The Glade 4.0

I just saw "The Last Samurai" for the first time.












I'll be in the bathroom for a week showering with lye and gargling with bleach to get the bad taste out...

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Ron Paul 2012

I dug that movie. Probably not so historically accurate but was still enjoyable.

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The Dude abides.

In all seriousness, Tom Cruise is one of my favorite actors.

You probably just have an abnormally high thetan count. Have you gone for an audit recently?

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

When I was in the psychiatric hospital, I thought that lots of thetans were in my head and I could hear them talking.

I don't care much for Tom Cruise, but I did like that movie. Of course, I didn't go to it expecting that a movie with a white guy as the Last Samurai would be anything but absurd.

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Heh...on a similar note, this was the winner in yesterday's Cracked contest (for "If Movie Titles Were Honest..."):

Say what you will about Tom Cruise, but he is a great actor...in fact, I love a lot of his movies. Minority Report kicks ***.

But he was the wrong choice for this movie. Way wrong.

At first, I was a little concerned because only Japanese can be Samurai, but they made it work in the story and I quickly forgave them....but then I realized he's too cocky to play a character that should be honorable. I also thought the relationship between him and the wife was tacky, and the line at the end about the perfect flower was way too heavy handed and cheesy. Ugh.



EDIT: not to mention I already heard that soundtrack before, in Gladiator, and Pirates of the Carribean. Hans Zimmer is a jackass.

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Ron Paul 2012

The Last Samurai was epic.

And so was the soundtrack. Hans Zimmer is a god.

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Holy shitsnacks!

It looks like he knows how to press your easy button. Lol.

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Ron Paul 2012

I disagree... he does an amazing job of playing Tom Cruise and has done so in every movie he's ever been in, but I've never seen him immerse in a character enough to let go of his Tom Cruise-ness. "Tom Cruise as white man samurai", "Tom Cruise as Jerry Maguire", "Tom Cruise as Lestat". That doesn't mean he's not enjoyable, but it makes him something other than an actor. He's actually like the old move stars, John Wayne was the same way. Compare this to, say Gary Oldman who can convincingly play Sid Vicious, a vampire, a rogue wizard, or an evil futuristic overlord with a southern accent without being 'Gary Oldman' in every role.

I agree, though...but I still like Minority Report. War of the Worlds was pretty ok too.

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Ron Paul 2012

This. Very much this.

The only role I have seen Tom Cruise play in that was not overtly Tom Cruise was his portrayal of Less Grossman.

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Actually, I thought Less Grossman reveals the deep inner Tom Cruise precisely.

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"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I loved The Last Samurai.

Come on, man. If you were Tom Cruise, you'd be Tom Cruise crazy, too.

/sagenod

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Oh yeah, another Tom Cruise movie I really like is the one with Jamie Fox... Collateral. Tom has been in a lot of great movies and I don't mind that he gets typecast and/or a lot of his roles have a similar attitude. It's just that he seems way too out of place as a Samurai. It's not just the fact that the character is white, but he's too much of a chauvinistic retard to ever have taken the place of a Samurai he killed, he was way too provocative and out of line and unless you have a hard on for Tom Cruise this will ruin the movie for you.

They should have given the role to Russell Crowe.


Actually, lets just replace the Samurai costumes with Roman soldier armor and have the battle in the Colosseum.

Every time Tom Cruise had a twitch in his eye or gave a slight smile to the wife he just made a widow I could just hear him screaming out "I got the neeeeeeeeeed for speeeeeeed." Thanks, Elmo.



I am serious about Russell Crowe. He can pull off that type of character. Tom Cruise is better as an ******* bad guy.

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Ron Paul 2012

You cannot deny Tom Cruise was da bomb in Tropic Thunder, yo.

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The Dude abides.

Never saw it....and what's Less Grossman?

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Ron Paul 2012

Tom Cruise's character in Tropic Thunder.

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Does this have anything to do with Days of Thunder?

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Ron Paul 2012

Cruise is a character actor trapped in a leading man's body. He has delivered performances in the past that have blown me away ("Magnolia," "Collateral"). But because of his public persona and the scandals surrounding his behavior in the last few years, it's incredibly hard to see him as anything other than, well . . . Tom Cruise.

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--Grace Margaret Mulligan

"WELL GO GET IT!"
--Malcolm McDowell to me, in what was the most terrifying experience of my life

I think I am going to rewatch Collateral tonight. It will reinforce my belief that Tom Cruise is insane.

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Ron Paul 2012

No.

Its about a billion times more awesome.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Isn't he like 5'2"?

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