Tom Cruise

[Joel007]

Collateral and The Last Samurai were tommy's best

 

[BookStop]

I liked TC in Vanilla Sky and Interview WAV, I guess because he was a bit different in both of those. He seems like he's probably an ass in real life though.

 

[dustinzgirl]

Cruise is annoying.

Only since Nicole dumped his worthless butt.

Days of Thunder, Top Gun, Legend and Last Samurai were Tom's best.

 

[Jack]

Legend was just a good movie though I'm so-so on cruise preferring actors like Tom Hank's, Bill Murry, Denzel Washington (Even if my sister is obsessed with him), Daniel Day-Lewis, Alan Rickman and the like - Usually go on Directors/story over actors as a reason to watch a film.

I did actually like him in Minority report, Collateral and The Last Samurai. But they were good films anyway.

 

[dustinzgirl]

Minority Report an dVanilla sky just confused and irritated me. I need hard plots with simple science.

 

[BookStop]

Legend was just a good movie though I'm so-so on cruise preferring actors like Denzel Washington (Even if my sister is obsessed with him)

Your sister seems like an incredibly intellegent person.

 

[ravenus]

One celebrity whose opinions I really despise, though, is Mel Gibson. He's had his brains addled by extremely conservative Catholicism, witness his spouting off anti-Semitic comments at police officers recently when he got arrested for drunk driving...

Heh I do feel a bit disappointed that the cops truncheons didn't "slip" from their grasp and "accidently" knock dear Mel on the fanny.

 

[mosaix]

He's a Scientologist - I just can't take him seriously.

 

[Omega]

He's a Scientologist - I just can't take him seriously.

I also think that scientology on the surface looks to be a strange one, but you have the right to follow what ever you think is right for you.

John Travolta is also a scientologist and it hasn't done his career any harm.

 

[Dave]

I also think that scientology on the surface looks to be a strange one, but you have the right to follow what ever you think is right for you.

I believe that also, but not when it hurts other people.

My ancestors on different sides of my family were persecuted for their protestant Faith - both as Huguenots in France and Covenantors in Scotland. We today often forget who hard our rights to free speech and free thought were won. However, it was mentioned earlier in this thread about the scientology views on the evils of Psychiatry and Psychology. They can believe that themselves without preaching their unjustified, unsubstantiated ideas to others.

I have the same view about the Muslim teaching assistant suspended by a British school for refusing to remove her full-face veil (niqab). She has a perfect right to wear it, but the children in class also have a right to see the face of the person teaching them. She can find another job, harder for them to change school.

 

[mosaix]

I also think that scientology on the surface looks to be a strange one, but you have the right to follow what ever you think is right for you.

John Travolta is also a scientologist and it hasn't done his career any harm.

I don't take John Travolta seriously either. My feelings about people have little to do with how well they are doing in their career. What they believe, to the detriment of others, carries much more weight in my book.

Am I right that Tom Cruise refused to allow his wife any painkillers during childbirth because he believes it to be wrong? One of the great things about the advancement of science is that one day he might just get pregnant! Wouldn't that be wonderful?

I take your point about following what is right for you but that doesn't mean people shouldn't give it some thought first. Wasn't it L Ron Hubbard who said that the best way to make some money was to invent a religion?

 

[jenna]

I always find it a testament to his abilities that I think he's such a ****** in real life, but I find him very watchable in a lot of movies, ie Interview, Minority Report, Last Samurai and many more. But I've never understood why people find him sexy. He's so not attractive to me in that way AT ALL!

 

[steve12553]

Wasn't it L Ron Hubbard who said that the best way to make some money was to invent a religion?

I've read that elsewhere, too.

 

[littlemissattitude]

Wasn't it L Ron Hubbard who said that the best way to make some money was to invent a religion?

According to Ray Bradbury, that's what he said. I imagine he has made the claim before that he was present when Hubbard said that; I heard him make it in a talk at LosCon a few years ago.

As far as the Scientology controversy goes, what I know about the religion I only know from what I've read different places. Most of it doesn't impress me. Also, I have had contact with a number of Scientologists over the years, and I have to say that I have not been impressed with any of them, either. That's just my limited experience, of course, but I think it is telling that it was such a uniform set of experiences.

Edited to add: I'm not especially impressed with any of the individuals in the entertainment community who identify with that religion, either.

 

[intheknow]

..is ******* nuts

 

[roddglenn]

Every single religion that has ever been has been set up by one person or a group of people at some point. L Ron Hubbard was just a couple of millenia later than some of the longer running faiths. Scientology is based on the premis that Earth was originally populated by Aliens who actually brought humans along with them. The aliens are supposed to return some time. So people either believe that or not. I personally don't, but I do believe that there may be alien life out there somewhere.

Cruise uses his status as a soapbox to preach about his religion, that's what irritates me about him, despite thinking he's a good actor. John Travolta doesn't which is why his career has not been affected. Because of that Travolta doesn't come across as a fanatic like Cruise does.

 

[Vincent Tauscher]

If I remember correctly, this line should prove fanaticism...

I'M IN LOVE WITH KATIE HOLMES!!!!

Need we say more?

 

[clovis-man]

I just noticed that this thread existed.

I want very much to like Tom Cruise, but his ego keeps getting in both our ways. I loved "Legend" primarily because Ridley Scott does such a bang up job of making the film. But TC didn't harm it either (a very young TC). On the other end of the spectrum, I liked the Spielberg remake of the George Pal classic, "WOTW". Tom didn't harm that one either, but he had to get his ego in there with the hand grenade scene. With "The Last Samurai", he had more control of the process and went over the top with the film's ending. Too much Cruise, not enough story.

Regards,

Jim

 

[Dave]

Cruise uses his status as a soapbox to preach about his religion, that's what irritates me about him, despite thinking he's a good actor.

Most celebrities use their fame (and/or fortune) to promote Causes, whether that be global warming, African famine relief, cancer charities, homelessness, anti-fur trade, anti-abortion, vegetarianism, left-wing politics, right-wing politics, or evangelical religions. The Causes themselves and the tabloid press actively promote and foster this.

Many of them also seem not to know where to draw the line between work and private beliefs, though maybe that is because celebrities today seem to enjoy very little privacy. So, I'm not sure that Cruise can be singled out for this, though Paramount dropping him should have rung some bells even to him.

 

[Soggyfox]

John Travolta is also a scientologist and it hasn't done his career any harm.

Battlefield Earth? truly an aweful film.