Is it any more true for Tom Cruise than, say, Matt Damon? Amy Adams?
Yes.
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just playing himself imo
Also just playing himself (in perhaps the worst Tom Cruise movie besides that Mummy one, obviously he was great in both, not his fault):
Ok, you got me on Tropic Thunder (though that wasnāt a leading role). Pretty amazing Cruise stuff right there.
Wait you are saying Magnolia is bad?
That is some next level insanity.
I donāt like anything Paul Anderson has done since Boogie Nights. Magnolia was way too long and self-indulgent.
I wasnāt really trying to make an argument, I just like that scene.
Hereās another one.
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L O fucking L
You didnt like there will be blood?
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I didnāt. I saw the movie in the theater and only saw it once, so over a decade ago. So itās a little fuzzy but I remember being mostly interested in much of the movie but it just left me cold at the end. Like when that dude got murdered in the bowling alley by the main guy I was just wtf is this movie. Why is this movie. I had kind of the same reaction to Magnolia, except instead of being mostly interested I was kind of semi-bored for most of the movie. Then it started raining frogs and I was all nope. Nope nope nope. If I was there alone I would have gotten up and left.
I watched half of The Master at home and turned it off. Guess I canāt really say if I like anything else heās done since because I havenāt seen any of it. But all signs point to no.
I loved Hard Eight and Boogie Nights though.
Big PTA fab here but I get how itās not everybodyās bag. Inherent Vice is totally worth you checking out though. Probably his most rewatchable movie.
You donāt watch Blood for the story, you watch Blood to see Day-Lewis absolutely GOAT it the fuck up. There was no dialogue the first 30 minutes of the film and the tension built in that scene was incredible.
I actually liked The Master way more than Inherent Vice but that may be from hot takesville.
Phantom Thread and Punch Drunk Love are also good post-Boogie flicks imo. I agree that a good half hour could have been cut from Magnolia and not be missed at all.
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OK, but thatās not what I watch movies for. Iām here for the story. Maybe DDL gives a tremendous performance, but if that performance isnāt integrated into a story Iām engaged in then I donāt care how good he is. I donāt have any patience for virtuosity for its own sake. Smacks of self-indulgence, like a SICK EXTENDED DRUM SOLO. Sure OK, Iāll bet itās hard and not many other people, if anyone, can do it. So what. Like when Tin Cup pars the back nine with a seven iron and is bragging about it afterwards, Iām Rene Russo asking āwhyā?
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Well, you did it. My lawnmower is in orbit.
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Under the Skin
Scar Jo was really good but the plot was a bit too bare for my liking. Also women could easily kill all men if they wanted to.
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