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Marycat2021's avatar

I hate action movies, especially Pentagon-endorsed ones. I also despise the Scientologist Tom Cruise. I hated the first Top Gun movie, which was pop culture trash starring one of the most overrated "actors" since John Wayne. Ugh.

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DeeDee D's avatar

Marycat, did you ever see Rainman? That's when I realized Cruise was a real actor. I'm not into his religious zeal, and think he's been a terrible husband... I have zero desire to meet him... but he's a better actor than most of us realize. Check out his performance in Rainman; Or not! I have actors I boycott for personal reasons too. Stay happy, Girl. It's just movies. (personally I enjoy me some mindless pop trash once in awhile ЁЯШЙ)

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Eric73's avatar

If being something of an eccentric boob and a sub-standard husband was disqualifying for a male actor, we'd be pretty much confined to Tom Hanks and Will Ferrell movies.

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Eric73's avatar

Whaaa?!? Say it ain't so! ЁЯШй Next you'll tell me Betty White had an affair with Mr. Rogers!! ЁЯШП

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Marycat2021's avatar

I saw Rainman. So what? I saw Born on the 4th of July. Again, so what? An actor is not a doctor, or a great writer or anything else. They are entertainers who make a lot of money if they're lucky. And don't call me Girl. Stay happy? Ha.

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DeeDee D's avatar

I apologize.

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Marycat2021's avatar

I'm sorry but my best friend died last week. I don't appreciate condescension in any form, If you don't like my opinion, I can handle it, but don't try to put me down, please. I'm just struggling here with people's willingness to kiss the ass of a rich cult member who just made another shitload of money by starring in a stupid movie the Pentagon just loves. In every movie. Tom Cruise rode the coattails of successful people, cashed in on his boyish good looks and threw millions at his cult religion while doing zilch for the world that made him rich and famous.

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Eric73's avatar

Mary, I'm sorry for your loss, but I really don't think DeeDee was trying to put you down. Calling someone "Girl" is not a term of condescension these days (like "son" or "honey"). Especially when used between females, it's a term of endearment. Maybe you don't appreciate the over-familiarity from a stranger, but I am confident it was meant as a friendly remark rather than to talk down to you.

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Douglas Peterson's avatar

I'm very sorry to hear about your loss, and I'm saying without condescension that it gives anyone a wide berth of responding however they need to at such a time. I am speaking from personal loss of my own and the need to vent.

I agree with your points about actors, which goes to the heart of the wealth disparity throughout this country. And we know the list all too well...

About Cruz in particular, especially as a cultist of the worst kind, I used to be amazed by such a willing abdication of one's identity to a fantasy world based on lies and psychological manipulation.... but then we had Trump -- and Scientology seemed like a walk through the local botanical gardens.

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Eric73's avatar

The Church itself is actually pretty bad. It's easy to forget now that its influence seems to have waned and it's been exposed so much over the years, but they used to sue people into submission for telling the truth about them. In a way they were sort of early practitioners of "post-truth" tactics.

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Douglas Peterson's avatar

Two good exceptions that prove the Marycat2021 rule.

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DeeDee D's avatar

Hahahha. ЁЯСНЁЯП╝

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Sonny Bunch's avatar

Ha, well, we're probably going to have to agree to disagree on the merits of the new one then.

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