Tom Cruise won't go away

>>83448651
He's like 20 years older than Brendan Fraser and they pick the elderly man to do the new Mummy action flick.

There's gonna be a day when you realize just how artificial the world is around you. When that day comes "Why does Tom Cruise keep getting roles?" will be the last question on your mind.

>>83448651
he's an absolute madman that's why

>>83448651
Most people these days only know Tom Cruise post-Oprah freakout and Scientology madness. Take away all you know about his personal life. He's done some crazy and just plain amazing roles in his time:

>Legend
>Born on the 4th of July
>The Outsiders
>best grey-haired assassin in Collateral
>awesome Jew in Tropic Thunder
>legitimately good in Rain Man, Magnolia
>still rocking out good movies like Edge of Tomorrow

He's easy to hate due to how batshit crazy he seems, but he's yet to go on a drug-fueled fall from grace. He's a goddamn national icon.

>>83448701
Give me your reddest pills

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>>83449139
>Give me your reddest pills

The PGA is an elaborate cockfighting league but for various public and private mind control programs.

pic related, a young Tiger Woods

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>>83448651
>How does this guy keep getting roles?
because he produces his own movies. he's not playing by Hollywood rules strictly speaking, he mostly uses studios for distribution. How do you think he kept releasing a movie per year even during his nearly complete breakdown?

>>83448651
>He's made maybe 2 or 3 bad films in his whole life
Fixed that for you meight

>>83448701
>tfw to intelligent
>>83448651
He's one of the greatest movie stars AND he can act AND he can still do awesome stunts and look good.

>>83448651
he has been at the top. The fucking top of Hollywood for 25 years. He may have a flop here and there. but he never has a run of three bad movies.

No one else can say that. His box office peers of that time have all crashed and burned like Swarznegger, Hanks, Willis, Costner etc But Tom Cruise keeps on going.

Imagine being in a job and being the top guy in that company for 25 years. People out to stab you in the back and are plotting your downfall but you still maintain. Hard enough in a competitive position in any job. But this is fuckign Hollywood And people out to get him are Hollywood Jews Scientologists the media and Joe fuckign public. Yet this motherfucker keeps going

> 2 or 3 decent films

Taps
Risky Business
Top Gun
Rain Man
Born on the Fourth of July
A Few Good Men
Mission: Impossible
Jerry Maguire
Eyes Wide Shut
Minority Report
Collateral
War of the Worlds
Valkyrie
Jack Reacher
Edge of Tomorrow


GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE YOU FUCKING KID

>>83448651

Likeable and intense screen presence

>>83449484
this. I'd watch a whole movie of him sprinting around and yelling on cell phones

>>83448651
>secret top tier comedic actor
>string of successful movies over three decades, consistent in his played roles
>good producer
>knows the business and most people within it extremely well by this point

when it comes to moviemaking you literally cannot ruse the cruise.

because he is part of the Scientologist club.

What's your favorite movie that he has been in?

>>83449965
Color of Money. Honestly, it's a shame he took the route of a celebrity. He coud've been the next Paul Newman.

I love Cruise

>>83448651
The Firm was his peak.

>>83448697
It's a 6 year difference, and Fraser looks older.

>Can't Bomb Tom
>2 or 3 decent movies his whole life

>>>/r.eddit/

>>83449440
This. All these movies are at least 7.8/10s a few are even 9/10s. No bomb tom is based af

>>83448924
>>83449440
>>83449536

These. People seem unwilling to admit the fact that he's actually a pretty damn good actor with a wide range. He excels in action, but he can do a lot.

>>83448651
Should you ever get the chance, kill yourself.

>>83448651
i don't think he's ever been told to go away, he's one of those celebs who goes full autism because they used to to be relevant and continues to think they are

he would do a lot better doing some kind of support role and not being an attention whore who's undermining whatever bullshit flick he wonders into

>>83450319
why? that's a bit extreme desu

I wonder if he'll ever return to dramatic roles like Magnolia, Jerry McGuire, The Color of Money, etc.

>>83450468

Doubtful, I don't know if he was ever chasing Oscars but why work yourself into a tizzy trying to get one when you could just do movie roles you enjoy?

You're never going to see Tom Cruise getting raped by a bear on camera he pays 'em to be more gentle

>>83450632
I'm not necessarily suggesting he should chase Oscars, it'd just be interesting to see him go back to that.

>>83449301
This.

or putting my tinfoil hat on, he's backed by Scientology.

>>83450653
Studios want him to do as many blockbusters as possible while he still can because big names like him are getting too old and dying/dead, with no as good replacements in sight.

I'm sure Universal would have loved to cast younger actors for their Dark Universe thing instead of a bunch of 50 year olds, but younger actors currently out there don't really have the same amount of talent/box office value/reliability.

>>83451059

Also Tom looks young enough to handle the action on screen while at the same time looks old enough/experienced enough that it doesn't take you out of the scene, not saying there aren't some young turks who don't fit the bill but none of them I think are as big a name as Tom.

>>83448651
>He's made maybe 2 or 3 decent films in his whole life
Jesus Christ reddit

>>83449440
any single one of those roles would be the role of a lifetime for most a listers even. fassbender hasn't had a single role that stands along a single one in that list.

>>83448924
I was talking to an 18 year old kid at work today. He was born in 1998 and doesn't remember Chappelle's Show or even know who Dave is - and everyone my age (mid-20s) remembers Chappelle's Show.
I guarantee you, 'most people' these days aren't old enough to remember the Oprah couch, they just know the scientology shtick. They won't know Collateral, or Tropic Thunder, or Rain Man and they sure as hell won't know the Outsiders. Kids these days watch the prequels but the original Star Wars movies are too old for them. Go ahead, ask them what the oldest movie they've seen is and you won't get an answer older than 1980 something. Kids these days probably never touched a fucking VCR.

He's a lot like Dicaprio. He's in the occasional ok film but mostly just mediocrity.
He's also never essential to any film and is too obvious when he's trying to act.

>>83449440
left out Vanilla Sky familia

>>83451248

Can't tell if serious or just a moron.

>>83451248
ok i can tell you don't know movies so i'll go easy on you champ, dicaprio wasn't even pretending to be retarded when Cruise already had more blockbusters under his belt than most a list actors get credited roles.

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>>83448651
>He's made maybe 2 or 3 decent films in his whole life

>>83450427
I can't even imagine Tom Cruise in a non-leading role, unless it's in a comedy or something

The Mission Impossible franchise alone blows out every other secret agent movie since they started it.
James Bond wishes it was MI

Deal with it. Tom Cruise only made decent to very good films in the last decade and his name stands for quality.

>>83449139
US politicians have no real power. They are at the mercy of corporations who own virtually everything, fund aforementioned politicians, and protect their interests at whatever cost. Start looking into who owns what.

>>83449361
But he's way more expensive because of his star power and BECAUSE he insists on doing his own stunts, making it cost more to insure him

I guess the audience money he draws outweighs the cost

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+Known box office draw for last 15+ years
+Charisma (women love him, men want to be him)
+Scientology status gives him large amount of assitants at his beck and call, so he can focus just on acting (makes a big difference)**
+scientology connections make him get a movie if he needs it**
+

-acting is aight, he makes a movie good just by playing himself (except for when he made collateral and tropic thunder good by acting)

**SOURCE: hear leah remini's podcast with joe rogan (towards the end) where she discusses the benefits and connections high level celebrities get in scientology

>>83451235
>Kids these days probably never touched a fucking VCR.
Of course they haven't. Everything should at least be on dvd by now.

It'd be interesting to see a lower-budget, more artsy film with Tom instead of him being the main action star every time

>>83451235
>too young to have heard about him jumping on the couch
>watches movies from the 80's and onward, exactly coinciding with Cruise's career

I heard this dude is ot-17 meaning he can bend matter with his mind

My theory is that certain actors such as Tom Cruise have a lot of dirt on Hollywood higher ups and use that as blackmail to keep getting good movie roles.

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>He's made maybe 2 or 3 decent films in his whole life yet

Is there a more Reddit opinion

>>83451788
>I guess the audience money he draws outweighs the cost

Yeah. Cruise's films almost always are hits, or at least aren't bombs which is what Hollywood wants most. Casting Cruise is itself insurance.

>>83451835
It really wouldn't. He'd be pulling his unbearable "I'm acting" face the whole time

>>83451873
>him jumping on the couch

I can't believe this was ever a thing. Well, it was mainly just punctuation on how freaky his marriage to Katie Holmes was. Nobody cares about that now.

>>83451234
Steve Jobs and inglourious basterds

>>83449965
magnolia

Tom Cruise is charismatic as fuck and can carry even shitty movies.

Plus he tells tickets, is apparently a massive professional and he literally owns the Mission Impossible franchise.

>High box office draws
>Meaning the movies he's in almost always draw
>Equals: Wanting to hire again.

OP is stupid. I don't the confusion to be quite honest.

The one real singular rules for Tom Cruise is the same for every single up and comer in Hollywood.

>Have a hit, you're hot as shit

Obviously the more hits you have, the hotter you are. Tom has never really had a huge flop since he went huge though.

So again, what's the fucking confusion?

>>83452106
OP may be confusing outstanding critical quality with decent-to-great-but-financially-successful. Cruise is great at the latter and has never really bombed. Tom Hanks has won multiple Oscars and has had a golden career but even he has flopped, especially recently.

>>83452035
uh, citation needed. neither were popular nor culturally significant.

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>>83448651
Can't ruse the cruise

>>83452264
fuck off with your art shit. cruise is a film actor.

>>83451726
Wrong.

>All the Right Moves
>Tropic Thunder
>maybe Magnolia

Only movies he is remotely good in. Guy's a fucking hack

>charismatic
>good comedic timing despite being an action actor mostly
>huge name
>varied roles
Nearly everything he's been in has been good and some of it even great. He's a good actor even if he plays the same role sometimes. It's really not hard to understand.

>>83452106
>>Equals: Wanting to hire again.

He doesn't even need to get hired. He produces the majority of the films he is in. He hires himself to star in the films he produces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise/Wagner_Productions

>>83452472
Holy pleb

>>83448651
He's a golem created by Hollywood Jews.

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>>83448651
Wow.

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He's looking good lately

>>83452062
Dis

>>83448651
I really don't believe Tom Cruise is a real person, at least not anymore, what Christian Bale said about there being no life behind his eyes is completely accurate. And everything that comes out of his mouth sounds fake.

Graduating high school in 1980, “I was a functional illiterate,” says Tom Cruise, who hid his problem for years. Cruise, who showed signs of a learning disability beginning in grade school, says he finally learned to read as an adult through Study Technology, a learning method developed by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the controversial Church of Scientology. Last month Cruise was honored by MENTOR/ The National Mentoring Partnership for his work with the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project (H.E.L.P.), a nonprofit organization whose volunteers offer free tutoring, using Hubbard’s system, in 26 communities around the world. Though H.E.L.P. has its detractors (see box), Cruise, a Scientologist, has provided financial and public-relations support for the program. “I don’t want people to go through what I went through,” says Cruise, who sat down with senior editor Jess Cagle to talk about his painful, private struggle as a child and his fight for literacy.

One of my dreams, as a child, was to be able to fly an airplane. My whole life we moved around a lot. As a young child, everywhere we went, these are the things that traveled with me: a stuffed animal for the first few years and pictures of planes—a Spitfire and a P-51. When I was 22, when I was making Top Gun, I got the chance to make my dream come true—to become a pilot. I thought, “This is the time to do it,” so I had a couple of lessons. But then I just blew it off.

>>83448651
His film make good money 90% and even when not a huge succes it's still a decent amount. He is pretty charismatic also and a hard working individual as far as I know.
So why not? He seems like a good choice

>>83452803
Tom Cruise has transcended humanity. He is now the Movie Star(TM).

>>83452856
When people asked what happened, I told them I was too busy preparing for the film, just didn’t have time. The truth is, I couldn’t learn how to do it. When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I’d try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I’d get to the end of the page and have very little memory of anything I’d read. I would go blank, feel anxious, nervous, bored, frustrated, dumb. I would get angry. My legs would actually hurt when I was studying. My head ached. All through school and well into my career, I felt like I had a secret. When I’d go to a new school, I wouldn’t want the other kids to know about my learning disability, but then I’d be sent off to remedial reading.

I made new friends in each new school, but I was always closest to my three sisters and my mom. As a kid I used to do ad-lib skits and imitations for my family. I always enjoyed making them laugh. My mom kept saying, “You’ve got so much potential. Don’t give up.” She worked three jobs and took care of my sisters and me, but with everything she had on her plate, she would also work with me. If I had to write an assignment for school, I would dictate it to her first, then she would write it down, and I would copy it very carefully. I went to three different high schools, so I was always given the benefit of the doubt for being the new kid. And I had different techniques for getting by in class. I raised my hand a lot. I knew that if I participated, I’d get extra points and could pass. If I had a test in the afternoon, I’d find kids at lunchtime who’d taken the test that morning and find out what it was like.

I went out for athletics—baseball, wrestling, soccer, football, hockey, you name it—and really blew off a lot of steam there. My senior year in New Jersey, I got the part of Nathan Detroit in the school’s production of Guys and Dolls.

>>83452912
I graduated high school in 1980 but didn’t even go to my graduation. I was a functional illiterate. I loved learning, I wanted to learn, but I knew I had failed in the system. Like a lot of people, though, I had figured out how to get through it. I did the same thing when I moved to New York City, and then Los Angeles, to become an actor. When I auditioned for parts and was given a script to read cold, I’d get the director and producer to talk about the characters and the film. I’d glean information from them and I’d use that. I got pretty good at ad-libbing. In 1981 the door cracked open for me with Taps. Risky Business came out in 1983 and my career took off. I wanted to produce movies. I wanted to know more about my craft. I wanted to work with writers. I had stories I wanted to tell. But when I backed out of the flying lessons while making Top Gun, I thought to myself, “What the hell am I going to do now?”

I’d gotten to where I was operating on the force of sheer will. But I knew I was flying by the seat of my pants. I knew that if I didn’t solve this problem, the trapdoor was going to open up and that would be it.

In 1986, the year Top Gun came out, I became a Scientologist. A friend gave me a picture book on Scientology, and through this I was introduced to the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, who had founded the religion. Mr. Hubbard was also an educator who had been researching the field for decades. He had found that literacy and comprehension levels were declining worldwide, so in the 1960s he had developed “Study Technology.” It pinpoints three barriers to learning: Lack of mass (you can’t learn to fly a plane by just reading about it—you have to sit in the cockpit or at least have a picture of a plane); skipped gradients (trying to master skills or information without mastering or understanding that which comes before them); and misunderstood words (the most important one and a cause for stupidity).

>>83452960
Once I started focusing on those problems, everything fell into place. I had a lot of catching up to do, but that was it. I had run the gamut, hiring specialists for myself privately, bringing in tutors and hearing why I would just have to “learn to deal” with being dyslexic. Many people had tried to teach me, but no one had taught me how to learn or how to study; I had been told I had all the symptoms of dyslexia, but no one had given me a solution.

I realized I could absolutely learn anything that I wanted to learn. In 1989 I learned to race cars while preparing for Days of Thunder. And about 10 years ago I learned to fly. When I was studying for my pilot’s license, I kept a model airplane nearby as reference and pictures of a cockpit in front of me so I could study the instruments. I would often go over to a shop where mechanics were working on planes. Finally I took off on my own from the Santa Monica Airport. After the flight I called my mom, and she started crying. My family is very close and they were so happy for me.

I’m now a founding board member of the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project (H.E.L.P.), which opened its doors in 1997. H.E.L.P. is a nonprofit program that uses the Study Technology in a totally secular setting to provide free tutoring in communities all over the world. Before this, I was supporting Applied Scholastics, H.E.L.P.’s parent organization, which was started by teachers to make Study Technology available broadly. When you consider that schoolteachers are sometimes dealing with four or five different levels of literacy in one classroom, you can see what they have to contend with. I had so many different teachers and I really feel for them. I see how they struggled with me. They were rooting for me and cared about me and wanted to see me do well, but they didn’t have the tools to really help me.

>>83453004
I don’t want people to go through what I went through. I want kids to have the ability to read, to write, to understand what people are saying to them, to be able to solve life’s problems. If you’re flying a plane, and you are using all you know, and yet barely keeping it in the air, you’re not truly flying that plane. When the fuel gauge gets down to “E” and you haven’t paid attention, your engine is going to stop. When you know how to fly, you’re watching the instruments. You can properly prepare for landing. You can keep your view outside. That’s the view of life people should be able to have.

>Be psychologist
>Still can't bring myself to hate Tom Cruise even after he's on record saying psychiatry/psychology are the worst jobs in the world and his whole organization hates my guts and he'd likely shit on me and have me killed or something for all the speaking out Scientology I do
He's that good, it's scary.

Les Grossman stand alone movie when

>>83449440
i also liked Cocktail

>>83448651
Why don't you just go away? You are a useless piece of shit, you only consume oxygen

>>83452092
>Tom Cruise is charismatic as fuck and can carry even shitty movies.
Did you not see Edge of Tomorrow?

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>>83453301
>i also liked Cocktail

>>83448651
Why would you do that OP?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99lSu0lkN-I

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>>83448651
>How does this guy keep getting roles? He's made maybe 2 or 3 decent films

Maybe because all his films as meet with success with the public and earn money?

>Top Gun
>Risky Bussines
>Jerry McGuire
>A Few Good Men
>Far and Away
>Rain man
>The Firm
>The whole Impossible Mission series
>Interview with the vampire
>War of the worlds
>Edge of Tomorrow
>Minority Report
>Eyes wide Shut
>Magnolia
>Valkyrie
>Born on the fouth July
>The Color of the Money
>The Last Samurai
>Jack Reacher


Even fucking Coctail was a hit back then. Hate him as much as you want, but the guy pretty much never floped and is one of the most successful actors in the whole story of cinema.

Also is a meme-actor

>>83448924
All these plus The Color of Money, Risky Business, Top Gun (which IS a good film regardless of how popular it was), Days of Thunder, Oblivion, Eyes Wide Shut which is legitimate kino if you skip to the 30 minute mark and most of the Mission Impossibles; the guy has been in a lot more genuinely good films than stinkers.

>>83448651
Because he's actually a pretty good actor, despite all that Scientology faggotry.

>>83448651
>How does this guy keep getting roles?
He's the last "Movie Star" in the business.

>>83451581
this. rogue nation is a better spectre

>>83449440
This, naturally.

>>83448697
You guys are under the impression it's anything but about money beyond a few vanity projects. Start exploring your options regarding films.

>>83454164
>this kind of opinions
>on a tom cruise thread

kek

>>83452295
>Inglourious basters is less popular than Valkyrie

>>83448651
OP has never been a faggot more than in this instance
reminder that you will never be able to bruise the cruise

>>83448651
Scientology needs his money anon. Remember, by purchasing Tom Cruise movies, you are supporting Scientology.

Is this topic just tom cruise dickriding himself with alot of samefagging? Fucking weird ass topic, is this a new /tv/ meme?

>>83448651
Scientology has it's fingers in every jar.

he's S list

S list actors don't go away, doesn't matter if they don't make another good film in their life

see Angelina Jolie, Will Smith, etc

>>83451235
Well I've never touched an 8 track or a Super 8 projector, I haven't seen a VCR since mine got stolen by Koreans 10 years ago either.

He's made maybe 2 or 3 bad films. His strike rate is amazing.

>>83455703
I thought Angelina Jolie retired from acting? She hasn't been in a movie in ages.

>>83448924
True enough. I'm sorta interested in the Mummy. Mummy is cute, and the leaked script with the male mummy is definitely fun and slightly different
summer movie-fare.

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>>83455608
Tom has literally always been our guy.

>>83455703
>S above A

weeaboo detected

>>83455608
/tv/ has always supported Cruise's work this is not anything new

The man is a bona fide Movie Legend regardless of how fucking crazy he is in his private life

The list of directors he has worked with indisputably commands respect: >Barry Levinson
>De Palma
>Robert Redford
>Coppola
>Michael Mann
>Scorsese
>Oliver Stone
>PTA
>Ridley and Tony Scott
>Edward Zwick
>Franco Zeffirelli
>Ron Howard
>Spielberg
>Cameron Crowe
>Bryan Synger
>Sydney Pollack
>Brad Bird
>Curtis Hanson
>Doug Liman
>Rob Reiner
>Neil Jordan
>John Woo
>and last but not least Kubrick.

And I left a few out who nobody cares about on /tv/.
What other actor can compete with this resume seriously?

He's a consumate professional in a world where your peers are hotheaded divas. He's always dedicated and serious on his job. He's reportedly a cool guy. He's just that great to work with. I don't think anyone who worked with him has anything bad to say to the man. He has every right to be a diva asshole, but he stay professional. That's why he's always hired. Plus his incredible acting range as we can see with Tropic Thunder.

>Nobody mentioned Interview With a Vampire where he outperformed Brad Pitt.

>>83457851
Its been mentioned 3 or 4 times already, I agree but to be fair with IWtV if your playing lestat and your co-star is louie your going to act rings around them, its the nature of the characters Lestat is written as a scene-stealer

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>>83448651
He has a lot of fans. Tons of people on this very board will watch movies just because Tom is in them

>>83458446
Edge of Tomorrow was really awesome though, it's a shame not more people watched it. It nailed every aspect: great sci-fi, great comedy, great action.

>>83448651
Did you forget the part where he's a prominent member of a rather influential cult?

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>>83453301
>i also liked Cocktail

>>83449335
It's true. I think he's got some screws loose and who knows what kind of shit those scienlogitists get into, but the guy is a great actor. He is fun to watch, he takes interesting roles, and absolutely exudes charisma.

>>83448651
sci-ops

>>83453215
Not soon enough desu

>>83459066
He's definitely benefited from Scientology's support, but it only succeeded because he has talent and works hard. Scientology couldn't save Travolta, after all.

>>83451788
aren't most of the recent movies partly funded by him?

>>83454005
Apart from all the other movie stars, as movie stars aren't going anywhere, contrary to what that cunt said, we're just not interested in Jennifer Lawrence now we know she isn't really nice.

>>83451804
EVERYTHING didn't even get released yet when the studios started trying to make the economics of indie film/art cinema/classics releasing more difficult by trying to make Blu the new standard.

What this thread tells us is that Scientologist underlings are now fully authorized to use the internet. No normal person has had a good word to say about Cruise this century. Get real.

>>83448651
He has a borderline jackie chan dedication to stuntwork and on top of that he's said to be one of the more chill dudes in hollywood to work with. He shows up and follows directions.

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>>83449965
It was a good movie.