Tom Cruise

Hmm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEBIJRAkujM

Seems like a Nic Cage sort of role.

Tom Cruise is slowly turning into Sandi Toksvig. pic.twitter.com/UafWkeW8Bx

— Richard Littler (@richard_littler) August 23, 2017

I watched one of the Jack Reacher movies on Netflix. Nothing special, but there's a moment when Cruise approaches a car where a couple of detectives are tracking him and he goes "How are ya!" with this earnest disarming smile right before he smashes their window and grabs their guns. He does studied charisma really well, though the new one makes me wonder when these roles will start to seem desperate and embarrassing or if can grow into a Liam Neeson-style mature bruiser.

I recommend this thread

I don't know how to supercut so please forgive/enjoy the upcoming thread https://t.co/aWUY0NZlXw

— Anthony C-M (@anthonymiccio) August 30, 2017

good stuff!

ha ha. this happens in get smart, too, with barbara feldon always slouching when she's beside don adams.

man i hope kelly mcgillis had a decent physio on-set, seeing all that slouching made my own back start hurt

I don't see how keeping her eyes open during a kiss helps tbh

Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle has a trenchant joke that encapsulates the fundamental arrogance of so much American war cinema: “American foreign policy is horrendous 'cause not only will America come to your country and kill all your people, but what's worse, I think, is that they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.” Doug Liman's American Made, a rollicking comedy based on the drug-smuggling, gun-running, contra-funding exploits of C.I.A.-backed pilot Barry Seal (Tom Cruise), represents a discomfiting corollary: Not only will America attempt to destabilize your country with insidious covert ops, they'll come back decades later and make a movie about how much fucking fun it was.

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/american-made

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jul/05/the-top-20-tom-cruise-movies-ranked

'War of the Worlds' below 'Cocktail' and 'Days of Thunder' is certainly an interesting take.

8. Minority Report (2002)
Cruise and Spielberg should, by rights, be as natural a combination as bread and butter, and yet Minority Report is the only truly satisfying movie they have made together.

The only one out of...two

this is genuinely the greatest scene ever committed to film

pic.twitter.com/VZXRJctPcc

— velma 🐀 (@maggotmagick) June 23, 2022