Comments on: Tom Cruise Has Popularity Polls Free Falling

By: Cody666

Cody666 — Sun, 14 May 2006 01:47:51 +0000

It’s shame that people are boycotting Mission Impossible 3 because they don’t like Tom Cruise. I saw it last night and I must say I thought it was fantastic. Just what you would expect from a third M:I movie and then some. It boasts a clever plotline, intense action scenes, a flawlessly evil villain (in that of Philip Seymour Hoffman), a fast-paced soundtrack and a great back-up cast including Jonathon Rhys-Meyers, Michelle Monaghan and Laurence Fishburne. All of these aspects help to deliver a brilliant, thrilling movie.

And I wasn’t going to leave out the star of the film. It’s a real shame that people are so one-eyed of Tom Cruise, because I know of a lot of people that think that if he is a mentally challenged moron, then Ethan Hunt will be too. Not true. I couldn’t find one thing wrong with Cruise’s character, and believe me I was looking. But none of his off-screen antics rubs off on Hunt, and even though I think Cruise is a twat, I loved M:I-3 and thought it was clearly the best one of it’s kind.

So please, if you dislike Cruise but love a good action movie, see Mission Impossible 3 and just leave your opinions of him at the door.
John said it best: Tom Cruise is a jackass, but he remains one of the best action movie stars in the world today. To me, Mission: Accomplished.

By: common

common — Thu, 11 May 2006 22:44:01 +0000

even when i have my head out of my collective ass tom cruise is still a twat

By: marty

marty — Thu, 11 May 2006 21:54:12 +0000

At least he’s got a kid now to distract him from doing loads of interviews. Unless of course he sacrifices it to L Ron Hubbard. I’m not 100% sure that that’ll happen. Then again, I’m not 100% sure that it wont.

By: Norddeth

Norddeth — Thu, 11 May 2006 15:14:18 +0000

Yeah, I miss the point quite a bit in life truth be told.

but really, I just like pulling Camp into the comments section, I feel like I accomplished something when that happens hahahaha, lol, I made that post at the end of a shitty work day, so when I read it back this morning even I was like “that dude is a dick” lol

But truly, I wasn’t countering your point specifically John, it was mainly for the uninformed media bandwagoners who do whatever the TV tells them to do: Tom Cruise bad? ok Tom Cruise is BAD!

Someone made a good point though, there is no way EVER that Cruise could fall as badly as some in the past, he’s no Travolta and will never be, not when he has Spielberg calling him up on the phone to do a movie.

Bottom line, he needs to lay low for a while.

nord

By: beejag

beejag — Thu, 11 May 2006 04:30:20 +0000

For my two cents, I really see this as another case of it being partially tom’s own fault and it also being a simple case of people puting thier oppinions of a person before his work. I for one enjoy much of tom’s acting and think he can really do a great job, and I do also think (and hate) any time the media follows and reports of everything an actor says, does, or just plan believes in.
Now im not defending some of his antics, and that he has in fact, been a moron at times, but honestly, i find this as a clear case of cruise having the right to do and say whatever he wants to, and I have to at least respect that he has the balls to be himself (although some of himself needs to stay well, between his friends and family and himself) and I also find that many of these points used against him are really in fact none of anyones damn bussiness, unless of course cruise has been a dumbass and said it pubicly himself.
Beejags two cents

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 11 May 2006 04:11:00 +0000

35%. That’s still higher than the approval ratings of a certain President.

Keep up the good work.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 11 May 2006 01:10:46 +0000

It’s pretty obvious that most people have a less positive opinion of Tom Cruise right this minute than they did a few years ago. And I will agree that he has been doing some wacky things and his scientology bullshit is annoying.

Personally, however, I do not think Cruise is in danger of running his career into the ground. I don’t think he will ever fall to the level of, say, John Travolta, no matter how many times he jumps on Oprah’s couch. He picks good projects to star in, and he knows what he is doing in terms of producing movies and in terms of career decisions.

This P.R. backlash will blow over, he just needs to take some time off and lay low for a while. Maybe try a few smaller roles and diversify his acting portfolio so to speak. People can’t stay mad at Cruise forever. He’s just too damn sexy for that.

- Sean
FilmJunk.com

By: DarKing

DarKing — Thu, 11 May 2006 00:42:25 +0000

Nice rant, Noddeth. I would use that same tone to bash on X3 so everyone can disagree with me, [-D. BTW, I will continue to breath your air until a REALLY crappy movie kills you. Maybe you should get YOUR head out of your ass. Besides, life sucks, LOL. I’m just kidding. Do another rant on X3, HAHAHA!

By: Meli

Meli — Thu, 11 May 2006 00:20:58 +0000

If you act like “freak” people will think and talk about you as a freak. This is about as simple as it gets.

For many movie stars it won’t effect their movies careers, but for some it will. If a star offends their fans then that star runs the risk of those people not supporting their career. Some might not care, but others will. The public makes stars, so in a sad way they’re a slave to the public.

I really don’t think that Cruise’s “approval rating” will continue to drop. Once people aren’t over exposed to him anymore they will move on and his career will move on. The public is easy to forgive, so I really think this is temporary.

For someone who could careless about his popularity or movies I find it all amusing.

By: wolf

wolf — Wed, 10 May 2006 23:22:08 +0000

So the guy talks about some religion in public, so what, I don’t care how he acts in public. My passion is movies not peoples lives. All I care about is his performance in movies. Does the way he act in public effect his movies? Yeah to some degree. So Tom done a couple of weird things in the past year but should people really hate the guy for it? No they shouldn’t. I can guarantee everyone has done or said something stupid in their lives, the difference for Tom is he’s got the media in his face everywhere he goes. People can judge Tom’s daily life and talk shit about him, but they can never and I mean never say the guy is a shit actor or stars in shit movies.