Toronto Trim's Hotel Cum Drop-in Centre - Page 245

sebastian_dangerfield · 06-27-2005, 08:14 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
If it helps, I thought your joke about Taxwonk made perfect sense.

It does. I liked that one.

ThurgreedMarshall · 06-27-2005, 08:24 PM

http://images.phun.org/phun/pics/news/myspacetruth.jpg

sfw. (cut and paste it.)

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ltl/fb · 06-27-2005, 08:30 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
If an avacoda is not a vegetable...

I truly admire this spelling.

Alex_de_Large · 06-27-2005, 08:35 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
I truly admire this spelling.

Avacoda is absolutely a vegetable. So is lettice.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 06-27-2005, 10:21 PM

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Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Avacoda is absolutely a vegetable. So is lettice.

And Rebecca Romaine.

J. Fred Muggs · 06-28-2005, 02:47 AM

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Originally posted by sunnybunny
the part that I had just recently been talking about his current sex life or lack thereof so had a factually correct answer to the suggestion that he was leaving some nag back at home...he would have been begging for a nag.

why would i tell a prude born again virgin i want to nail how much ass i'm getting?

dtb · 06-28-2005, 10:48 AM

I missed last night's episode, but I thought last week's was really great.

Anyone? Bueller?

Also, I stayed up late watching the movie "Collateral". It's the only movie I have seen Tom Cruise in where I could stand him. Jamie Foxx was great too; except his "transformation" in the disco didn't quite seem believable. I was surprised I liked this movie, I didn't expect to (owing to the on-screen presence of Mr. Cruise).

ThurgreedMarshall · 06-28-2005, 11:04 AM

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Originally posted by dtb
I was surprised I liked this movie, I didn't expect to (owing to the on-screen presence of Mr. Cruise).

Is it trendy to hate Tom Cruise all of a sudden? I don't particularly like or dislike him, but it seems strange to me that a guy who can guarantee $100 million on any flick he's in, based on pretty much his name alone is so thoroughly detested. He's no great actor, but he never gets in the way of the movie he's in. Is it just his ridiculous Scientology crap and Katie Holmes garbage that makes him such a joke all of a sudden? Or has everyone here detested him like a sickness* since All the Right Moves?

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*Extra points for who can tell me where this quote comes from without Googling.

spookyfish · 06-28-2005, 11:13 AM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Is it trendy to hate Tom Cruise all of a sudden? I don't particularly like or dislike him, but it seems strange to me that a guy who can guarantee $100 million on any flick he's in, based on pretty much his name alone is so thoroughly detested. He's no great actor, but he never gets in the way of the movie he's in. Is it just his ridiculous Scientology crap and Katie Holmes garbage that makes him such a joke all of a sudden? Or has everyone here detested him like a sickness* since All the Right Moves?

TM

*Extra points for who can tell me where this quote comes from without Googling.

I invented hating Tom Cruise on this board.

http://www.lawtalkers.com/forums/sho...6592#post66592

Not Bob · 06-28-2005, 11:24 AM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Is it trendy to hate Tom Cruise all of a sudden? I don't particularly like or dislike him, but it seems strange to me that a guy who can guarantee $100 million on any flick he's in, based on pretty much his name alone is so thoroughly detested. He's no great actor, but he never gets in the way of the movie he's in. Is it just his ridiculous Scientology crap and Katie Holmes garbage that makes him such a joke all of a sudden? Or has everyone here detested him like a sickness* since All the Right Moves?

TM

*Extra points for who can tell me where this quote comes from without Googling.

I think that it is his recent wackiness -- it seems like in the last two years or so he has gotten weirder. It seems like he has been a nutjob ever since the divorce from Nicole Kidman, when all he would say about it was an evil-sounding "Nic knows why I am leaving her."

I think that he's a decent actor. I hated "Minority Report" but not because of him. I also hated "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Vanilla Sky" for reasons other than their Cruiseishness. I just saw "The Last Samurai" on DVD, and I kinda liked it.

robustpuppy · 06-28-2005, 11:35 AM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
I think that it is his recent wackiness -- it seems like in the last two years or so he has gotten weirder. It seems like he has been a nutjob ever since the divorce from Nicole Kidman, when all he would say about it was an evil-sounding "Nic knows why I am leaving her."

I think that he's a decent actor. I hated "Minority Report" but not because of him. I also hated "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Vanilla Sky" for reasons other than their Cruiseishness. I just saw "The Last Samurai" on DVD, and I kinda liked it.

I have never been a fan but only started hating him with Cocktail, which is so cringingly embarrasingly bad I can hardly believe it didn't kill his career. I thought he was well-cast in Jerry Maguire, because he was supposed to be a bit of prick in that movie, but I didn't really buy that he was redeemed by some hard knocks, true love, and the success he gained by looking out for someone else who was going to look after himself regardless of what Jerry did. (Does that make sense?) In other words, his puppy dog schtick at the end didn't fool me. I also didn't think that was such a fantabulous movie. Mission Impossible was a piece of shit, and if I were Tom Cruise and possessed of a normal ego I would feel like the Bourne Identity was the movie MI should have been. Minority Report was okay and it made good use of the nearly-manic intensity in his gaze, which was also put to good use in the Firm. He wasn't bad in A Few Good Men, I'll give him that, but he was playing against Demi Moore a lot of the time, so there you go. I can't even comment on Top Gun.

Bottom line is that I don't understand his monstrous success. His is not a face or a voice or a personality that I can't get enough of on screen.

ThurgreedMarshall · 06-28-2005, 11:36 AM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
I think that it is his recent wackiness -- it seems like in the last two years or so he has gotten weirder. It seems like he has been a nutjob ever since the divorce from Nicole Kidman, when all he would say about it was an evil-sounding "Nic knows why I am leaving her."

I always translated that into: None of your business, but if you must know, she's a total bitch.

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Originally posted by Not Bob
I think that he's a decent actor. I hated "Minority Report" but not because of him. I also hated "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Vanilla Sky" for reasons other than their Cruiseishness. I just saw "The Last Samurai" on DVD, and I kinda liked it.

I agree with you on all points. He's like the generic, go-to movie star guy. I thought the reason why he's always been so successful was that people didn't care one way or the other about him. But when his name was on the marquee, you knew it was a big budget blockbuster that probably had some cool shit in it.

If he's not careful, Will Smith is going to take his spot.

TM

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 06-28-2005, 11:37 AM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Is it trendy to hate Tom Cruise all of a sudden?.

Isn't it trendy to hate any celebrity who starts expounding on anything not directly related to their day jobs? Madonna on Kaballah--wacky; Sarandon and Robbins on anything--fuck off; any star on Kerry--where do they have political credibility. Stars are supposed to stay in their box: look good, act/sing/whatever, have a fling now and then, get a quickie divorce--stuff that makes the cover of US Weekly.

Cruise is trying to escape the box, telling everyone that scientology is great, pills are an abomination, as is counseling, brook shields doesn't have post-partum depression ("it's all in her mind"). He's not behaving right.

sebastian_dangerfield · 06-28-2005, 11:40 AM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Is it trendy to hate Tom Cruise all of a sudden? I don't particularly like or dislike him, but it seems strange to me that a guy who can guarantee $100 million on any flick he's in, based on pretty much his name alone is so thoroughly detested. He's no great actor, but he never gets in the way of the movie he's in. Is it just his ridiculous Scientology crap and Katie Holmes garbage that makes him such a joke all of a sudden? Or has everyone here detested him like a sickness* since All the Right Moves?

TM

*Extra points for who can tell me where this quote comes from without Googling.

I don't think everyone hates him, as much as they find him creepy and saccharine. Generally, stars are creepy and saccharine, but Cruise is exceptionally so. Its hard to put my finger on it, but when I see him speak, I get this sense I'm listening to an android. The man just comes off like he has no soul. Even his acting is over polished. He's like watching really good computer animation.

I don't hate him. I'll probably even ssee that new movie of his. He's so inconsequential to the plot that you don't need to like him to enjoy the flick.

But he was really good as a bastard in Collateral. But even then, Denzel had far outdone him as a king prick in Training Day. Maybe thats what skeeves me about Cruise. He becomes his roles to the point that it seems he has no individual personailty, whereas when you see leading men like Eastwood, Washington, McCaughnahey, DeNiro, Pacino, Hoffman... they all let their personalities infect the character a bit. They give you a more human character, while Cruisse does his android bit.

barely_legal · 06-28-2005, 11:42 AM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I always translated that into: None of your business, but if you must know, she's a total bitch.

I agree with you on all points. He's like the generic, go-to movie star guy. I thought the reason why he's always been so successful was that people didn't care one way or the other about him. But when his name was on the marquee, you knew it was a big budget blockbuster that probably had some cool shit in it.

If he's not careful, Will Smith is going to take his spot.

TM

I was never a huge fan and didn't have a strong opinion one way or the other. Until a couple of nights ago when I dreamed that I was trying to get him to have sex with me. I really wanted him to have sex with me in the dream. Now I feel a little pissed at him b/c I woke up before we did it, and I'm pretty sure it would have been spectacular dream sex. But I'm willing to forgive him if he revisits me one night soon and gives me some nice dream-orgasms.

He didn't talk a lot in the dream. I think that helped.