Um, how could anyone be of two minds about the writer of A Beautiful Mind, I Am Legend, The Da Vinci Code and Batman & Robin. He's atrocious.

She's been hanging out with George Lucas too much in the lobby of their Swiss bank.

Their job is also to make the books/show they WANT to make.

Wow. But how long do you think it'll take the domain squatter to cave when the P.A.C.'s start waving their checkbook?

percentage?

What fan of filmed entertainment wants filmmakers to make page for page retellings of source material? Own it, or don't film it at all. Save the visual audio books for book club book bestseller trash adaptations.

To be fair, he and Cruise aren't in the same place for most of the movie's runtime. Plus, if they were going to choose a new lead for a series that only does a movie every 5 years or so, I don't think they'd go with someone as old as Renner.

He's been in charge of the rewrites of an awful lot of Cruise's movies since Valkyrie, and the writing is what has made most of those movies overall letdowns, despite their fun qualities.

Really? Because other than upping its stunt game it continued with the feel of M:I 3.

Oh man, I always thought bad soap opera title, but Jules Verne biopic? That would have been perfect.

Yup, (plus it was so nice to see David Gordon Green making films like that again after slumming it in Hollywood comedies), before that it was what, Bad Lieutenant? Though we might have to go all the way back to Matchstick Men before that.

Cocktail, that insipid immigrant movie with Kidman, Rock of Ages, etc. Lions for Lambs is a middling movie, and on-the-nose preachy as hell (I wouldn't call it a thriller) but Cruise' scenes with Streep were electric.

It's interesting that after a run of 3 straight completely different movies (barring Cruise & Rhames involvement) that there's now basically an ongoing Bad Robot franchise with these last 3 being similar and featuring more of the same cast members.

Hey now, Nicolas Cage reaches back for a great performance once every five years or so. He just does 7 straight to video garbage roles every year in between because of all the money he got swindled out of/spent on stupid crap.

Because this series erased the TV show from history?

Horrible seems a bit strong, it was competently made, but so generic as to be utterly forgettable, the second it was over.

Cruise is hysterical in that movie, pretty much parodying his persona in these movies. But even for that kind of movie the plotting and pretty much everything else in it is a total mess. It was fun seeing a car chase through Boston though.

I don't think there was ever any truth to the idea that Renner was intended to take over Mission: Impossible.

It didn't really bomb, it just got lost in the shuffle of the end of the year box office. For how generic the movie was, its middling box office returns seem right in line.

I thought Ghost Protocol started off like gangbusters and unfortunately devolved into Roger Moore era Bond-like material. 3 is still my favorite.