With the glut of comic book material being picked up for feature length adaptation, I was waiting for the moment when Ed Brubaker’s fantastically dark, nihilistic Wildstorm pseudo-superhero twelve issue mini-series would be given the Hollywood touch and make its way onto the road to production.
What I was waiting for was not to see whether it would get adapted but rather by whom, because as anyone knows that can make or break a property. Recently we got news about just that.
Tom Cruise is not a good choice.
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Though I stand by what I said earlier about Tom Cruise’s role as an obese, hairy, foul-mouthed, bottom-line coveting megalomaniacal producer, I don’t quite get the wild acclaim he’s receiving for it, especially since the more I think about it, the more I realize something: the only reason it works is because we know its Tom Cruise.
If it were any other actor in the role it wouldn’t elicit a single laugh, and probably just make you squirm in your seat uncomfortably. It just boils down to a one-note comedic character using the “F” word a lot, and that kind of thing gets old fast. Even with Cruise it gets a bit old, in no small part because it’s a nail that keeps getting hammered, and because he’s done this before better, with actual acting and more substance in MAGNOLIA (“Respect the c—k, tame the c—t!”). Nevertheless, it works in TROPIC THUNDER because there is delight to be had in Tom Cruise acting completely contrary to his image (as an actor and otherwise) and doing it with such gleeful zany (dancing) relish. A great performance? No. A fun one? Sure.
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