Posted on 04/22/2013 9:54:41 AM PDT by Perdogg
Oblivion," starring Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman, took the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with $38.152 million in gross receipts. "42," the Jackie Robinson story with Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford, stayed strong in its second week with $18.025 million, good for the No. 2 spot.
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I’ve heard people say that before, and I’ve never gotten it.
According to the Internet, he’s 5ft. 7 in. That makes him two inches taller than Alan Ladd, James Cagney and Audie Murphy. He’s the same height as Al Pacino and George Raft, and, depending on which source you believe, just one or two inches shorter than Humphrey Bogart. All of those men played convincing tough guys.
Your point is well taken, noted.
Does this mean he will come out of the closet now?
This movie just has to suck louder than ???
Most overyped and overpromoted movie in years....
Yeah, but Cruise ain’t a Navy SEAL.
He doesn’t deny it...
I saw it yesterday. It was a good show.
My point was that just because he is short doesn’t mean he cannot be an action star.
Website where you can find out which movies are kid-friendly:
http://www.pluggedin.com/
quote from site above:
Jack is romantically involved with Victoria. They share a bed and shower (we see her from the back and side, revealing part of her breast). It’s implied that they have sex in a private pool after Victoria disrobes and dives in. (She’s in shadow as she sheds her dress, but she’s seen fully from behind; her nude body is more illuminated under the water.) She then pulls a clothed Jack into the water; he takes off his shirt while swimming, and the two kiss and twine underneath the surface.
In the complexities of Oblivion, Jack is, in a way, married to Julia. We see them kiss and hug, and by way of a child born later, it’s suggested that the two also have sex. (She leads him out of the frame, and the next morning they wake up in the same bed.)
We see naked adults floating in artificial “wombs.”
I dunno, Prometheus sure didn't live up to the hype.
i have never liked Tom Cruise... especially since Risky Business... all my gal friends were drooling over him, and i just never saw the appeal... as an actor, he is waaay over the top... the only movie of his that i have liked is the last Mission Impossible... and i kind of liked him in War of the Worlds... that being said, i plan to see Oblivion... even though i cannot stand Morgan “WOODY ALLEN” Freeman...
It’s my understanding that Navy Seals tend to be of average, or slightly below average height. Tall people stand out and also have difficulty in tight spots/places.
Are you being serious or pulling my leg? :)
I kid you not. :)
I've alwayls considered him more a movie star than an actor. He always plays the same character just in a different role. He's basically just playing Tom Cruise all the time.
The sucked wretchedly and the homage at the end got me to just get up and leave.
One of the toughest SEALs I ever knew was very plain physically. Fit, mind you, but not overwhelming. He led us in PT every afternoon on a flight deck underway, summertime, hot as hell.
One day he passes out and the staff doctor rushed out to administer first aid. We medivacced him off the ship, turns out he had been working through the pain of kidney stones, didn’t wanna miss any action.
SEAL training is extremely rigorous, having a reputation as some of the toughest anywhere in the world. The drop out rate for BUD/S classes are sometimes over 90 percent.[26] The average Navy SEAL spends over a year in a series of formal training environments before being awarded the Special Warfare Operator Naval Rating and the Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) 5326 Combatant Swimmer (SEAL) or, in the case of commissioned naval officers, the designation Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) Officer.
All Navy SEALs must attend and graduate from their rating's 24-week "A" school known as Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/s) training and then the 26-week SEAL Qualification Training (SQT) program. SQT qualifies all BUD/S graduates in basic SEAL skillsets in MAROPS, Combat Swimmer, Communications, TCCC, Close Quarters Combat, Land Warfare, Staticline/Freefall Parachute Operations, SERE Level C, CQD and Hand-to-Hand Combat.[27] All sailors entering the SEAL training pipeline with a medical rating or those chosen by Naval Special Warfare Command must also attend the 6 month Advanced Medical Training Course 18D and subsequently earn the NEC SO-5392 Naval Special Warfare Medic before joining an operational Team. Once outside the formal schooling environment SEALs entering a new Team at the beginning of an operational rotation can expect 18 months of advanced training before each 6 month deployment. In total, from the time a prospective SEAL enters military service to the time he finishes his first predeployment training cycle, it can take over 30 months to completely train a Navy SEAL for his first deployment.[28][29] [edit]
Yes, many of them could play tough guys convincingly (though Alan Ladd seemed a tad “dainty”). I just can’t quite put Cruise in that category of believability when it comes to actioners (besides, half the Hollywood “tough guys” parts today are more like variations of Superman. That’s another reason why they’re so ridiculous, and Cruise’s height just adds to the disbelief).
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