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WAR OF THE WORLDS has a new poster... feel like bowling'
Hey folks, Harry here... I've been hearing 'off the record' stories about things that were in the R-rated side of the development of WAR OF THE WORLDS that had to be abandoned at the development stage for being way too hardcore for what Spielberg was going for here. Having said that - when my source gives me the ok to spill, I'll share - but this one thing was so over the top, that it could have backfired and resulted in giggling, and from all reports - Spielberg wants this film to be the American Survivor tale and I couldn't be happier about it. Meanwhile, on to the image below. I got something from Paramount that made me get where and when Steven got inspired to do this film. If you go back in your Cinefantastique files to that old WAR OF THE WORLDS issue. Well that cover has essentially the below image... not as dramatic with with flames and black... but that classic alien hand and the world. Now - do you think the Wayans are gonna make an alien invasion parody film called BOWL FOR THE WORLDS with essentially the same image below? We'll see... Personally, I can't wait to check this one out!
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Dakoda Fanning still kills this for me.
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All their posters have been pretty much the kind of posters you'd expect. That's fine, still looking forward to the flick, and I dig what we've seen in the teasers.
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Nice image, but the lettering reminds me too much of Team America:World Police.
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I don't like it. At all.
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...this poster's old!
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hasn't this ad campaign been around for a while? remake LXG!
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forsooth, I am unimpressed, verily.
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But isn't that just the poster for the War of the Worlds TV show turned upside down??
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Wasn't that image used on the original teaser or trailer page?
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That was the most incoherent intro/report ever. "I have stuff I can't tell you but it's funny now here's a poster." And was that a reference to the Wayans brothers for some reason? Time to check the lead content in the AICN drinking fountains.
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But shit apple has new HD trailers for mac users...fucking sweet...
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Not sure. Looks like an ad for a wrestling match or somethin'. Last time I looked the official WotW site had the previous Ben Hur-lettering type poster all done in international languages. They all looked better than this. This movie will still rule though.
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& it looks like a testicle....
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You can
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what?dakota fanning?did tom cruise use up all the budget and leave nothing for decent co-stars!woe betide us!
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He'll be dating her soon
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...or Katie Holmes, they are about the same age are'nt they?
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Apr 29, 2005 5:39:45 PM CDT
Wouldn't it be cool if all the aliens turned out to be from the
by rev_skarekroe
He's back - and he's pissed!
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If Spielberg's going for a sort of Private Ryan feel to the invasion he should do it totally balls to the fucking wall and have body parts flying everywhere and the aliens being an ACTUAL threat rather than unseen and background CG explosions, aliens and humans actually fighting each other with guns instead of people just cowering away. We've got massive weapons of great destruction, for fuck's sake! nuke the alien scum!!! I hope Cruise does a little more than just running/driving away during this movie. But I hope it doesn't end up with Cruise being bigger than the movie rather than the other way around which it SHOULD be. This could still suck donkey balls, in a similar way that The Day After Tommorrow did. I WANT to believe that this will be better than the mediocrity of ID4 (though it did have some good moments IMO, like the President not knowing about Area 51, that made me laugh, and the alien talking through Brent Spiner (the guy who says 'intriguing' a lot in TNG). It was funnier than it probably was meant to be. I don't know, at least it had entertainment value. If WotW is too Shindler's depressing and Ryan boring second act it might not work. And if the aliens die by catching a cold like in the original it will reach new heights of suckage. Woah, using words like 'suckage', maybe I'm turning into a sick fanboy......
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Apr 29, 2005 5:57:46 PM CDT
Every time Cruise wants the world to feel hes a strong warm bloo
by spacesheik
its getting old
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ep3,wotw,king kong...the trifecta of 2005...then land of the dead,hhgttg,sin city,kung fu hustle...damn so far it has been a good year..
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Hey... it could happen...
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...Mars Attacks! had a better ending.
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It would really suck if the aliens are already here and we don't get any shots of saucer's attacking. From what I've heard this is more along the lines of Signs than the original War of the Worlds. I don't want to see a film about a guy getting a divorce and his relationship with his daughter. I want to see a remake of War of the Worlds.
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all the aliens get killt when humans realize their allergic to water
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Look at the E.T., Schindler's List and War of the Worlds posters back to back.
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Apr 29, 2005 7:04:59 PM CDT
The Wayans suck, and this looks mildy interesting at best.
by noriko takaya
Still think it should have been set during the 19th Century, but oh well. I'll give it a shot, especially since it's supposed to be the first of a trilogy and the aliens are interdimensional, not actually from Mars. We'll see how it goes.
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I really liked the take on it Alan Moore did in the second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen story arc- martian killed by germ warefare. Except they arent really Martians...
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Apr 29, 2005 7:09:52 PM CDT
Good call rev_skarekroe - there's no glowing fingers on these ba
by angry chimp
This is gonna be sooo shit.
And, as it's Mister Berg it will end, and then go on for another 20 minutes with an even shitter ending.
Should be set in England. Should have Woking and the surrounding area getting fucked up, then London, the protagonist should be British and blah blah blah...
You fucking BASTARDS!!! GIVE US BACK OUR BALL!!!
Fucking Tom Cruise. Jesus.
What was that? American Survivalist type did the big S say? - Uni Bomber vs Alien Wankers - FIGHT!
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The last time I was blown away by Spielberg was Saving Private Ryan. But even that had a few faults. Then he began a slow sewage trail of suckage starting with AI, then Minority Report, then the godaweful Terminal. I'm gonna say one thing...if Fantastic 4 turns out to be the "Family Adventure" film people are saying it is, then Marvel will rule the summer again. The market for family adventures is huge! Pirates of the Carribean came out of nowwhere to really surpass all expectations, and even the "oscar winner" National Treasure was able to suprise people with an excellent return. Not to mention F4 might be seen as a "live action version of the Incredibles" (which it CLEARILY IS NOT). People, especially families and kids, might soil their pants to see F4 more than a few times.
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I was digging it until you mentioned bowling!! Damn, damn, damn.
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the movie will suck if it takes the same ending as the '53 version? Which, consequently, was twisted by Shyamalan in Signs. "Why would the aliens try to conquer a world where Oxygen is an abundant element?"
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i agree Angry Chimp- it should have been set in victorian london- but with a steam punk look...
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This one's gonna be big...
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Harry, ssssh! You'll give them ideas!
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Apr 29, 2005 8:56:05 PM CDT
Wait, what was harry rambling about for the first half?
by dented helmet
I was expecting him to actually relay one of these R-rated ideas.
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...It's very un-dude.
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But there is some point close to the end of the movie when you simply stop caring about what's going on. It needed around 20 minutes taken off of it. A.I..... I still don't know what that movie is. Probably would have been a classic if Kubrick had got chance to direct it. The Kubrick influences are obvious in the first part of the movie, but then it trawls off into Spielberg drivel of the likes I thought we'd seen the back of in Hook. (if I hear the phrase 'blue fairy' I just want to die) I think a MAJOR problem was that the Berg hadn't actually penned anything since *checks out IMDB* since Poltergeist, and that was with 2 other dudes. It wasn't wise for him to pick up the pen for A.I., just like Lucas for the SW prequels, he should have NEVER been allowed to write and direct alone - there's no-one there to tell them when something (i.e. the Anakin/Padme 'love' story) is shit.
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It was enjoyable enough to watch. Im a huge Philip K. Dick fan (heard rumours about A Scanner Darkly being made into a film, which is interesting), and it certainly wasnt the worst adaptation of any of his work.
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Apr 29, 2005 9:36:05 PM CDT
Fingers? Why do they even have hands? There arent supposed to be
by supermonkey321
I guess the "aliens" will look more like the ones in the uber shitty 50s move rather than their description in the amazing classic novel. They arent supposed to have hands and/or fingers, they are basically just brains with tentacles, mouths, and creepy big black eyes. Seems that's changed. They better not have one big tri-colored eye in the middle of their torso. That was the dumbest looking alien ever! Spielberg fucked the pooch by not setting this movie in Victorian England and basing it on the classic. All he did was steal the title. I'll still watch it cuz i am like all the other whores who continue to give Spielberg a chance even though he has been on a continuous sucking streak for years now, plus Tom Cruise is still fun to watch as always. Oh well, didnt i hear something about some independant studio doing a REAL WotW adaptation?? What ever happened to that?? Supermonkey out.
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Apr 29, 2005 9:38:27 PM CDT
Doesn't anyone else find it interesting that Spielberg is now di
by octaveaeon
after having directed Minority Report, which was based on a short story by Philip K. Dick (who's know for his particular views on alien interference on this planet). Sure, he says that he has been playing with the idea of adapting H.G. Well's book for ages now, but I find it poignant that it has taken him this long to approach the subject from another perspective. And eventhough I consider Schindler's List the point in his career when he managed to establish himself officially as a "serious" director (i think he always was,), I find that he still remains an idealist, and no matter how hard he tries, he will never "understand" the themes that he approaches. I found that the most frustrating part of AI (which otherwise I consider one of his most intruiging films): Spielberg was not philosophical enough, while Kubrick gave it to him because he felt it was more up his alley (not so much less philosophical as more fantastical, considering the "child's perspective", though I wonder it is correct or not, let alone what Kubrick himself thought, considering that Philip K Dick wrote the short story, though i can't say since i haven't read it). My mind reels when imagining the conversations he must have had with Kubrick, who seems so much his opposite. Kubrick always brought fourth the ugly part of humanity. Spielberg camouflaged it. Maybe it's best to see the two together. Maybe then we can transcend their works. After all, perhaps Kubrick failed as well at what he was attempting to create, only he was more subtle in his construction that we are more willing to be accomodating . Still, I think that Spielberg's movies work best when he sets the events in his stories against an idealistic background of how humanity should be and act. Unfortunately, too often that winds up being his greatest flaw, since it is all too easy to go overboard in the idealism department (and why he ends up so often [too often, now that it has become a fashion] being criticized for being too PC and family friendly), which was not such a problem for Kubrick, whose movies have always been appreciated by smaller segments of the viewing public, and which always felt more detached and/or cynical, that any facile emotional characterizations felt innapropriate (and uncool, if you want to pass as a film connoiseur).Story wise, Spielberg always seems to focus on the fantasy and wonder (even mythical) element (Indiana Jones, Close Encounters, E.T., even Catch Me and The Terminal, while Schindler's is a rare ecxeption in that he was willing to tackle a more sensitive subject that had to be historically accurate, though I think that it was his focus on the extreme "otherwordliness" of the whole story, that made it feel like an epic fantasy, complete with a climactic, though bittersweet, resolution (which for most Jews was not the case). Kubrick, on the other hand, always seemed to chew on something that involved a process of dehumanization, while Dick dealt with "reality" (or lack of) and what makes one an "authentic human" (or not), which are subjects which definately touch. And now Spielberg comes with War of the Worlds, which from the looks of things, he's probably gonna draw some particularly poignant parallels with WWII and the holocaust, since how else would you describe what the aliens will be unleashing on us come summer? Considering the parallels, it was probably inevitable that he felt that he had to tie these events somehow. The thing is, what does Dick, or maybe even Kubrick have to do with all this? Maybe Eyes Wide Shut can be of some help, or maybe Philip K. Dick's own life, just like Kubrick's affiliations with "Fidelio: Journal of Poetry, Science and Statecraft" ("fidelio" also happened to be the secret password in EWS), or NASA and US government officials (like Kissinger, Bush, Rumsfeld and others, who all talked about this in a documentary about allegations of some kind of alien coverup, but was actually a hoax) that he worked with when making moon landing videos (in exchange of special cameras to use while making Barry Lyndon, which is a feast to the eyes thanks to these). Or maybe that's all bullshit. In the end, I get the feeling that, just like Philip K. Dick, they are/were struggling with something, maybe they even know something (or think they know something) that we don't, but either they can't get the courage and flat out tell us, or they are just unable to do so. That's not to say that what they what they believe in (or think they believe in) is correct or anything (not by a long shot), just that they might be trying to say something more than what they seem to be letting on (kinda like Dick, though he was more honest in divulging the reasoning behind his thinking, though maybe that's because he was just more doped and didn't give a fuck what other people thought, atleast not that much). Anyways, I forgot what my point was, so I think I'll just mosey on down to some other thread... (here's what Dick was talking about if you're interested: http://www.geocities.com/pkdlw/howtobuild.html)
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... that'll be the R rated action Demented Helmet was asking after.
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I didnt mean to imply you were demented. i really should stop posting at 3AM, lol
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Apr 29, 2005 10:42:43 PM CDT
Every Article on the Cruise/Holmes Relationship Mentions Their U
by flim springfield
Am I a cynic?
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No- the world is *that* screwed up.
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I think the problem with "Minority Report" is that Ah-nold wasn't in it! That's right, the short story that inspired "Minority Report" was actually Phillip K. Dick's sequel to "Total Recall". Arnold was supposed to come back from Mars and establish a pre-cog crime fighting unit with the telepathic mutants. How awesome would that have been - Arnold in "Total Recall 2", directed by Steven Spielberg?! Instead they tried to make it stand on its own and throw in Tom Cruise - who is NOT gay, by the way. How could anyone even think that Cruise is gay - we're talking about the man who starred in "The Outsiders" and "Top Gun" for crying out loud - oh. Oh, wait. Nevermind...
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Though Minority Report was floated as a sequel to Total Recall, with basically the idea you posted, that wasn't Dick's doing, Minority Report the actual story is its own, independent thing, and is no way connected to Total Recall, especially considering the actual short story Total Recal is based on, "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale," has no mutants, telepathic or otherwise.
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Just how to Max Von Sydow set his plan into motion? Think about it, the prevision depends on Cruise reacting information he could only get from the prevision. It's the same old trick that's wrong with every movie with some sort of time shift---something from the future causing something in the past. Of course, it makes no sense. That said, it was a pretty good movie.
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Although I slightly feel like an idiot now, I'm glad you cleared things up. I was kind of misinformed by the "Total Recall" commentary track, because Paul Verheoven and Arnold talk about "Minority Report" like it was written by Dick as a sequel. Still, I think the idea behind "Total Recall 2" would have been better than what we ended up with. People underestimate Arnold's acting abilities; I really enjoyed his performance in "Total Recall". He's much better than Tom Cruise has been of late - although when he wants to, Cruise can deliver ("Taps").
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I'm sick of hearing that the only redeeming qualities of 'A.I.' can be attributed to Kubrick. Fucking would-be intellectuals who worship the man even though you don't know what you're talking about. Oh, and even though this is old news and I regret even having gotten riled up enough to respond, 'A.I.' ending with David praying to the Blue Fairy "over and over" would have been a horrible, horrible decision.
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I also regret having been drawn into this, but here goes: you know how in the trailer for 'War of the Worlds' that guy asks Tom Cruise "You know what your problem is?" to which he responds "I know a couple of women who'd be happy to tell you." That's the type of semi-autobiographical line people play drinking games to, if you know what I mean.
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I love Incident with the violin and then the siren at the end. FUCKING BRILLIANT!!!!!!!
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I am looking forward to the movie, but this poster downright sucks balls.
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Apr 30, 2005 1:13:26 AM CDT
Anyone else notice how the poster looks more like the cover of a
by abysstare
Seriously.. that looks more like a book cover than a movie poster.. I think it might have something with the font style they chose for "War of the World." Do you think that's intentional?..
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Just seems that the trailers rock, but the poster really never did anything for me. This one's okay, but oh well. It's still my number one movie of the summer.
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Apr 30, 2005 1:59:55 AM CDT
So, this movie's tagline is TOM CRUISE BUT IN EVEN BIGGER LETTER
by scrumdiddly
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It might be a conscious thing. I was actually thinking the same thing when I saw it.
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That poster looks impotent
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Yet another american surviving tale? That sounds rather uninteresting. Those coffee-junkie ILM workers deserve a better and refreshing storyline!
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Apr 30, 2005 3:58:10 AM CDT
..but then what's that "the LAST war on Earth won't be started b
by lord_soth
You know, when it's the last, there's no more. So either a bunch of pacific faggots survive or nobody!
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good one.
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Now, cough!
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On imdb I was called a douche bag for writing that Spielberg must be privately hoping that Star Wars sucks.
I had heard a rumour that this film was going to released next year, which has turned to be untrue.
Beating Sith is going to be hard thing to do for any studio to do this summer.
What wih its faust/frankenstein undertones and that iconinc image of Anakin as Darth Vader and the preceding Lord Vader/yes master/ riiissse dialogue.
But I agree with the poster who said this looks like being a very good summer indeed.
For me the film I most looking forward to is the depp/burton collaboration Charlie and the choclat factory.
Trying to predict box office performances is really hard.
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War of the Worlds only in name
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at least it looks like the red weed will make an appearance
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He would never date that ugly ass kid Dokota Fanning. Cruise is just to hot a man for that fugly little girl. Plus doesnt everyone know that all great/good child actors/actresses (not the lame ones) get hit with the ugly stick mercilessly once they hit puberty?
And all signs point to Dakota not being the exception. Now just to disturb you a little bit, I leave you with a perfect example:
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/2166/Events/2166/HaleyJoelO_Cohen_1524438_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Osment,%20Haley%20Joel -
It's impossible to find an adult female who isn't taller than Gnome Cruise.
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I seen this poster on the old "War of the World" series. It even started off each episode so what's so new about it?
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Excuse me while I jack off profusely. Sigh.
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You're referring to all an author's shit being the same (in this case implanted or misread memoies -add Blade Runner to that-) to the stories being connected in some way.
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the next image, of the alien trying to shake the globe off it's suction-cupped fingers, and the inevitable thup! thup! thup! sounds...
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May 01, 2005 9:24:01 PM CDT
Fanning is just sooo cute and adorable! Oh, I could just give h
by hung-wei lo
We all know she's going to steal the show! Reminds me of that Family Guy episode where Stewie's on that Cosby show about kids, and as soon as he starts saying stupid things, the audience adores him, and he realizes what a bunch of twats people are. Goddamn Fanning! Die you rotten little ... oh, I mean, look at how pwetty she is! Now back to the movie. I predict Katie Holmes will swoop in from the Batman Begins movie and save Cruise from the wreckage that will be WotW. On a side-note, we all know Holmes just a beard to disguise Tom's craving of sausage. Cruise likes it when women pitch it to him -- dirty sanchez style. But then again, who doesn --? Nevermind.
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May 01, 2005 11:25:37 PM CDT
A more appropriate poster would be a photo of Speilberg pissing
by psychonaut
A more accurate summation of this movie might be difficult to acheive.
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