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Best Tom cruise performance

Poll Results: Take your pick

 
  • 6% (2)
    Born on the fourth of July
  • 31% (9)
    Magnolia
  • 10% (3)
    Jerry Maquire
  • 51% (15)
    other
29 Total Votes  
post #1 of 34
Thread Starter 
What's the best?
post #2 of 34
Best Performance: Magnolia

Worst Performance: Heterosexuality
post #3 of 34
Collateral
Interview with the Vampire
Magnolia
post #4 of 34
Have to include RAIN MAN in the conversation.
post #5 of 34
Magnolia
Collateral
A few good Men
The last Samurai (the film isn't brilliant, but Cruise is very good)
post #6 of 34
I think it's amusing, considering the number of films Cruise has been in, that there are only three specific films to choose from in the poll.
post #7 of 34
And he's often quite good, too.
War of the Worlds. Edit: as my #5 pick.
post #8 of 34
I think the best "Tom Cruise Showing Us Why People Love Tom Cruise" performance is Jerry Maguire, though.
post #9 of 34
I think his most layered performances are in Magnolia and Born on the Fourth of July. I'd chalk my personal favorites up to Collateral, Few Good Men and Interview with the Vampire. The man's routinely excellent, though, and it's a goddamned shame the tabloids have overshadowed his considerable talents.
post #10 of 34
magnolia, easy.

i like him in anything he's in for the most part. color of money is underrated.
post #11 of 34
Strangely, War of the Worlds. Don't hit me.
post #12 of 34
Someone should mention THE FIRM.

Anyone?

Okay, THE FIRM.
post #13 of 34
Top Gun... don't forget that one.
post #14 of 34
Quote:
Originally Posted by RathBandu
Interview with the Vampire
While being horribly miss-cast in that movie (IMO), I thought he was damn good in it. I think that movie holds up pretty well.
post #15 of 34
Risky Business and Cocktail made me wanna be a booze-slinging pimp when I grew up (everybody's your friend!). Ah, to be an ignorant teenager again...
post #16 of 34
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason P. Thompson
Top Gun... don't forget that one.
Oh, please, can't we? Just this once?
post #17 of 34
The fact that people were crying foul over Tom Cruise being cast as Lestat is what makes the role work, in my opinion. When Cruise is comfortable, he tends to phone it in. When he steps outside his zone -- like in Born or Collateral or Magnolia, or even a Few Good Men or Rain Man (which were relatively early in his career and he was well aware he was playing, as Noah Wyle says, "pro ball") -- he tends to deliver some great performances.

I think that up until Collateral, Lestat was the one true, shameless villain Cruise had played, and it's an awesome performance from him. It's a shame that they weren't able to put together a deal for more Lestat movies.
post #18 of 34
I say Taps. Everything was there from the beginning.
post #19 of 34
I'm torn between Rain Man, Minority Report and War of the Worlds, though I'm inclined to call the latter typecasting.
post #20 of 34
Apolcalps now
post #21 of 34
The Today Show
post #22 of 34
Quote:
Originally Posted by DARKMITE8
Risky Business and Cocktail made me wanna be a booze-slinging pimp when I grew up (everybody's your friend!). Ah, to be an ignorant teenager again...
Okay, I have an admission to make. This isn't easy for me to say guys. I hope you all don't think any less of me.

I think COCKTAIL is a terribly underrated film. It tends to get dismissed because it fits squarely in the TOP GUN/DAYS OF THUNDER/A FEW GOOD MEN "maverick learns responsibility" wheelhouse, but it has a lot of good things going for it, chief among them Bryan Brown, who makes for a truly interesting and engaging mentor. Cruise was sort of born to play that type of role but certainly follows through. Elisabeth Shue makes for an interesting love interest. And the script has some interesting things to say about its characters.

I mean, it ain't great cinema, but I've always had a big time soft spot for it.
post #23 of 34
I'm with you, Cocktail-buddy! Damn, that sounds wrong.
post #24 of 34
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonathan Banks is my hero
It tends to get dismissed because it fits squarely in the TOP GUN/DAYS OF THUNDER/A FEW GOOD MEN "maverick learns responsibility" wheelhouse,
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong...
post #25 of 34
Lestat in Interview is the only one I can allow myself to thoroughly enjoy, in terms of performances, without my brain bleating in distress that It's Tom Cruise being an Actor! I do have to say though that he wasn't too shabby in War of the Worlds - it's quite an enjoyable film to have playing in the background I've discovered.
post #26 of 34
I'll got out on a limb here and say Eyes Wide Shut.
post #27 of 34
Lestat is fun, but it doesn't come close to the stuff he does in MAGNOLIA or COLLATERAL. He was robbed of an Oscar for the former, in particular.
post #28 of 34
Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg Clark
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong...
I meant in terms of character. Maverick, Cole Trickle and Daniel Caffe are all cut from a similar cloth. All wheeler-dealer types who learn how to be men.
post #29 of 34
Oprah
post #30 of 34
I have a tendency to dismiss a lot of the Cruise performances as "Tom the movie star" stuff. Granted, there's nothing wrong with the movie star thing. Nothing at all. But after awhile it seems more and more a rote exercise.

But then I go and actually watch what he's doing when he's got an ace to bounce off of. Newman in "The Color of Money", Hoffman in "Rain Man", Foxx in "Collateral", Brown in "Cocktail", etc....and I'm reminded that he's capable of very fine work. By himself (as the lead and center of attention) he seems non pareil. With somone to push him, he seems capable of great things.

My vote for fave performance is "Collateral".
post #31 of 34
I too will go with Interveiw sence he brings about that cocky self absored prick from the first nnovel
post #32 of 34
I voted for Born on the 4th of July because he was so damn good there but I probably enjoy his Charlie Babbitt performance in Rain Man more. I just have a tough time revisiting war-related films, even when I think they're fantastic. They depress the hell into me.
post #33 of 34
I vote Collateral ... I thought he was very good in that film, much better than Foxx, even though Foxx was nominated for the Oscar.
post #34 of 34
Quote:
Originally Posted by Oafley Jones
Best Performance: Magnolia

Worst Performance: Heterosexuality
Is that why he was so good in Interview With the Vampire?

The tone of Vanilla Sky is all over the place, and it's a bit of a mess, but he was really fucking good in that too.
He's always been a really solid actor. I agree about the tabloid shit being a damn shame, despite the fact he brought most of it on himself.

*edit- I would have voted for Interview With the Vampire. Simply because it's been so damn long since I've seen Born on the 4th of July.
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