Tom Cruise And OLga Kurylenko...Oblivion And More

Movies…Tom Cruise And Olga Kurylenko…Only The Lonely

Tom Cruise makes good movies! Tom Cruise makes good movies! From Top Gun to Days of Thunder to Mission Impossible to Minority Report to Jack Reacher, Tom Cruise makes good movies! His new movie Oblivion with Morgan Freeman and Olga Kurylenko is a great finish to Science Fiction Week. There is kissing in space and on Earth for the love triangle aspect of the movie. Special effects galore dot and destroy the landscape. Morgan Freeman doesn’t do any of the kissing, though.

Science Fiction Week started out with three million viewers watching Defiance’s two-hour Monday premiere on the SyFy Channel. This three million viewer opening is the best for a premiere since Warehouse 13 in 2009. The series stars Julie Benz, Grant Bowler, and Stephanie Leonidas as they try to convince us that after aliens take over the earth, we can live with them in harmony. Our money is on the no side of this debate. The last battle in Monday’s show may have proved us wrong, though.

Trance is the other science fiction movie opener this week as Rosario Dawson hypnotizes us and takes us on more twists and turns through the world of art than the road leading to Pike’s Peak. Give yourself a critical movie thinking A if you can predict the movie’s final outcome!

Back to Tom Cruise’s story…His last movie Jack Reacher made seventy-three million dollars in the United States and one hundred and thirty million and increasing worldwide. This two hundred million take says good movie to the financiers especially since it only cost sixty million dollars to make.
In business, location is everything. In movies, image is everything. Somehow the American audience judges his religion and love life and uses them as an excuse to stay away from his movies. Enough! Go see a good movie this weekend. Hopefully, Oblivion and its theme of a destroyed and depleted Earth on the rebound, is the one for you.

Movies II…Olga Kurylenko…Bond Girl And Chameleon Supreme

If Oblivion is the first time you have seen Olga Kurylenko, there is a great deal of her creative work that you can find on television and in your movie package channels. She has played fragile, heroic, misunderstood, vulnerable, and ditzy in black, red, and brown hair. She is known as a Bond girl for her role with Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace. However, she is just as memorable in the Starz series Magic City, in the Transporter with Jason Statham, and The Hitman with Justified star Timothy Olyphant.

Olga Kurylenko joins Ben Affleck, Javier Barden, and Rachel McAdams to make a great quartet of stars for the Askin Izleri book and movie To The Wonder. The controversial themes of love and religion presented in the movie have been applauded and questioned. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were in a similarly themed movie questioning whether you can have two loves at the same time, man and religion. The Thornbirds asked this same question.

Movies III…Roger Ebert…Outthinking Death

Roger Ebert ten-year battle with cancer is over and the movie community is mourning a very different kind of free spirit. At the end he lost his voice and a large part of his face to cancer, but was still writing his critiques. Many movie-goers grew up with his Siskel and Ebert movie review shows and scathingly, polite movie critiques. One and two thumbs up pioneered by his At The Movies show is in everyone’s vernacular. We have all used it at one time or another.

Richard Corliss wrote a beautifully piece in the new Time Magazine that everyone should read about Ebert. His use of the term “outthinking death” was a creative writing flash most readers will miss. He stated that no critic should be like a Roman emperor in determining the fate of anything. The previous comment should be read by every person that avoids a restaurant or movie because someone gives it a negative review. Think for yourself! Corliss did his friend Roger Ebert “a solid” in this piece, nonetheless.