Posted on 08/05/2006 4:49:22 PM PDT by Pokey78
You mean a bil for a triology isn't good enough in your opinion? SW and LOTR?
BRAVO!!!!!!!!
Isn't the "# whatever highest grossing movie of all time" thing just an inflation driven number, or does somebody actually calculate yesterday's dollars compared to today?
Fine with me. I've never cared for him. He's not an actor, he's a movie star. Excuse me while I yawn.
Maybe these movies had actors in them. I don't think Tom Cruise was in any of them. I know he wasn't in "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe". Or, for that matter, in "Second Hand Lions". Both of these movies are great. They had a little-known concept known to us old-timers as "ACTING"!
And those stars had class and were patriotic.
Well Pirates is number 57 on the all time adjusted for box office too in just 29 days.
Add on to that dvd sales and rentals, which didn't happen back when and I'd say. There's plenty of evidence to suggest otherwise that movies are still making in lots and lots of money.
I liked those movies too but just because Tom Cruise wasn't in them doesn't mean anything.
I posted three or four movies in posts above that Tom Cruise was in and his acting was really good in them.
If that was a criteria for every movie I saw I'd never see any of them.
Heck even Mel Gibson can meet that criteria today can he?
"The 44-year-old actor is eager to get back to work to put behind him disappointments such as Mission Impossible: III"
There was a Mission Impossible III?
"First, he should cultivate a quieter lifestyle. He should come across as humble, not judgmental"
A Hollywood superstar more humble and not judgemental? Isn't that like telling a pig not to eat sh**?
You have totally lost me. None of the really good movies you mentioned had Tom Cruise in them. Cruise is a model. He strikes poses that line up well for the camera, and that's about it. I have been in a number of theater productions. If Tom Cruise and I both tried out for the part of, say; Elwood P. Dowd, for "Harvey", I would whoop his ignorant ass. Of course, I say this in all humility.
Mr. Cruise was good in The Minority Report, The Last Samarai, Collateral, and War of the Worlds.
I think the author of this article is misinformed. MI III is the ninth highest domestic box office grossing so far this year.
I was the lead in "How to succeed in business without really trying", "Lewis and Clark and the Little People", in which I sang both the bass part for one scene and the high tenor part for another, I played George Bailey in "It's A Wonderful Life", I played the male lead for "You Can't Take It With You", and I was even the lead trumpet for the orchestra for "Hello, Dolly". Not only am I a better actor than Tom Cruise, I am also much better looking. (Of course, I say this with all Humility}.
What forum? And how much money did they make?
He can act. "The Last Samurai" was an excellent movie; a truly superb performance by the entire cast.
Forum? FORUM? A funny thing happened to me on the way to the Forum.... which happens to be one of the few plays we haven't done yet... Just a local theater here in Polson Montana...
but I have to tell you that if I were auditioning for a part in a local play and Tom Cruise was auditioning for the same part I would kick his butt. Especially for a musical. And if it were a simple acting part then Mike Lozar would make him look like the loser girly-man that he is. And this is just local stuff. I don't know why he ever got a job as an actor.
MI III Production Budget: $150 million
Worldwide Gross: $380,872,507
Info from here.
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