Isn't Cruise's "War of the Lost Profits (whoops, Worlds)" due NEXT week?

[Deja Q]

http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_1435295.html

Tom Cruise Fumes In War Of The Wets

For Tom Cruise, things couldn't get much better. He's just got engaged and is starring in the latest Hollywood blockbuster War Of The Worlds.

But his perfect world came crashing down around him when he was humiliated while on a red carpet walkabout in central London...

The "interviewer" - who was working on a new Channel 4 comedy - approached Tom at the UK premiere of the movie in Leicester Square.

But before Tom knew what was going on, he thrust out the 'joke' microphone and sprayed him with water.

Did Tom, 42, see the funny side?

Er, not exactly. The actor grabbed him and, in front of the ecstatic paparazzi, promptly berated his 'assailant'.

Drying his face and jacket, Tom said: "That's incredibly rude. I'm here giving you an interview and you do that. It's incredibly rude."

Looking the man in the eye, he went on: "You're a jerk... jerk. You're a jerk."

And with this whole scenario in danger of being blown out of all proportion, our brave British bobbies then piled in and nicked the offender and his three buddies

More, with a shocking twist, from the link!

Oh, how come this movie is a "blockbuster" when it's not out yet?

[vi5]

1. I would love to see that movie tank something fierce...

I loathe Spielberg and I loathe Cruise even more.

Something tells me it won't though since people are suckers for bright lights and things blowing up.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Geez, do you have inside information that Spielberg or Cruise voted

Republican? Why the animosity?

[vi5]

3. Do I really need to explain the Cruise hatred?

Cruise I've always hated as an actor. I just think he's horrible and one note. On top of it I think the guy is based on everything I've read about him and seen about him in interviews is a jerk.

Spielberg may be a nice enough guy but I think he's a hack as a director. I hate how every "oh so serious" movie he does, he has to promote it as some big personal cause to him. As though criticizing the movie and thinking it sucks is somehow an affront to an otherwise serious cause. If he had stuck to just being a popcorn movie director like on Jaws and ET and Close Encounters then I wouldn't have had any issues with him. It was only when hs started his oscar baiting that I started being annoyed by him.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Okay.

Understood.

[edbermac]

14. Spielberg a hack?? You're nuts...

True when he gets cute with pics like Hook and Always he stinks out the joint, but Duel, Sugarland Express, Jaws, CE3K, ET, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, AI, Minority Report...are you kidding? If Spielberg's a hack, so are guys like Hitchcock...

[vi5]

16. When he does cutesy little popcorn stuff he's fine....

Jaws, ET, Jurassic Park. They were all entertaining kids/teen movies.

All the rest is pure garbage, trumped up by the media to convince people it's important. Schindler's List and Private Ryan were both absurdly overrated, manipulative garbage but people never wanted to point it out because both were about such sensitive subject matter.

And directors like Hitchcock could and did make thrilling, captivating movies that had people on the edge of their seats without relaying on special effects. When Spielberg can make a great movie without relying on either loads of special effects or without making it about some serious social or historical issue that is so very close to his heart then I'll believe he has skill one as a director.

[MissHoneychurch]

17. I don't think Schindler's List was/is overrated

yes some scenes were overdone. But the film itself was important and good.

[vi5]

18. My problem with Schindler's list.....

He totally coasted on the fact that it was the first movie to really depict inside the concentration camps and portray nazis for the monsters they were. But he just totally rode that for all it was worth without going any deeper. If I watched that movie all I would get from it was that the nazi's shot people in the head. That was it. Their horrors were much, much worse. Of course it's a Spielberg movie so when they bring that group of people to the showers.....oh no worries, it actually was a shower. He took the easy way out at every turn, whether it be having a non-jewish hero/protaganist, or shying away from the true degree of horrors as to what happened there.

And he also would have filmed it in German with subtitles. As much as I loathe Mel Gibson at least he had the commitment and cinematic stones to film the Passion in the language in which the historical events were most likely spoken.

Was it a horrible movie? No. But I still maintain that it was highly overrated.

[MissHoneychurch]

19. you know that Schindler was a real person

and that those things really happened. Even with the shower. The movie is based on the book by Thomas Keneally. Yes it goes a lot deeper than the movie. But to get the people to not forget it seems to need movies nowadays and not books. Of course you can't show all terrors the Nazis did to the Jews.
Maybe another director would have done a better job. But Spielberg did the movie. It has it flaws, no question. I don't like the scene at the end when Schindler flees. Too melodramatic. I very much doubt it happened that way.
Yes, "Holocaust" goes deeper and is more depressing and shows the daily horrors. Schindler's List isn't doing that. But it shows the horrors of the Warzaw ghetto unflattering.

What I am trying to say is that me as a German it ashaming that an American had to do the movie. And I think he did a good job overall.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Why the animosity? I feel the same thing. Who cares how they fucking voted

People who judge movies and actors and other art based on the director's/actor's/artist's voting are fucked up weird-ass useless tankers of immature shit.

The animosity - and rightly felt animosity, I might add - is becuase Cruise is an utter fuckwad of an "actor" who just plain sucks rubber donkey lungs, and Spielberg, while he has the occasional good movie, is so emoptionally manipulative, pedantic, and sophomoric, that his movies become insults to people of intelligence and self-awareness.

I saw a long, new trailer yesterday for this fucking abomination, and it looks just as awful as I knew it would be, and which every other trailer has shown me it will be.

[vi5]

6. Oh man....thank you...

You actually said it better than I did, but I agree 100%.

[terrya]

13. This will be the hit of the summer.

300 million at the boz office...easily.

Speilberg/Cruise? Audiences (but NOT me) will flock to this.

[HeeBGBz]

5. Looks like a good summer movie to me

Who cares if Cruise is an asshole. There are plenty of assholes on this planet. I don't go to movies to view their private lives.

I go to be entertained by big wham bang alien blasting special effect fireworks displays.

If I wanted to contemplate the personal comings and goings of assholes, I have an abundance to view locally in their natural habitat.

[philosophie_en_rose]

7. Looks like a mutual assault.

Tom was sprayed with water, but he actually grabbed the reporter. With paparazzi photos and security, he didn't need to do that.

He just wanted to look like a big man. :eyes:


I have mixed feelings about War of the Worlds. On the one hand, Stephen Speilberg is a good person and it might be a fun movie. On the other, I don't want Tom Cruise getting 15% (or whatever) of my ticket price. Solution: HBO.

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

9. I think I read that

WotW has already made a large portion of it's budget back in foreign sales.

While Spielberg deserves most of the criticism he has recieved in this thread I will still be there opening day or opening weekend because this looks interesting and there is so little else this summer that I can say that much about.

Cruise will never be remembered in the same class of actor as a Brando or an Olivier but as for action movie stars he is one of the more talented ones.

[Kraklen]

10. Disagree.

Even other male "heartthrobs" like Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Val Kilmer, etc. they can act circles around Tom Cruise.


Cruise has no acting ability at all.

[tanyev]

11. I can't believe he allowed them to cast Dakota Fanning.

That little girl has consistently been called the best thing about several mediocre movies now. I predict she's going to make Tom look even more foolish than usual--without even trying.

[HeeBGBz]

12. Young Dakota is awesome

I hope she doesn't burn out like so many child actors.

[Atlas Mugged]

15. The more I hear about this incident...

...the more I'm convinced it was a PR stunt. Anyone see 'To Kill A Mockingbird'? With Cruise's popularity taking a dive because of his recent antics (especially his Scientology lectures) this was possibly an image building device. I fully expect him to donate a kidney to a beautiful, tragic, blonde WASP any day now.

So, we've got a new movie with massive bucks at stake and the star is acting like an idiot? Get some press that trumpets his "quiet, masculine dignity" For a textbook example of "quiet, masculine dignity" see Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird".