I can see why many people don't like Tom, he looks very pretentious with his huge smile all the time etc...

But, lets face it, he is one hell of an actor! I have yet to see a film in which he wasn't great!

He is one of my favourite actors and I loved him especially in Vanilla Sky, Interview with the Vampire and Minority Report.

There is talk of him playing the superhero Iron Man next year! And he will play a bad guy with grey hair in his upcoming film Collateral.

Any thoughts on "The Cruiser" ?

I will try to stick to the postive here and say that I thought he was great in Interview With The Vampire as well as Magnolia. I still think that he did a great job in Top Gun too! I don't think that he is a strong enough actor to carry a film on his own and that is why I thought he was excellent in the above mentioned films. Casting him as Iron Man would be a mistake, Tony Stark was not a smiley kind of guy.

Pretentious???? Tom Cruise!?!?! Noooo---hes, from what Ive heard, one of the most generous celebrities working today. AND, he has some serious acting chops, to boot. Just check out "Magnolia" if you dont believe me---or "Minority Report", "Top Gun", "Eyes Wide Shut", "Interview with a Vampire"----err...hell, watch em all!

Tom's just a little too crazy for me. He's always too ready to spaz out in all his roles. When acting angry, he goes insane. When acting sad, he goes insane. When acting happy...he goes insane. He flips out way too often. Like a ninja.

K-Dog

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Originally posted by Smenkharon:
Casting him as Iron Man would be a mistake, Tony Stark was not a smiley kind of guy.

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Tony Stark sure isn't a smiley kind of guy but Tom can play serious, rich and drunk perfectly and if he's offered the part I'm sure he'll pull it off.

I think that he stands out above the Ben Afflecks and the Nicholas Cages of this world because he knows how to pick a movie. I have been trying to think of bad movie choices that he has made and the only one I can come up with is MI:2.

I think we all know Tom got screwed out of an oscar for Born on the 4th. OK, Daniel Day-Lewis was good in My Left Foot, but this one Cruise should have won. Like Jakal said, if he keeps making good movie choices and pushing his limits, he will get one.

Definitely! I recently saw Born on the 4th of July for the first time and Tom was really amazing in it, I can't believe he didn't get the oscar!

MI:2 wasn't really good, if entertaining, but it's quite clear that Cruise keeps doing all that Mission Impossible stuff for the money!

Hey, the man's gotta eat. I'm am really glad that John Woo won't be on for the third. He SUCKS! I can't believe that I used to love Face/Off so much. Of course, it was high school, so it could have been the drugs. Anyhoo!!! I love the first one and I hope it will live on in the third. I hate seeing what happened to the Bond series. It slowly turned from a cool spy genre to a cheesy action genre.

At first I thought Tom Cruise was pretty much always the same character, tough action hero, until I saw some other movies as rain man and collateral recently where he has more of a character and my respect rose for him.

How was Collateral? It's not out yet in England!

John Woo doesn't suck!! What are you talking about! Overrated, I agree, but "sucks" is a bit harsh.

I'm dying to see M I 3, not only because of Tom, but because my future wife and mother of my children is gonna be in it: Scarlett Johansson....

I really enjoyed Collateral. It was by Mann who is excellent. It wasnt neccesarily that original of a plot but it was a character study and Mann did an excellent job of making it into a great movie.

Cool. And how was Tom? Was he convincing as a bad guy?

He was a really likeable bad guy. Foxx and Cruise did a fantastic job. It is my favorite of 2004 so far.

I finally saw Collateral and thought it was great. Mann is brilliant and Tom Cruise very convincing and very funny.
"you killed him!"
-"I shot him, the bullets and the fall killed him"

Anyway, I thought the ending was slightly weak though but it's OK since the rest of the film is excellent!

I agree with jakal40 Mission Impossible Two was a bad choice.

He is one of the few actors who actually deserve all of the acclaim. I recently saw "The Last Sameria" (sp?)and remembered how utterly convincing Tom is in every role he takes.

Collateral was my favorite movie of 2004! Foxx and Cruise did unbelieveable jobs on acting!!

Great movie!

Tom Cruise is everything a star should be. He has obvious sex appeal and flaunts it in intelligent well-chosen films ("Eyes Wide Shut" or "Risky Business"). He can definately act ("Magnolia" or "Collateral"). AND most importantly he's a phenomanal action star ("Minority Report"). Usually action stars are just muscle brained idiots---not Cruise!

Another old thread I'm repsonding to this quiet Monday. I guess I sort of think of Tom Cruise as a guilty pleasure, although I'm not exactly sure why since some of his movies are pretty good. A few of my favorites are (among others) Top Gun, The Color Of Money, Jerry Maguire, and Magnolia. I am a little leery of MI:3. It has a cool cast, but then again the first two did as well.