Collateral

[poliphilo]

This is how I want to see Tom Cruise- not as an all-American hero, but as a weird, empty-hearted sonofabitch. I read somewhere that this is the kind of role he's seeking these days. Well good!

Jaime Fox is sweet. I'm all for an action hero who doesn't know how to use a gun and who steps carefully through a broken window. Yeah, I'm sick- so sick- of men of steel. Lets have heroes who look like us.

I like it how night-time Los Angeles- with its myriad coloured lights- serves as a metaphor for an unfeeling universe. This is the L.A. of Blade Runner- only it's now. We have caught up with the sci-fi visionaries and are living in their cities of the future.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I didn't see One Hour Photo, but I liked the thing where Williams was a mean old serial killer living in Anchorage.

As for Cruise, I was worried that superstardom had corrupted him and he was stuck with heroic vanity projects (I hated him in Minority Report; there was nothing there) but it seems like he's finally come to understand where his true strengths lie.

[manfalling.livejournal.com]

true true, minority report is a bit vapid- but i thought a jolly nice wheeze. rather similar to new will smith movie i robot- all fast werid-looking cars and twisty twists.

mm, you mean insomnia? with also al pacino? yes he is quite disturbingly dude-next-door isn't he?

oh- and in minority report he WAS a junkie. so- little bit bad boy.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten he was a junkie. I just saw the generic all-American tough guy thing. The problem is, he's almost entirely lacking in charm. He has charisma, but that big enormous smile of his is utterly heartless.

Insomnia- that's the one.