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Post by futuretrunks on Jun 1, 2022 20:02:02 GMT
Count me in as one of the enthusiasts of Top Gun: Maverick, displaying Cruise's movie star powers in full display. I've liked a few of his 2010s films like the excellent MI Ghost Protocol, but liked the two MI's following that significantly less (as they had great stunts/fights, but not the superb direction Brad Bird provided). He even got to do legitimate dramatic acting in Maverick, particularly in that shot of him sitting across from Kilmer. Is he going to leverage this success into dipping his toes into non-action movies again, or are we going to just get two more MI films and a space movie, and then Cruise is suddenly 70.
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Post by thomasjerome on Jun 1, 2022 20:17:34 GMT
This is hard to answer. Now I haven't seen "Top Gun Maverick" yet (hopefully next week). I've heard some of the major themes have to do with ageing. It might be a sign of Cruise himself dealing with his own age and finally deciding to go back to character roles. But at the same time, this film was shot like in 2018/2019, no? And since then, that space movie was announced, and he's still filming a "Mission Impossible" sequel. So I think he'll stay in the action area for a few years more. The guy is a star since he's 20 or something and remarkably stayed "relevant" and popular since then. "Top Gun Maverick" reactions shows that he's still beloved by audiences and critics alike. So I don't think he'll have a problem with finding an auteur to work with again but who knows when it will be.
Him working with the same people all the time (Kosinski, McQ, Liman) are not something new. He always sticked with people he liked to work with (Robert Towne, Cameron Crowe) but he never had a period this long without working with an auteur.
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Post by countjohn on Jun 1, 2022 20:36:34 GMT
Well Cruise never stopped being an action draw and a good Top Gun sequel would have been huge at any time it was made, so IDK if it's a "resurgence" as much as Cruise continuing to win at life. I enjoyed the new Top Gun but I enjoyed the latter MI sequels and Oblivion at least as much as this so I wouldn't even necessarily consider it a sudden jump in quality in terms of his recent action movies.
I think the "comeback" question is if he's ever going to work with top directors again and get back to mid budget dramas. With the MI series appearing to be reaching its conclusion it may signal that he's ready for a shift in the kind of material he makes. After two MI movies and the space movie he's not going to be 70 yet. He and Leo seem to be the only ones who can consistently bring the 35+ crowd out to the movies so it does seem somewhat of a waste for him to use his BO powers on commercial action movies instead of more highbrow material that could not be successful or even get made without him.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 4, 2022 3:55:53 GMT
Cruise wouldn't have needed Maverick to be a massive success for him to get back into non-action roles. He has the clout, recourses, influences to make that happen if he wanted to. I think he just really found his niche this past decade and is living his best life flying fighter jets and riding bikes off cliffs. He's at the top of his game.
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Post by futuretrunks on Feb 23, 2024 0:58:06 GMT
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Post by stabcaesar on Feb 23, 2024 7:09:31 GMT
It’s disturbing that so many people are cheering for this Scientologist, but I guess that’s just Hollywood for you.
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Post by thomasjerome on Feb 23, 2024 7:44:29 GMT
No matter how this film in particular will turn out (hoping for Birdman-level greatness), it's seems to be the start of a new era in Cruise's already incredible career and I'm so excited for that.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Feb 23, 2024 9:25:26 GMT
An actor who's been great twice.
Collateral and Jerry Maguire.
He's basically Ryan Gosling and Leonardo DiCaprio. Good actors, but better movie stars. Yet way too overpraised on this board.
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Post by stephen on Feb 23, 2024 16:35:02 GMT
In terms of the sheer amount of auteurs worked with, Cruise and Nicolas Cage stand supreme, and I am glad to see Cruise's ambition return on that front. If he could get his old co-star Werner Herzog on the phone (or Lynch, but that might be a bridge too far for either of them), that would be a dream.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 23, 2024 17:19:39 GMT
I'm more in the urbanpatrician camp.....Tom Cruise never meant shit to me.......he's been great a couple times - Collateral, Magnolia, handling water in the face (I'm serious), pretending Nicole Kidman was irresistable (um), pretending Katie Holmes was worth jumping on a couch for (um), calling Matt Lauer "glib" (true that) and dissing Psychiatry where he was wrong and right but totally sold that shit........
big deal.....I don't dislike him ..hope he has a great resurgence and makes good movies. - sure, why not?.....I never got what everybody saw in Maverick .....he's a movie star..still is......yay, greeat!.......BUT like I often say about him - he's such a "look at all my success!" annoying guy in life / film brand that he translates better as a guy who loses rather than his Joe Cool schtick.....which also applies to other guys like Pitt (a bit), Gere, Downey, Washington (a bit, early on definitely)......used to apply to Paul Newman too........I say this all the time and it's the truest shit I ever say:
......... the 80s US male generation has actors who ALL have huge flaws....but if you take bits and pieces from all of them they look better than any one of them does by themselves.....
With Pitt and Downey (inevitably) winning it seems cruel in the worst sense that he doesn't have an Oscar so....good luck .......
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