personal views (usually liberal).
Annoyingly loud, CGI-substituted, cliché-filled, product-placement saturated, thin plot-flawed, leftist propaganda-ladened, outrageously priced CRAP.
Adam Sandler is perhaps the saddest one.
To paraphrase one of his own movies, nobody want to see a 50 year old guy making pratfalls and telling fart jokes.
The last movie I paid to see was D'Souza's documentary 2016: Obama's America. Before that, it was Amazing Grace, circa 2005.
We were planning to go to Clint Eastwood's last baseball movie, but couldn't fit it in the schedule before it left.
“Ghost Protocol” was so laughably, horrifically, inconceivably bad I had to turn it off after the first 45 minutes or so.
If that was the high point of Cruise’s last few films, he is in trouble.
He was superb, though, in “Vanilla Sky.”
The problem is that their agents/managers have put them in crummy movies lately. Actors act, they get offered scripts for movies with big payments associated. Sometimes they have to take roles in movies just to pay the bills.
Matt Damon, Vince Vaughn, Adam Sandler, are not good actors. I have never seen an Adam Sandler movie that I thought was funny. Matt Damon is annoying. Vince Vaughn is the same character in every movie.
George Clooney is also a good actor, but many of his movie are just too slow. He is in a lot of chick flicks. He was very good in “The Descendants”.
Tom Cruise needs to stop making action movies. He is too old. The last good movie he made was the one where he played a contract killer. I can not remember the name.
Justin Beeper as James Bond
Male roles and stars dominate today, whereas back during the horrible days of oppression of women, there were lots of good roles for actresses.
Agree. Today , it appears their is one great actress...
Meryl Streep
Adam Sandler is perhaps the saddest one.
Add Nicholas Cage to the list....
But for being related to FF Coppala I doubt he would get the screen time / roles he does
Edge of Tomorrow looks pretty good. Planning to see it.
I’d blame mass production. Every single action movie since 2009 has begun with a super-bass sub-woofer rattling everyone’s brain, followed by non-stop CGI that all looks the same. I just ran my DVDs of The Sand Pebbles and the original Flight of the Phoenix. Just pure story-telling and great acting. We don’t see any of this in contemporary films. Bleh. Movie theaters are running on $150M ad campaigns and inertia.
Edge of Tomorrow was very solid, with a good story, acting and effects. I thought Cruise was excellent in it.
Russell Crowe in “A Beautiful Mind” is a movie I’ll never forget. He’s a good actor, and to me— the others can’t measure up. BUT who am I to judge, since I’ve never seen most of them. Damon is OK when he gets the bad guys, but in real life he puts me off. Now I don’t go to movies when the actor ticks me off in the actual world. Their loss.
Crowe’s performance in Master and Commander is one of my all time favorites. Followed somewhere in the top 10 with what he did in Gladiator.
Absolutely true. Kevin Spacey has said that he doesn't want people to know anything about his private life because he wants to be seen on screen as the character and not the actor.
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