Tom Cruise

[Cathryn]

The woman in MI5 is fantastic! Great fighter, smoking hot....loved her!

 

[ufkacbln]

Still not tall enough to be Jack Reacher though

 

[Sittingduck]

You can be my wingman any time

 

[Beebo]

I like his films, but i do think are too many issues around him to make him a likeable person.
He's religious, marriage and sexuality rumours hanging around him for ages, and whilst it shouldnt make a difference, it does.

 

[Levo-Lon]

My Daughter loves the Jack Reacher series..
TC has special shoes for taller roles ..

i dont care who he pokes or prays too ,good all round nice man

 

[Mugshot]

I think this is a particularly impressive stunt he performed, one take too apparently.

 

[FrankCrank]

...heh heh, everytime TC is mentioned, his height, or lack of it, is brought up. His claimed height is 5'-7", which is same as me. Short, but hardly dwarf territory .

Love some of the old movies...... Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, George Raft, Alan Ladd.......and loads more I'm sure. None of them giants in stature, but on screen they made a big impact. Hard to quantify what makes a watchable and convincing actor, but you immediately know it when you see it..........

 

[Arjimlad]

I watched this with my boys on a wet weekend not long ago and we all really enjoyed the film. The stunts and chase scenes were excellent.

 

[BrumJim]

He should have won the Academy for Born on the 4th of July. Good in Rain Man as well.

There's a theory (to which I subscribe) that TC was a better actor in Rain Man than Dustin Hoffman. More subtle, more progressive.

 

[MontyVeda]

[QUOTE 3933512, member: 45"]Rainman wasn't great for autism to be honest. It was based on a bloke who wasn't "typically" autistic, and has led to many an assumption that autism is some kind of gift.[/QUOTE]
Yup... but it's not just Rainman, it's all the 'gifted' autistic stories the news gives us. A close friend has an autistic son and is often asked if the lad can draw highly detailed pictures really quickly or has any other autistic super power.

I guess it's 'our' fault for stereotyping. 'we' see a film called Rainman, or read an article about the autistic guy drawing huge accurate cityscapes from memory, or mastering the etch-a-scetch and think... well... 'we' don't think, that's the problem (and another topic).

 

[User169]

I like The Outsiders, one of Cruise earlier movies which features a heavy duty cast (although at the time they were all very much up-and-coming). He's pretty much outlasted everyone that was in that movie - Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez - at least as a major Hollywood player.

 

[Mattonsea]

I remember seeing Taps, one of his first films, about an Army academy in revolt, very good as I remember. Check out Live Die Repeat and Oblivion as well.

 

[ufkacbln]

for those who have no interest in the books, it doesn't really matter.....and it is still a good action film....

If only it hadn't missed the main key points from the book.....

 

[buggi]

.......yep, watched MI-5.......great action scenes. He's a year younger than me, but he don't look a day over 40 - I'll have a pint of whatever he's having...........

It's called money

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

he's a nobber