Comments on: Tom Cruise Failed In Bid To Help Complete Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus’ After Heath Ledger’s Death

By: HerzogFan

HerzogFan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:28:43 +0000

Hilarious. The Playlist is called out on misrepresenting Cannes and it's right into "talk about something else" mode.

I guess at least the "Parnassus cheesdicks" can admit when they might have been wrong about your sourcing.

By: Farza

Farza — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:04:21 +0000

These Parnassus cheesedicks need to go away and they're completely transparent. They were never here before, never engaged in any dialogues, but as soon as their precious Terry Gilliam was insulted that had to flock down to defend their leader. Slag off you drones.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:51:23 +0000

in best sing-songy tolerant voice: "follow the link mr. jack ass, you will see the quote is from total film, but goes to contact music who jacked it from there (without sourcing themselves), nice try, keep going, have a nice day."

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:46:31 +0000

I stand corrected, the ORIGINAL article came from contactmusic. You didn't credit them either.

Nosey Neighbor

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:28:56 +0000

nitwit.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:16:13 +0000

Posted by Simon Dang at 8:39 AM

Aspire to be Vulture? That's funny considering THEY found this exact story on our site and linked to US.

Next.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:13:24 +0000

Playlist,

You're right you didn't write it, but you didn't credit who did. Come on man. I know you aspire to be The Vulture, you've pretty much said so yourself, but this article is lifted straight from The Vulture yesterday. We don't come on here to see you cut and paste man we come to get something new. This is practically verbatim. Even then it's not newsworthy, Gilliam wanted the film finished by people who knew Ledger before he died, Cruise didn't know Ledger. It's that simple. Newsworthy...No. But next time, if you're going to rip from The Vulture at least credit them.

Nosey Neighbor

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:07:38 +0000

I didn't write this someone else did, fyi. I don't monitor what they think.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:58:06 +0000

You just never seem to miss an opportunity to say the film got all and only bad Cannes reviews, which is hardly the case. It was extremely well received by the audience.

I couldn't agree with you more that Cruise would not have been a good choice to complete the film. Though I disagree with your jab, that the film would not have done him any favors either. It's moot, for one. Frankly, I don't think on-screen redemption in any film is possible. I don't think anything will erase that couch incident from our brains, do you?

Playlist, I can't wait until you actually get to see this film. I'm almost as anxious for you to see it as I am anxious myself to see it. Then you can finally stop regurgitating and recycling, in many cases, the ramblings of others who ALSO have not seen the film.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:45:23 +0000

I think you are missing the point here. Gilliam wanted to finish the film with those who knew Ledger in life. Cruise did not. That's it. He stayed true to that goal as well he should have. Keeping that in mind in my opinion he was totally correct not to take Cruise up on his offer.

As for your statement "judging from all the film's post-Cannes reactions, probably wouldn't have done Cruise any favors either." It is irresponsible and untruthful of Playlist to make such a comment as the use of the word ALL is completely inaccurate. There were many critics at Cannes and since who have liked this movie immensely and have written positive reviews of the film at Cannes and elsewhere. Sadly, you seem to skip right over those reviews in each article you write, ,thus not giving the whole picture. Let us not forget the standing ovation it received from these same people at it's screening Cannes or the comments from reviewers, "Welcome Back Gilliam!", "Dr. Parnassus Is Gilliam At His Best!" and more.

Nonetheless, I personally think Gilliam's decision was completely appropriate for this film and made without malice, but with being true to his project as the purpose of his decision.

Lastly, I still find it quite amusing that a blogger who has NOT seen a film can have such definite derrogatory views on how good that film is.

An Observer

By: Jason Michelitch

Jason Michelitch — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:56:27 +0000

If I remember correctly, a young Tom Cruise was also very keen to play the lead role in Brazil before Jonathan Pryce was cast, going so far as to send Gilliam a videotaped audition. If pressed to remember the source of this I'd say probably Faber&Faber's Gilliam on Gilliam, but I don't have the book near me to check, so I could be wrong on that. Anyway, just an interesting related tidbit.