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Your critique is the same of Denzel or Tom Cruise.

They're themselves in every movie (largely). The masses like that more than DDL immersing himself into becoming some Portuguese gardener from 1957.

To me, both of those guys have jump-off-the-screen star power.

It’s true that Damon table-selects well. The only real criteria for big action movie leads is “be believable,” and Damon was believable in the Bourne role, which I realize is what really launched him. I guess on that basis alone I shouldn’t be mystified.

11-18-2022 , 08:02 PM

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Tom Ames

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Can’t remember that performance either. Didn’t like the movie, but that’s all on John Grisham; I had already been pissed at the book. Dude can write very engrossing prose, but he has no idea how to end a story, and he’s shamefully dependent on deus ex machina ****. The Rainmaker was an especially egregious example. Eventually learned to just stop reading him.

The Firm was great though.

I quit reading Grisham for that reason after about four books. He had a knack for getting me hooked and invested, but then it was like his mama came in at midnight and said, "Wrap it up, Johnny. Lights off in 15 minutes."

11-18-2022 , 08:07 PM

#104

LKJ

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Originally Posted by LKJ

To me, both of those guys have jump-off-the-screen star power.

Like, making Cocktail work as a fun movie? That’s all Cruise being extremely charismatic. That movie is ****ing ridiculous and stupid, and I love it. I would only view it with scorn if you cast almost anyone else.

11-18-2022 , 09:01 PM

#105

marknfw

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Originally Posted by LKJ

You’re sorely mistaken if you think I would have a Crown Royal bag in my home.

What the hell do you put your scrabble tiles in then?

11-18-2022 , 09:23 PM

#106

REDeYeS00

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i recently watched a good chunk of Risky Business, mostly for Rebecca nostalgia purposes (it was released my freshman year, and i just might not be talking about the movie).
it's hard to deny Cruise had a presence
All The Right Moves hit theaters just a couple of months later, so almost every friday night movie date for the next several months included his face on the screen.
Top Gun came out the summer before senior year and movie dates got even better.
i will never be able to repay the debt of gratitude i owe to Tom and Kelly for the memories they helped create.
at its essence, Top Gun wasn't much more than foreplay for a couple of horny high school kids.

11-18-2022 , 09:25 PM

#107

REDeYeS00

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Originally Posted by marknfw

What the hell do you put your scrabble tiles in then?

11-18-2022 , 10:06 PM

#108

Zeno

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I use a cloth bag; it’s more cool.

11-19-2022 , 06:55 AM

#109

marknfw

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A purple one? With gold trim?

11-19-2022 , 06:59 AM

#110

All-inMcLovin

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You know.. with all this Scrabble talk:

Maybe we should organize a Scrabble tournament!?

11-19-2022 , 11:30 AM

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golddog

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Visiting friends a few years back, we decided to play Scrabble. My friend warned his wife that I'd be really good, because I did the NYT crossword at lunch every day.

Nope. Need the clues.

11-19-2022 , 02:38 PM

#112

27offsuit

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Biggest Scrabble play of my life was dropping QUOIN on a skilled player, on a triple word, and getting challenged.

11-19-2022 , 04:23 PM

#113

REDeYeS00

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nobody expects the mason's articulation!

11-19-2022 , 06:09 PM

#114

27offsuit

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11-19-2022 , 07:08 PM

#115

REDeYeS00

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my bad...fee free to edit
that's two strikes and we still have drinksgiving to come

11-19-2022 , 07:33 PM

#116

LKJ

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Originally Posted by DodgerIrish

School Ties

I rewatched this because you mentioned it. It’s still good. Damon is certainly fine. He seems like a natural heel, but of course he only plays one once in a while since that isn’t where the big bucks are.

11-19-2022 , 07:40 PM

#117

Randall Stevens

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It's a good movie (and I'm not a Brendan Fraser fan). His best performance is probably Courage Under Fire or True Grit... and he wasn't the main character in either..

11-19-2022 , 07:46 PM

#118

REDeYeS00

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someone please call me an ambigram
i'm fliplexic and thought we were discussing scrapple
this is what i see on the horizon

Spoiler:

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11-19-2022 , 08:22 PM

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DodgerIrish

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I was just kidding. It was supposed to be like saying Cruise's best performance was Taps.

Glad you liked it.

11-19-2022 , 08:23 PM

#120

samuri8

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Redeyes are you microdosing 24/7?

11-19-2022 , 08:56 PM

#121

REDeYeS00

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not yet
but that's baked into my retirement plan

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11-19-2022 , 09:10 PM

#122

LKJ

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Originally Posted by DodgerIrish

I was just kidding. It was supposed to be like saying Cruise's best performance was Taps.

Glad you liked it.

Well I can’t possibly know you would joke like that; you once said the chase scene in The Roxk was good.

My favorite Cruise is A Few Good Men, even if that requires looking the other way on, “I’m a lawyer and an officer in the United States Navy. And you’re under arrest, you son of a bitch.”

11-19-2022 , 10:24 PM

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NotGonnaHappen?

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Do you have any special sides that you make?

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BOO! I wanted to know about the special sides!

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Originally Posted by marknfw

A purple one? With gold trim?

Feeling a little bit of love, even from you LKJ.

I regret that I'm BOS. However, it would be nice to know in the ban comment who the douche was (other than me).....