Tom Cruise

God Almighty.

One's a man (even at his dullest), the other is a strutting 43-year-old boy.

anyone agree?

Holmes, in London to promote her new film, "Batman Begins," said Monday that she's excited about her lessons in Scientology, a religion founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.

and

In an interview in the June 17 issue of Entertainment Weekly, the 42-year-old actor was asked if Holmes is curious about Scientology.

"Yeah, absolutely. She digs it," he tells the magazine.

None of that is from Katies mouth as a direct quote. Is he speaking for her on that too? A mag saying she is "excited about her lessons in Scientology" means bugger all and could be made up.

me either; but

People, this is just the beginning.

Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures unit is ending its 14-year relationship with Tom Cruise's film production company because of the actor's offscreen behavior, the company's chairman said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
Sumner Redstone, Viacom chairman, said the behavior of the star of the "Mission: Impossible" series and "Top Gun" was unacceptable to the company, according to the Wall Street Journal story e-mailed to reporters.
Cruise, one of Hollywood's biggest stars, has been known more recently for his antics on U.S. television talk shows, including jumping up and down on Oprah Winfrey's couch to declare his love for Katie Holmes and criticizing the use of antidepressant drugs.
"As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal," Redstone was quoted as saying in the Wall Street Journal. "His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."

I think that Paramount seriously knows of something fucked up coming up and decided to distance themselves from him before it hits the fan. Stay tuned for Tom to completely flip out!

This is going to get good.

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tom responds!

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I am halfway through the Andrew Morton biography. UNAUTHORIZED. Roffle. Like he'd authorize his bio. Maybe if Hubbard came back in his big ole spaceshuttle and ordered him to. Anyhoo, that Scientology shit is crazy (in a rofflicious kinda way but also in a VERY scary kind of way).

I had forgotten he had dated Cher. Yikes.

He's a giant genius

Halfway thru T thunder I was like, 'WAIT.... THAT's TOM FUCKING CRUISE!" and my girl was all yeah right...

If you DIRECT him aggressively, he seems to be unstoppable. Tho he's good in Minority Report, I guess.

I have never seen Top Gun or Risky Business or Cocktail. I may have no right to have any opinion on this guy.

FWIW: Scientology frowns upon homosexuality.

I am sure that for a mega-million dollar bona-fide Hollywood power player, they would be willing to overlook some deeply-closeted homosexuality. It would even give them something obvious to 'fix', giving them a deeper hook into that person. Just saying.

can i repeat that he dated CHER! this is an insane world we live in.

Not as insane as if he'd dated Sonny.

so he's kinda box office poison now

Knight & Day opening weekend gross: $20M (budget: $125M)
Valkyrie: $21M
Lions for Lambs: $6.7M

yeah that oprah appearance cost him a lot

That, plus the time he bit Matt Lauer's head off about psychiatry.

lol, just looking at the box office figures on imdb: Jonah Hex hasn't even passed $10M yet.

Only eight films released in 2010 have grossed over 125M fwiw.

Also, that's about as much as I would've guessed Knight and Day would get, especially up against Toy Story 3. Also, it looks like crap?

Valkyrie and Lions for Lambs also looked terrible. I think if he makes a good movie people will watch it.

feelin some schaudenfreude, have always hated him tbh

I think if he makes a good movie people will watch it.

never has before, don't see any reason why he would start now

Minority Report is great, but I don't think its greatness hinges on Cruise being in that role (could've been any number of actors).

I thought the espn commercial he did with cameron diaz was kinda funny..

never been able to sit through all of Minority Report - I find Hollywood's penchant for action-movie-butcherings of PKD material really repellant, in general

Regardless of what you think of Mr. Cruise's work, I think it's safe to say that those are not three of his best films up there.

yeah really pale in comparison next to the genius level work of Risky Business, Days of Thunder, and Vanilla Sky eh

Knight and Day seems like it was a movie that was greenlit and cast in 2001. Dont know what exec thought a pairing of Cruz and Cameron Diaz was gonna score a shitload of money..

how could I forget Cocktail and Jerry Maguire!

seriously he has the worst fucking track record of any big-name Hollywood actor from his generation that I can think, he's the male equivalent of Julia Roberts - someone lauded at the box office and in the industry as a "great" actor who has never actually made a decent movie

Cruise..

I might watch a movie with Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz. If there were sexy results...

Just watched Days of Thunder and wow. I know he's got competition recently, but this was the worst Tom Cruise performance to date. The movie just stops when he's onscreen: he's unconvincing as a cocksman, as a homoerotic love object, and as a guy named Cole Trickle (more like Tinkle). And the way Robert Towne and Tony Scott shoot and shape dialogue for Nicole Kidman would be grounds for murder if the movie were as popular as Top Gun.

n the other hand, it's rare in a movie this vapid to boast such a strong supporting cast: Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Michael Hooper, Fred Thompson are all terrific.

*Michael Rooker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEf2t9IPCeo

Tom Cruise.
The Magnificent Seven.
Barf.

I hope this gets scuttled in development hell.

Tell you what, his little turn at the end of 'tropic thunder' was some spectacular skin-crawlery. I felt like I needed to *wash* after seeing that endpiece. He was *horrible*. Does that make him a good actor, or was that the mask slipping and seeing the lizard beneath?

http://media.avclub.com/images/417/417921/original/627.jpg?5673

lol