Did you see Eyes Wide Shut? If your answer is yes, did you hate it as much as I did? Seriously, that was one steaming pile of shit.
Anyway, the director, Stanley Kubrick, apparently felt the same way. He says Tom Cruise is the one who pushed him into changing how the film would go, thusly turning it straight into suckyville.
R. Lee Ermey is an actor who got his start as the drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket and is in the prequel to Texas Chainsaw Masacre that's getting ready to come out, and he's also freaking awesome. Ermey was also close friends with Kubrick, and had discussed the matter of Eyes Wide Shut with his friend.
Says Ermey: "Stanley called me about two weeks before he died, as a matter of fact. We had a long conversation about "Eyes Wide Shut". He told me it was a piece of shit and that he was disgusted with it and that the critics were going to have him for lunch. He said Cruise and Kidman had their way with him - exactly the words he used. He was kind of a shy little timid guy. He wasn't real forceful. That's why he didn't appreciate working with big, high-powered actors. They would have their way with him, he would lose control, and his movie would turn to shit."
Not suprised at all. Tom Cruise sucks, and R. Lee should totally go drill sargeant on his ass. How awesome would that be? You've seen Full Metal Jacket, right? I'd like to put the Couch Jumper in THAT boot camp. No amount of Scientology dollars would save his pansy ass. It would rule.
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