Posted on 12/28/2008 2:09:09 PM PST by AJKauf
Well Tom Cruise is better. Not great. Still too callow (Killing Hitler is “Risky Business”) and not really convincing as a German aristo. But the problem is with the film’s Hitler and it’s skewing of history. Hitler seems to be the bad guy in this movie mainly because he’s poorly groomed and has bad posture–that’s how you can tell he’s a mass murderer. At least compared with the impeccably dressed anti-Hitler aristo-officer conspirators...
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It is NOT doing well in the box office.
I think TC deep-sized his career and he won’t be A listing until he is doing crotchety old men in his 2nd career.
Out of all the actors that could have done a better job...Why TC?
He’s hoping that this erases the memory of him jumping on Oprah’s couch.
He turned in a very good performance in the movie: Collateral./Just Asking - seoul62......
It’s a well-established historical fact that all sociopathic totalitarian mass-murdering dictators had poor personal hygiene.
The gist of his criticism is true enough. The German officers only went through with it AFTER D-Day.
When Old Schicklegruber was winning they managed to put up with him.
Collateral was a great movie first one that i gave a rats ass about tom cruise since i saw DeMornay nekked
There always seems to be a huge controversy about how Hitler is presented in any film - as if the filmmakers have somehow made him look “too appealing” and critics fear the younger generation might start admiring him. They are probably afraid that misinformed public school products will decide that “Republicans like Hitler aren’t so bad after all.” But I think it’s important to show that he wasn’t Dracula and that his appeal in Germany was akin to Obama’s in the USA, and for disturbingly similar reasons.
Just saw that last night he was not acting in that part
Unlikely. Tom Cruise’s career has been entirely hinged on playing the young hotshot:
young hotshot football player,
young hotshot fighter pilot,
young hotshot stock car driver,
young hostshot sports agent,
lather, rinse, repeat.
He did do an interesting supporting role in Collateral, but there are a hundred actors in Hollywood who could have done equally well. His box office appeal hangs entirely on one trope, which is nearing the end of its shelf life.
He always plays the arrogant jerk with natural talent who becomes a “good guy” thanks to the love of a good woman. He plays to the female fantasy of actually changing a man.
The sole exception was his role in Magnolia.
Not to forget:
young hotshot pool hustler;
young hotshot bartender;
young hotshot secret agent;
lather, rinse, repeat.
i could never watch a movie where 5’6 Tom Cruise played anything close to a tough guy
After seeing the History Channel special on the subject, I can’t but wonder at what a dithering, indecisive, cowardly (with some obvious notable exceptions) they were.
I’ve been wondering that maybe even the legendarily paranoid Hitler (he had people trying to kill him virtually his entire political career, and used a number of doubles) knew all about them and figured them for such wussies they weren’t worth worrying about.
And Cruise is now in his mid 40s!
Well, it wouldn't help the incoming administration to knock National Socialism to hard...
It’s all in the PR.
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