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Just got back from seeing Collateral, and I will be incredibly surprised if both Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx don't get nominated for Oscars because of it. (Then again, if Foxx doesn't get a nod for this, I get the impression from early reviews that he'll get it for Ray.) They've just got such amazing chemistry together onscreen, although I do have to mention that the movie does get weak towards the end. But it's worth it just for Tom Cruise, who's done some of his best work ever in this one. If you don't think the guy can convincingly play a cold-blooded killer, you'd be surprised.

The only new trailer before the movie was for Surviving Christmas, and really, how can you go wrong with a trailer that ends with James Gandolfini whacking an uber-cheerful Ben Affleck upside the head with a snow shovel? They also showed the trailer for Alexander, which continues to convince me that if the movie's in any way historically accurate, Alexander the Great had a mullet and Rosario Dawson is really a man.

EDIT: Since everybody's so gung-ho to see the trailer, here's the link. For the record, that shovel hit never stops being funny. :)

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I'd see it solely for seeing Ben Affleck getting hit with a shovel.

See dude, you should be a movie critic for a living. Yup.

I went to check out the Surviving Christmas trailer online. I,d see that movie just to see Affleck get clobbered!

Link to the trailer?

http://www.empiremovies.com/movies/2004/surviving_christmas.shtml

Scroll down!

*snork* I love James Gandolfini.....and now I have one more reason to love him.

Re: Alexander's mullet. All I have to say is a quote from Agent Mulder: "Stupid-ass haircut!"

I rather want to see Surviving Christmas now. If only because it would bring me great joy to see Ben Affleck whapped in the head with a snow shovel. *hopes for online trailer*

Trailer: http://www.empiremovies.com/movies/2004/surviving_christmas.shtml

Doh! I didn't see that it was you who had asked me before I posted the previous reply! I'm trigger happy today!

Rosario Dawson's not a man; she's a cyborg created by Hollywood so that they don't have to risk anything. It's all very realistic but you see just round the eyes and mouth? Circuits.

I hate her. She'd have to personally hand me the deleted scenes in A Home At the End of the World to keep me from hiring a hacker to take her down.

I think what pissed me off even more than Rosario Dawson as a love interest in Alexander was what they said about the movie in EW about its Oscar chances -- basically, that it should do well unless it refers to his homosexual tendencies and inspires controversy rather than praise.

Yes, better to play down to prudes than be historically accurate at all. *seethes*

Dude, EW said that?

::throws nearby back issue on the ground:: Bastards! I thought we had something special!

There is, I believe, an LJ community for Alexander (the historical guy, not the films, of which there are legion communities). I'm not really into him, except as a military figure, but you might check out that community for what it has to say. I can't remember what it's called precisely, as I stumbled over it in passing.

can't see it impact with his head, no matter how many times i slo-mo it.
feel very very cheated!
*grumble*

you admire tom cruise, who would have thought!

I love you forever and ever for that link.

*thwack*

*chortle*

Ah, that's good.

-blue

So...did you think that Collateral was at all slashy, or am I totally batshit insane?

No, you weren't the only one. :)

Ooh, glad to hear Collateral is good. I'm slightly allergic to Tom Cruise, but with everything I'm hearing about this movie, that could soon be cured.

I friended you awhile ago and forgot to mention it, btw. So, hi!

I saw Collateral tonight and adored it, and I absolutely belive Foxx and Cruise both should get Oscar noms.

And because I a sick, sick girl, while I've always thought Tom Cruise is handsome, I have never found him so incredibly hot than I did tonight when he had grey hair and half his head covered in blood.

Believe, not belive. *facepalm*

I'm Vincent! No, really! I will shoot you in the head if you mock me for my spelling errors!