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of watching Bond in the cinema, whereas with the Mission films. I'm happy
to watch them on Blu-ray
Wow bold words. I agree that NTTD has MUCH more potential to disappoint.
The same with Nicholas Cage- Wild at Heart, Leaving Las Vegas, etc.
And Hugh Grant, I felt the same about him. Then I saw About a Boy, A very English Scandal, and other things, and I think he's brilliant.
Ha say what you really think why don't you
There is plenty out there to show this, if people feel comfortable loving him and his films I guess that is their business but I absolutely can't stand the smug egotistical monster he is.
I don't disagree with you but I just meant that he's a better actor than you might think, if you'd only seen certain films.
Bond rules, and always will!
The one film that he gets lauded for his performance is Magnolia, though I think you likely see more of the real Tom Cruise there than anything else he has done.
He is showing the real Tom Cruise, the nasty narcistic bully, like we heard on those leaks recently.
That one from Tropical Thunder that everyone wets themselves over, I think there is more of the real Cruise there, another nasty bully, though it is all a joke though isn't because Tom isn't really like that is he???....
I think he doesn't have much range, he has done some challenging stuff like Born On The 4th July but I don't think they want to back him anything else than the usual Tom Cruise schtick, the MI films, that film series where the author thinks he was too short to play the character.
I'll be interested to see what he does once Ethan Hunt and those type characters when he is too old to play them credibly or realistically.
No, I watch them loads of times because they're brilliantly made. Same as I do with Bond.
I daresay many people think the Bond films are forgettable and can't remember which is which.
I'm with you on the spectacle. MI: Fallout left recent Bond films in the dust on this.
There is more to it, of course, but in this aspect, at least, EON could learn something from MI.
Yep.
That is entirely your opinion and others but it isn't fact, you don't like the way the series is approached at the moment it is still more successful than the MI series and it doesn't have vile person associated with it.
That would depend on ones definition of "emotional core". It could be argued that most of the MI films have soem emotion in them. Fallout definitely had an emotional heft, and a more personal stake than the previous films. It also juggled the emotional element better than the current era of Bond, which is too lop-sided on that front. The Bond-Blofeld connection is such a cheap way to wedge some emotion into the film.
I don't count Tom Cruise as a favourite actor of mine, but at the same time, I won't say that he is a bad actor by any stretch. His best non action film, that I have seen, has to be A Few Good Men. He goes toe-to-toe with a legend like Jack Nicholson, and still holds his own.
The last Bond film made about $20 million more profit than the last MI film- when you're talking about numbers over $600 million there's not much in it. These are not unsuccessful movies.
And his being vile is very much an opinion and not a fact.
Yes it's a shame he hasn't really shared the screen with anyone else on his level recently- he started out with films with Dustin Hoffman and Paul Newman but probably the last time he appeared with someone approaching being another star was Russell Crowe in the The Mummy, and that was pretty brief.
The helicopter rumble at the end of the Spectre PTS? I guess only the wide shots of the helicopter itself though.
I didn't find that very impressive though. The bits inside the helicopter were good, but apart from that I felt I was watching a CGI scene
He was good in Eyes Wide Shut too.
Yes, which is a shame as there are some good stunts there. The loop-the-loop should be impressive, but they shoot it from the side which just makes it look like they've turned the camera upside down (and you can tell from the shadows that it really is doing it)- if they'd shot it from the front or back it would have looked more impressive.
Saying that, the MI films are definitely very good action films, and are leading the way in blockbuster spy movies at the moment.
I don't mind Cruise, he comes across ok to me. But has anyone here seen the Alex Gibney documentary about Going Clear? It contains a quite frankly astonishing story about Cruise that several high profile people are happy to go on record and claim is true.
The bike/car chase is the same in that film: you feel the speed and the skill going into it, even though most of the cars that they're dodging on the road are CG and not really there. But the car chase in Spectre- even though they're great drivers- doesn't feel fast because they've been told to do big stupid powerslides with loads of oversteer (which a fast driver would try to avoid) and there's not the urgency to it that you feel in the MI chases.
It's a good point about big stunts though; what was the last one, big stunt? The car flip in Casino Royale?
You're right there, I don't think anybody could disagree with that. It's mainly the action really that's the source of comparison.
I did see that doc a while ago but don't remember the Cruise allegations. Think I recall something about them trying to find a wife for him though