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[Yutnopash]

They have sucked big alien Xenu balls. The Last Samurai was good and it wasn't because of Cruise. The Asian actors/actresses made that movie, they did a wonderful job.

[Goltana_R-Zek]

Yeah, bit of an exaggeration I think. Although out of that list, the only two that I thought were good is Minority Report and Collateral. I was going to be snide and mention you spelled Cult wrong Gigfc, but then I realized you also misspelled religion so.. lol . Really like him as an actor, batshit personal stuff aside. Not really interested in his next movie 'Valkyrie' though

[column]

He was cool as shit in Collateral. Tom Fuse in real life is batshit crazy,needs to stick with making the epic movies less with the jibber jabber.

[Gigfc]

Originally Posted by Goltana_R-Zek

Yeah, bit of an exaggeration I think. Although out of that list, the only two that I thought were good is Minority Report and Collateral. I was going to be snide and mention you spelled Cult wrong Gigfc, but then I realized you also misspelled religion so.. lol . Really like him as an actor, batshit personal stuff aside. Not really interested in his next movie 'Valkyrie' though

[Millie]

The whole Tom Cruise story really goes to show you how important a publicist can be. Tom has been a Scientologist for almost 20 years now, but you never really knew or cared all that much about it until the couch-jumping, Oprah-frightening, Katie Holmes-kidnapping shenanigans began in earnest around 2005 or 2006. That's the date he fired his long-time publicist and hired his own sister to assume his ex-publicist's role. Big fucking mistake. Suddenly, it's all-crazy, all the time. His image has tanked accordingly, and his career is in desperate need of resuscitation.

Moral of the story: if you're a superstar actor or actress who belongs to a freakish cult and has some serious personality issues, hire and retain an awesome publicist to keep your personal life out of the public eye.

The death of stars' careers can almost always be traced to overpublicity of their private lives. I'm amazed more agents, managers, and publicists don't realize this by now. "No publicity is bad publicity" may be true if you're a celebutante moron like Paris Hilton. But if you're a movie star with a fanbase who wants to be taken seriously, you'd do well to keep your private life as much of a mystery as possible. Your career is based on the presumption that you're larger and better than life; any indications to the contrary will end everything.

[Brutul Tarew Marr]

Never thought of it that way but I'm sure you're right. Hell half of Hollywood is into Scientology, but none of them get the "crazy" rap like Cruise does. At least not to the extent that he does.

[eVasiege]

Originally Posted by Millie

The whole Tom Cruise story really goes to show you how important a publicist can be. Tom has been a Scientologist for almost 20 years now, but you never really knew or cared all that much about it until the couch-jumping, Oprah-frightening, Katie Holmes-kidnapping shenanigans began in earnest around 2005 or 2006. That's the date he fired his long-time publicist and hired his own sister to assume his ex-publicist's role. Big fucking mistake. Suddenly, it's all-crazy, all the time. His image has tanked accordingly, and his career is in desperate need of resuscitation.

Moral of the story: if you're a superstar actor or actress who belongs to a freakish cult and has some serious personality issues, hire and retain an awesome publicist to keep your personal life out of the public eye.

The death of stars' careers can almost always be traced to overpublicity of their private lives. I'm amazed more agents, managers, and publicists don't realize this by now. "No publicity is bad publicity" may be true if you're a celebutante moron like Paris Hilton. But if you're a movie star with a fanbase who wants to be taken seriously, you'd do well to keep your private life as much of a mystery as possible. Your career is based on the presumption that you're larger and better than life; any indications to the contrary will end everything.

I agree. People tend to group actor and celebrity into the same category when they shouldn't be. Tom Cruise is a great actor and I could care less about what he does in his private life. Channels like E love to highlight what these people do off screen and then their celebrity lifestyle changes the perceptions that people have about them as actors, which shouldn't happen. You can't escape the discussion of Scientology when you hear Tom Cruise. Same applies for music. People can't avoid discussing about Jamie Spears or Britney's "mental problems" instead of the music itself (not that I listen to it...) The media has abused this concept and people are eating up non-stop.

[aychamo_aycono]

Originally Posted by Szlia

More seriously: Lions for Lambs, Mission: Impossible III, War of the Worlds, Collateral, The Last Samurai, Austin Powers III and Minority Report (that's the last 7 because I am not sure which is the oldest in the last two). If there are ups and downs in that list (and you might have troubles finding a concensus in which are the ups and which are the downs) you'd need to be a seriously tough audience to say 6 of them "sucked balls".

I thought maybe War of the Worlds kinda was lame, and Lions for Lambs too. The others vary, like MI3 isn't supposed to be an amazing movie, it's just supposed to be action or whatever.

The Last Samurai kicked ass, I'll maintain till I die that he should have won an Academy Award for his role in that, and that the movie should have won best movie

And damn he looks good in the pictures on the website!

[Malice]

Why did he fire his publicist anyway?

[Millie]

Originally Posted by Malice

Why did he fire his publicist anyway?

I'm not entirely sure, but I think it had something to do with her getting into fights with him about the increasing amount of control he was letting Scientology take over his life.

[column]

MI3 was awesome,and the best of the series.
That dude that does Lost needs to just make action movies instead of the crappy TV show.

[Korioni]

Damn, I was all ready to come in here and point out that the crazier Tom Cruise gets, the better he acts, but find out that somebody beat me to the punch

Anyway, I think he's a sub-par actor. There's a point in superstardom where an actor becomes so famous that the characters they play become the actors instead of the other way around. Tom Cruise played John in Minority Report? No. Tom Cruise played Tom Cruise playing John in Minority Report. When's the last time you saw Sean Connery act like anyone besides Sean Connery? Or George Clooney or Julia Roberts or Mel Gibson? This sucks because it takes focus from the character and puts it on the actor which in turn detracts from the movie.


WTB more method actors.


Edit: Oh yeah, about Tom Cruise... all of the above is just icing on the cake considering he's only ever had 3 looks in his entire career. The Clenched fist, the "who am I?" look into the mirror and the "I'm homosexually aroused" look. (blatantly stolen from Mystery Science Theater performance back in like '05 Quakecon)

[column]

Nah I Don't agree with that. Tom is more or less typecast for certain leading man roles so it appears that he plays the same role everytime. Its when he plays a different role like the one in Collateral,or Interview with a Vampire that you can really see a different person appear. Bottom line Tom makes good movies and that is all that should matter.

Honestly this whole good acting/bad acting thing is so contrived when it comes to movies especially big budget ones. Its a director and editors job to make anyone look good,and any actor can be broken down to his quirks.

Some Directors like George Lucas can make even the best actors look terrible.

Real actors are in the theaters where there is no second shot.

[homsar]

Originally Posted by Korioni

WTB more method actors.


Edit: Oh yeah, about Tom Cruise... all of the above is just icing on the cake considering he's only ever had 3 looks in his entire career.

Hrrmmm

Vanilla sky
Collateral
Interview with the Vampire
Born on the 4th of july
Magnolia
Legend
Last samurai

Blows my mind that people always say Tom Cruise can only play Tom cruise. Guy never gets any credit for being a great actor.

[column]

The guy has really never made a bad movie. If you look at his IMDB list its pretty impressive.