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Originally posted by spookyfish
You're starting to scare me, except for the fact that I've seen neither MI or Minority Report. But I think the thing about Cruise is that the very things that make him a "safe/non-offensive" choice in many movies, are also the things that make him so uninteresting. For example, I thought Risky Business was a great movie, but you could have gotten any young actor of that era to play that role, and most would have been better. For every good movie he's been in, he's done three which suck, and the vast majority of the good movies he's done would have been better with somebody else in them. Great actors can make questionable material good and good material great. He does neither. I just find him totally undeserving of the success and adulation he's received.
In the simplest terms I can put it, he's Tom Hanks without the talent.
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I've had a tremendous crush on Tom Cruise since Risky Business. I have dated 3 different men with uncanny resemblances to him. The wall over my bed in the sorority house was plastered with magazine covers of him (the Interview one was particularly cool... does anyone still read Interview?). I love him. I can't explain it. But I do. I'd jump into bed with him, no hesitation. I would not, however, convert to Scientology for him. The only man I've ever considered converting-worthy was JFK, Jr. and now he's dead.
