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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Is it trendy to hate Tom Cruise all of a sudden? I don't particularly like or dislike him, but it seems strange to me that a guy who can guarantee $100 million on any flick he's in, based on pretty much his name alone is so thoroughly detested. He's no great actor, but he never gets in the way of the movie he's in. Is it just his ridiculous Scientology crap and Katie Holmes garbage that makes him such a joke all of a sudden? Or has everyone here detested him like a sickness* since All the Right Moves?
TM
*Extra points for who can tell me where this quote comes from without Googling.
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Recent wackiness for me. Liked him for quite a while, but his off screen crap started to get in the way. Of his more recent films, I actually rather enjoyed
Minority Report,
Magnolia and
Jerry Maguire. I hated
Eyes Wide Shut and his performance had a lot to do with that, though the whole movie bugged me. I haven't seen
Collateral,
Vanilla Sky or
The Last Samurai, precicely because his off screen anctics started bugging me.
I think he's a great supporting actor. Lots of good performances bounce off him (Newman, Nicholson, and Foxx being three that I can think of immediately).
I think that he's not the box office gold he used to be. He certainly didn't save
Vanilla Sky, and I don't remember
The Last Samurai being an overwhelming box office success.
My sister says that firing his publicist and hiring his sister was the wrost move he could have made. I disagreed and pointed out that if I or any of my other siblings hired her, she'd never let us say the crap that Tom Cruise is saying these days.
