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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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I don't detest him, I just don't find him to be a particularly good actor. His "stardom" gets in the way, I guess, and I'm always mindful of, "Hey! It's Tom Cruise" in the movies I watch with him in it. Collateral didn't make me think that (except for one instant when he smiled really widely, in a movie-star sort of way).
I just looked at his list of movies on imdb.com, and I can't say there is a movie on there that didn't suffer from the "Tom Cruise - MOVIE STAR" syndrome. The possible exception to this is Eyes Wide Shut (well, Risky Business also, but that's a given, as he was an unknown at the time) -- but I didn't think EWS was a great movie; not terrible, just not great.
Good for him that he can bring the fans into the theater; whatever. I just don't
