OT: Critic says Justin should give up writing scripts

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tomnyloon, that is what exactly I said closer to his age is GC and JD for Brad. Both are 49-50yrs so compair tommy with them Brad is the youngest 48 still.

First, I am not a "tommyloon." Second, that is NOT what you said. But, whatever. They are all very close together in age. Third, my only comparison between BP and TC is BP eats food much more often in his movies. This has nothing to do with his age or his looks. Fourth, it literally does not matter to me who is RoA, I hate that kind of music to the degree I wish the movie did not exist. Fifth, why are you always ranting about Tom Cruise? You do know this section is not really about him.

That is what I said besides who cares if you think brad eats...
Compare tommy with the age close group.
GC=51
tc =50
JD=49
BP =48 and he still has 6 month before he is 49

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there is always an ebb and flow to styles and you can date yourself by which eras you are nostalgic and which you lived through.... I hate 80's..... however, youth of today think it was a cool thing... probably why ROA got funding.. there is a market.

Maybe disappointing it isn't a blockbuster.... but there is a heck of a lot of people buying those tickets... millions... and that is no flop... just not a blockbuster for Tom Cruise.... still he wins because he receives recognition for an awesome characterization showing his depth and talent.

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tomnyloon, that is what exactly I said closer to his age is GC and JD for Brad. Both are 49-50yrs so compair tommy with them Brad is the youngest 48 still.

First, I am not a "tommyloon." Second, that is NOT what you said. But, whatever. They are all very close together in age. Third, my only comparison between BP and TC is BP eats food much more often in his movies. This has nothing to do with his age or his looks. Fourth, it literally does not matter to me who is RoA, I hate that kind of music to the degree I wish the movie did not exist. Fifth, why are you always ranting about Tom Cruise? You do know this section is not really about him.

That is what I said besides who cares if you think brad eats...
Compare tommy with the age close group.
GC=51
tc =50
JD=49
BP =48 and he still has 6 month before he is 49

Is your family aware that you are insane? I would think that there would be somebody around that could come to your aid.

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tomnyloon, that is what exactly I said closer to his age is GC and JD for Brad. Both are 49-50yrs so compair tommy with them Brad is the youngest 48 still.

First, I am not a "tommyloon." Second, that is NOT what you said. But, whatever. They are all very close together in age. Third, my only comparison between BP and TC is BP eats food much more often in his movies. This has nothing to do with his age or his looks. Fourth, it literally does not matter to me who is RoA, I hate that kind of music to the degree I wish the movie did not exist. Fifth, why are you always ranting about Tom Cruise? You do know this section is not really about him.

That is what I said besides who cares if you think brad eats...
Compare tommy with the age close group.
GC=51
tc =50
JD=49
BP =48 and he still has 6 month before he is 49

One year and five months makes no difference to middle aged people. Also, the way you wrote it sounds like you are saying George is younger than Tom. And, as I said, their ages are irrelevent to their acting. At their ages, being in movies for decades, they can either act or not. And BRAD PITT STUFFS HIS FACE IN MOVIES. There are articles about this. It's gross. But, since you are fixated on their ages... why does Brad look 15 years older than them? Why does he look so much older than people his age IRL who don't have any youthifying treatments?

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I'm an anti and I agree that JT is not really talented in writing - ie Ironman 2, ROA, etc, nor acting. He has connections though like JA & BS. I don't think BS is that great, and while I love JA I don't think she's that great, but she has her niche. And I don't think JT is that great in acting either, his uncle is a great writer, LT is great at what he does, I suspect that LT's brother is a great screenwriter, but JT is not. IDK if JT's mother is a great writer, I'm not fam with her work.

You're not anti but you are an idiot. First of all, both Tropical Thunder and Ironman were both written before Justin Theroux started dating Jennifer Aniston. As to the rest, he has written other scripts before her and has managed to get all of them sold. Why don't you try being honest instead of blasting someone because they are associated with others you don't like? Idiot! By the way, i'm sure Hollyweird would be more than happy to buy that script when you get finished with it.

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I'm an anti and I agree that JT is not really talented in writing - ie Ironman 2, ROA, etc, nor acting. He has connections though like JA & BS. I don't think BS is that great, and while I love JA I don't think she's that great, but she has her niche. And I don't think JT is that great in acting either, his uncle is a great writer, LT is great at what he does, I suspect that LT's brother is a great screenwriter, but JT is not. IDK if JT's mother is a great writer, I'm not fam with her work.

You're not anti but you are an idiot. First of all, both Tropical Thunder and Ironman were both written before Justin Theroux started dating <A HREF='http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/?celeb=Jennifer Aniston' target='_blank'>Jennifer Aniston</A>. As to the rest, he has written other scripts before her and has managed to get all of them sold. Why don't you try being honest instead of blasting someone because they are associated with others you don't like? Idiot! By the way, i'm sure Hollyweird would be more than happy to buy that script when you get finished with it.

Put your reading glasses on grandma. I didn't say that TT or I2 were written by JT after he met her. Hold your horses. I am a fan of JA, I do not think JT is very talented as many of us think. I do think he's been a good bf for JA. Sheesh!

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tomnyloon, that is what exactly I said closer to his age is GC and JD for Brad. Both are 49-50yrs so compair tommy with them Brad is the youngest 48 still.

First, I am not a "tommyloon." Second, that is NOT what you said. But, whatever. They are all very close together in age. Third, my only comparison between BP and TC is BP eats food much more often in his movies. This has nothing to do with his age or his looks. Fourth, it literally does not matter to me who is RoA, I hate that kind of music to the degree I wish the movie did not exist. Fifth, why are you always ranting about Tom Cruise? You do know this section is not really about him.

That is what I said besides who cares if you think brad eats...
Compare tommy with the age close group.
GC=51
tc =50
JD=49
BP =48 and he still has 6 month before he is 49

Good grief how is it JD and TC look so much younger and healthier than BP? If GC would dye his gray hair he'd look younger too Poor old Pawpaw Pitty.

I think they make Pitt eat so much in movies to try and cover for his speech impediment. If mumble mouth has a mouth full of food them people will expect him to be hard to understand.

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Just because I didn't like hair metal does not mean I listened to Bananarama or Culture Club or the other horrifying example. I mean, WTF is your damage? There was other music available for people who had some fking taste. Probably not on the radio.

What is wrong with you? Can't engage in a decent conversation? I didn't say that you like Bananarama or any other groups that I mentioned. I know, there was other music available, but as far as the public concern, 80s is represented by horrendous hair and fashion and electric music. The hairy metal was the savior of the pop culture in the 80s. Either you liked them or not, it doesn't really matter.

Well, that is how I took what you wrote. Sorry about that. How am I supposed to answer your question? You like hair metal and have one view of the eighties. I like something totally different and my view of the eighties is totally different.

Sometimes people wake up for a minute and realize the garbage shoved at them in popular culture IS garbage. It was bad. Not the absolute worst because, yes, they could write songs and play instruments. But, they threw their talent away of garbage. They deserved their demise even more than the flavor of the months groups, some of whom ALSO played their instruments and wrote their own songs yet threw their talent away on a different kind of garbage.

That's been my opinion about the 80s music and fashion, except the hair metal. Leave the hair, and you would find they were talented young musicians, who tried to make their names. Some who were loyal to their ideas survive. You -as part of public- don't have to like them, but if you're able to recognize their talents, then might as well say it. Calling the hair metal as 'that kind of music' seemed to me as a derogatory expression. My opinion is aimed to your opinion, and not to you personally. If you were offended because of it, what can I say, perhaps you do have something that makes you feel offended by such a general and neutral opinion.


Back to Justin's writing, his writing managed to give Tom Cruise an Oscar nomination, that must have been a very meaty material. And if, what the critics say is correct, with his strong performance, I won't be surprised if TC will be nominated (GG or even Oscar) for the role. It's because of Justin's writing. Justin is not a newcomer. He worked with Lynch before, in one of the best movie of decade. Lynch must have recognized his talents, while the naysayers were blinded by the hypes.

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Guest, I honestly do not know if Poison's members are any more talented than the Bangles.

Go back and read your original message. It is not as neutral as you would like to think. Also, "what's your damage" is a joke, you know, from back in the day. Every post you've written has a little dig. Now it's me being offended means something. I just apologized for my little dig back since you seemed offended.

In my original post I outright said I HATED "that kind of music". You say "that kind of music" was dismissive? "Hated" is definite. I hate hair metal. I cannot listen to it enough to even tell if Motley Crue is a wealth of talent, but... please, really? And the look? They all had big hair and wore makeup. Kind of like drag queens without padding.

You really think Ratt is better than R.E.M.? That Poison is better than Black Flag? I just don't agree. You don't agree that Culture Club is probably just as good as Warrant. Actually, probably better.

You asked me to answer why Bananarama, Culture Club, and the Bangles aren't around. Dance music is distressingly popular right now, so the first two may come back any second.

I have thought about this at least three minutes. "Talk Dirty To Me" is kind of a fun song. C.C. Deville said he wrote it when he was 15. It kind of sounds like it. But, even though it's fun, I have absolutely no interest in hearing it ever again. I could listen to the Violent Femmes though.

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Guest, I honestly do not know if Poison's members are any more talented than the Bangles.

Go back and read your original message. It is not as neutral as you would like to think. Also, "what's your damage" is a joke, you know, from back in the day. Every post you've written has a little dig. Now it's me being offended means something. I just apologized for my little dig back since you seemed offended.

In my original post I outright said I HATED "that kind of music". You say "that kind of music" was dismissive? "Hated" is definite. I hate hair metal. I cannot listen to it enough to even tell if Motley Crue is a wealth of talent, but... please, really? And the look? They all had big hair and wore makeup. Kind of like drag queens without padding.

You really think Ratt is better than R.E.M.? That Poison is better than Black Flag? I just don't agree. You don't agree that Culture Club is probably just as good as Warrant. Actually, probably better.

You asked me to answer why Bananarama, Culture Club, and the Bangles aren't around. Dance music is distressingly popular right now, so the first two may come back any second.

I have thought about this at least three minutes. "Talk Dirty To Me" is kind of a fun song. C.C. Deville said he wrote it when he was 15. It kind of sounds like it. But, even though it's fun, I have absolutely no interest in hearing it ever again. I could listen to the Violent Femmes though.

The problem is, if you don't listen to them, you can't judge them. Only pick hand some of them, not necessarily they are valid for everybody. I don't know who Black Flag was, so I can't tell. I can't tell about Ratt either, the same reason.

Behind all those hair, padding and make-up, there were talents, which survive until now. Bon Jovi, Guns 'n Roses, Cinderella, even Poison (via Brett Michaels). Metallica was also born at the same era. They have the hair, sans make-up but still in the rock genre. Either they were better than the others, I can't say, since liking or disliking music style is totally taste question. Their quality will be proven when the fashion is gone, and they still make music, which is liked by many, or if other musicians claim to be influenced by them.

Popular, that's the word. Or hyped. Like Disco, as soon as the hype is gone, so is the thing.

Sorry, if I can't get the joke. WTF is your damage, doesn't sound very funny to my ears. I didn't like the mullet or the colorful horrible fashion either, but I can't say that it wasn't popular or that not so many people wore them. Just like the hairy metal, which IMO, is the best thing that happened to music in 80s. And to my understanding, putting them into 'that kind of music' is derogatory. You sound like my parents when they talked about The Beatles or Led Zeppelin.

And the reason I mentioned names like Bananarama or culture club was because they were one of the big names in 80s; I didn't have any intention to send any dig. It was a kinda 'surprised' that you answered me in rather aggressive tune. I could mention Ultravox, too. Though they were formed in 1974, they were huge in 80s. But I wasn't sure if you'd recognize the name.

Anyway, there's nothing wrong with the Bangles/Bananarama or any other name. They were nice to dance, but that was it for me. They had nothing that interested me further. God, please I hope their kind of music won't return. It's bad enough to hear autotuned, talent-protected singers/groups and then to listen full electric music again... or perhaps they should, as long as they kick those autotuned, talent-protected clowns' asses!

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"Rock of Ages" is the story of a small-town girl (Julianne Hough) and city boy (Diego Boneta), but it's Tom Cruise who critics are praising most.

"Cruise is without question the best thing about 'Rock of Ages' and certainly the only reason to see it," writes Will Leitch for Deadspin about Cruise's performance as Stacee Jaxx. "It's not necessarily good, but it's insanely watchable, and every scene he's not in, you keep waiting for him to come back."

Echoed Manhola Dargis in the New York Times, "A whispering and writhing Mr. Cruise makes ['Rock of Ages'] watchable."

This is not to say every critic enjoyed Cruise's shirtless take on Stacee Jaxx, a rock god in the mold of Axl Rose.

"He’s fun to watch in his first few scenes, hamming it up as a spoiled rock’n’roll satyr," Movieline critic Stephanie Zacharek notes. "But the role quickly becomes a retread of the one he played in 'Magnolia,' only in a different costume. Cruise can’t hide his cockiness -- it’s in his blood. But even when he tries to kick back and poke fun at himself, he takes the job so seriously that it becomes a sort of grind. There’s nothing sexy about him, unless you find studied posturing erotic."

As for the film itself, there seem to be two camps forming: one which found "Rock of Ages" to be a cheesy -- if overlong at more than two hours -- delight; the other which found it unbearable.

"I haven’t seen a movie this bad since 'Battlefield Earth' and 'Howard the Duck,'" writes New York Observer critic Rex Reed. "The filthy, disgusting script is by three people who should remain nameless, but I can hardly believe one of them is Justin Theroux, a good actor who would do the world a favor if he dropped his laptop off the top of the Chrysler Building." Reed later compares "Rock of Ages" to an iron lung.

Wrote New York Post critic Lou Lumenick: "This plodding mess may help put to rest Hollywood’s inexplicable two-decade love affair with the awful ’80s, a pop- culture decade that’s overdue for a break."

"Rock of Ages" currently has a 42 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Check out more reviews for the film below.

Am so amazed that nobody has question the OP that it was definately a loon who wrote that article

1) How come a critic doesnt have any idea that it was Justin who wrote the character stacie jaxx for tom cruise
2) Why only justin has to be criticized as a writter, what about the other two

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE JUSTIN

The man is intelligent and talented as a screenwritter, Theroux wrote the screenplay for the 2010 film Iron Man 2, He co-wrote the Ben Stiller-directed Oscar-nominated film Tropic Thunder, and also appeared in the behind-the-scenes mockumentary Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness and Megamind which he was Megamind's Father (voice) and also executive producer. Brad pitt as Metro Man and "Metro Man's Song" was written by Justin Theroux Performed by Brad Pitt in megamind

Theroux and Pitt know eachother back in 2010 when they work together on a hit movie Megamind, such a small world.

The OP didn't write the article. That would have been Christopher Rosen of the Huffington Post. And Rosen didn't write the blip about Justin.. that would be Rex Reede of the New York Observer and also a famous movie critic. The article was titled Rock of Ages Review: What the Critics are Saying.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/1 ... ertainment

FOCLMAO! Oh hellz to the no, loon! Rex Reed was a famous queen whose movie reviews were a joke back in the 60's and 70's.Even then , they were a joke just for their cattiness. He was never a real critic. Most people (myself included) thought he was dead until someone brought his embalmed ass back to single out out a GD screenwriter in a totally bought review. Wow! Who could hate Theroux that much? (Hint: he wears a onesie and randomlly falls sideways off motorcyles).