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Go Like Hell
It has been announced that Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt are to star in a movie about the 1966 LeMans race. Cruise is expected to portray Carroll Shelby whose Shelby-American Ford GT40s trounced Enzo Ferrari's 330 P3s.
Hopefully this movie will have the same visceral charge as the movie "Rush" that was released this year and, unlike Rush, will be filmed in IMAX. |
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Is he going to stand on a box the whole movie?
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As I predicted two years ago...
https://www.thevettebarn.com/forums/o...hollywood.html ... the success of Rush is about to usher in a mini-trend of 60's/70's motor racing films. |
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Can they take artistic license and run over Tom Cruise.......for real?
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As long as they are taking artistic license - maybe Carl doesnt survive that 1st illness in the movie...
RIP Mr Shelby |
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Tom Cruise as Carrol Shelby. 'Ol Shel must be rotating in his grave at high speed. What a travesty of casting. I could see Michael Madson... |
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Seems like Cruise doesn't mind making flops. I see no future for this movie.
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Karmic Payback
Carroll Shelby went through life so fast that karma could not catch him when alive.
With Tom Cruise playing him in Go Like Hell, karma is getting even with Old Shel for those magical 43 1960s era Cobra 427s that were built in 1991 and 1992. |
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Sure.
1. Lions For Lambs. It made a box office of a measly $15m. 2. Cocktail. 3. Rock Of Ages. 4. Losin' It. It earned $1m. 5. Mission Impossible 2. From start to finish, it's a boggling mish-mash of overblown spectacle and ridiculous storytelling. Consequently, the film is widely regarded as one of Cruise's biggest flops. 6. Vanilla Sky. 7. Far and Away. 8. Jack Reacher. 9. Valkyrie. 10. Knight and Day. |
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I just don't feel you've made the case that Tom Cruise "doesn't mind making flops." |
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Valkyrie was so close to good it hurts. The choice to not do the film in German accents was bad judgement, but it looks great, the writing was sharp, if a bit cliche in a couple spots, and the acting was very good. Jack Reacher is a doberman of a movie; Lean, quick, keeping the audience on it's toes. IMO, it has the potential to be Cruise's biggest franchise. Full Disclosure: I did not read the books. Far And Away is a perfect example of why one shouldn't make films with a spouse. Especially if that spouse is a dead-eyed mannequin with the acting ability of a diseased shrub. Mission Impossible II is the weakest of its franchise. That said, so was Return Of The Jedi, and I make that comparison genuinely. Rock Of Ages is indefensible. But I still cannot blame Cruise for any of it. Cocktail is better now than it was then, simply for the nostalgia factor. It might be the most 80's-est movie there is, and that has to be good for something. |
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