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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: HerrKaiser on December 12, 2008, 07:43:22 am ---For a group of people here who are so intolerant of assumptions and opinions not based on proven, documented evidence, it seems funny to make such charges. ;D For decades, gays and gay groupies have fantasized that Cruise would be gay, but that is all it is...wishful thinking.
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Well, they aren't exactly "charges." They're not public accusations, just our private assumptions based on things we've heard and/or observed -- including his own odd public behavior at times, such as his Oprah appearance. And they're not negative assumptions, as the word "charges" implies, except in the sense that it would be sad if he had to go through life not feeling free to be himself. I think most of us on a Brokeback Mountain website can relate to the pathos in that.
Being neither a gay man nor in any way likely to have romantic interaction with Tom Cruise, it's pretty immaterial to me one way or the other.
I think many of us probably have various opinions -- well founded or not -- about what this or that celebrity might be like in private life. That's just part of being famous. Many obviously believe it's a fair exchange for the millions of dollars and other perks they receive. And if 10 percent of the population (or whatever) is gay, but nowhere near 10 percent of movie stars acknowledge being gay, then it stands to reason that there are some movie stars who are gay but not tellin.
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: HerrKaiser on December 10, 2008, 07:33:44 pm ---what on earth does that mean? ???
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It means I am not going to see Valkyrie.
MaineWriter:
Milk has opened here in an exclusive engagement at the Nickelodeon Theater (which also had an exclusive engagement with BBM three years ago). I am hoping to go see it on Wednesday afternoon.
Just back from seeing Australia for a second time and I liked it even more. I could focus on the characters and dialog and picked up things I missed the first time. I definitely recommend it as a big, sweeping epic movie. If you are at all interested, see it in the theater. It will lose alot of its impact on a TV screen.
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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on December 14, 2008, 05:03:34 pm ---Just back from seeing Australia for a second time and I liked it even more. I could focus on the characters and dialog and picked up things I missed the first time. I definitely recommend it as a big, sweeping epic movie. If you are at all interested, see it in the theater. It will lose alot of its impact on a TV screen.
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Oh, all right! >:( ;) :-*
I was going to skip Australia in favor of all the other movies I feel the need to see: Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, JCVD (thanks, oilgun! :D), that French Christmas one with Catherine Deneuve, and maybe another one or two I can't think of right now.
But I have heard such great word-of-mouth about Australia that I'm afraid after all I'm going to have to throw it on the barbie (sorry, Aussiebrokies! ;D).
UPDATE: Wendy and Lucy is one of the other ones. And maybe that Brad Pitt one.
belbbmfan:
Australia opens here on Wednesday. We'll be there. I'm really looking forward to this movie. I'm ready for a big sweeping romance. :)
My husband and my kids watched Madagascar 2 yesterday. They said it was fantastic. Very well made and very funny.
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