Movie Oblivion (starring Tom Cruise & Morgan Freeman)

[VenomousDSG]

Even in that context, that was a completely ludicrous statement.

 

[Mook]

How?? He compared being away from his family for MONTHS AT A TIME, to someone who in the military who can be away from their family for months at a time. That was it. I even went back and found the TMZ article. That was the only comparison he made.

Lawyer: "Now, your counsel has publicly equated your absence from Suri for these extended periods of time as being analogous to someone fighting in Afghanistan. Are you aware of that?"

Cruise: "I didn't hear the Afghanistan, but that's what it feels like, and certainly on this last movie, it was brutal. It was brutal."

Tom is asked, "Do you believe the situations [being in a movie and fighting a war in Afghanistan] are the same?" Tom replies, "Oh come on." Fields says that clearly means "of course not."

 

[Mook]

I'm not trying to defend some celebrity (even tho I basically am) but his comments clearly dont state that his job is the same as physically fighting in a war.

 

[VenomousDSG]

How?? He compared being away from his family for MONTHS AT A TIME, to someone who in the military who can be away from their family for months at a time. That was it. I even went back and found the TMZ article. That was the only comparison he made.

Soldiers have NO communication with family for months at a time, with a few getting satellite call privileges if they aren't in the field. This mutli-multi millionaire can talk to his child anytime he wants, can charter a plane and see his kid anytime he wants. He is exaggerating, and full of shit

Basically acting in a courtroom to get people to side with him.

 

[Mook]

You're reading way too much into those comments

 

[Mook]

With all that said, I would enjoy a prequel to this.

 

[VenomousDSG]

lol. I'm just trying to make a point. His job is in NO WAY anywhere near that of a soldiers in Iraq. We can agree to disagree on that.

And i still want to punch him in his ovaries.

And also still love his movies.

 

[Mook]

Im not agreeing that his job is harder, its not. But I'm disagreeing that that was the point he was trying to make. I think that sentence makes sense.

 

[VenomousDSG]

Cruise needs to be locked in a cage in a cellar somewhere and just let out to make movies... When he's done filming, he gets back in the cage.

 

[Sprayin]

celebrities are there to entertain us. They get paid to pretend to be someone OTHER than themselves. I could give a fuck what kind of person they are.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Cruise needs to be locked in a cage in a cellar somewhere and just let out to make movies... When he's done filming, he gets back in the cage.

It makes the movie or else it gets the hose again?

 

[Turk]

TC is weird, no doubt but he makes awesome movies.

 

[blakbearddelite]

I watched it last night on HBO. It was much better than what I expected from the trailer. I really expected another ho-hum sci-fi movie, but I have to say I actually enjoyed it.

The one negative: at first, they make the Scavs seem very inhuman in the way that they move. Some appeared to be running on all fours or just having very inhuman movements. I thought they tried a little too hard to hide the fact that they were indeed humans.

 

[VenomousDSG]

I watched it last night on HBO. It was much better than what I expected from the trailer. I really expected another ho-hum sci-fi movie, but I have to say I actually enjoyed it.

The one negative: at first, they make the Scavs seem very inhuman in the way that they move. Some appeared to be running on all fours or just having very inhuman movements. I thought they tried a little too hard to hide the fact that they were indeed humans.

Those scavs reminded me of Portal, and that AI thing at the end.

 

[skeezer]

I liked it

 

[Mook]

Just finished watching this for like the 10th time...I think its going to rank as one of my (most? is that the right grammar) favorite movies in the past 10 years. So good each time I watch it.

 

[VenomousDSG]

Turned this on tonight as well to substitute the shitty bears game. Cruises newer movie Edge of Tomorrow was much better though.

 

[Mook]

I go back and forth on that and ultimately settle on Oblivion being the better of the two. Great story, great cast, great cinematography, great soundtrack, great everything.

EOT is awesome tho.

 

[Sprayin]

I agree with EOT > Oblivion.

 

[rocket5979]

Soldiers have NO communication with family for months at a time, with a few getting satellite call privileges if they aren't in the field. This mutli-multi millionaire can talk to his child anytime he wants, can charter a plane and see his kid anytime he wants. He is exaggerating, and full of shit

Basically acting in a courtroom to get people to side with him.

I know this is an old post, but I want to take the opportunity to point out the inaccuracy of your statements. I served for 13 years active duty, and a total coming up on 16 years including reserve time this coming February. I have been on multiple combat deployments and many more non-combat deployments to 3rd world countries from periods of a few months to a few years. Some of those include Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Philippines, East Timor, etc, etc, etc. I speak from a place of experience when I say that even back in the late 90's us military personnel deployed overseas have had pretty decent access to communications back home. In virtually every place I have traveled while under orders, I have had enough access to call back home at least twice a week, if I felt like it. Hell, nowadays soldiers have their own local cell phones in Afghanistan and can literally text directly back home at any time they want. Calls are a bit expensive, but still quite manageable.

I don't have any qualms with a father having compared his job making him travel away from his child for months at a time to that of a military service-member having done a similar thing. From a parental aspect alone, I feel it is the same thing; and I believe that is what Tom Cruise was speaking toward in his deposition. Analogizing the similarities between two related things in order to offer a more clear context of familial struggles and actually claiming them to be one and the same are worlds apart.

 

[Turk]

Oblivion is likely my favorite Sci-Fi movie of all time. Better than Edge of Tomorrow IMO.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

I'll have to give Oblivion a watch. need some new stuff

 

[Turk]

Just watched again (was on HBO). I think this was my twelfth time watching.

 

[wlorton]

It's the sci-fi version of Forrest Gump /rremember the Titans.

it's going to run on random cable channels and when you see it, you'll watch it. Everytime.

 

[Sprayin]

I just watched this again. I wanted to see if I just missed something the first time around that made you guys think it was better than Edge of Tomorrow. While I still think its a great movie, Edge of Tomorrow is just superior.