Tom Cruise

[Soggyfox]

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.

my own personal pet hate. Bono preaching about poor people, the guy being worth 100's of millions of pounds and saying how we should all give lots to people with very little. Yes i give what i can when i can afford it but i don't have the wealth of a popstar.

 

[tangaloomababe]

I can honestly say that despite the many many movies Tom Cruise has been in, there is not one that I have enjoyed enough to want to see again. Some of them were quite forgettable, notibly the one's he stared in with the ex Mrs Cruise Nicole Kidman. Ok I may be an Aussie but is it just me or does anyone else think that this woman cannot act? The movies Far and Away and Eyes wide shut were deplorable.

His Mission Impossible films were only good because of the special effects and had little to do with his acting. The Firm I completely forgot about once I left the cinema and the list continues.
If I had a choice between the lamb roast and Tom Cruise, the lamb roast would win everytime (sorry Aussie Joke there)

 

[murphy]

I can honestly say that despite the many many movies Tom Cruise has been in, there is not one that I have enjoyed enough to want to see again. Some of them were quite forgettable, notibly the one's he stared in with the ex Mrs Cruise Nicole Kidman. Ok I may be an Aussie but is it just me or does anyone else think that this woman cannot act? The movies Far and Away and Eyes wide shut were deplorable.

His Mission Impossible films were only good because of the special effects and had little to do with his acting. The Firm I completely forgot about once I left the cinema and the list continues.
If I had a choice between the lamb roast and Tom Cruise, the lamb roast would win everytime (sorry Aussie Joke there)

I mostly feel the same was with the notable exception of Rainman. That was an excellent movie and one I would like to see again. However, it would be Dustin Hoffman I would want to see.

 

[unclejack]

I didn't have time to read all of your posts so I'm sorry if I'm repeating anything anyone else has already said. I just wanted to say that Tom Cruise is crazy. He is a good actor though. I think it was a very wise move for him to play the role of a politician in his next movie Lions for Lambs. After all his cuckoo publicity many people don't see him as a real person and politicans are known to be very detached from real life as well. If he can bring something genuine to that role he may win over many of the people who don't think much of him since all of his publicity and show that even though he is nuts he can still pretend to be normal on screen.

 

[TK-421]

Apparently he is very good in his latest, Lions for Lambs.

I enjoyed Tom in few of the movies he has actually done:
Magnolia
Vanilla Sky
Risky Business
Legend
Collateral

Brad Pitt acted circles arounf him in Interview with the Vampire

His best line: "Help me, help you!" Jerry Maguire

But, I despise Scientologists

 

[Connavar]

I think he is better than Pitt.

Shame he does less movies like Magnolia,Collateral and more movies like MI series....

He might be a religion freak but he is good.

 

[tangaloomababe]

Actually I don't like Brad Pitt much either, but I would watch him if it were a choice between him and Tom Cruise.

 

[TK-421]

Well, the difference between the two is that Brad actually has talent whereas Tom needs a great script, director and co-actors to carry him through any movie.

 

[tangaloomababe]

I agree with you completely TK

 

[Dave]

Brad Pitt is excellent in 'Twelve Monkeys'. When I first saw him I couldn't believe it was really him.

I would have to say that Tom Cruise tends to play the essentially same characters - his characters in Cocktail, Top Gun, Rain Man, Vanilla Sky and Jerry Maguire (while all excellent films) are really the same character in different circumstances. I'm prepared for someone to refute that, but tell me a film where he does have to really act a part and not just some spoiled, egotistical brat.

 

[biodroid]

Cruise is a great actor besides the fumbled MI:2 i think he pulled off 1 & 3 very well. He knows what makes a good movie and he chooses his roles well. Who cares about the couch jumping "incident" on Oprah, the guy is happy leave him alone. I hate it when people bring that up as an excuse to show what a dumba$$ he is. Leave him be, he is one the best out there.

 

[Dave]

Cruise is a great actor besides the fumbled MI:2 i think he pulled off 1 & 3 very well. He knows what makes a good movie and he chooses his roles well.

That's not the same as being a good actor, that is being a good Producer and being financially astute. And I agree that he is that.

 

[Vincent Tauscher]

In response to Dave's earlier question about if Tom Cruise can fit other roles, yes... in my opinion, he was opposite of what he normally is in the movie "Collateral", where he plays the hitman and "bad guy". I would say there's definitely some "acting" there.

Still doesn't make me a Tom Cruise fan though.

 

[Connavar]

He is the typical hollywood superstar, people like him so much that they dont wanna see him in other type of roles. its good to see he does movies like Magnolia and Collateral then.


Brad doesnt have a talent IMO. Other than playing the looney in Fight Club, he hasnt impressed me at all. He is still the pretty boy type movies. Troy,Mr Smith and Mrs Smith crap.....

 

[TK-421]

Brad doesnt have a talent IMO. Other than playing the looney in Fight Club, he hasnt impressed me at all. He is still the pretty boy type movies. Troy,Mr Smith and Mrs Smith crap.....

Well, to each their own, but you can add to Fight Club, 12 Monkeys (as mentionned by Dave above), Snatch, True Romance, Kalifornia, Se7en, Interview with the Vampire, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. All stellar performances and proof he has talent.

I also read that he recently admitted in an interview that some of the movies he did make in the past (Meet Joe Black, Seven Years in Tibet) were not very good.

 

[Connavar]

Good movies but not cause of him IMO except i thought he was good in Snatch.

 

[fishi]

yaa i even i llike him a lot!

top gun
last samurai
a few good men..blah bblah......