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Collateral, Minority Report or Edge of Tomorrow for me. If this makes two pages it will be something different.
Oblivion. Double Tom Cruise!
Cocktail
For me its either Risky Business or Cocktail, both great in their story line and cast as well as the soundtrack.
Either The Color of Money, Rain Man or Cocktail for me.
Minority Report (just a great film)
Collateral (totally different role which he pulls off well)
Tropic Thunder (honourable mention).
Risky Business.
Rain Man.
Oblivion.
Ton Cruise?
Your favourite Tom Cruise film?
I would say maybe Magnolia.
Love that film.
Ton Cruise? Born of the Forth of Fist Pie
TAPS - although George C Scott and Timothy Hutton get top billing. Classic Cruiser line ‘it’s ****ing beautiful man’!
Eyes Wide Shut for me
Since someone has already done the 'Ton' jokes, I'll go with Minority Report, MI3 or Edge of Tomorrow. Edge of Tomorrow mainly for ahem, other cast members though. 🙂
Correct, it's one film not 4 or 5. Be descisive!
Edge of Tommorrow really is a great bit of Sci Fi and gets bonus points for Emily Blunt
Honorable mention to both Top Gun films. The first, while flawed is just an iconic piece of 80s action cinema and the second manages to somehow how not make an issue of the 30 year gap between the two films and end up better than the original. And by refusing anything but a full cinema release it helped cinema recover post pandemic.
Magnolia
Tropic Thunder
Top Gun
...why is OP asking? Are they writing a listicle for Buzzfeed?
Oh, I forgot A Few Good Men, though a lot of that had to do with how brilliantly nasty and arrogant Nicholson plays his part of the Marine Colonel.
I never knew till recently that the film was actually based upon a real Code Red incident that took place at Guantanamo Bay though there wasn't an actual death involved.
There is a lot of sneering about Cruise, but he has such a huge catalogue of films that you find on the telly at 10pm on a week-night and always watch all the way through.
Toughy, so many good ones
To be fair he’s had his fair share of really bad ones too. His latest one for example
some good stuff up there that I’ve not watched for years !
Knight and Day. Just a great mindless romp.
Also, sorrynotsorry
Nimority report for ne too.
Jack reacher, not for the acting but for the remarkable casting as he surely must have done that job himself
The title of the sequel was a coded instruction from the writers. 🙂
But yes, would watch both with a beer. It's best not to watch the TV adaptation for comparison though.
he has such a huge catalogue of films that you find on the telly at 10pm on a week-night and always watch all the way through
Speak for yourself. It's remarkable how poor most of his movies are.
A Few Good Men, but more because it's Sorkin, not because it's Cruise.
Oh yeah, I went to the theatre with Tom Cruise once.
Well, I went to a show in New York and he was ushered in after the lights went down, and ushered out at the end to applause.
He was with that Katie lady.
I imagine he still talks about seeing me there even today.
I'm with you on that one Top Gun definately 😂
Maybe it just appeals to people of a certain age!
There is a lot of sneering about Cruise, but he has such a huge catalogue of films that you find on the telly at 10pm on a week-night and always watch all the way through.
I'm by no mean a Tom Cruise fanboy, but you really have to give respect where its due. He's been one of Hollywood's most bankable stars for 30+ years. He's without question the best action cinema actor of all time and also produced some decent dramatic performances. Personal weirdness aside he is probably one of the very few "superstars" left that haven't been swallowed by the comic / superhero franchise juggernauts.
Days of Thunder
The Firm
Edge of Tomorrow.
To be fair he’s had his fair share of really bad ones too
Has he? I know the last MI film didn't get great reviews but it wasn't an absolute stinker. The mummy film is the only other one I can think of. What are the other really bad ones?
Can't think of Tom Cruise films without remembering this
I always like to see him sprinting,nobody runs like the Cruise 👍
I’m going be there only person in the world to say rock of ages!
As a glam metal fan back in the day I love the soundtrack and absurdity of it. Also good to see Tom not taking himself so seriously for once
The one where the woman wants to quit being a scientologist and they harrass her all her life
... ah sorry not a film that's real
Days of Thunder
Collateral is a great film as is A Few Good Men. The latter is not really a Tom Cruise film to be honest. Although another film in which he doesn’t star - Tropic Thunder, his cameo is great.
Born on the 4th of July.
Magnolia is good too but not a Tom Cruise film really.
Point of critical order: Collateral is a Michael Mann film with Tom Cruise in it. In other words its got Mann's stamp on it rather than Cruise. But it's a damn good one. Valid I guess.
Magnolia is good too but not a Tom Cruise film really.
That's why it's the best movie that he's been in.
Ton cruise? Is that his home made go-pro videos of bits of East Leeds?
Knight and Day, and Vanilla Sky, not because of Cruise
Note made to watch Knight and Day although not for Ton.🤗
Note made to watch Knight and Day although not for Ton.🤗
yep the Smartzukis are well cool.
Legend, directed by Ridley Scot and co-starring Tim Curry.
If nothing else, it goes to show just how good the industry of dentistry has become in the last 30 years, assuming you can afford to pay for it.
Remarkable that The Last Samurai hasn't got a mention up to now. Well now it has.
Interesting that there's hardly any mention of Mission Impossible, in my own mind they are garbage and make Tom Cruise an actor I'm just not interested in (add the Top Guns, just not my sort of file at all)... however, I have seen a few of his at the cinema over the years and went away happy from Legend, Minority Report, Rain Man, Colour of Money and Jerry Maguire.
Not sure which I'd watch again.
Oblivion coz I like the machine he was flying in.
Interesting that there’s hardly any mention of Mission Impossible, in my own mind they are garbage
They are excellent examples of the genre, they aren't meant to be serious dramas. If you're not into that genre, you won't like them, but they are great popcorn movies. Same with Top Gun.
I forgot
Rock of Ages.
Scroll up^^ 😉
I know the last MI film didn’t get great reviews but it wasn’t an absolute stinker. The mummy film is the only other one I can think of. What are the other really bad ones?
It's a question of taste, obviously, but IMO all of them except Magnolia, Tropic Thunder and Topic Gun. The Mission Impossible films are like the A-Team, but without the wit, charm, allegory and character arcs...
I like lots of them, but my personal top 5:
Risky Business (moreso for RdM)
Top Gun (for the planes)
Maverick (for the planes)
All The Right Moves
The Firm
They are excellent examples of the genre, they aren’t meant to be serious dramas. If you’re not into that genre, you won’t like them, but they are great popcorn movies. Same with Top Gun.
Yes, exactly. Hence "in my own mind"
Remarkable that The Last Samurai hasn’t got a mention up to now. Well now it has.
From what I remember, it wasn't a great movie, extremely predictable and Cruise wasn't really at his best, just the wrong role for him. I always wished they'd cast Robert Carlyle in that role.
@thols2 got it first. Magnolia is a masterpiece of Tom Cruise's acting and of cinema.
I left it a long time before watching Edge of Tomorrow, due to MI fatigue. Wished I'd watched it years ago, so it's a close run thing between that and Collateral
Theres usually some guff spouted on STW but two (two???) recommendations for Knight and Day? Really? It's truly dreadful.
Buy yourselves new ears / eyes / brain in the upcoming chain reaction fire sale.
I always like to see him sprinting,nobody runs like the Cruise
I prefer Steven Seagal's running style.
But the answer is Edge of Tomorrow/Live. Die. Repeat. A really good little old skool SF movie.
I really like Oblivion and Edge of Tomorrow. I also thought the first Jack Reacher film was pretty good, despite the obvious issues with him as Reacher. And I think the last few Mission Impossible films have been better than last few Bonds (haven't seen the most recent one though)
But there aren't many that aren't pretty watchable - he's had a few stinkers for sure but he's got a pretty good record on the whole
Not the whole film but the bit in in War of the Worlds when the storm starts and the tripods appear I think is brilliant!
No, it ain’t no classic but it’s great entertainment,
So is 8 cans of Stella but I wouldn't actively recommend it
Knight and Day is an odd one. Is Cruise supposed to be a charming lead man who drugs, kidnaps and strips the leading lady while she's unconscious? He ends up with the girl, rather than on the sex offenders register, so he must be OK, I suppose...