Open Thread Monday

Please note the movie was rated R!!!! This film would barely garner a PG13 now days.

Hate this movie. But not because of Tom Cruise. Because of my ex-gf who was in love with him and freaked out at his nude scene. Grrrrrr.

Craig T. Nelson, one of my all time favorites, is in this so the movie is somewhat redeemed by that fact.

This was one of Cruise's best. I tried to watch it again recently and the teen-angst scenes were too corny. But everything else was pretty good. Gary Effin Graham indeed, forgot he was in it, brought a big grin to my face along with Craig T. Nelson.

Here is another thought about this movie. Along with "Red Dawn," this was one of the very first films of note for Rochester, Minnesota native Lea Thompson. Although nobody would ever vote her greatest actress of the 20th century, she was a pretty decent actress with some notable credits including the "Back to the Future" and "Caroline in the City" franchises. Having recently seen "All the Right Moves," I can attest to the fact that she was appropriately "hot" for the time frame in her scenes with Cruise. She is probably a liberal politically, but to her credit, I do not recall her acting like, oh say, Megan Fox. That, in and of itself, is a reason to like the movie.

I'll bet Michelle Obama is not too happy with her country now. Like we give a shit.

Cheap bastard! Let's not give two shits……and a Tom Cruise, too.

@ Tennessee Jed (for some reason the reply option doesn't like me)…

Truly hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Thompson's got a little Megan Fox on the brain: http://www.threedonia.com/archives/5588 . Doesn't leave too bad a taste in my mouth, but still.

That said, totally dig her 80s/90s output and been watching All the Right Moves a lot lately as Fox Movie Channel has it in heavy rotation. Second year in a row I'm not heading back to PA for some football and does the trick as best as a movie can.

I'm not sure if Deadliest Warrior ever did that match up.
Ninja, by a mile.

Open Thread:

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Liberals have absolutely no common decency….

I watched Tropic Thunder this past Saturday, Cruise was tolerable. Took my halfway through his scenes before I ever recognized him.

Really dumb movie. So dumb I thought it was pretty good. To Kirk Lazarus (Downey Jr.'s character) "What's my problem? You want to know what my problem is? You're the black guy in this movie, and I'm black!"

Decency is a liability in a war for political power.

No contest – Pirate. They don't have to follow rules.

Great post! Can we make it into a billboard?

Didn't much care for All the Right Moves, never watched it a 2nd time …
Two of Tom Cruise's all-time best films came very early in his long career:
Risky Business and The Color of Money — very well-done films, with some of his best acting.

Perhaps his performance in these two films was so convincing and sympathetic because he was playing
a very limited person with a lot to learn. Later, he preferred playing a 'Mr. Impressive' character, and he just elicits a sneer, scorn, contempt, etc — coming off like a shallow, over-compensating, insecure ego-maniac…

Anyone coming from a position of being driven to keep proving something is dealing from a position of weakness. Too bad for him.

TC was very good in Jerry Maquire. Impressively hilarious in Tropic Thunder.

God help us. What's next?

Probably repeating myself, but O.T. and BH, in general are among my touchstones to sanity. Thanks to the powers that be.

We fight back with protests, tsunamis of emails and petitions, hit the government so hard it shakes the foundations. Politicians are for the most part cowards. When they feel the heat, they'll start looking to protect their own asses first. Obama's desires for a socialist Utopia be damned.

will they use enhanced techniques?
we we ever know?

FTA\\
Hahahahaha

The comment came on the same day the president’s approval reached a new low, with only a 45 percent approval rating in the Zogby International poll released Friday. The poll said that 51 percent disapprove of the president’s job performance. The Real Clear Politics average of all polls puts the president approval rating at 52.2 percent.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/52886
/made my day ….52.2 % LOL

What's O.T.?

Well it's good to see he's already accepted defeat in 2012. It would have been a shame for the nation to experience another "Jim Baker" like exit in tears and handcuffs.

Gotcha. Rush helps keep me sane. I work from home supporting networking devices around the world, so, except for meetings, I have the radio on all day.

I see your two shits and a Cruise, and I raise you a Biden.

I'd like frame that headline and put it on the wall

next week it will be "Obama want's to only have one term" and we'll hear about the noble warrior and how he doesn't really want the power ala Washington. (barf)

What's the other difference between Obama and Chavez? Chavez is the short, fat guy.

A real ninja or a Michael Dudikoff American Ninja? Yes, it matters.

What's the difference between Obama and Karl Marx.

Marx knew better that to take communism seriously.

HA! That story only works if the 5'4" running back is Barry Sanders.

Guitar wailing ninja: http://www.realultimatepower.net/
lol

Then the answer is ninja…especially if said ninja has an abundance of throwing stars.

Love the movies not the actor
We are all crazy a little,some just more than others
And you have to be nice to munchkins(TomCruise) for the sake of good Karma
/sarc

I agree, Nelson is a decent actor. He can do comedy, drama, and horror. Versatile.

Remember this, we are not dealing with regular people here. We are dealing with people who have a religious affection for the state. Since the only moral found in government is not using it to crush people who oppose you, they have no moral guidance. One of the greatest Patron Saints is Saul Alinsky. They're following his "gospel."

Scratch that, Gospel is a bad analogy. They're folllowing "St. Saul's Letter to the Agitators."

Okay, need work, but there is potential. Any offers at a re-write?

NO…he's clear now. He got rid of the Thetans a long time ago.

If you're ever in a grisly car accident, you'd better pray Tom Cruise comes by. Because ONLY HE will know how to help.

Don't be too hard on the ex-girlfriend. I used to think he "had all the right moves" too, a long, long time ago. We were young and stupid. You live, you learn, you find out he us full of thetans.

Wow, I watched that video and I think it supported my original contention. Lea is championing Altzheimer's charities and really doesn't bad mouth anybody in the video. She possibly was thrown a curve and caught off guard by a question appearing to criticize Obama's cutting deductions for charitable contributions and obviously did not wish to appear to be bad mouthing him or anybody else. Contrast that with Megan Fox wishing southern white NASCAR fans all die or whatever she said. Lea is from Minnesota so she almost has to be a Democrat, but I thought she was pretty classy in that video.

I had a crush on her when SHE was in high school…

hey everybody — I am NOT hawking my book, "ACTING & Other Flying Lessons" (available on garygraham.com and Amazon)… okay, I guess i AM hawking it, lol….BUT…. for all who are interested…I have HUGE sections in the book all about the filming of this movie…Craig Nelson's craziness (and coolness) and Chris Penn's whacky escapades…and working with Cruise. And…. how i saved his life on the set. (REALLY??!!) ha ha ha ha…read it and see.
– XOX GG