Looking back at Edge of Tomorrow in the context of the movies that followed, the 2014 film feels like more than a well-liked sci-fi actioner.
  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    512·
    6 months ago

    He is still a scientologist and responsible for the suffering of hundreds if not thousands of people. Tom can eat a gun for all I care.

  • Rade0nfighter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    5 months ago

    Announcer voice Coming soon to a movie theatre near you…

    Cruise 3: Cruise Cruisier - written, produced, and directed by Tom Cruise, starring Tom Cruise as Tom Cruise.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.eeEnglish
    59·
    6 months ago

    Watch “The Hustler” with Paul Newman, then watch “The Sting” with Newman and Redford, and then watch “The Color Of Money.”

          • Kovukono@pawb.socialEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

            If I had to guess, he’s drawing parallels between Newman and Cruise’s careers. The Hustler was the first of several films Newman made in a short period of time that marketed him as a hero. It wasn’t his first Oscar nomination, but it did earn him one.

            The Sting was a huge box-office success Newman was in after a bunch of flops, and helped bring him back into the spotlight.

            The Color of Money finally earned Newman an Oscar, and it was reprising the same character he played in The Hustler after 25 years. You can definitely see parallels there between him and Cruise with Top Gun (36 years between it and the sequel), and weirdly enough Cruise is also in The Color of Money.

        • GlitterInfection@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          6 months ago

          I love movie suggestions and I am pretty sure those movies you recommended are great classics, but your comment was giving big “google for lesbian porn” Facebook post energy…

          • Blaze@reddthat.comOPEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

            but your comment was giving big “google for lesbian porn” Facebook post energy…

            Nice description ha ha

            • GlitterInfection@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              6 months ago

              OP posted to a movies community about Tom Cruise’s narrative troubles, and how he changed them in the eye of the public.

              Your comment recommends two movies that don’t have anything to do with Cruise, and a third, from 1988, with Cruise decades prior to his narrative issues.

              You didn’t offer an explanation of why we should watch the movies, or even mention that Cruise was in the third, which is odd since you mentioned stars from the others. It came off as you ordering us to watch unrelated movies that don’t have anything to do with the article.

              That just makes it feel very out of place. A recommendation list even with Tom in one of the movies feels like a sort of social non-sequitor in this type of thread.

              That gives a similar kind of energy that a dad trying to search for celluloid clitorist couplings has when he mistakenly types into Facebook before confidently hitting Post.

              Had you said:

              “Tom Cruise was excellent in The Color of Money which was a sequel to the wildly successful and excellent The Hustler staring Paul Newman, and despite Cruise’s personal issues later in his career I recommend everyone see both films! Also watch The Sting if you enjoy Newman’s performance in The Hustler since he’s excellent in both.”

              Or something like that, we would have all followed your thought train from the article.