I won’t stand for this Edge of Tomorrow slander.
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No, but Rebecca de Mornay did.
Maybe he should stick to scifi flicks.
I also thought he was very good in the WOTW remake. I’ve never really understood why that movie gets so much hate.
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Because Spielberg weirdly grafted his standard “reunite the family” trope onto it?
Because he was directing and that tendency to be overly sentimental, I went in to that movie fully prepared to hate it. But for me the SFX was absolutely spectacular and there were so many chilling and unsentimental moments it won me over.
Moments that were vast, and cool, and unsympathetic perhaps?
Born on the 4th of July, it’s been awhile but i remember him being good. Tropic Thunder bit part was epic.
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He goes toe to toe with Jack in A Few Good Men.
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Tropic Thunder, how could I have forgotten his best role?
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I don’t think much of Tom Cruise. I think Scientology is stupid. He seems to have a lot of energy. He has been in a few good movies.
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I thought he did a good job alongside Emily Blunt in that sci-fi flick (forget the name). I enjoyed that one.
Edge of Tomorrow, very underrated movie.
Yes, definitely. I enjoyed Collateral as well. And I don’t like Tom Cruise.
I don’t think he was particularly good in that. Nicholson pretty much singlehandedly carried that film.
I think he’s a certifiable weirdo, but I generally enjoy his movies.
I was wondering whatever happened to Rebecca de Mornay. She actually had a pretty good career, including Runaway Train (which I had forgotten, but have a vague memory of it being great and her wearing a tee shirt). The strangest tidbit from the Wikipedia post was that in 1992 she was engaged to Leonard Cohen and produced an album for him.
I had intended to watch Reacher for a while and yesterday’s discussion finally prompted me to start the show. Haven’t seen the movies or read the books. I think the guy’s acting is fine for the character, and my God he’s huge.
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Ironically, an eminently re-watchable movie.
Anecdotally, a friend of mine hated it because “we just kept losing and then they just died.”
It was in keeping with the tone/theme of the book, but if people went into it expecting an Independence Day fist-pumping festival, they would’ve been sorely disappointed.
He walks funny. I don’t know if it’s because he’s so muscle-bound, if that’s just the way he walks or if he is trying to pull off a slow, deliberate gait that you would expect of someone with the confidence and calculation of Reacher. I cannot figure it out if it is more Isaac from The Orville or Buffalo Bill after tucking.
For what it’s worth, I have finished it now and the ending is very satisfying.
Spoiler
Everyone got to kill their personal nemeses, although I’m not sure that KJ’s demise was brutal enough for the shit that he’d pulled. However, whatever Reacher did to him had to be an in-the-moment thing - they couldn’t have him torture KJ to death - so getting burned alive covered in his own chemicals will have to do.
I also thought that Roscoe needed to use his own diamond-topped cane in some way to fuck up D-Day.
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