• Seagoon_
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    3 months ago

    I think every movie with Tom Cruise could be improved by replacing Tom Cruise.

    I just watched Edge of Tomorrow. Sort of a bug movie and a computer game . Good movie that made me dislike Tom Cruise even more. What a waste, some other actor could have made that better.

    3.5 hobbits but minus .5 for Tom Cruise.

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      3 months ago

      Cocktail & Top Gun got into my brain before I could properly see the problems with them or him. Don’t think I’ve liked him since. Creepy midget 😝

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        I haven’t watched either.

        I used to enjoy his movies, but then he just became a bigger and bigger arsehole irl,

        and I also started to see how he often just wasn’t good

        one positive thing is that he’s a very conscientious and hard worker

        I grant he was good in Tropic Thunder, I think he was playing himself

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              3 months ago

              Ah yes. That one is solid. And Nicholson being revolting, he’s very good at that.

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          I usually don’t like Tom Cruise but I would not want anyone else in Top Gun. I think that’s also because he was playing himself.

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      Just read “All You Need is Kill” by Hiroshi Sakurazaka and you can replace Tom with whoever you like.

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      I don’t mind him in action stuff like the Mission Impossibles or Top Gun. Not every movie has to be intellectual or every actor be Oscar worthy. Some movies I watch for easy fun, others I watch for more depth. Tom Cruise is in the first category.

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      I’m not a fan but I watched American Made and he was really good in it. Great movie too.

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        3 months ago

        That *was *a good movie. Tom seems very well cast playing people with little moral compass.

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      3 months ago

      Having read the books, Cruise was a terrible choice for Jack Reacher. I think he’s a twat of a man and a passionate actor suited to action, but he’s no Jack Reacher.

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          6’5" in the books, and thick, and can’t run for shit. In one book he gets shot with a small calibre gun and he’s described as having too big pecs for the bullet to really hurt him.