Thursday, April 25, 2013

The Man From Hammer

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Judging by how well he did against over thirty much more naked competitors I am thinking that Armie Hammer, all thirteen and a half feet and oil heir fortune of him, is our current communal pretend boyfriend? Well Hollywood needs to catch up then, because playing second fiddle to Johnny Depp in this Summer's The Lone Ranger and now his new gig playing second fiddle to Tom Cruise isn't gonna do it. He's just signed on to play the Soviet spy to Cruise's American spy in Guy Ritchie's rebootening of The Man From U.N.C.L.E, which is a title I'll surely get as sick of typing as I already am of Joss Whedon's S.H.I.E.L.D. tv show. I have never seen the original show, have you? I really have no idea what the gist is, even. Spies, and what not? With Guy Ritchie on-board, shit will blow up in slow-motion no doubt, but with Cruise in the lead there probably won't be the sort of jokey homo-eroticism that the Sherlock movies seem to be steeped in. Anyway back to Armie - do you think he's been dying to play Commie, to make his socialist grandpa proud?


3 comments:

Tom M said...

Given height differences, are they going to keep Hammer on his knees for the whole movie? Not that that is an unpleasant image...

creamycamper said...

He should be cast as Christian Grey in that one movie.

joel65913 said...

Ugh! So Cruise has now decided to lay waste to another good 60's show. It has disaster written all over it except for Armie. The original U.N.C.L.E was about the teamwork between the two lead actors, Cruise has shared equal time with another actor in at least a decade.