Tom Cruise

adam · #1 05-04-2006, 05:29 PM

I was curious about how Tom Cruise's recent turn for the crazy has influenced people's desires to see his movies. I must say I think he's so nuts that it actually has reduced my desire to see MI:3. Not that I was going to rush out and see it, but I did enjoy the first one (second was balls and part of John Woo's, "Now I suck!" phase) and Philip Seymour Hoffman added a little credibility to it...

But, seriously, fuck this guy. All these images of his crazy massive psycho smile/forced laugh are getting to me. He looks like the fucking joker.

So, question is? Do you, as a movie goer, care?

Kennrr · #2 05-04-2006, 06:25 PM

I don't really follow what he does. has he always been crazy or is this recent?

I loved the first two movies so i'll be seeing this one also. probably when it hits dvd though. The first one was way cooler but the second one has a kickass motorcycle scene with a triumph speed triple so it makes up for it.

cured · #3 05-04-2006, 06:30 PM

heh.

http://www.hailxenu.net/

adam · #4 05-04-2006, 06:40 PM

ha ha good.

it seems like he's gone off the deep end recently. not sure if that's true.

This made me shit my pants but it was better without the title.

grady · #5 05-04-2006, 07:11 PM

MI:3 just makes me shrug my shoulders and say 'meh'. The guy is a nut now. That aside he did turn in a good performance in Collateral and Magnolia. But MI:3 just seems like action by numbers with nothing really new to the table. Sure Phil Hoffman is in it, but I bet he was far more menacing and intimidating in his few scenes in Punch-Drunk Love than he will be in the entire film Mission Impossible 3.

At this point I'm really sick of hearing about it and seeing ads for it when I am out and about. From what little TV I watch it seems impossible to go through a commercial break without seeing an ad for MI:3. I just don't care. I don't really remember anything from the first one other than the chewing gum being thrown on that aquarium window and Cruise running from gallons of water and the second film featuring Tom Cruise hair, plus a motor cycle.

adam · #6 05-04-2006, 07:18 PM

Yeah, I think that's part of my interest in him, was that Magnolia made me ready to give the guy mad respect, and then he turned super-flakey almost immediately. Now he's borderline psycho.

I don't watch tv at all, though, so I've seen the ad for it twice, I think.

cured · #7 05-04-2006, 07:28 PM

He's quite eccentric. And being super-religious, if scientology is a real religion, makes for people going nutty.

I'm gonna catch it just for the fuck-off explosions and whatever but the clips I've seen of an out-of-control Hoffman as the bad guy don't make for a spy-flick villain, in my opinion.

grady · #8 05-04-2006, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by adam

Yeah, I think that's part of my interest in him, was that Magnolia made me ready to give the guy mad respect, and then he turned super-flakey almost immediately. Now he's borderline psycho.

I don't watch tv at all, though, so I've seen the ad for it twice, I think.

Yeah, seeing Tom Cruise, heartthrob to many shout out "Respect the COCK and tame the CUNT!" seemed to get people's attention. That and he was a mysognist in the film too. And it's a damn fine film.

You'd be suprised how even just one half hour of TV of watching a new episode of the The Simpsons each week is tainted by Mission Impossible 3 ads.

negative1 · #9 05-04-2006, 07:58 PM

i dont care for this movie,
however i did like 'vanilla sky'
and 'collateral'... oh yeah
i forgot about 'the last samurai'
too...

....i think when
he takes chances he does
better, than if he does the
safe roles..

later
-1

gambit · #10 05-04-2006, 08:18 PM

I never was a big Tom Cruise fan before he went insane, and I doubt that will change now. But the whole supposed South Park thing and the weirdness with Katie Holmes and their child has really killed my interest in his movies. I probably couldn't watch a movie of his now without thinking of the craziness he's done over the past year. I think many people are turned off by him now (I know a few of my coworkers certainly are), but I don't know how that will affect MI:3 since that's an action franchise. So yeah, to hell with the nut.