Wasn't Croupier like 20 years ago? Pretty brutal statement about ol' Clive's career. Not even a pity vote for Inside Man or Duplicity?
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 2 September 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
I saw a clip of PTA talking about how he'd cut Magnolia to ribbons if he was editing it today; I'd watch that version but won't bother rewatching till then
― Simon H., Monday, 2 September 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
Children of Men! xp
I love Children of Men but Croupier is SO GOOD!! Bruce Willis "Hudson Hawk" gfy lol I love that movie, Val Kilmer "Willow" again gfy, Pacino and De Niro idk Godfathers I guess, Brad Pitt geeeeee do I even like him? "Thelma And Louise" but I did like "Babel" for what it's worth, Christian Bale actually kind of sucks but I like both him and Hugh Jackman a lot in "The Prestige"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
I have been gasp-level surprised no fewer than 5 times in FGTI's last 2 posts.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Monday, 2 September 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
Val Kilmer's best movie is Spartan. Catch me on the right day and I'll tell you it's Mamet's best, too.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 2 September 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
What can I say, I like a lot of bullshit
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
Same. Just not quite so much of the "bought the Wild Hogs DVD from Target the day it was released" strain.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Monday, 2 September 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
I have a weird soft spot for Redbelt.
best contemporary Kilmer has to be Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
― Simon H., Monday, 2 September 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
I had some thoughts about Spartan, and Mamet, and Kilmer, about 10 years ago.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 2 September 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
I don't know what Wild Hogs is *googles it* oh I see
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 2 September 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
fwiw my favourite contemporary director is Nicole Holofcener and my favourite movie of the last decade is "I Am Love", so, maybe Wild Hogs is a little unfair
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 2 September 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
kiss kiss bang bang is so good
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 2 September 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
kilmer best in his entourage cameo tbh
second best snl iceman sketch
after that yeah top gun, heat and gfy his bruce wayne
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Monday, 2 September 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
I stand with omar on Tom Cruisethe last 3 MI movies are insanely enjoyable - for me they scratch the itch for “ fun OTT action” that Bond has done away with ( the fun part i mean) Edge of Tomorrow is excellentI even didn’t hate him in Rock of Ages! I pretty much like him in everything
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 September 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
I was just joshing, FGTI. It was a good kind of surprise that you're into Michael Clayton.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Monday, 2 September 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
it's like staring into a toilet bowl hoping the waters turn into tidal waves.
Try flushing!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 September 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
Forget it, Jakes, it’s Flushing Chinatown.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 September 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
Michael Clayon is the kind of thinks-its-too-good-to-be-pulp thriller that I hate more than just about any other kind of movie.
For Kilmer, gimme Top Secret! over anything else in his filmography (though KKBB is good, too).
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Monday, 2 September 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
and The Doors
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 September 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison was inspired casting.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 2 September 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
Anyway, Cruise was fun when he wasn't shouting and briefly hawt in Cocktail.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 September 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
Real Genius is his Risky Business.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 September 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
Real Q, as compulsively watchable as I find Cruise, has he ever.. acted in anything? Aside from kind-of exaggerating his id for Magnolia?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 2 September 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
So long since I saw it but 4th of July?
― YouGov to see it (wins), Monday, 2 September 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, September 2, 201
On the contrary: his wort quality for years was his strenuous sweat-covered acting. Screen acting has so little to do with chops. It took him years to learn this simple truth.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 September 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
I often think of this with respect to people who overdramatize their emotions in real life, that maybe they should watch Singin’ in the Rain and pay close attention.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 September 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
no, too sexy
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 September 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
you guys are wasting Keanu's birthday talkin bout Tom Cruise
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 September 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
a little surprising they've never(?) done a movie together
― Simon H., Monday, 2 September 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
Never put Keanu in front of a black hole.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 September 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 29 September 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Risky Business is showing at 11 tonight at my neighborhood arthouse...
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 29 September 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
Sooooooo good.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 September 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link
I only saw Risky Business last year and was stunned by "MUSIC BY TANGERINE DREAM" popping up in the opening credits.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 29 September 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
i love risky business so much
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 29 September 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
the only thing I remember about it is the underwear dance, which was pretty great
― Dan S, Sunday, 29 September 2019 23:14 (four years ago) link
it's gorgeously filmed and often feels like a long dream sequence
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 29 September 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 30 September 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Surprised Born on the Fourth of July was shut out. It's been ages since I've seen it, and obviously I didn't vote for it myself, but I remember him being very good for the first half, with a heavy-handed scene or two after he becomes an activist.
― clemenza, Monday, 30 September 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
The love of Magnolia baffles me. Good to see Edge of Tomorrow place so high, though. It's too bad all the M:I movies had to be listed individually, because the version of Ethan Hunt he's played in movies 4,5 and 6 is qualitatively different (and much better/funnier) than the one he played in 1-3.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 30 September 2019 00:16 (four years ago) link
as someone pointed out, the Risky Business character is written very Jewish
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 September 2019 02:40 (four years ago) link
I was impressed that Cruise participated in the commentary track to that one when it came out on DVD. Did Paul Brickman direct anything else?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 September 2019 03:03 (four years ago) link
with movies like Tom Cruise in them, you can't lose
― frogbs, Monday, 30 September 2019 03:04 (four years ago) link
Men Don't Leave was next, I think (Jessica Lange, Chris O'Donnell)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 September 2019 03:04 (four years ago) link
All is well.
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 September 2019 03:33 (four years ago) link
unperson- magnolia is a bad movie but cruise's performance is the only good thing in it, close to great. he's the only one who doesn't come off mawkish when he cries like everyone else. the flip side of I'm a Doctor Bill Harford.
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 September 2019 03:39 (four years ago) link
2013 interview with Brickman
The success of Risky Business was strange because I had Hollywood coming at me full throttle. I found it very uncomfortable. I moved out of L.A. immediately. Studio heads sent me wine goblets and food baskets. And people threw material at me right and left, and lined up to meet me. It gets uncomfortable. Some people like the visibility. I don’t. I’m more from the J.D. Salinger schoo.l
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 30 September 2019 03:51 (four years ago) link
ooh man, "I'm more from the J.D. Salinger school" is of a piece with core, heart music
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 September 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
(obviously not as good)