They used to call this a turkey, but “Bomb” seems so much more appropriate.

In All the President’s Men I got the feeling he thought he was having to dumb himself down to play the part…like I’m the smartest kid in the room.

Tom Cruise just team him up with Travolta and they can make a documentary called Weird Scientology.

Well, he’s kinda short. How extended could his range be?

Hahaha. I meant that in Born on Fourth of July he plays an emotionally confused character who doesn’t quite know what’s going on around him, in Minority Report, he plays an emotionally confused character who doesn’t quite know what’s going on around him, ditto Mission Impossible, Collateral etc. etc. He’s one of those actors, like Jack Nicholson and Tommy Lee Jones, who plays himself in every movie and as long as there are savvy casting directors still out there there’s no reason he can’t go on making good movies.

The second half of “Full Metal Jacket” should be made into 50,000 banjo picks.

The bootcamp first half is a great stand-alone film.

Vincent Donofrio’s best role.

(He is in a sleeper movie called “The Whole Wide World”, which is a bio flick of the short life Robert E. Howard, author of the “Conan” novels, and a must-see.)

Little Green Footballs

The Robert Redford anti-war film Lions for Lambs is not getting good reviews in advance of its release, and if it tanks as many expect it will, it could jeopardize MGM’s financing.

Meanwhile, the filmmakers obviously know…

Cruise is a talented actor albeit with a very limited range.

aengus on November 2, 2007 at 2:10 PM

Well, he’s kinda short. How extended could his range be?

Katie has to get the good china off the top shelf for him …

When will they ever understand people write what makes them seem real and they act it? Nobody likes “them”.

Silly actors.

A good marketer knows who his audience is.

They might as well come out and say:

“If you hate America, you will love this film.”–David Atkins, DailyKos

Now that would be knowing their target audience.

Slightly off-topic, but I just love the way O’Reilly usually describes dKos as a “Far Left hate site”. Thanks for calling a spade a spade, Bill.

I’ll pay for a movie because I want to see something new, something interesting. If I want Streep and Redford to bash me over the head with their anti-war message, I can get that elsewhere.

what about “Jarhead”

Kaptain Amerika on November 2, 2007 at 2:09 PM

Clearly anti-war AND anti-Marine.

Yup:

Swofford and his buddies pretend to laugh that they will be called on to die this is 1991 – `to protect oil reserves and rights and profits of certain American companies, many of which have direct ties to the White House and oblique financial entanglements with the secretary of defence, Dick Cheney, and the commander-in-chief, George Bush, and the commander’s progeny.’ Swofford considers what he would have become had he killed someone, which he and the other snipers had been trained to do at up to 2,000 yards – `one shot, one kill’ – and fantasises about it. `You would be insane or dead by your own hand if you’d killed one or all of those men.’

Kaptain Amerika on November 2, 2007 at 2:09 PM

Clearly anti-war AND anti-Marine.

Now they are on Al Qaeda’s.

Despite the efforts of Hollywood to help sustain the war effort, by spring 1945, the American people were tired of the war. The collapse of the Third Reich in April/May gave a temporary boost to morale, but the spector of invading Japan in November 45 — in light of the concurrent invasion and fight for Okinawa — was frightening. Dropping the atom bombs on Japan saved at least 500,000 US lives and maybe two million Japanese. And most importantly, it ended the war, which America deliriously celebrated.

[BTW, Paul Tibbets, the pilot of Enola Gay passed away yesterday.]

Had the media acted then as they do today, the public would have demanded peace on terms acceptable to Japan, which would have included withdrawal of all American interests in the far east, leaving Japan with the empire it conquered, including the colonies captured from the USA, GB, the Dutch, and the French.

Which is why the current behavior of the media and Hollywood is dangerous for America. America seems to be rejecting the Hollywood left on the issue of Iraq, for now. And that’s a good thing ™.