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Posted: Jun 09, 2008 in Movies
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Here's your first in-motion look at Tom Cruise and his eyepatch and swastika in Bryan Singer's based-on-a-true-story-kill-Hitler yarn "Valkyrie," courtesy of the fine folks at Variety.
After seeing the trailer the film looks promising, though I'm not sure how well the partially-obscured Cruise will sell these days.
Still, I've not yet seen a bad film out of Singer (though I haven't seen "Apt Pupil," but I'm told it's servicable enough), and sports and nice cast that includes Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson and Terence Stamp, so I'm holding out hope.
Also note that the trailer still says "Summer 2008" but the release date has been pushed back to next year, allegedly to February 13, 2009.
One note: why didn't Singer and Cruise go for the Swastika-on-the-eyepatch look?
And yes, I realize I may have set an indy.com record for most hyphens in a single post.
Peter Bart, the legendary Hollywood producer and now reporter for Variety, said people he knows and trusts have seen it and raved about it. Singer and Cruise recently started reshoots.
Who knows? It could actually turn out to be good. Everyone likes to rag on Cruise these days, but the truth is he rarely makes movies that are truly bad.
Very true. I was trying to think of the last really bad Tom Cruise movie, and there really isn't much that creeps below the "flawed but still watchable" threshold, especially in the past 10 years or so.
Wow...in going over his filmography, the only movies of his I haven't seen are "Taps," "All the Right Moves" and "Losin' it." With someone of his filmography, that's rare even for me.
"Cocktail" is about as bad as it gets. Even "Days of Thunder" has some cool parts with Robert Duvall. I love the scene where he's talking to the car about making it faster...
"Cocktail" is about as bad as it gets. Even "Days of Thunder" has some cool ...
Both of those are pretty craptastic, but still watchable. I just watched a hunk of "Days of Thunder" on CMT just a day or two ago.
FYI, one of the great lines in the history of film comes from "Thunder," when Randy Quaid's character is chastising Cole (Cruise) and his rival Rowdy Burns (Michael Rooker): he said "we look like a monkey f---ing a football."
Very true. I was trying to think of the last really bad Tom Cruise movie, ...
"All the right moves" has Lea Thompson showing her jubblies, + it has Craig T. Nelson in it so that's enough to see it.
Bad Tom Cruise movies:
"Far & Away" "Eyes Wide Shut" "Mission Impossible II" "Top Gun"
I liked "Coctail" and come on "Days Of Thunder" is soo over the top it rules.