Cruise Control

After recently seeing the trailer for Tom Cruise's new movie "Valkyrie" I can't help but wonder what the pitch must have been for Mr. Katie Holmes to convince others to make this movie and let him star in it. I would like to imagine it went something like this:

Tom Cruise: "You know what, people really don't like me right now. I wonder what I could do in my next movie to win back the general public's affection"

Hollywood Agent: "Boy, that would have to be one heck of a movie, got any ideas?"

Tom Cruise: "Well I know that people hate me, but surely there has been someone else throughout history that people have hated more"

Hollywood Agent: "That's true, I mean come one, there is always Hitler!"

Tom Cruise: "That's it! In my next movie I will kill Adolph Hitler, and then everyone will view me as a great hero instead of a nut job who jumps on couches."

Hollywood Agent: "How do you feel about eye patches?"

And the rest, as they say, is history.

D3: The Lame Ducks

So I just watched D3: The Mighty Ducks and I have to say, Charlie (I'm looking at you Joshua Jackson) was a huge jerk throughout the entire movie. His new coach takes away his captain's C and he goes all My Chemical Romance on everyone, and suddenly no one (not even the soon to be one-with-the-force Hans) can possibly understand the depths of his teen angst.

In retrospect I think there are few key learning points we can all take away from this fine piece of cinema:

1) Emilio Estevez is a Jedi
2) Don't assume your hard-nose of coach is just being a jerk. Maybe he has a disabled daughter that is the source of all his issues.
3) Kids without money should hate kids with money. Correction, should and are right in hating kids with money.