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Originally Posted by who's up for a blumpkin
It's like a different movie every time I watch it. I know I know Cruise is an alien-shagging nutcase, but he's PERFECT as the oblivious Dr. Bill!
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yes. i read somewhere that he'd often cast inept male actors in roles that required it-- e.g. ryan o'neal as barry lyndon (which is an extraordinary movie). so the idiot cruise fits perfectly here as a clueless man-boy.
i liked EWS as a horror movie-- the ultrarich are way scarier than zombies
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Originally Posted by GeneticKiss
It's not my #1 favorite Kubrick film, but that man never made a 100% bad movie in my eyes (heh).
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there's the hammy and disgraceful spartacus, but he disowned it.