Best Movies featuring Tom Cruise! (Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, characters, century)
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In my twenties, I enjoyed Risky Business and Top Gun.
In my thirties I loved Jerry Maquire and cried watching several scenes in Born on the Fourth of July (his best ever performance, IMO).
In my Forties, I liked War of the Worlds.
In my Fifties, I took my ownnow twenty-something children to see the latest installment of Mission Impossible, which we hugely enjoyed.
Say what you will about him - he has been entertaining us for decades now. History will show he has been one of the most gifted and successful actors of my generation.
I'll give you successful, but I've never thought of him is particularly talented. I have to say that a few good men is one of my favorite movies. Whether or not it has anything to do with him being in it is hard to say.
But Tom has been in so many movies. He's so underrated as not only a great actor, but a great person too outside of movies.
Have you ever seen a celebrity that is so full of laughter and fun, and not full of himself? He loves his fans and lets himself loose.
Usually, celebrities by his age and body of work, get twisted in the head and all melodramatic and full of themselves, thinking their ****e don't stink.
Most of the films he's in really don't require much acting. They just call for an archetypal performance, which Cruise and countless other actors can all deliver in the exact same fashion. Of course, that's generally what consumers want - those movies rake in the profits.
Films that require dramatic acting? Not so much. But Cruise has shown that he can act, and act well. The fact that he's a personal nutjob who usually chooses mind-numbingly formulaic blockbusters doesn't change that.
I generally flock to movies for entertainment though I also take in plenty of serious movies. Top Gun is the Cruise performance that really established him as a mega-star. Tend to enjoy the moves that he chooses. Exception being that vampire movie with Pitt. What was that?
Best performance? Born of the 4th of July is my pick.
A Few Good Men and Rainman are pretty much the only two of his movies I can sit through, although Far and Away wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. High praise indeed!
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