D’oh! I thought, well, maybe I was thinking of Liam Neeson-isn’t he from Belfast?
:smack:
(Grover’s Corners is the name of the town in the play Our Town. Think happy-sappy, Waltons, Little House on the Prairie type of place). Larry Borgia, you could always buy a ticket for another movie, and then go into WOTW. I know several people who said they were opting out of seeing WOTW because of Tom’s antics, that ended up making donations to the SHOAH Foundation instead, to support Spielberg.
Larry Mudd-I’m sure Matt would have LIKED to have said that, but Tom kept interrupting him.
If you’re Out-Communication, your Affinity and Reality channels will take a big ol’ Downstat, too.
Hey, look! Tom’s Affinity and Reality with everyone on the freaking planet is in the toilet. Maybe Scientology isn’t entirely hooey.
Oh, wait, that’s from “basic common sense” phase of Dianetics, before you’re obliged to turn off your critical thinking skills and get a second mortgage so you can afford to stay On Course. Never mind.
As any respect I might have had for Tom Cruise goes down*, my respect for Al Roker goes way up. Too bad he didn’t do the interview.
*can you have less than zilch?
I’m as big an anti-$cieno as they come (my favorite nickname, that I still wish I’d used here, is Xenu’s Sister) but no way can I miss this movie. It’s Spielberg and H.G. Wells and ILM, for goodness sake! Must-see for me.
That’s what I plan to do. I like Spielberg and might do the Shoah donation thing to make up for it. I think it’ll be a huge hit so it isn’t as if it’ll make a difference, but I never pay for $cieno-starring movies anyway. Either I don’t go see them or, if it’s something like Minority Report or WOTW that I’m seeing mainly for another reason (in each case SS), I pay for another movie, one that needs the support more.
My feeling is that if enough of Cruise’s films bomb because he’s now decided to spew his ape-shit battiness everywhere he goes, he won’t retain his Hollywood Golden Boy status. If he can’t sell tickets, people won’t hire him. (I know, it’s a pipe dream.) But I refuse to put any money in his pocket. Ever. Ever. Again.
If Spielberg suffers because people don’t see this movie, tough titties. Maybe people will start thinking twice about putting Tommy Boy in their movies.
War of the Worlds? I’ll wait for the book to come out.
That’s true. I have to admit I’m not a big Spielberg fan. I don’t hate him or anything, I just find his movies kind of dull. I’m a huge dino nut, but I almost fell asleep during both Jurassic Parks. Even Saving Private Ryan didn’t do it for me, except for that amazing first twenty minutes. So I was kinda on the fence about WotW anyway. Now the prospect of staring at Tom Cruise for two hours plus has made that movie even less of a draw.
I’ve got Collateral on my netflix queue, but it won’t go up to #1 till my current rage subsides.
I don’t normally care when actors do or say dumb things. They’re actors for crying out loud. But what Cruise was saying could convince someone to stop taking life saving medication. That is just not cool. :mad:
Well, now that Cruise has pulled a Mel Gibson (behaving like a crazed, self-righteous zealot with highly questionable beliefs), how long will it be before he’s the object of ridicule in his own South Park episode?
As I understand it, they can whip up an episode in a week if they feel the need. Has to be during a run of new episodes though. I don’t think even Tom Cruise is great enough to merit a special quicky episode.
Just to be clear, Scientology holds that about 75 million years ago, Xenu, the then-ruler of the Galactic Confederation, enlisted the aid of psychiatrists to paralyze and murder billions of people; the “souls” of those murdered individuals were then captured and programmed with harmful and misleading information. Today, those souls, called “thetans,” still exist, and are attached to the bodies of all persons on Earth, causing various problems – all persons except those who have taken the necessary steps to remove them.
Given this belief, Cruise’s antipathy towards psychiatry is given at least some context.
So, when he told Matt Lauer he didn’t know the history of psychiatry as well as he did, it’s to be inferred he was talking about space aliens?
Hmm… since we’re on this topic, how do scientologists know this? Do all scientologists believe this? I’m having a hard time picturing Travolta believing this crap.
I don’t care what Cruise believes, it is his condescending tone and inability to see the world through anybody else’s eyes that bugs the crap out of me.
