How does Tom Cruise keep finding work?
Thats it, how? I just dont get it. He is plain terrible. Ranks right up there with Nicholas Cage. Same character, different movie!
shareMight have something to do with the fact that he puts butts in the seats. He is box office gold. I'll admit that his act has become a little stale as of late. However, he has acted in plenty of great movies.
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I appreciate you being the only one on here to defend my statement of tom cruise being a hack, but i most certainly go to movies for actors! Thats almost the main reason i posted this to begin with!
shareHere's his best imo -
A Few Good Men
The Firm
Top Gun
Valkyrie
Mission Impossible
Edge of Tomorrow
MI: Ghost Protocol
MI: Rogue Nation
Born on the Fourth of July
Magnolia
Oblivion
His best movie in recent memory was Collateral. He played against type and was just amazing which was also the case with Edge of Tomorrow where he was also really good. I thought he was great in The Last Samurai and I really liked him in the past two Mission Impossibles as well. I agree that he hasn't show a ton of range of late but he's still a solid leading man. share
collateral was awesome. last samurai was pretty good too.
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How about his surprise cameo in Tropic Thunder?
I didn't recognize him and I remember thinking: 'wow, that's a good actor. Why haven't they cast this guy before?'.
Turns out to be: Tom Cruise!
Collateral was great, but I wouldn't call it recent, that movie was released 12 years ago (and I personally would call it the best movie Tom Cruise has made as of yet). Yes, time does fly by. The last Samurai was released one year earlier, it was ok, but I still don't get why the main character had to be US. He is losely based on Henry Schnell (a Prussian arms dealer, who served the Anzu Samurai up until their ultimate defeat in 1869 and was granted the right to wear swords), so why create a fictional not very honorable US soldier and not use the identity of the person that really existed? That is not Tom Cruise's fault, though. As you wrote, he is a solid leading man, I even kind of enjoyed the first Jack Reacher movie and he was also pretty good as this burned-out rock star a**hole in Rock of Ages (and I admit, Interview with the Vampire is kind of a guilty pleasure for me, and one of the very few examples for a movie being actually better than the book it was based on, but Anne Rice books just suck (pun intended)).
Tom Cruise did have a pretty solid carreer, with almost no bad movies. The only real bad movie with him must have been War of the Worlds, which was so poorly written that even a monkey taking a dump on a typewriter would have produced something better, but again, not Tom Cruise's fault.
interview with a vampire was also a solid performance except collateral and the last samurai at least thats my opinion
shareExcellent list. I would add my favorite: Rain Man. Hoffman got the attention because of the savant angle. But Cruise made that movie one of the finest of all time. His character is not really a villain in Rain Man, but he is not all that sympathetic either. And his character grows, for the better, by the end.
Arguably the best role Tom has ever had.
And as Sci-Fi movies go (most are mediocre at best), Edge of Tomorrow is stellar. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt -- two superstars with great supporting characters too.
I completely agree with your comment regarding Tom Cruise in Rain Man. I even thought he deserved an Oscar for his role!
shareBecause he's successful no matter what your opinion of him is. Deal with it.
shareYes. But why do I like to see Tom Cruise is in a movie, even though I don't really think he's that good of an actor (well, he's not bad either)?
Because he acts only in good movies. Have never seen a bad movies with Tom Cruise in it.
That's how I know that the movie is good - if Tom Cruise is in it, it's word wacthing.
Is he really so smart that he only chooses great scripts, or is he just so lucky, I don't know, but I know that all of his movies are great, and there is almost no other actor for whom I can claim the same (maybe Leo Dicaprio, but even he had a bad movie or two)
He was good in JERRY MAGUIRE and MAGNOLIA.
The rest of the time he's a very generically charming, straight laced leading man. Maybe the fact that he's so...basic makes him relatable? He's like a better looking Everyman. I guess.
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Spoken exactly like someone who has not the slightest idea how big budget productions work. A list movie stars, like Tom Cruise, get paid tens of millions of dollars per movie because of the marketing value of their names. A good movie with unknown actors will certainly attract much less viewers than a bland movie with stars. And you and your friends might not like Tom Cruise or the way he acts or the fact he's a scientologist or whatever, but that's not representative of the millions upon millions of people all over the world who don't care and go to the movies to see big budget Tom Cruise films.
shareMcConaughey and DiCaprio says otherwise. People will go to movies because of certain actors. It has been that way since the beginning of Hollywood. I doubt that will change now.
shareHe most certainly does not put butt in seats. He just happens to be in big budget movies that people would see any way and the studios are so blind they think that means he's a star. Audiences don't go to see actors, they go to see films.
Everything in your post is incorrect. share
Hahhaha...they give him big budget movies because they know he'll make them their money back...it's not like the HAVE to hire him...
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actually he most certainly does.
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls074328260/
The OP might be bitter that Brandan Fraser doesn' t get any decent work anymore
even equiped with a shovel and you couldn't dig this