Tom Cruise

"in a time like this we ask ourselves, should we even make movies? and i say....MORE THAN EVER!" i was almost standing at attention then...

mega

this is the best thread ever, btw.

There's a whole weird rage vibe there.

(haha slocki that bit ws nicked, with modification, from dthomson!)

boy's a star.

(Though he hasn't approached it since, roles like "Magnolia" and "Vanilla Sky" are in a similar vein - playing off the classic "Cruise" golden boy persona.)

I can't think of a film of his that wouldn't have been exactly the same without him. He brings nothing at all. He seems to have become a star with no reason for doing so, and is coasting along on that now.

(x-post where does Mimi Rogers fit into this theory?)

xxpost

same religion (at the time at least)?

their facial features (the eyes especially) are actually very similar if you look closely. the nose is different, true.

thomas cruise mapother IV.

Edge of Tomorrow! Good movie!
And yes, I also thought of Space Ace while watching it.

Heh, good call

Space Ace, the ... sequel to Dragon's Lair?

three posts up was too far to look?

I was just asking if that was the Space Ace mentioned, since I literally have not thought about it in ... 30 years?

yup

EoT is not a good movie. The awkward out-of-his-depth Cruise is kinda fun in the first half, but then it turns into just another big-budget,faux-complex noisefest.

so yeah, a video game, ie FUCKIT.

Noah Taylor is the highlight once the cowardly Cruise part is over. Tho Emily Blunt helps make things tolerable.

video game movies need the most love

oh damn i did not recognize noah taylor. good premise but ending, yeah, was straight schlock.

Dunno if I would call it schlock, but it was consciously lite entertainment for sure.

The first act was so knowing, so well-edited. The whole film felt carefully attenuated to an audience's ability to twig onto the rules and scope of the time-fuckery. There wasn't a lot of unnecessary story, and the military-pr0n made a nifty backdrop. Cruise was well-cast. The stakes changed appropriately in the second act, and Blunt was a good charact. Third act just felt lazy and perfunctory. I don't know what would have been better. Also, I think that if the two leads had switched roles the movie would've worked a lot better.

I could see Blunt perhaps doing as a good job as the protagonist, but Cruise definitely felt more suited (esp. the first half) as a cocky propagandist

i really hated the way the aliens looked like glowing metal spaghetti

decent flick tho

everyone otm about this film falling apart in the last reel, but still decent yes.

though what's up with them changing the title for the video release? isn't that a marketing team's nightmare?

rock of ages is on abc family right now

this is a very weird film

xpost They didn't really change the title, did they? So much as radically downplay the astoundingly daft generic title, which was all the more baffling, because "All You Need Is Kill" is an AMAZING title. "Edge of Tomorrow" is like:

http://static.rogerebert.com/uploads/movie/movie_poster/mercury-rising-1998/large_22MTY11yZg6fmdI9u7lwi4uoP1P.jpg

tom cruise is licking a gal's face in front of a large crowd rn

I watched 12:01 recently. Was surprised at how high-energy it was, like EoT and not at all like Groundhog Day. 12:01's ending is also incredibly bad.

David Thomson's entry on Cruise now ends with "Edge of Tomorrow (14, Doug Liman), in which Lieutenant Colonel Bill Cage fights aliens."

I think that if the two leads had switched roles the movie would've worked a lot better.

just not as funny or moving as Groundhog Day

it wasn't an emotional comedy. it was a very good action scifi tho.

xp what is, though, really?

kung fu hustle

nonstop action really bores the living hell out of me.

Me too

though Cruise being paraded everywhere as the Angel of Verdun is kinda lol

Just saw this again. Especially in light of "Jurassic World" and its billions in the bank, it is utterly dumbfounding that this movie was not huge. Box office disappointment aside, it's the sort of movie made for a movie star anchor. Just as I can't imagine Cruise dorking around in "Jurassic Word," I couldn't imagine someone like Chris Pratt keeping this one together. I actually think Cruise is really good in it, too. There's a nice beat where some old man calls his character a coward, and just with his eyes and a wince he conveys his frustration, knowing that he has died hundreds of times, in the most horrible, painful ways possible, again and again, by choice, sacrificing himself for the sake of the human race, and there's just no way he can explain that to anyone.

Hmm:

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

Seems like a Nic Cage sort of role.

Tom Cruise is slowly turning into Sandi Toksvig. pic.twitter.com/UafWkeW8Bx

— Richard Littler (@richard_littler) August 23, 2017

I watched one of the Jack Reacher movies on Netflix. Nothing special, but there's a moment when Cruise approaches a car where a couple of detectives are tracking him and he goes "How are ya!" with this earnest disarming smile right before he smashes their window and grabs their guns. He does studied charisma really well, though the new one makes me wonder when these roles will start to seem desperate and embarrassing or if can grow into a Liam Neeson-style mature bruiser.

I recommend this thread

I don't know how to supercut so please forgive/enjoy the upcoming thread https://t.co/aWUY0NZlXw

— Anthony C-M (@anthonymiccio) August 30, 2017

good stuff!

ha ha. this happens in get smart, too, with barbara feldon always slouching when she's beside don adams.

man i hope kelly mcgillis had a decent physio on-set, seeing all that slouching made my own back start hurt

I don't see how keeping her eyes open during a kiss helps tbh

Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle has a trenchant joke that encapsulates the fundamental arrogance of so much American war cinema: “American foreign policy is horrendous 'cause not only will America come to your country and kill all your people, but what's worse, I think, is that they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.” Doug Liman's American Made, a rollicking comedy based on the drug-smuggling, gun-running, contra-funding exploits of C.I.A.-backed pilot Barry Seal (Tom Cruise), represents a discomfiting corollary: Not only will America attempt to destabilize your country with insidious covert ops, they'll come back decades later and make a movie about how much fucking fun it was.

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/american-made

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jul/05/the-top-20-tom-cruise-movies-ranked

'War of the Worlds' below 'Cocktail' and 'Days of Thunder' is certainly an interesting take.

8. Minority Report (2002)
Cruise and Spielberg should, by rights, be as natural a combination as bread and butter, and yet Minority Report is the only truly satisfying movie they have made together.

The only one out of...two

this is genuinely the greatest scene ever committed to film

pic.twitter.com/VZXRJctPcc

— velma 🐀 (@maggotmagick) June 23, 2022