Movie Preview - Lions for Lambs (or Tom Cruise attempts a comeback)
July 9th 2007 15:50
As many of you may remember Tom Cruise got the sack from his cushy job at Paramount studio's last year after he...
(a) Divorced Nicole Kidman?
(b) Had gay sex with some C-grade US rock star?
(c) Jumped a couch on Oprah?
(d) Made one too many chauvenistic remarks to Brooke Shields about Post Natal Depression?
(e) Helped decimate the profits for Mi:III?
(f) Pissed off the wife of the CEO of Paramount by doing all of the above?
(g) All of the above?
Tom's response was to create his own studio! And being LaCruise and, being a multi-millionaire, he did it with style, ressurrecting the original "artististic-purist" studio in Hollywood, United Artists - which these days is of course amalgamated with MGM which is a subsidiary of Sony.
A few critics began to question whether Paramount had jumped the gun when Cruise swiftly set about making his first picture and managed to assemble a master-class of talent in the process.
Lions for Lambs went into production early this year.
Meryl Streep and Robert Redford are re-united therein with Oscar winning director Redford behind the camera as well as in front. Lions for Lambs is billed as an intelligent political thriller following the intersecting lives of a Congressman, a Journalist, a Professor, one of his students, and that students' soldier friends - who just happen to be in Afghanistan!
Streep plays the Journalist and Redford plays the professor.
Everything about this picture screams "OSCAR BUZZ!!!!!!!!"
One problem... La Cruise plays the Congressman - or is that "the Senator"?
Check the recently released teaser trailer and suddenly all Oscar hopes for Meryl (she needs a third one damnit!!!) and Robert disappear!
This "intelligent" political thriller suddenly appears to be a sterile and disinteresting series of encounters set to the music of Top Gun and featuring various images of Tom Cruise looking tough while Robert sounds "inspiring!" and Meryl looks bewildered.
Meryl Streep looking bewildered? That's not why I buy tickets to see her movies! This project, which once had a vague sense of dignity, even a prospect of hope about it, now seems nothing more than a self-indulgent, self-pitying, self-serving, self-saucing "save Tom Cruise!" project!
If this film really is as dull, as flaccid and as cliche as its teaser trailer then, frankly, unlike the whale, Tom Cruise has no chance of survival.
(a) Divorced Nicole Kidman?
(b) Had gay sex with some C-grade US rock star?
(d) Made one too many chauvenistic remarks to Brooke Shields about Post Natal Depression?
(e) Helped decimate the profits for Mi:III?
(g) All of the above?
Tom's response was to create his own studio! And being LaCruise and, being a multi-millionaire, he did it with style, ressurrecting the original "artististic-purist" studio in Hollywood, United Artists - which these days is of course amalgamated with MGM which is a subsidiary of Sony.
A few critics began to question whether Paramount had jumped the gun when Cruise swiftly set about making his first picture and managed to assemble a master-class of talent in the process.
Lions for Lambs went into production early this year.
Meryl Streep and Robert Redford are re-united therein with Oscar winning director Redford behind the camera as well as in front. Lions for Lambs is billed as an intelligent political thriller following the intersecting lives of a Congressman, a Journalist, a Professor, one of his students, and that students' soldier friends - who just happen to be in Afghanistan!
Streep plays the Journalist and Redford plays the professor.
Everything about this picture screams "OSCAR BUZZ!!!!!!!!"
One problem... La Cruise plays the Congressman - or is that "the Senator"?
Check the recently released teaser trailer and suddenly all Oscar hopes for Meryl (she needs a third one damnit!!!) and Robert disappear!
This "intelligent" political thriller suddenly appears to be a sterile and disinteresting series of encounters set to the music of Top Gun and featuring various images of Tom Cruise looking tough while Robert sounds "inspiring!" and Meryl looks bewildered.
Meryl Streep looking bewildered? That's not why I buy tickets to see her movies! This project, which once had a vague sense of dignity, even a prospect of hope about it, now seems nothing more than a self-indulgent, self-pitying, self-serving, self-saucing "save Tom Cruise!" project!
If this film really is as dull, as flaccid and as cliche as its teaser trailer then, frankly, unlike the whale, Tom Cruise has no chance of survival.
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