THOMAS CRUISE MAPOTHER IV: HIS ŒUVRE

I have a weird soft spot for Redbelt.

best contemporary Kilmer has to be Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

I had some thoughts about Spartan, and Mamet, and Kilmer, about 10 years ago.

I don't know what Wild Hogs is *googles it* oh I see

fwiw my favourite contemporary director is Nicole Holofcener and my favourite movie of the last decade is "I Am Love", so, maybe Wild Hogs is a little unfair

kiss kiss bang bang is so good

kilmer best in his entourage cameo tbh

second best snl iceman sketch

after that yeah top gun, heat and gfy his bruce wayne

I stand with omar on Tom Cruise

the last 3 MI movies are insanely enjoyable - for me they scratch the itch for “ fun OTT action” that Bond has done away with ( the fun part i mean)

Edge of Tomorrow is excellent

I even didn’t hate him in Rock of Ages! I pretty much like him in everything

I was just joshing, FGTI. It was a good kind of surprise that you're into Michael Clayton.

it's like staring into a toilet bowl hoping the waters turn into tidal waves.

Try flushing!

Forget it, Jakes, it’s Flushing Chinatown.

Michael Clayon is the kind of thinks-its-too-good-to-be-pulp thriller that I hate more than just about any other kind of movie.

For Kilmer, gimme Top Secret! over anything else in his filmography (though KKBB is good, too).

and The Doors

Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison was inspired casting.

Anyway, Cruise was fun when he wasn't shouting and briefly hawt in Cocktail.

Real Genius is his Risky Business.

Real Q, as compulsively watchable as I find Cruise, has he ever.. acted in anything? Aside from kind-of exaggerating his id for Magnolia?

So long since I saw it but 4th of July?

Real Q, as compulsively watchable as I find Cruise, has he ever.. acted in anything? Aside from kind-of exaggerating his id for Magnolia?

― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, September 2, 201

On the contrary: his wort quality for years was his strenuous sweat-covered acting. Screen acting has so little to do with chops. It took him years to learn this simple truth.

I often think of this with respect to people who overdramatize their emotions in real life, that maybe they should watch Singin’ in the Rain and pay close attention.

Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison was inspired casting.

no, too sexy

you guys are wasting Keanu's birthday talkin bout Tom Cruise

a little surprising they've never(?) done a movie together

Never put Keanu in front of a black hole.

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Risky Business is showing at 11 tonight at my neighborhood arthouse...

Sooooooo good.

I only saw Risky Business last year and was stunned by "MUSIC BY TANGERINE DREAM" popping up in the opening credits.

i love risky business so much

the only thing I remember about it is the underwear dance, which was pretty great

it's gorgeously filmed and often feels like a long dream sequence

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Surprised Born on the Fourth of July was shut out. It's been ages since I've seen it, and obviously I didn't vote for it myself, but I remember him being very good for the first half, with a heavy-handed scene or two after he becomes an activist.

The love of Magnolia baffles me. Good to see Edge of Tomorrow place so high, though. It's too bad all the M:I movies had to be listed individually, because the version of Ethan Hunt he's played in movies 4,5 and 6 is qualitatively different (and much better/funnier) than the one he played in 1-3.

as someone pointed out, the Risky Business character is written very Jewish

I was impressed that Cruise participated in the commentary track to that one when it came out on DVD. Did Paul Brickman direct anything else?

with movies like Tom Cruise in them, you can't lose

Men Don't Leave was next, I think (Jessica Lange, Chris O'Donnell)

All is well.

unperson- magnolia is a bad movie but cruise's performance is the only good thing in it, close to great. he's the only one who doesn't come off mawkish when he cries like everyone else. the flip side of I'm a Doctor Bill Harford.

2013 interview with Brickman

The success of Risky Business was strange because I had Hollywood coming at me full throttle. I found it very uncomfortable. I moved out of L.A. immediately. Studio heads sent me wine goblets and food baskets. And people threw material at me right and left, and lined up to meet me. It gets uncomfortable. Some people like the visibility. I don’t. I’m more from the J.D. Salinger schoo.l

ooh man, "I'm more from the J.D. Salinger school" is of a piece with core, heart music

(obviously not as good)

A bunch of people are good in Magnolia!

WHM, Robards, PBH, and Cruise are the only performances that stand out for me. PSH and Moore verge into self-parody. the kid is good, the whole cast is great but the movie is so bad.

PTA said in a later interview that with the benefit of hindsight/experience he would cut Magnolia way down, and that's the version I'd like to see

Rewatched "Edge of Tomorrow," er, yesterday. It holds up really well, effects and Tom Cruise alike. He's really well cast in it, not just as Tom Cruise but as the character.

cruise as ethan hunt in the first m:i: underrated in this poll

Watched that epic Tim Rogers review of the original The Last of Us, and he kind of pinpointed the first Mission Impossible as when Tom Cruise just started playing Tom Cruise.

I feel like he was disproportionately amazing in Born On The 4th Of July but maybe it was just the ‘stache

Credit where credit is due, the guy is really never half assing it.