Finally, Cuba Gooding Jr. is starting to take his career seriously.
After years stuck in the paycheck crap pile which saw it’s pinnacle this year with Daddy Day Camp, Cuba Gooding may have had that revelation moment where he figures something has to change before we all forget that he was once an Oscar winning actor.
What you have forgotten already?
He won it for Jerry Maguire. This was long before such things as Boat Trip, Rat Race, Norbit and yes Daddy Day Camp.
He’s great in a ‘blink and you will miss it’ role in American Gangster, the first of what will hopefully be a new direction for the guy.
Cuba Gooding Jr. has signed to star in John Carter’s action thriller “The Way of War,” playing a paramilitary operative who goes on a rampage after discovering a war conspiracy.
Principal photography begins this week in Baton Rouge, La. Richie Salvatore of Two Sticks Prods., Dave Pomier and Scott Schafer will produce from Schafer’s script. Nick Thurlow, Jordan Kessler and David Orenstein will executive produce.
Director Carter and writer Schafer are a duo who worked on their only movie so far Fatwa, a low budget 90 minute movie, which actually is said to be a complete mess. Hopefully they know what they are doing here and can give the spotlight on Gooding, who I would love to see return with a great knockout lead role.
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Glad Cuba’s finally got his head back on striaght, ten years later than he should have.
And they’re shooting it in Baton Rouge! Those bastards could have filmed it up here! After Jessica Simpson stunk up the joint filming her movie, Major Movie Star (I laugh @$$ off having that phrase associated with her!) we need something that will have real quality.
Last movie worth a damn to film here was The Cleaner.
i fell in love with cuba in “boyz in the hood” and “men of honor”. the new movie, “what love is” is sooooo bad that i literally threw it in the trash, i was so disgusted. i truly hope that he starts to choose roles for their artistic value and box office appeal!
I fall in love with him
Cuba Gooding Jr. Is an actor with real talent, but an aweful agent not getting hims more roles in every genre. He is a talented man. I see he performed his part well in the movie “Ways of War,” Too bad the directir and editor ended with a movie not worth using for toilet paper. I was very disappointed with this movie. I felt a total waste of my time in sitting for this film. I was hoping they were going to come around in the end to explain the storyline, but it never came together.One of my major irritation points with this movie, being hearing impaired, the captions were off by several “full” minutes. I guess they couldn’t even get that right. Uncle Al
This movie was very disappointing. I hoped for great things, as Cuba is an extremely talented actor. I would place the entire blame for the films failure on the incompetence of the director and editor. As one with hearing impairment, they couldn’t even get the captions close to the soundtrack. This is even hard to screw up, but what would one expect sitting through 90-some-minutes hoping things would pull tohether in the end, so I could understand even a minute of what was happening?! I mean was the Ace supposed to be Bin Laden? As an American Muslim, I was confused about what was being said through the film?!
I agree with Uncle Owl -I saw the movie last night, and here I am searching movie boards trying to find out what happened. Too much was unexplained, and it was difficult to follow. It never came together for me.
It is because of this movie we have a rule in our house: My husband is NEVER allowed to pick the movie! He got this at our local Redbox and all I can say is thank God it was only $1. This movie was one big “huh?” from beginning to end. We kept commenting that the director had to be under the influence of some mind-altering substance because sober people sure couldn’t have made this movie. Funny thing is, like a poster above, I am an American Muslim also and I had no idea what this movie was about.
how many movie you played in an your whole life???????????????????