OT: Let's talk about Movies and TV Shows, Part XXX (...how can this possibly go wrong)

[Milhouse40]

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

I wonder just how much of the CGI budget goes into keeping his face young!

 

[ArtPeur]

I hate that! OTOH we have the opposite with Peter Jackson who managed to take a children's book with about 300 pages made into 3 movies totaling 474 minutes!!

It's a bit false though. The movie has stuff taken from other unfinished Tolkien writings. Aside from the Legolas/Tauriel and the White Orc stories, it's still pretty accurate to the books. The main example that I pick up is the battle of the 5 armies. It's like 2 pages in the Hobbit...

To be fair, LotR had probably more description than story in the books. It's totally opposite to the Hobbit where there's more story and songs than description.

While the Hobbit movies are a bit of a let down, I believe the Rings of Power will be stupidly worse. I don't trust random writers to do a good job following Tolkien's work

 

[Deebs]

Love Tom Cruise, one of the best ever. Delivers quality performances in nearly everything he does.

 

[Milhouse40]

Love Tom Cruise, one of the best ever. Delivers quality performances in nearly everything he does.

Not that I like every movie he did, but got to admit......most top actors either takes long break or have ups and downs, or just one big spike of popularity, but Cruise kept making blockbusters for the last 25+ years and counting.

 

[Deebs]

Not that I like every movie he did, but got to admit......most top actors either takes long break or have ups and downs, or just one big spike of popularity, but Cruise kept making blockbusters for the last 25+ years and counting.

He's the last true movie star

 

[Barriwhite]

He's the last true movie star

Now we have the Rock, I guess.

 

[Deebs]

Now we have the Rock, I guess.

If only he made good movies

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Best Tom Cruise movie: The Edge of Tomorrow

 

[Adam Michaels]

 

[BehindTheTimes]

Best Tom Cruise movie: The Edge of Tomorrow

A Few Good Men for me.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Prehistoric Planet with David Attenborough!

Absolute fire!!!!!!!!!!!!! Too bad its on AppleTV only.

man........people just consume anything these days.

 

[Adam Michaels]

 

[Adam Michaels]

man........people just consume anything these days.

I will watch it because I love the MCU and comics in general. So I'll reserve judgment for when the show starts in August.

As for the tone of the show, if anyone knows anything about She-Hulk, this is the kind of tone her comics and character have. She has her Hulk rage moments, but overall, she has more control of it and is more open about it.

 

[angusyoung]

Been on a Gene Wilder kick,fun stuff.

 

[angusyoung]

Best Tom Cruise movie: The Edge of Tomorrow

Definitely not definitely not

A Few Good Men for me.

Always like a historic movie,almost.

 

[angusyoung]

Prehistoric Planet with David Attenborough!

Absolute fire!!!!!!!!!!!!! Too bad its on AppleTV only.


man........people just consume anything these days.

Back in the day you'd ask your date if she wanted oysters,just saying

 

[BehindTheTimes]

Prehistoric Planet with David Attenborough!

Absolute fire!!!!!!!!!!!!! Too bad its on AppleTV only.


man........people just consume anything these days.

I dunno how there is still an appetite for these. I find them all super annoying.

 

[LaP]

Best Tom Cruise movie: The Edge of Tomorrow

For me it would be Rain Man.

 

[Milhouse40]

Best Tom Cruise movie: The Edge of Tomorrow

Oh I have to disagree here.
It's good one but for me.....A few good men and Interview with a Vampire are at the top.

Of course, I'm bias towards Interview with a Vampire (was living in those books in those years....at first I hated the choice of Cruise as Lestat but he nailed it)

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Oh I have to disagree here.
It's good one but for me.....A few good men and Interview with a Vampire are at the top.

Of course, I'm bias towards Interview with a Vampire (was living in those books in those years....at first I hated the choice of Cruise as Lestat but he nailed it)

I love scifi and especially time travel movies. And Bill Paxton. One of his last movies. RIP

 

[Kriss E]

I love scifi and especially time travel movies. And Bill Paxton. One of his last movies. RIP

Don't play the sentimental card Oz, you scifi nerd.

 

[Milhouse40]

 

[Lshap]

Say what you will about Tom Cruise (and there's a lot to say!), but the dude is an all-time great film superstar. Take out his action films and you still have an amazing resume. A Few Good Men, Jerry Maguire, Rain Man, Born On The Fourth of July, even Eyes Wide Shut – that's more quality drama than most good actors get in a career. Round that out with good-not-great films like Color Of Money, Magnolia, Taps, The Last Samurai, and Cruise could've secured a legacy as a really good actor without ever filming himself running at full speed.

The fact that he's better known for the MI series, Top Gun, and a few cool sci-fi films just shows how deeply this guy is embedded into modern movie iconography. He's probably the best working action star, and at the same time he's done so much more.

 

[Lshap]

Whoa... wtf...?