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Started by celedhring, June 02, 2022, 09:55:29 AM

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What are your favorite Tom Cruise flicks?

Risky Business
0 (0%)
A Few Good Men
5 (18.5%)
Edge of Tomorrow
10 (37%)
Collateral
4 (14.8%)
Minority Report
6 (22.2%)
Color of Money
0 (0%)
Magnolia
4 (14.8%)
Born the 4th of July
0 (0%)
Jerry Maguire
4 (14.8%)
Top Gun
6 (22.2%)
Top Gun: Maverick
1 (3.7%)
Rain Man
2 (7.4%)
The Firm
2 (7.4%)
Eyes Wide Shut
2 (7.4%)
One of the Mission: Impossible flicks (name which)
5 (18.5%)
Other (name it)
5 (18.5%)

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Barrister

#15
June 02, 2022, 02:31:28 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 02, 2022, 02:25:53 PMNever even heard of Rock Ages.  :huh:

I haven't seen it, but I remember hearing about it.  Came out in 2012, a musical with 80s rock / hair metal songs, kind of in the vein of Mamma Mia.  It seemed very strange.
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viper37

#16
June 02, 2022, 02:44:32 PM
A Few Good Men. It's hard to top Jack Nicholson's performance in this one, and he's the star.

Top Gun, both of them.  I liked Iron Eagle.  And it wasn't because of the acting or superior plot.  :sleep:
I got a weak spot for aircraft fighter movies, I guess.  I really wanted to pilot a CF-18.  Faith decided otherwise.
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viper37

#17
June 02, 2022, 02:47:27 PM
Quote from: Barrister on June 02, 2022, 02:31:28 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 02, 2022, 02:25:53 PMNever even heard of Rock Ages.  :huh:

I haven't seen it, but I remember hearing about it.  Came out in 2012, a musical with 80s rock / hair metal songs, kind of in the vein of Mamma Mia.  It seemed very strange.
It's a light hearted silly comedy.  Similar plot to Coyote Ugly and many other quite ordinary movies of the same style.  But I got to admit that Tom Cruise is fantastic in his role.  So was Catherine Zeta-Jones.  Come to think of it, all of the supporting actors are great.  The problem lies with the leads. And the silly rehashed plot.

But if you remove the soundtrack, that movie is totally worthless.
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grumbler

#18
June 02, 2022, 06:25:37 PM
Days of Thunder.  When I skipped that one, I skipped an auto racing movie and a Tom Cruise movie.  The Tom Cruise movies I have enjoyed have all been in spite of his appearance.  I find him stiff, phony, and boring.
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Razgovory

#19
June 02, 2022, 06:40:13 PM
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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Eddie Teach

#20
June 03, 2022, 12:45:38 AM
He's been in a lot of halfway decent movies, but no great ones.
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#21
June 03, 2022, 01:49:45 AM
Not a big Tom Cruise fan, but Edge of Tomorrow for me. Probably because his smug character gets killed in many hilarious ways. :P
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Josquius

#22
June 03, 2022, 01:51:53 AM
He always mystified me. As said he seems pretty creepy. Not much variety in his performances, not particularly natural, and he's a fairly basic looking short guy.... Yet time and again he keeps getting blockbuster films, even after some duds nothing stops him, even picking weird Sci fi scripts it usually works, his career keeps going and he remains a superstar.
And I don't think it can all be credited to scientology as this goes right back.

Edge of tomorrow was good I recall for sure. As was minority report.
I think I remember the firm being decent but that may just be memories of wolf of wall street.
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Maladict

#23
June 03, 2022, 05:22:16 AM
He has maintained possibly the largest fan base of any actor in the world. That probably makes him very low risk for blockbusters.

Razgovory

#24
June 03, 2022, 11:15:47 AM
Quote from: Josquius on June 03, 2022, 01:51:53 AMHe always mystified me. As said he seems pretty creepy. Not much variety in his performances, not particularly natural, and he's a fairly basic looking short guy.... Yet time and again he keeps getting blockbuster films, even after some duds nothing stops him, even picking weird Sci fi scripts it usually works, his career keeps going and he remains a superstar.
And I don't think it can all be credited to scientology as this goes right back.

Edge of tomorrow was good I recall for sure. As was minority report.
I think I remember the firm being decent but that may just be memories of wolf of wall street.
His brother Ted is really creepy.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

celedhring

#25
June 03, 2022, 11:29:32 AM
Quote from: Maladict on June 03, 2022, 05:22:16 AMHe has maintained possibly the largest fan base of any actor in the world. That probably makes him very low risk for blockbusters.

There's this American distributor I met once, and said that they divided up the world (market-wise) between "sophisticated" and "unsophisticated" countries. Apparently "they love Tom Cruise" was for them a marker of belonging in the second group  :lol: 

Barrister

#26
June 03, 2022, 11:35:34 AM
Quote from: celedhring on June 03, 2022, 11:29:32 AM
Quote from: Maladict on June 03, 2022, 05:22:16 AMHe has maintained possibly the largest fan base of any actor in the world. That probably makes him very low risk for blockbusters.

There's this American distributor I met once, and said that they divided up the world (market-wise) between "sophisticated" and "unsophisticated" countries. Apparently "they love Tom Cruise" was for them a marker of belonging in the second group  :lol: 

Tom Cruise hasn't made a "sophisticated" movie for the last twenty years.  Even before that he made very few more arthouse-type movies (Vanilla Sky, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia).

Tom Cruise makes blockbusters.  They might not all succeed, but they're aimed at a wide audience.  So he might not get the same recognition from the film cognoscenti, but he remains a box office draw for 30+ years.  If you go to see a Tom Cruise movie you know you'll probably be entertained.
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jimmy olsen

#27
June 04, 2022, 03:12:22 AM
Definitely Edge of Tomorrow
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CountDeMoney

#28
June 12, 2022, 08:05:28 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 02, 2022, 02:09:13 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 02, 2022, 10:07:28 AMYou forgot "Taps"

Good call.

Watched it the other weekend.  Had no idea a young Giancarlo Esposito was in it.  He was the cadet that got burned trying to refuel the boiler.

Tamas

#29
June 12, 2022, 09:48:46 PM
Collateral is underrated, you should watch it.
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