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from the recent Rolling Stone interview:

...He lists some of Sc1ent0logy's selling points: its drug-abuse, prison-rehabilitation and education programs. "Some people, well, if they don't like Sc1ent0logy, well, then, fuck you." He rises from the table. "Really." He points an angry finger at the imaginary enemy. "Fuck you." His face reddens. "Period."

Whoa.

― Whoa (Kingfish), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

He has no method. cinema verite indeed.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

He should have never fired Pat Kingsley, seriously.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, and someone please de-google this thread just in case.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhhahahahahhahahahahahha.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

(de-indexed)

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

thank you.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

FUCK YOU SCAREDY CATS DONT BE A PUSSY BABY AND BE SCARED OF SCIENTOLOGY .THEY CANT SUE YOU ANYMORE ANYWAY ALL DA'S KNOW THEIR SUITS ARE FRIVOLOUS. FUCK YOU TOM CRUISE AND FUCK SCIENTOLOGY. XENU MOTHERFUCKERS CAN SUCK MY ASS.

― Sir Chaki McBeer III (chaki), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

So much for Googleproofing.

― Dirty Muriel (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

SUE ME SCIENTOLOGY PLEASE.

― Sir Chaki McBeer III (chaki), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

What's the big problem with sc1en+0logy anyway? If people want to give loads and loads of their money to some mentalist group of wankers, let 'em. Other religions do the same thing and nobody complains.

― Dirty Muriel (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

the problem is Charles Manson cribbed all their ideas.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a lot of interesting anti-scientology stuff out there on the net. There are a lot of people who've 'lost' family members and friends to the cult, and aren't too happy about it.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought Dianetics for a quarter, but haven't bothered reading it.

― artdamages (artdamages), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew: I was being facetious. :)

Last year I spent a lot of time researching scientology on the web, and only found articles either extremely defensive of it or extremely against it. One site tried to take an objective stance, but in reality it had become a haven for ex-scientologists to decry the 'church'.

Just the fact that the 'church' tries to silence anyone who makes negative comments is enough to turn me against it. That, and Battlefield Earth.

― Dirty Muriel (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how if some people don't like Sc1ent0l0gy it's NOT fuck them, NO, FUCK the poor guy saddled with interviewing Tom Cruise.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I would say in the above episode that Tom is under profound influence of his reactive mind, a definite no-no for an OTV thetan.

― l. ron gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

When we return to the riding lesson, there are two words that seem to recur over and over in Cruise's stories and instructions: competence -- his goal in learning anything new -- and gradient, which is a step in the process of learning. Days later, when he supplies me with materials written by L. Ron Hubbard, I will learn that they are concepts that come from his pamphlet The Way to Happiness (Step 17: Be Competent) and his Study Tech manuals (Barrier 2 to Study: Too Steep a Gradient).

READ THE ARTICLE folks, it's fucked up again

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I've actually heard that "Scientology is just like other religions" argument made in seriousness, but of course in other religions you don't have to have be rich to achieve absolute enlightenment or whatever.

― Gearontologist (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

this interview scares the shit out of me, i must say.

why do the celebrity scientologists never talk about THE SPACE ALIENS?!?!

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

or the fact that the cover of Dianetics is meant to be taken LITERALLY?

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

or the fact that Christmas is AN IMPLANT IN OUR BRAINS?

― Sir Chaki McBeer III (chaki), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

you gotta feel for his co-workers. i mean, i don't see michael mann as much of a sc1ent0logist: if, in the heat of the moment, with the light dying and the schedule with it, mann let something slip about 'bullshit alien cults', would the project have been put in jeopardy?

― ENRQ, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

What's the big problem with sc1en+0logy anyway? If people want to give loads and loads of their money to some mentalist group of wankers, let 'em. Other religions do the same thing and nobody complains.

Scientology was awarded tax exempt status and that pisses me off.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i need to see the rest of this interview. "competence," yeah!

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF? shouldn't we be speculating that tom cruise is gay? this thread sucks.

― jewelly (jewelly), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Are gay people allowed to be sc1ent0log1sts? Or is it just poor people who are excluded?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

this interview scares the shit out of me, i must say.
why do the celebrity scientologists never talk about THE SPACE ALIENS?!?!

-- amateur!!!st (|/...), August 18th, 2004.

i think i read somewhere that celebrity Scientologists are paid big $$$ to praise Scientology in interviews and such. Obviously the sc-fi/alien stuff isn't going to attract most people.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"I can live out in the woods," he begins. "I would eat bugs. I can use a sword and a pistol and stuff."

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

and we have the inevitable tough guy clash. who'd win in a fight between, say, Tom Cruise & Oliver Reed? or Robert Shaw (circa
Jaws-era)? James Coburn (late 60's era)? Viggo Morgensen?

or hell, Tom Cruise vs Tom Green. there's yer PPV event.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

VINCENT GALLO.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

If T0M Cru1s3 is so c0mp37an7 how come he's never done a c0m3dy?

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, you didn't see Legend?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Top Gun?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"If you don't think I can do comedy, well, then, fuck you. Really. Fuck you. Period."

What a card! What a cut-up! He slays me!

― Harold Media (kenan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I laughed when GOOSE DIED.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

okay that's not really true, I did cry.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Stenc, do you still want that ps2 game?

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, shit, sorry. Will paypal today.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

He should have never fired Pat Kingsley, seriously.

I'm trying to figure out whether it's good I've never heard of this person before or not.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

that's cool. just makin' sure.

also, ladies & Gentlemen, we overlook Mr Cruise's MANLINESS as displayed in such films as COCKTAIL.

which was GREAT until the flick actually went to the tropics.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought he was pretty funny in Magnolia, mostly because he was just playing himself. What a dire fucking movie.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

frogs!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

somehow i wouldn't be surprised if vincent gallo announced tomorrow that has joined the scientologists. and revealed friday that he's cheating on them with the christian scientists.

― amateur!!!st, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

no he's SOUTHERN BAPTIST ALL THE WAY BABY.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

oh the IRONY: TC is the untouchable platonic ideal of a male star; the only serious contenders for his throne (i'm thinking brad pitt, nic cage) have a (maybe undeserved) rep for slight "wierdness", and yet tom is the most legit freaky one, and always has been.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

the original title for this thread was "Tom Cruise is Fucking Insane", btw...

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

g--ff: yeah somehow cruise seems to embody some distrubing contradictions but even that somehow feels banal and fails to arouse my interest

― amateur!!!st, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Are gay people allowed to be sc1ent0log1sts? Or is it just poor people who are excluded?

My understanding is that they are actually quite homophobic and very conservative in their 'family values' - they encourage marriage and discourage divorce. Of course, if you're a $camentology celeb, you aren't held to the same standard. Like most cults or authoritarian societies in general, really.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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or leave early to go see part of pootie tang again

― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:50 (thirteen years ago)

that should just be one film edited together. "pootie tang the fast and the furious and ai"

― am0n, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:50 (thirteen years ago)

that's a great triple bill

lol xp

― goole, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:50 (thirteen years ago)

incorrect! last scene of raiders. close encounters. etc xxxp

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:51 (thirteen years ago)

2001 was the golden age of movies

― max, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:51 (thirteen years ago)

ya it was a v auspicious selection

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:52 (thirteen years ago)

ok, any spielberg from 1995-onward? idk, not going to look up the cutoff line. probably everything post-schindler's list where they all come out and hug schindler at the end

― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:52 (thirteen years ago)

"pootie tang the fast and the furious and ai 2: joe dirt"

― am0n, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:53 (thirteen years ago)

worst thing abt WotW was magically resurrecting the son at the end, but the ending was so dull & schmaltzy overall that it hardly seemed worth a mention

― contenderizer, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:53 (thirteen years ago)

the end of munich wasnt super corny was it

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:54 (thirteen years ago)

pootie tang the fast and the furious and ai
i laughed i cried it was better than cats

― goole, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:57 (thirteen years ago)

the end of munich wasnt super corny was it

― lag∞n, Thursday, July 5, 2012 10:54 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it had that shot of the twin towers which was a bit do u SEE

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:58 (thirteen years ago)

(to use an old ilx expresh)

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:58 (thirteen years ago)

ha i have zero recollection of that

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:58 (thirteen years ago)

oh god I never watched munich and now I don't need to

― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:59 (thirteen years ago)

munich is vv good!

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:59 (thirteen years ago)

munich is pretty amazing

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:59 (thirteen years ago)

SPOILERS please

― max, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:00 (thirteen years ago)

its kinda one for the haters, p hardcore

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:00 (thirteen years ago)

9/11 happened

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:00 (thirteen years ago)

xp

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:00 (thirteen years ago)

with you two endorsing it, all I need is morbs popping in to say he didn't watch it and it'd be an obvious must-see

― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:00 (thirteen years ago)

ha

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:00 (thirteen years ago)

Minority Report ended around the 110 minute mark iirc.

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:03 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, Munich has a brutality that doesn't even show up in Schindler's List, but it's not the kind of sophomoric nastiness of The Lost World. It's some down and dirty shit.

― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:04 (thirteen years ago)

That scene with the woman on the houseboat, it's like . . . this is a SPIELBERG MOVIE?

― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:05 (thirteen years ago)

SPOILERBERG

― am0n, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:07 (thirteen years ago)

i haven't seen munich either. i should watch it.

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:21 (thirteen years ago)

i couldn't bring myself to watch where to find nike shoes america what a country airport movie either. big meets perfect strangers.

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:25 (thirteen years ago)

definitely not the latter

― Number None, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:26 (thirteen years ago)

xp That's Born on the Fourth of July, yeah?

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:27 (thirteen years ago)

i couldn't bring myself to watch where to find nike shoes america what a country airport movie either. big meets perfect strangers.

― scott seward, Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:25 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

― some dude, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:32 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/13682440-421/tom-cruise-katie-holmes-reach-a-settlement-in-divorce-case.html

― Odd Spice (Eazy), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:13 (thirteen years ago)

damage contrlolz

― jed_, Monday, 9 July 2012 20:15 (thirteen years ago)

Cruise missile: dodged.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 July 2012 21:10 (thirteen years ago)

http://oi49.tinypic.com/35aolxw.jpg

― am0n, Monday, 9 July 2012 21:10 (thirteen years ago)

jann wenner choosing sides

― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 9 July 2012 21:11 (thirteen years ago)

I thought that screamed "EUNUCH!

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 July 2012 21:16 (thirteen years ago)

Trashed! Katie Holmes and Suri's Car Sideswiped by Garbage Truck

― am0n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:22 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.theonion.com/articles/katie-holmes-glad-she-can-finally-practice-sciento,28780/

― am0n, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:17 (thirteen years ago)

ten months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gRmhw8z73

couldn't physically make myself get through to even hear him speak

― goole, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 18:14 (thirteen years ago)

love tom walmart!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0gRmhw8z73w

― scott seward, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 18:32 (thirteen years ago)

WHY DOES OBLIVION NICK SO MUCH FROM MOON AND MASS EFFECT?!?!!?!?!?

― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Thursday, 20 June 2013 07:01 (twelve years ago)

eleven months pass...

are people talking about edge of tomorrow anywhere? not bad, clever enough, some imaginative aliens (though i have no idea why they were called 'mimics')

not as clever or as moving as "source code" tho

(it felt too smarmy to revive a groundhog day thread to talk about it, so here we are...)

― goole, Monday, 9 June 2014 18:03 (twelve years ago)

He was on the Nerdist podcast last week, heh

― polyphonic, Monday, 9 June 2014 18:13 (twelve years ago)

fuck, bill paxton killed it in this. cruise cowardly straying from the outfit early on, w/mech suit weighing him down was pretty lol.

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 02:46 (twelve years ago)

hit the same easy summer sweet spot as oblivion did last year, though this was probably better. i cant even come up with a bad explanation for the end tho, let alone a good one

emily blunt was really good. she should get an action franchise herself as the angel of verdun, id watch 3-4 movies of her in an exosuit killing tentacles with that big anime sword

― max, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 11:29 (twelve years ago)

The end was dumb but this was probably my favorite Cruise movie since War of the Worlds.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 12:37 (twelve years ago)

this was good

but as soon as the groundhog day gimmick is over, it just becomes an ok-ish action movie

they blew it by ending that part too early

― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:00 (eleven years ago)

four months pass...

it was great imo

― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 27 October 2014 12:29 (eleven years ago)

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