05-11-2006, 04:54 AM
Mithrandir,May 10 2006, 04:57 PM Wrote:I enjoyed Tom Cruise the most during the middle of his career. The early days of Risky Business, Cocktail, Top Gun, Born on the Fourth of July, and Days of Thunder never really impressed me (although, admittedly, I was only 5 for Days of Thunder and not born yet for Risky Business so maybe I just "missed" the time period).
I though The Firm, A Few Good Men, and the first M:I were pretty good however. Of his recent work, I enjoyed The Last Samurai as well.
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Top Gun was pretty good, and Days of Thunder was okay as well (the first time I saw it was the in-flight while flying KLM from Toronto to Amsterdam). Risky Business was an okay "I'll watch it once" film, but it really sucks if you watch it again.
The only Tom Cruise film that knocked my socks off was "War of the Worlds", and it was despite of him. I hated every part of Cruise's contribution to it, but I loved the movie nonetheless.
Overall, I think that Tom Cruise is 50% insane and 50% jackass.