Is Tom Cruise the biggest narcissistic prick in popular culture?

[littlebabyjesus]

As for TC, Magnolia's a good film, but he is one of many in an ensemble cast. After that, it's all pretty forgettable.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Captain Phillips was terrible IMO, Hanks playing that dull, decent guy he always plays. The foreign language film based on the same incident (IIRC) is much, much better.

A Hijacking

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Cocktail was fucking brilliant and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise

I’ve seen it but can’t even remember the plot other than he was a barman and there was some flirtation around cocktail names or something.

 

[geminisnake]

Tom Cruise is an okay actor but he’s a brilliant film star. He’ll turn an okay film into something really watchable through sheer presence.

Matter of opinion, can't stand him don't rate him as an actor or a person. I like drunk savoloysam

 

[T & P]

I watched him on Graeme Norton once and one of his co-stars made some harmless joke and Tom wasn't happy and the guy almost shat himself. It was obvious that he's massively controlling.

I saw him on Norton on another episode (he's been in shit loads, come to think of it), and he was sharing the sofa with Seth MacFarlane. Norton kept asking the latter about Family Guy and requested he did some of the voices. Cruise was laughing as hard as the rest of them as MacFarlane did all the voices, which I found amusing as Cruise has been ridiculued multiple times in Family Guy over the years. Perhaps he was boiling inside, but he hid it well.

 

[surreybrowncap]

Cocktail was fucking brilliant and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise

 

[krtek a houby]

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Whoa! Cocktail now added to "must see" list.

 

[savoloysam]

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I'd take you on but I haven't seen it

 

[two sheds]

Fans Are Speculating That Tom Cruise May Have Left Scientology for One Parenting Reason

We have questions.

www.sheknows.com

This would be ironic if he has left, you'd think he could kiss goodbye to ever talking to the other two kids again:

Along with people thinking he may have left the Church for Suri, people wonder where that would leave him with his two kids with Nicole Kidman: Isabella Jane, born in 1992 and Connor, born in 1995. Both Isabella and Connor are in Scientology, and Isabella is even a high-ranking member of the Church, per People.

 

[Petcha]

He's very good at what he does and has a star quality that is rare nowadays. But he is also clearly a complete mentalist.

I think you need to check the definition of mentalist. Darren Brown is a mentalist. Cruise is nuts. But I kinda like that.

 

[two sheds]

Kinda nuts but drove people by the bucketload into scientology and supported the worst of their excesses and harassment. I'd feel sorry for him possibly losing contact with the two kids if he hadn't (even tacitly) supported the church's policies on disconnection.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Him and Travolta. Although I expect their experiences with the ‘church’ would be vastly different from the layman given their star pulling power and net worth.

 

[two sheds]

There's special Celebrity Centres for them all

 

[Magnus McGinty]

There's special Celebrity Centres for them all

I can imagine. Fat chance they’d find themselves toiling away under a billion year contract with the sea org.

 

[girasol]

I like Magnolia & Vanilla Sky (although just a copy of a Spanish movie, I saw Vanilla Sky first, and after seeing the Spanish version, I still prefer it).

edit: yeah, he's been in a few good movies, mentioned by others... Forgotten about Born on the 4th of July... Isn't he really good mates with Simon Pegg?

Eyes Wide Shut though, an embarrassment for all involved /cringe

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Ehhhh? It’s a Stanley Kubrick film and brilliant imo.
I also like A Few Good Men and The Firm although not watched them in decades and seem pretty interchangeable in my memory.
All the lasses at school banged on about Top Gun and were swooning over Cruise which is probably why I never watched it. Some of my colleagues when I started my apprenticeship had given themselves nicknames from it (Goose?) which just made me think it was probably utter wank.

 

[kabbes]

I rewatched A Few Good Men last year and it was every bit as great as I remembered. It really stands up well. One of the most quotable films ever too.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I rewatched A Few Good Men last year and it was every bit as great as I remembered. It really stands up well. One of the most quotable films ever too.

Does it have Nicholson in also or is that the other one? (I suppose I could just google lol).

 

[kabbes]

Does it have Nicholson in also or is that the other one? (I suppose I could just google lol).

Yes. It’s the one with Nicholson saying “YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH”

Demi Moore is excellent in it too, by the way

 

[newme]

Yes

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Yes. It’s the one with Nicholson saying “YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH”

Yeah, I need to revisit that.

 

[Lord Camomile]

And then Tom Cruise famously shouts back "I CAN IF I FILL OUT A RISK ASSESSMENT AND WEAR SAFETY GLOVES!!".

Classic cinema, that Sorkin's a hell of a writer.

 

[Aladdin]

After he dies there is going to be all sorts of shit that comes out about him.

You can't stop there...surely you can hint?

 

[two sheds]

Is it the one about the goat and the hatstand?

 

[tommers]

You can't stop there...surely you can hint?

Haha, I don't know anything. It's just a prediction.

 

[kabbes]

Is it the one about the goat and the hatstand?

 

[krtek a houby]

This is like my da talking about films

 

[Dystopiary]

I've never watched Top Gun. Nothing I've heard or seen about it has encouraged me to tbh.

 

[moochedit]

I've never watched Top Gun. Nothing I've heard or seen about it has encouraged me to tbh.

Yeah same as. Isn't it basically a recruiting film for the us air force?

Never seen a mission impossible film either.

 

[Sue]

Yeah same as. Isn't it basically a recruiting film for the us air force?

Navy.