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Looked like Tom Cruise...

posted 16 years ago by THEstormFROMhell
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Did anyone else think that in this movie Clint Eastwood kinda looked like Tom Cruise...or was it just me?

[–] copperdeerborn 16 years ago

I don't see it.

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[–] HeatherDuke 15 years ago

if anyone looked like Tom Cruise in this film, it would be Bruce Dern with his massive teeth. Maybe they both use the same dentist?

[–] c-huddleston 15 years ago

Here. Try my glasses. It might help...

[–] eric-1501 15 years ago

Not as much as Demi Moore does.

"Could be worse."
"Howwww?"
"Could be raining."

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[–] manage-932-700755 13 years ago

Clint Eastwood is 6'4", handsome and rugged. Tom Cruise is good lokking, but is 5'7" at the most and is certainly not rugged looking. He often looks like a little twerp. although he's a fine actor. There is no similarity whatsoever.

[–] vestdennis 12 years ago

Has it been that long since you had your eyes checked?

[–] strntz 12 years ago

I don't see it: Clint looks straight to me...

Just once, I'd like someone to call me sir without adding 'you're making a scene' ~H Simpson

[–] jayrussell1993 11 years ago

Don't think so. Eastwood is authentically male, Cruise just acts it.

[–] joekiddlouischama 11 years ago

Don't think so. Eastwood is authentically male, Cruise just acts it.

... line of the day.

I've never for a moment thought that Eastwood in this film resembles Cruise, and I concur with the poster who said that if anything, Cruise resembles Bruce Dern here (a city slicker version of Dern, of course).

Personally, I don't understand some people's obsession with comparing yesteryear's stars to contemporary ones in terms of appearance or resemblance. Indeed, I see these threads and I wonder why folks aren't paying greater attention to the films themselves.

[–] den09 11 years ago

Here's something I wondered about:
At the beginning Clint has very neat hair, sort of average young man.
And I thought immediately of the once or twice I have seen him in the TV series 'Rawhide' Ah ah! Ted Post directing, has that got any bearing?

Throughout the film Clint gets to look increasingly mean, there is a noir type shot near the end. close-up, his face beneath the hat, all shadow and gouged cheeks and the hair.. the swept back anachronistic style that he stayed with for so long, Suddenly he is 'Dirty Harry' he is the 'man with no name' ..the 'angel of death'.