Best Tom Cruise Film

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[tjdee]

1. I never looked twice at Tom Cruise until Mission Impossible.

In fact, I didn't like him at all and thought he was on the homely side. That all changed after Mission Impossible, LOL, although I still can't watch his early work, it's irritating for some reason--maybe it's that the characters are all cocky snots. :shrug: Top Gun makes me want to hurt something, LOL!

But I voted for Magnolia. Strong work there. Born on the Fourth of July I've not seen, but wasn't he nominated for an Oscar for that too?

Tom's alright, even if he's a Scientologist... He has a strong strong work ethic and he hired Thandie Newton instead of Tara Reid/Mandy Moore/etc. for MI2. Interested to see the Last Samurai.

[SOteric]

2. I've never seen Tom Cruise in anything I like.

If y'all think he's hot, more power to ya.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Tom Cruise sucks

Risk Business was a cool movie, but Cruise is just crap. Shitty actor, and his movies are pathetic cliche-ridden drivel.

Top Gun must rank as one of the world's highest caliber cliche shit-writing pieces of *@*^$ ever created. I cringe to think of that POS. Oh, God, it's just AWWWFULLLLLL, absolutely, and entirely. Ewwwwwww.

I can't believe anyone takes it seriously.

Well filmed, sure. I'll give it that. But the dialogue and the acting and the story and the plot and the writing and the . . . ewwwwww, the crapitude factor is positively biblical.

[rock]

3. I liked him best ins "A Few Good Men"

but of those posted, "Rain Man".

[VermontDem2004]

4. I don't like Tom Cruise

but I did like Jerry Maguire because most of it was filmed in my hometown and Cuba Gooding Jr. deserved the Oscar he got. Also, my 2 favorite teams were in the movie. Arizona State and the Arizona Cardinals.

[stanwyck]

5. Rain Man

I'm not a Cruise fan. But I thought he was very good in Rain Man.

[Qutzupalotl]

6. Don't forget Minority Report

But I liked Magnolia a lot. Tom gets to play a repulsive, soulless lizard.

[MaineDem]

7. "a repulsive, soulless lizard"

Works for me.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. I like lizards

but I don't care for the cockroach.

[_Wayne_]

9. ACK!! You don't have Vanilla Sky?? Or Minority Report??

Those are his two best!

[4_Legs_Good]

10. Magnolia

is easily the best movie in a very long time. Tom Cruise set a new standard for himself in a glorious performance. I despised him before Born on the 4th of July. It's amazing what a good role with a great director will do to an actor. Now I actually look forward to his performances.

But Magnolia, easily, hands down, his best work *ever*.

david

Kucinich 2004

P.S. Frank T. J. Mackey has a soul, he just lost it for a while.

[KamaAina]

12. Rain Man, though it's really a Dustin Hoffman film

Trust me. It must have been almost as hard for a "neurotypical" like Hoffman to unlearn so much of his natural body language, intonation, etc. as it would be for me to become a "typical" (or, by way of comparison, for a Repuke to act like a civilized human being!).

[WyomingDemocrat]

13. These polls are so much fun?

How do you create on? Or can only the people who own Democratic Underground create them?