Tom Cruise

Not as insane as if he'd dated Sonny.

so he's kinda box office poison now

Knight & Day opening weekend gross: $20M (budget: $125M)
Valkyrie: $21M
Lions for Lambs: $6.7M

yeah that oprah appearance cost him a lot

That, plus the time he bit Matt Lauer's head off about psychiatry.

lol, just looking at the box office figures on imdb: Jonah Hex hasn't even passed $10M yet.

Only eight films released in 2010 have grossed over 125M fwiw.

Also, that's about as much as I would've guessed Knight and Day would get, especially up against Toy Story 3. Also, it looks like crap?

Valkyrie and Lions for Lambs also looked terrible. I think if he makes a good movie people will watch it.

feelin some schaudenfreude, have always hated him tbh

I think if he makes a good movie people will watch it.

never has before, don't see any reason why he would start now

Minority Report is great, but I don't think its greatness hinges on Cruise being in that role (could've been any number of actors).

I thought the espn commercial he did with cameron diaz was kinda funny..

never been able to sit through all of Minority Report - I find Hollywood's penchant for action-movie-butcherings of PKD material really repellant, in general

Regardless of what you think of Mr. Cruise's work, I think it's safe to say that those are not three of his best films up there.

yeah really pale in comparison next to the genius level work of Risky Business, Days of Thunder, and Vanilla Sky eh

Knight and Day seems like it was a movie that was greenlit and cast in 2001. Dont know what exec thought a pairing of Cruz and Cameron Diaz was gonna score a shitload of money..

how could I forget Cocktail and Jerry Maguire!

seriously he has the worst fucking track record of any big-name Hollywood actor from his generation that I can think, he's the male equivalent of Julia Roberts - someone lauded at the box office and in the industry as a "great" actor who has never actually made a decent movie

Cruise..

I might watch a movie with Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz. If there were sexy results...

Just watched Days of Thunder and wow. I know he's got competition recently, but this was the worst Tom Cruise performance to date. The movie just stops when he's onscreen: he's unconvincing as a cocksman, as a homoerotic love object, and as a guy named Cole Trickle (more like Tinkle). And the way Robert Towne and Tony Scott shoot and shape dialogue for Nicole Kidman would be grounds for murder if the movie were as popular as Top Gun.

n the other hand, it's rare in a movie this vapid to boast such a strong supporting cast: Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Michael Hooper, Fred Thompson are all terrific.

*Michael Rooker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEf2t9IPCeo

Tom Cruise.
The Magnificent Seven.
Barf.

I hope this gets scuttled in development hell.

Tell you what, his little turn at the end of 'tropic thunder' was some spectacular skin-crawlery. I felt like I needed to *wash* after seeing that endpiece. He was *horrible*. Does that make him a good actor, or was that the mask slipping and seeing the lizard beneath?

http://media.avclub.com/images/417/417921/original/627.jpg?5673

lol

just came here to post that, lol

kinda wanna rub that pic in the face of all the Heinlein dorks who complained about the lack of powered armor in the Starship Troopers movie

Lack of Cruise-powered armor, maybe.

Born on the 4th moon of July

live at Lincoln Center

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/an-evening-with-tom-cruise-featuring-jack-reacher

^postponed due to Newtown. Plays right into the hands of "movies cause shootings" crap.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-jack-reacher-screening-tom-cruise-postponed-20121217,0,288283.story

also, Herzog's name in this is THE ZEC.

mondo pumped for j-reach

Trailer for Oblivion = live action Wall-E with guns. Sold!

Laser guns

yeah oblivion looks great

are we talking about oblivion anywhere? it surprised me how much i liked it

You and no one else, I guess.

what abt the place beyond the pines, it was super rad

its good, worth seeing on the big screen. really beautifully shot + art-directed (TONS of stuff lifted well + smartly from star wars, which was kind of a surprise), hilariously OTT bombastic score by m83. couple dumb easy-to-guess plot surprises. no real characters to speak of so everyone gets by on the strength of charisma of which kurylenko doesnt have much but oh well

hmm i will probably go see this now, though i get it confused with that other one where Will Smith Watches His Son Grow Up On Screen

go in w/ mid-low expectations

for sure, the presence of cruise has already calibrated me

man what is w/ cruise hate. the guy makes good movies

ive talked about this on ilx before i always get the feeling im watching tom cruise play tom cruise playing john anderton, can never feel like im watching john anderton, always one level of removal, kinda like tom cruise offset controlling a tom cruise simulacrum onset, maybe he has one of those rc car remote controls w/ the antennas that he has to pull out, two d-pads

Read a funny essay (I think?) about how this is essentially the third "Jack" Cruise has played in a row. For all I know it was G@wker.

I liked Oblivion a lot, too. I was really confused by a review I heard where they claimed the plot was hard to follow.

Another review pointed out how Cruise, who was once propelled by this constant swagger, has now sort of descended into middle-aged glum, an the swagger, when it appears, seems almost mechanical or artificial. Piece also pointed out that Cruise is not that old, yet has sort of boxed himself into these soulless roles. I'm sure he'll bounce back, since he does well when pushed, but he's simply too big an actor for most directors to push around.

I haven't seen it, but was frankly surprised by the amount of vitriol sent its way, either as the first of the summer's stupid dystopian action films or as one of the worse sci-fi exercises since "Battlefield Earth" (courtesy Edelstein).

I kind of feel like he was always a stand in for a charismatic, energetic type and our society associates those with youth and he's destined to be cast as more of an empty shell as years go on

we need an oblivion thread so I can post spoilers

Everybody likes the look of this, though. In fact, Edelstein iirc notes how surprised he was that the movie was bad enough to render the awesome look and design and DP work boring.

Was Cruise trying to beat out fellow Scientologist John Travolta for the honor of starring in the dumbest sci-fi epic ever? Thank heavens, he lost — nothing will ever be as shatteringly inane as the L. Ron Hubbard–based Battlefield Earth. But joining forces with the director of Tron: Legacy was like checking “d” on the form that said, “I want my space movies more (a) incoherent, (b) plodding, (c) migraine-inducing, or (d) all of the above.” Oblivion spins the same kind of paranoid futuristic fantasy as Battlefield Earth, in which a man must learn the true nature of his identity: that his body is but a temporary vessel, his soul immortal. Only then can he take on an evil empire of plundering anti-individualists from an unnamed planet that sounds like Xenu.

Cruise was on a roll for a while with Magnolia and his two Spielberg pictures — his acting was grounded. But he must be shedding brain cells like wives. After all of these years, he still indicates rather than feels, signaling thought by wrinkling his brow and squinting real hard and looking like a caveman encountering fire for the first time. He looks less like mankind’s savior than like a harbinger of devolution — the last stage before we’re back at lungfish.

It's kind of plodding but completely coherent to the point where I could predict the next plot revelation a few scenes ahead. It was Edelstein's review I heard on NPR and I was really wondering if he watched the same film