Favourite Tom Cruise films

Your problem Anthony, you take everything so personally.
It's in all your postings.

Like when you start a thread and someone quite rightly jumps all over it, you go into this mode of over-protecting whatever or whomever it is you've posted about.

Don't be so fuckin precious, chill-out, accept that Tom Cruise is a) a fuckin weirdo and needs his face blow-torching-the-fuck-off, b) makes really standard popcorn movies (which, for some reason you hail like they're 21st Century film-noir or even worse, those ultra-shitty Korean movies that fuck-all people like except you and Korea likes.
That genre soon died off when it got sussed-out, yeah?)

You sound like that kid, Joe King.

 

Uppity fucker aren't you? You want to be an elitist so bad that you can't stand yourself.

 

Calling someone elitist in a discussion about art is the surest way to reveal yourself as a dimwitted philistine

 

Smart one, too.
Not easily pleased.
Too many mirrors in my house, though...

 

The Color of money
Rain Man
Jerry Maguire

 

It's a shame cruise has been in so many good films, it makes it harder to hate the wee freak

 

I'm not having any difficulty

 

I hated War of the Worlds the first time I saw it. I have, and love, the novel (and the sequel, The Massacre of Mankind, is also well worth a read if you haven't) and I have a soft spot for the daft 1950's movie and I just didn't like what they did with the Cruise reboot/remake. Then I rewatched it again, and hated it less. Then I watched again, and found I didn't mind it, and now I rewatch it regularly: if it's on TV, I'll watch it happily. It's a much better film than I originally though, with some genuinely tense moments.

Oblivion is also a good film. I also have Edge of Tomorrow on Blue Ray. That's probably my favourite of the three. That's three pretty good sci-fi films he's in. And he's pretty good in each of them.

MTF

 

I love me some oblivion and edge of tomorrow...I rewatch those from time to time. I agree on war of the worlds; it gets more enjoyable the more you watch it.

 

That’s exactly how Cruise’s War Of The World worked/works for me too. (In fact I have a few other films like that in mind so I smell a new thread)

I hate Edge Of Tomorrow and especially Oblivion. EOT is okay during the early, day repeating scenes, but I hated the last 45 minutes or so and the plot holes were terrible. That’s more than I can say for Oblivion, I don’t know what anyone finds interesting or entertaining about that flick.

 

Oblivion is great...but I guess It’s one of those films that you either “feel” or you don’t. It’s a relatively slow pace and it’s heavily sci fi, but the reason those who like it really like it is because of the background story and the general feel of the film.

I don’t know how you can “hate” edge of tomorrow. That film is fun fun fun!! Of course it has plot holes...huge ones...but that’s because it a time travel film. Impossible to do a film about time travel without enormous plot holes. Time travel is illogical

 

My girlfriend point blank refuses to watch any cruise films. Even as a big Kubrick fan, refuses to watch eyes wide shut. Collateral, Michael Mann, all those moody metallic blues, stylised soft focus shots of LA freeways, Jamie fox is amazing, its great babe. Nu'p. Last samurai, honest, fascinating period of history, incredible action scenes! No dice.

 

Nah, the 12 monkeys model of time travel makes perfect sense. You can go back but you can't change anything. You going back just contributes to the chain of events which already led you to the point where you go back.

 

I’ll have to watch that again, can’t remember it. I hear you but I’m sure even that model creates paradoxes

 

Maybe, but none I could ever ID and I used to rewatch that thing obsessively. Almost every other time travel film is riddled with them, I'd agree. The first terminator might make sense on the twelve monkeys line if you assumed neither side had figured out how time travel worked yet and that their efforts were inevitably in vain....but t2 seemed to totally undermine that

 

What was cool about the 12 Monkey’s time travel situation was how Willis’ character was trapped in a never ending time circle where he would never die.

 

Hmmm, I didn't see it that way. He dies in 1995...albeit most his life takes place after that point so a version of him will be alive until he's sent back in time for the last time!

 

Did she escape the scientology cult? You need to get answers.

 

She just seems as creeped out by cruise as clogg is. Same sort of criticisms. Which I totally get but....dudes just in a lot of good films

 

Hmm. A curious case indeed.

I think we can find out what's going on if you upload some photos of her breasts and vagina.

 

She sounds really smart

 

I like whiskeys approach to this situation

 

Agreed. Very sensible

 

I know, that’s the time loop. The boy at the airport will grow up as Bruce Willis, eventually go through time, wind up back at the airport as a man and get shot in front of his younger self only for the cycle to repeat all over again. It’s an infinite time loop.

 

i didn't see it that way, to me it's all one linear timeline, cole's individual life just folds back across it in an odd way that jumbles its chronology for him. Once cole is sent back in time for the last time there is no cole and all the events of the film are finished, in the past.