Hard to take movies with this guy seriously - Jack Reacher (2012) Discussion

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

This is another version of "whitewashing" and "blackwashing."

Shortwashing : a Hollywood move to cast a short actor to represent an established tall character.

It's the opposite of casting Hugh Jackman to play Wolverine.

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[–] Moonglum9 (10695) 5 years ago

Lol. Word on the street is that he is going to play Wilt Chamberlain in an upcoming biopic. Normally that would be a double no-no. Unless you have as high of thetan levels as Tom Cruise does.

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[–] Truthtalker (1865) 5 years ago

Wow, you're an idiot

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[–] Moonglum9 (10695) 5 years ago

Now, now Mr. Cruise. What would L-Ron say about such negativity? You’re demoted back to Wizard of the Third Ring for that!

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[–] Jones70 (6195) 4 years ago

5'7 is just a little below average, not really a dwarf.

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[–] Moonglum9 (10695) 4 years ago

It is when you take into account the 24" platform shoes he wears.

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[–] PaladinNJ (20307) 4 years ago

LOL

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[–] Burk48917 (10966) 2 years ago

No way is he 5'7". Actors definitely lie about height.

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

curious. would you prefer there was NO movie at all?

An A Lister picked it and ran with it. Entirely possible no one else could have made this film happen.

So, would you have liked there to be no movie, and just stick with the books?

I'd never heard of the books. ONLY the movie. soo... that's all I cared about

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[–] Moonglum9 (10695) 3 years ago

I don't know. Never read the books or saw the movie.

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[–] acidraindrop (3055) 2 years ago

Beautiful contribution.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 2 years ago

https://c.tenor.com/j_btF8uQjcoAAAAC/right-ikr.gif

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[–] acidraindrop (3055) 2 years ago

I really wished your gif responses would show up in-post so I wouldn't have to click to see em XD.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 2 years ago

Oh believe me, so do we all. What's crazy is that there are other movie boards with all the bells and whistles embedded images all that good stuff. They look a million times better than this site, but for some reason there's hardly any traffic on them. Then you got this plain old blah looking site with no features with lots of people. From day one we wanted images and stuff on here but nope, never going to happen.

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[–] johnmarti59 (2356) 3 years ago

So why are you here if you don't like Cruise?

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[–] Moonglum9 (10695) 3 years ago

Who says I don't like him. I happen to be partial to crazy dwarfs, so I love the guy. I just can't take him seriously in an action movie role, I guess. I'd love to see him in a light saber battle with Yoda. I'd be on board with that, for sure!

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 2 years ago

I just can't take him seriously in an action movie role

But seeing as he's one of, if not the highest grossing action star of all time, which I think he is now, millions of other people can and do take him seriously. The proof is in the pudding, as they say. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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