Tom Cruise

I love Tom Cruise

and I hate anyone who denies his abilities. I swear to god I am constantly arguing with people over his talent and it really infuriates me. It's a case of people letting the hype get to their head as the man is a fine actor and been in so many great films. People always say he's the same character in every movie.

Not True

if he was the same character in Risky Business as he was in Last Samurai, then the second movie would be even more amazing then it already is

Let's look at some of Tom's Accomplishments

One of the greatest comedic performances of the decade in Tropic Thunder
Golden Globe nominated and all around legendary performance in Risky Business
Golden Globe winning role in Born on the Fourth of July
Golden GLobe nominated role in A Few Good Men
Awesome performance in Interview with a Vampire
Memorable Performance in Top GUn
Academy Award nominated role in Jerry McGuire
Golden Globe nominated role and Academy Award nominated role in Magnolia
Goldgen Globe nominated role in Last Samurai
Astonishing performance in Collateral

As well as personal favorites of mine such as Legend, Mission Impossible, The Outsiders, and more

but yeah

He can't act at alll

There's an old sayin

Movie endings...SPOILERZZZ

Have you ever seen a movie and at the end of it you just felt like you were punched in the stomach?

I mean with a lot of movies....the endings can just make you freak out. I remember watching the Departed and that last 10 minutes had be in just a roller coaster of emotions

I jumped out of my seat at Friday the 13ths end

and I remember just being so pumped at Braveheart's ending of total badassery

But American History X

That movie kills me everytime. After that movie ends and the credits roll...I wanna like...a. beat up skinheads and b. just like curl up into a small ball and die. I mean the characters come so far in the movie and it all ends up being nothing. There are very few thing you can take away from that movie as a happy ending.

Just like a big old left hook into my intestines, jeez

The Surrogates

It's always great to find something you had never heard of before, and this is the case with the comic book The Surrogates

It's a fascinating tale about a world where people creates dopplegangers that lives their lives for them. When someone starts killing dopplegangers, a cop must begin to leave his home in order to find the killer.

It's such a fascinating idea for a story and the comic book was full of twists and turns. It was only 5 issues and so well put together. It's actually being made into a film starring Bruce Willis and Im nothing but excited.

I'd recommend people try their best to find it as it is just terrific

Chris Crocker

So...I love the internet.

Like...if it was a woman, I'd marry it or at least attempt to pick it up at a bar, but like most couples me and the internet have disagreements.

Chris Crocker is probably known to most of you as the "Leave britney alone guy"but I remember a time when a friend of mine showed me his videos.

He puts the awful and waffle

Like seriously, it makes me mad that someone opened the pandora box of internet and let him out. He's just horribily obnoxious and clearly searching for attention. It makes me so mad that hes more popular then a lot of people on that website. People like Derrick Comedy and Barats and bereta are decently known, while this moron is like...super famous

Internet and I are sleeping in seperate beds for a while

The Wrestler/crying in movies

So I saw The Wrestler for the second time last night and jeez....that movie just takes the wind out of me.Seeing that movie made me remember why I tend to only see action movies and comedies in theaters, because that movie just left me miserable. Not in a ,that was a ripoff sense but in an emotionally crippled by the movie sense. My friend Stephanie was crying throughout the entire thing and my friend Brendan even shed a few and even though I felt it...I could no cry.

I can't cry at movies, and believe me I've tried. Me and my friends have tried to cry at a lot of movies and have succeeded. One cries during most football movies and another cried to the Tony Jaa movie the Protector, but me...I've only come like...watery eyes close twice.

The movies that I almost cried at were Cool Runnings and Sesame Street: Follow that Bird

This wasn't like...10 years ago this happened, it was months ago.

I can't really fathom why, but both of the endings to that movie made me just get watery eyes. I think I attirbuted the Sesame Street one to memories of my childhood, but Cool Runnings I guess was just too damn inspirational.

I'm a weirdo

All your pods are cast

The idea of a podcast is so fascinating to me.

I mean, I understand the technical aspect and stuff, but its the power of it to reach out to people that is enticing to me. I currently do a wrestling podcast with some friends of mine and we've had a small but steady base of listeners, which is really cool in itself. The fact that people tune in every week to listen to us is really rad.

Well the thing I'm most excited is that in the next two weeks we are going to have a wrestler on the show.


Claudio Castangoli, is a Swiss wrestler who has wrestled all over the world and was briefly signed by the WWE before he was released due to budget setback. It's so cool to me that he is taking time out of his day to join us on the show and discuss his career with us. The power of the podcast is really something fascinating.

www.blogtalkradio.com/topeconcoolio

Oh and Bjorn....just cuz it's a shill doesn't mean I shouldn't get points for it

:)

Who watches the watchmen?, me I guess

One of the films I've been looking forward to the most since I first saw the trailer last July has been The Watchmen. I was a fan of the graphic novel and really hopeful that the film would be great. I personally loved the movie, but as with most work...it seems like a lot of people hate it.

I tend to enjoy most movies I watch, not all on the same level of course, but I am a fan of movies first. From Hong Kong action to American indie, if a movie appeals to me in a way enough for me to watch it then I probably will end up liking it.

The thing with Watchmen is that I'm convinced people wouldn't like it no matter what. It was directed by the guy who directed 300, which was a major strike.People hated 300 due to the stylization of it which I loved. I tended to think that the reason Zach Snyder did those things was well, because he could. It looked phenomenal and like a comic book which was what made it unique.

Another issue is that people were such fans of the graphic novel, which was brilliant, that no matter what it wouldn't be as good to them. Snyder did a good job of trying to translate from book to film and a lot of sequences are taken directly from the novel.

Also, theres the fact it's the internet and everyone hates everything

Yeah...I'll go with the last one

Zach and Miri and disappointments

It's always disheartening when you find out that a movie you enjoyed greatly, failed to perform at the box office and so is the case with Zach and Miri make a Porno. I found the film to be hilarious, with some great and surprising moments that made it fun. I love Kevin Smith movies, but even I was surprised at how well his non-regulars did in his little universe.

That being said, it was kind of sad to hear the movie made only about 30 million something at the box office. Being 20 years old and from the norteast, I guess I take for granted how open minded me and my friends are to stuff. Things like that mean almost nothing to use and a chance to see on screen nudity isn't a big a deal to us as it is to other people. I ponder why the movie did so poorly and I gues the whole porno aspect is the only one that makes sense.

Which is a total shame seeing as the movie is hilarious, and I will forever follow the legend of the Dutch Rudder